Adding new Architect tabs [solved]

[jamieg]

I asked Ty for some help today in how to add new tabs to the architect menu as i couldnt find the answer and he helped me out so here it is incase anyone else as wondering

-It's easy in A4, impossible in A3. If you're modding towards A4 just use the test version and add a DesignationCategoryDef.

[WorldOfIllusion]

I am looking forward to this so much.

Come on June!

[Cala13er]

I asked Ty for some help today in how to add new tabs to the architect menu as i couldnt find the answer and he helped me out so here it is incase anyone else as wondering

-It's easy in A4, impossible in A3. If you're modding towards A4 just use the test version and add a DesignationCategoryDef.

I'll say this again, I've read a while ago in the tester forum that we should not be leaking information about test releases or upcoming alpha's.  Probably best you remove this jamie.

[Architect]

Callum's right, if it isn't in the changelog here, I'm pretty sure it is meant to be private knowledge.

[jamieg]

The part of the reply from Ty that i didnt show was him asking me to put this in the public mod help forum incase anyone else wondered...... so im sure it fine

[Tynan]

It's okay, I asked him to share the info. Maybe inadvisably since this isn't in A3...

[WorldOfIllusion]

drumming up the anticipation for us non-tester modders (and for all the mod users who don't want their screens to be entirely filled up I guess).

[Cala13er]

It's okay, I asked him to share the info. Maybe inadvisably since this isn't in A3...

Fair play . I withdraw my case .

[Vendan]

I asked Ty for some help today in how to add new tabs to the architect menu as i couldnt find the answer and he helped me out so here it is incase anyone else as wondering

-It's easy in A4, impossible in A3. If you're modding towards A4 just use the test version and add a DesignationCategoryDef.

THE IMPOSSIBLE IS NEVER IMPOSSIBLE

though it is a severe kludge, and adding categories through xml is probably like 5000% easier.


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[Architect]

I asked Ty for some help today in how to add new tabs to the architect menu as i couldnt find the answer and he helped me out so here it is incase anyone else as wondering

-It's easy in A4, impossible in A3. If you're modding towards A4 just use the test version and add a DesignationCategoryDef.

THE IMPOSSIBLE IS NEVER IMPOSSIBLE

though it is a severe kludge, and adding categories through xml is probably like 5000% easier.

[pawnstorm]

In case somebody finds it useful, I thought I'd share some code here. Aside from extending the TabArchitect class and replacing Find.MainTabsRoot.tabArchitect with it in the incidentmakerclasses like I did in Architect+ (Architect+ comes with source btw, unlike Vanilla+), I found another easy way to add stuff to the interface. It's the same method that's also used in Joretap0's awesome Inventory Panel mod.

This is achieved by adding a custom Layer extended class to the layerstack, adding it is simple: Find.Layers.Add(YourLayer). You can draw any GUI stuff you want in a layer, buttons, icons, dialogs, labels...

The problem is finding some way to trigger adding the layer at the right time. The solution I came up with is adding a dummy sound to get an early trigger through the constructor of the custom sound class (which is always triggered after mods are loaded), and then creating a custom mapgenner for when a new game is started and a custom postloadinitter for when a game is loaded. I've also added a destructor that ensures a new instance is added to the mapgenners/postloadinitters if needed when it is removed. Hacky method, but it works .

First you need to create a dummy sound def in Defs\SoundDefs. Use a different def name to avoid compatibility issues:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<SoundDefPackage>
<SoundDef>
<defName>SubSoundDummy</defName>
<subSounds>
<li Class="YourMod.SubSoundDummy, YourMod">
</li>
</subSounds>
</SoundDef>
</SoundDefPackage>

And these are the classes you need to trigger adding your Layer at the appropriate time:

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    public class SubSoundDummy : SubSoundDef
    {
        public SubSoundDummy()
        {
            if (!Genner_YourMod.active)
            {
                Genner_YourMod genner = new Genner_YourMod();
                foreach (MapGeneratorDef def in DefDatabase<MapGeneratorDef>.AllDefs)
                    def.genners.Add(genner);
            }
            if (!Initter_YourMod.active)
            {
                Initter_YourMod init = new Initter_YourMod();
                PostLoadInitter.RegisterForPostLoadInit(init);
            }
        }
    }

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    public class Genner_YourMod : Genner
    {
        public static bool active = false;

        public Genner_YourMod()
        {
            active = true;
        }

        ~Genner_YourMod()
        {
            if (!PlayDataMaster.loaded && ModsConfig.IsActive("YourMod"))
            {
                Genner_YourMod genner = new Genner_YourMod();
                foreach (MapGeneratorDef def in DefDatabase<MapGeneratorDef>.AllDefs)
                    def.genners.Add(genner);
            }
            else
            {
                active = false;
            }
        }

        public override void Generate()
        {
            if (ModsConfig.IsActive("YourMod"))
                Find.Layers.Add(new YourLayer());
        }   
    }

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    public class Initter_YourMod : Saveable
    {
        public static bool active = false;

        public Initter_YourMod()
        {
            active = true;
        }
       
        ~Initter_YourMod()
        {
            if (Scribe.mode == LoadSaveMode.PostLoadInit && ModsConfig.IsActive("YourMod"))
            {
                Initter_YourMod init = new Initter_YourMod();
                PostLoadInitter.RegisterForPostLoadInit(init);
            }
            else
            {
                active = false;
            }
        }

        public void ExposeData()
        {
            if (ModsConfig.IsActive("YourMod"))
                Find.Layers.Add(new YourLayer());
        }
    }