Adding a custom button to an existing console

[astrolamb-gaming]

I've been trying to figure out how to add a button to the comms console that's separate from the existing widgets.

Using this, I can get the button to appear on the server, but I haven't figured out how to put it on the comms console instead.

clients = sbs.get_client_ID_list()
for c in clients:
    type = sbs.get_type_of_client(c)
    if type == "normal_comm":
        gui_section(style="area: 75,100-50px, 100,100;")
        on gui_message(gui_button("Incoming Message")):
            comms_broadcast(c,"testing)
        await gui()

What am I missing?

[dougreichard]

You probably want something like the below.

//gui is for extending a console.

You don't want to call await gui() that replaces the whole gui

But I should warn that Engineering and Comms are quite dense. Finding the screen real estate to place a button is difficult.
Comms engineering have also changed in the current development (v1.0.7 at the time this was written). Some of it is to allow for more things in an already complex UI. It is not completed

//gui/normal_comm
    gui_section(style="area: 75,100-50px, 100,100;")
    on gui_message(gui_button("Incoming Message")):
        comms_broadcast(c,"testing)

Most consoles are laid out here

Likely to accomplish what you are trying you'd need to override this....which would probably need the priority/ordering that was recently to other things, but probably not in //gui

[astrolamb-gaming]

Ok, thanks.

I'd tried using @console/comms, but that just replaced the whole thing.

[astrolamb-gaming]

So I guess as a follow up to this: is there any way to remove a gui element, short of redrawing the entire gui?

[dougreichard]

You could use a region. Like this snippet from the console select screen,
or in manual weapons.

 ship_sec = gui_region(style="area: 10px,60px,400px,105px")
    with ship_sec:
        gui_row(style="row-height: 45px;")

        _input = gui_input("desc:Ship Name", var="ship_name")
        on gui_message(_input):
            PLAYER_LIST[client_selected_index].name = ship_name
            client_select_ship = ship_name

[astrolamb-gaming]

For anyone else who might be looking into how to add or remove gui elements, I ended up using the gui_region described by Doug here, and combined it with gui_show() and gui_hide(), so you could have something like this:

on change get_inventory_value(ship_id, "some_key"):
    if get_inventory_value(ship_id, "some_key") == "some_value":
        show_gui(ship_sec)
    else:
        hide_gui(ship_sec)