#you cannot add it inside the border
silent cave
Just so I understand, but "inside the border" you mean the border of the main "circuit connection" frame or the inner border of the "read working" section?
I want to create another secrion in the Circuit connection window.
normal quest
the circuit connection box itself
silent cave
Ok, thanks for info, I will make a feature request for it then
normal quest
it'll get denied
silent cave
Hm? Why?
normal quest
wube will not be adding support to add elements inside base game guis
spring field
vanilla GUI’s are untouchable by mods (for a very good reason(s))
so unless you want to remake it with the API, you cant touch it
silent cave
It could be an "add only" situation which would work completely fine
the entire entity gui cannot be created with api, and yet you can add to it
silent cave
You could have mods add panels and it would not break the existing stuff since mods cant touch that (edit or remove), only add
spring field
as in have a mod add a panel to the existing GUI?
spring field
that’d require it be touchable by the API, which isnt ever going to be a thing
spring field
vanilla GUI’s are untouchable by mods (for a very good reason(s))
as in this
silent cave
that’d require it be touchable by the API, which isnt ever going to be a thing
but why not? just add a mod-controllable section to the end of the built-in panel
spring field
because its a part of the engine, for very good reasons (which im finding right now)
silent cave
i understand it might be extra work in case the code is hard-wired to not support this, but "it is more work than its worth" is not the same argument as "it has fundamental problems that cannot be solved"
i would be curious what those reasons are
if mods can add a panel to the right on the gui, then why not at the end of the list panel?
spring field
mods are not in the same state as the engine, and moving GUI to the mod state would cause WAYYYYYYY more issues then it’d ever be worth
its either vanilla GUI’s are untouchable and work, or are in the API and dont work
there is no way to have it be both
silent cave
ok, thanks for context, but the modded frame is next to the vanilla frame and it works fine
so the main gui window can hold multiple frames, with some geing game state, and some latency/client state
do i understand that correctly?
spring field
im not sure how that works, you’d have to access someone more expirenced then i in GUI
i presume there is some connection between the two so that you can build ontop of a vanilla GUI, but i dont know
silent cave
well my guess is that at the frame level it is decided how it is going to work (what the "source of thruth", how to handle changes, etc etc)
but if different frames can be next to each other, then different panels should be able to be bellow one another in a single frame. At least in theory, there might be some hard-wiring on the level of the frame to make that require a moderately side rewrite.
spring field
eh, you can just ask someone about it but the answer will still be “no modifications to vanilla GUI”
silent cave
or maybe client-side elements can hold server-side ones, but not vice versa?
spring field
i believe that’d fall into “it’d be horrendous for the devs to work with”