Updating the "auto pilot UI"

[Daid]

I'm having an odd problem that I cannot seem to figure out to solve. Maybe someone knows where to look...

I've build this:

As you can see, I have quite a few switches and buttons.

Now, I want to right most 6 switches to control the auto-pilot mode.

Which I can do with:

FlightGlobals.ActiveVessel.Autopilot.SetMode(VesselAutopilot.AutopilotMode.[mode]);

When I do this, the ships acts as if it has the proper autopilot mode. However, the GUI keeps showing the old mode (stability assist) and I cannot seem to find a way to force an update to that part of the GUI.

I can find that there is a class called "VesselAutopilotUI", which has references to an array of RUIToggleButtons, so I assume this is what handles this part of the GUI. However, I cannot seem to find a way to get a reference to the instance of this VesselAutopilotUI. (Which is most likely my lack of unity knowledge)

Anyone got a tip?

[Diazo]

I had to solve this also for my Actions Everywhere mod as I do exactly what you are doing, expect with action groups.

if (this.part.vessel.Autopilot.CanSetMode(VesselAutopilot.AutopilotMode.Normal)) //can you set this autopilot mode?
{
this.part.vessel.ActionGroups.SetGroup(KSPActionGroup.SAS, true); //enable SAS
this.part.vessel.Autopilot.SetMode(VesselAutopilot.AutopilotMode.Normal); //set our desired mode
setSASUI(3); //jump to next method
}

public void setSASUI(int mode)
{
RUIToggleButton[] SASbtns = FindObjectOfType<VesselAutopilotUI>().modeButtons; //find the UI object on screen
SASbtns.ElementAt<RUIToggleButton>(mode).SetTrue(true, true); //set our mode, note it takes the mode as an int, generally top to bottom, left to right, as seen on the screen. Maneuver node being the exception, it is 9
}

Hope that helps.

D.

[Daid]

That helps a lot! "FindObjectOfType" really helps in this case.

Note that you can cast a "VesselAutopilot.AutopilotMode" to an int to get the proper index.

Making your code:

if (this.part.vessel.Autopilot.CanSetMode(VesselAutopilot.AutopilotMode.Normal)) //can you set this autopilot mode?
{
this.part.vessel.ActionGroups.SetGroup(KSPActionGroup.SAS, true); //enable SAS
this.part.vessel.Autopilot.SetMode(VesselAutopilot.AutopilotMode.Normal); //set our desired mode
setSASUI(VesselAutopilot.AutopilotMode.Normal); //jump to next method
}

public void setSASUI(VesselAutopilot.AutopilotMode mode)
{
RUIToggleButton[] SASbtns = FindObjectOfType<VesselAutopilotUI>().modeButtons; //find the UI object on screen
SASbtns.ElementAt<RUIToggleButton>((int)mode).SetTrue(true, true); //set our mode, note it takes the mode as an int, generally top to bottom, left to right, as seen on the screen. Maneuver node being the exception, it is 9
}