How to add a button to the Pause Screen that triggers a ActionFormData to be opened? | Bedrock Add-Ons | Page 1

torpid rampart Apr 16, 2023, 9:18 AM

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I've been going through all the tutorials and haven't find this yet and wondering if UI is just too locked down to do any server side event processing.

I want to add a button to the pause screen that will open a ActionFormData for the user so they can perform some administration on the backend. Thus far I haven't found anything on how to do that.

craggy ledge Apr 16, 2023, 9:21 AM

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it's not possible.

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everything you can do is custom screen that won't be dynamic?

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I mean everything inside this screen will be static, you won't be able to edit it by server, especially custom forms

torpid rampart Apr 16, 2023, 9:27 AM

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I don't need the server to edit the screen. I'm more looking to create a way for a button in a JSON UI to trigger something serverside. ActionFormData is the new serverside UI

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I'm coming from spigot / java

craggy ledge Apr 16, 2023, 9:27 AM

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craggy ledge I mean everything inside this screen will be static, you won't be able to edit i...

also this screen won't be really accessible to controller input

torpid rampart Apr 16, 2023, 9:28 AM

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and we create custom commands like /admin set to send things serverside

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I thought bedrock was better at allowing custom GUI's to do that

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All I really need is a way for a Player to send an event to the server and I can handle it from there

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I was hoping it would be a GUI but if there's another way

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That's not some hackish form of item hit dtection

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I've looked on YT and all I see are things describing to use a carrot on the stick and such

craggy ledge Apr 16, 2023, 9:29 AM

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torpid rampart I don't need the server to edit the screen. I'm more looking to create a way for...

so you can't do it conversely, jsonUI cannot communicate with server like that, you need to send some idk. custom chest gui or server form

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or by command, item event etc. basically everything based on serverside

torpid rampart Apr 16, 2023, 9:31 AM

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I guess a command will be needed

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That's the way it works on Java

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I don't think item event will work

clear light Apr 17, 2023, 2:11 AM

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It's posible. I found an addon where add a custom button to the pause menu, but I don't understand the codde that the autor use. He use an Unicode text (decoded it says things which I assume are the position and texture of the button) followed to a large text of random letters, finishing with an true or false.

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the important is the random letters that I think dictate the function of the button, but I can't decipher them, if someone knows what I'm talking about, we could collaborate to understand how the addon is made

#How to add a button to the Pause Screen that triggers a ActionFormData to be opened?