dockscreen mod improvement

[Betelgeuse]

On irc we are talking about what would make dockscreens better to work with.

couple ideas:

dockscreen/pane attributes, that way we could examine what kind of dockscreen a given dockscreen is.

hooks, the ability for a mod to add an action to a dockscreen without overriding that dockscreen. For example I want to add an option to the ships dockscreen to examine your current sets. If I made that a normal dockscreen that mod would be incompatible with any other player ship dockscreen mod (for example a mod that allows you to look at the data on your items in your hold). These two mods work on different parts of the dockscreen but can't be done without combining them into one Frankenstein mod.

any thoughts on these or different ideas you want to add to improve dockscreens?

[Arisaya]

hooked dockscreens sounds like something I would support (mainly for the playership's internal dockscreen)

[Aeonic]

Anything that allows for each ship to have customizable dock screens without having to override the entire dock screen system (meaning you can't have two ships that both do this) can be nothing but good.

[Prophet]

I would like a way to hook into any existing dockscreen and redirect with code. Perhaps having a common script in all <InitialPane> dockscreens for stations so if I were to make a mission and wanted it to complete when the player docks with a fuel depot I could set a global variable that the depot's dockscreen would check and redirect to my screen rather than the default depot screen.

As for adding actions to the ship interior, alterecco's ship hook mod (made with the DSF) works fantastic. The G.O.D. mod functions this way and I used it for my VUI mod. You can add any number of screens to the ship interior this way. I wouldn't mind if George added something similar as a standard feature.

[Aeonic]

I think it would be nice if george would standardize a lot of these mods that are designed to allow for more customization.