SendMessage to active vessel?

[owensm0132]

Again I am stumbling around in the dark not sure why this is not working. I am trying to activate a function in a partmodule in the active vessel from a near by vessel but it is not being activated - see code below;

class mypart: PartModule

{

// Send Message

[KSPEvent(guiActiveUnfocused = true, externalToEVAOnly = false, unfocusedRange = 20f, guiName = "Pair With This Port", active = false)]

public void TestEvent()

{

BroadcastMessage("T1", this);

SendMessage("T2", this);

FlightGlobals.ActiveVessel.BroadcastMessage("T3", this);

FlightGlobals.ActiveVessel.SendMessage("T4", this);

FlightGlobals.ActiveVessel.rootPart.BroadcastMessage("T5", this);

FlightGlobals.ActiveVessel.rootPart.SendMessage("T6", this);

}

// Send Messages

[KSPEvent(guiActive = false, active = true)]

public void T1(object Part)

{

ScreenMessages.PostScreenMessage("T1", 5.0f, ScreenMessageStyle.UPPER_CENTER);

}

[KSPEvent(guiActive = false, active = true)]

public void T2(object Part)

{

ScreenMessages.PostScreenMessage("T2", 5.0f, ScreenMessageStyle.UPPER_CENTER);

}

[KSPEvent(guiActive = false, active = true)]

public void T3(object Part)

{

ScreenMessages.PostScreenMessage("T3", 5.0f, ScreenMessageStyle.UPPER_CENTER);

}

[KSPEvent(guiActive = false, active = true)]

public void T4(object Part)

{

ScreenMessages.PostScreenMessage("T4", 5.0f, ScreenMessageStyle.UPPER_CENTER);

}

[KSPEvent(guiActive = false, active = true)]

public void T5(object Part)

{

ScreenMessages.PostScreenMessage("T5", 5.0f, ScreenMessageStyle.UPPER_CENTER);

}

[KSPEvent(guiActive = false, active = true)]

public void T6(object Part)

{

ScreenMessages.PostScreenMessage("T6", 5.0f, ScreenMessageStyle.UPPER_CENTER);

}

}

Notice that TestEvent is only being triggered from a nearby vessel.

The only thing I get on the screen is T1 and T2. What am I doing wrong?

Also, I was wondering if there is a way for a vessel to save some sort of custom meta data?

[owensm0132]

ok, I figured it out. For other devs who feel like they are in the dark, looking at KAS plugin source code has really helped me. I am not sure if it is cool to add the link so I will not but it is on github.

For my solution I used a static class to maintain state information. For the SendMessage it seems I had to send to the partmodule and not to the part - I am still not sure the difference between the two things (noob).

    public static class MO_Shared
    {
        public static ModuleDockingNode activeMOPort1 = null;
        public static ModuleDockingNode activeMOPort2 = null;

        public static List<Dockingv2> GetAllDockingv2sWithState(Vessel fromVessel = null,  bool ActiveState = false)
        {
             ...
        }
    }

    ...

    public class Dockingv2 : ModuleDockingNode
    {    
        ...
        [KSPEvent(guiActiveUnfocused = true, externalToEVAOnly = false, unfocusedRange = 20f, guiName = "Pair With This Port", active = false)]
        public void PairWithPort()
        {
            ...
            MO_Shared.activeMOPort1.SendMessage("LinkUp");
            ...
        }
    }