Using the new Application bar or whatever it is called?

[Agathorn]

Is there any documentation on how to put buttons into the new 0.24 application bar?

[WaveFunctionP]

documentation!?

lolololololol

jjk. The most complete documentation I've found is here:

https://github.com/Anatid/XML-Documentation-for-the-KSP-API

Not specific for your purposes, but I've yet to find a better resource.

[TriggerAu]

I have some stuff figured, I'll post something tonight when I get home if no-one else has anything

[kujuman]

It seems to me that the place to look is RUI* I'm an idiot

If past is any indication, Mu will post some documentation within the next week or so. Also if past is any indication, someone will figure it out by then too

Edited July 18, 2014 by kujuman

[Agathorn]

documentation!?

lolololololol

jjk. The most complete documentation I've found is here:

https://github.com/Anatid/XML-Documentation-for-the-KSP-API

Not specific for your purposes, but I've yet to find a better resource.

I meant community documentation. Some people have figured it out as i've seen mod updates saying they support it.

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It seems to me that the place to look is RUI*

If past is any indication, Mu will post some documentation within the next week or so. Also if past is any indication, someone will figure it out by then too

Yeah some already support it

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I have some stuff figured, I'll post something tonight when I get home if no-one else has anything

That would be nice, thanks.

[kujuman]

I was wrong about RUI* (it may be useful drawing parts of buttons)

We probably want to look at UIApp. This is going to be easy

[TriggerAu]

So heres what I've got thus far, its not too hard, but there are some tricks to know, so here's the notes I have and have made:

• There are AddModApplication and AddApplication methods on the ApplicationLauncher - the AddMod option places the button to the left of a separator, the other puts the button in with the KSP Mods
  
• The icon texture that is expected is 38x38 pixels, I'm pretty sure
  

Issues

• Because the AddModApplication (and Add Application) functions have a PackedSprite parameter on one of the versions, you have to add a reference to the Assembly-CSharp-firstpass assembly to be able to compile the code
  
• The toggle state is maintained separately for the KSP apps and the Mod Apps lists. So here's an example to explain. If you toggle on the default resources display when you hover over the messages app it sends a toggle off to the resources display and then when you stop hovering sends a toggle on to resources to display that again. If you have a AppMod button it does not receive a toggle off message when an App button is hovered over so you can end up with two things displayed on top of each other.
  
• I cant figure out the right code to get something to start toggled on and receive all the events, but after togglng the display once when the game is running they seem to fire (excluding the issue above)
  

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[td]App Button[/td]

[td]AppMod Button[/td]

[td]Toggle issue[/td]

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And here's a really basic code example (no guarantees here, but it should be enough to see how it works):

void Awake() {
    //Register for the Ready event
    GameEvents.onGUIApplicationLauncherReady.Add(OnGUIAppLauncherReady);
}
void OnDestroy() {
    //Clean up
    GameEvents.onGUIApplicationLauncherReady.Remove(OnGUIAppLauncherReady);
    if (appButton != null)
        ApplicationLauncher.Instance.RemoveModApplication(appButton);
        // this one was a mistake - ApplicationLauncher.RemoveModApplication(appButton);
}

ApplicationLauncherButton appButton = null;
void OnGUIAppLauncherReady()
{
    if (ApplicationLauncher.Ready) {
        appButton = ApplicationLauncher.Instance.AddModApplication (
            onAppLaunchToggleOn, 
            onAppLaunchToggleOff, 
            onAppLaunchHoverOn, 
            onAppLaunchHoverOff, 
            onAppLaunchEnable, 
            onAppLaunchDisable, 
            ApplicationLauncher.AppScenes.FLIGHT,
            (Texture)GameDatabase.Instance.GetTexture("Plugin/Texture/AppLaunchIcon");
        );
    }
}
void onAppLaunchToggleOn() { /*Your code goes in here to toggle display on regardless of hover*/ }
void onAppLaunchToggleOff() { /*Your code goes in here to toggle display off regardless of hover*/ }
void onAppLaunchHoverOn() { /*Your code goes in here to show display on*/ }
void onAppLaunchHoverOff() { /*Your code goes in here to show display off*/ }
void onAppLaunchEnable() { /*Your code goes in here for if it gets enabled*/  }
void onAppLaunchDisable() { /*Your code goes in here for if it gets disabled*/  }

Hopefully tomorrow I can get it into ARP properly and you can look at that code too

[Agathorn]

Very nice Trigger thanks!

[kujuman]

icymi http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/86682-Appilcation-Launcher-and-Mods?p=1280014#post1280014

[TriggerAu]

yeah, looks like holding off might be the best answer here

[TriggerAu]

I had the code worked out and followed Roms advice for the things to watch out for so if you want to see some code that seems to be working you can look in the Alternate Resource Panel code