Making a GUI?

[Kingofawesome13]

How do I make a GUI for my mod, it only needs checkboxes. Do I use Unity? Or something else? How would I do it, too?

[TriggerAu]

Such a small question depending on your mod you would use a plugin or the part menus. I'm not well versed on the part menus stuff, but for a plugin you will need to write a dll that KSP loads and draws the "window" by code lines. I just posted some similar info here on another post for the plugin stuff. Hope it helps - http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/65230-KSP-Coder-Needed%21?p=895228&viewfull=1#post895228

[DiEvAl]

It's quite possible that you don't need a GUI, and can use boolean tweakables instead. Just add something like this to your PartModule:

		[KSPField(guiName = "Sun Tracking", isPersistant = true, guiActiveEditor = true, guiActive = true)]
		[UI_Toggle(disabledText = "Disabled", enabledText = "Enabled")]
		public bool SunTracking;

If you actually need a GUI, start with looking at how other mods add GUIs.

Here is the documentation and guide about GUI in Unity (keep in mind that it's not KSP-specific)

http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/ScriptReference/GUI.html

http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/ScriptReference/GUILayout.html

http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Components/GUIScriptingGuide.html

[pizzaoverhead]

You need to make a plugin to create a GUI. To do that, you use an IDE shuch as VisualStudio or MonoDevelop.

There's a tutorial for making plugins here. There is example plugin code here, and some GUI examples here. This thread is a good place to ask for help if you get stuck on something.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

[leoshnoire]

I've gone through

on getting set up, basic gui, programming concepts, etc; it will get you off the ground from sqaure one, and take you to a point where you can hopefully use the concepts you've learned for your own creations!

[TheAwer]

Isn't there a new plugin that standardizes GUIs? Kethane and some other mods are using it. Maybe that would have an easier way of making them?