Is this possible? override Ship Status screen

[steelwing]

In a mod that I'm working on, I've realized that I have to be able to fully override the Ship Status screen in the game, or at least the actions offered on that screen. I know there's DSF, which allows custom menu entries to be added to that screen, but can it (or anything else) replace/override that screen? Looks like Star Weaver asked about something like this when 1.04 came out, over here.

[digdug]

you can easily ADD actions to the ship status screen by using something similar to this example code (this is what i'm using to add the weapons extended action to the dockscreen)

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<StationType UNID="&WE_OGPIStation;" virtual="true">
	<Events>
		<OnGlobalPaneInit>
		(switch
			(eq aScreenUNID &dsShipInterior;)
				(scrAddAction
					gScreen
					'WE4
					-1
					"WE4 Configurator"
					"w"
					(block Nil
						(setq prevScreen &dsShipInterior;)
						(scrShowScreen gScreen &dsWEConfigurator;)
					)
				)
			)
		</OnGlobalPaneInit>
	</Events>
</StationType>

It's basically a virtual station bearing the new <OnGlobalPaneInit> event.

Also, if you have a custom ship, you can also have a custom ship screen:

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<PlayerSettings>
shipScreen="{unid} | {screen-name}"

[RPC]

Basically, look at scrAddAction. You can add actions to any screen.

[alterecco]

You can also override the screen entirely by making a dockscreen and giving it the UNID &dsShipInterior;

[steelwing]

You can also override the screen entirely by making a dockscreen and giving it the UNID &dsShipInterior;

Also, if you have a custom ship, you can also have a custom ship screen:
Code:

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<PlayerSettings>
shipScreen="{unid} | {screen-name}"

Awesome, thank you both! Does the custom ship screen override the normal ship status screen?
digdug, I see this uses the <PlayerSettings> tag...There's not much reference for what it does and does not support, even in the wiki or XML sources. Anyone got anything documenting that tag?

[digdug]

Does the custom ship screen override the normal ship status screen?
digdug, I see this uses the <PlayerSettings> tag...There's not much reference for what it does and does not support, even in the wiki or XML sources. Anyone got anything documenting that tag?

Yes, it overrides the status screen of your custom playership only. Other ships (or vanilla ships will use the standard dsShipInterior)
To do that you have to put the shipScreen=xxx line into the <PlayerSettings> of your custom ship, that's why I wrote it like that

so simply, in your custom ship, add the shipScreen line:

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		<PlayerSettings
			desc=				"This ship is a playable custom ship"
			initialClass=		"true">
                        shipScreen="&dsMyCustomScreen;"
                        
			<ArmorDisplay>
				armorblahblahextravaganza
				</ArmorDisplay>

			<ShieldDisplay>
				<Image imageID="&rsWolfenShields;" imageX="0" imageY="0" imageWidth="136" imageHeight="136"/>
				</ShieldDisplay>
				
			<ReactorDisplay>
				blah blah
				</ReactorDisplay>
			
			</PlayerSettings>

Sorry if I didn't explain it better before

[Star Weaver]

Hey, I actually confirmed this with George in PM and used it in Detailed Ship Config (only to determine where the 'back' needs to go, which is now done some other way and I need to update that mod, but this should still work:)

I guess the information never got out. x_x

This is how you determine if you're on the status dockscreen regardless of what the screen's unid is:

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(if (eq aScreen (objGetDataField gPlayerShip "shipStatusScreen"))
  (block nil 
    (dbglog "We're on the playership status screen.") 
  )
)

[steelwing]

Does the custom ship screen override the normal ship status screen?
digdug, I see this uses the <PlayerSettings> tag...There's not much reference for what it does and does not support, even in the wiki or XML sources. Anyone got anything documenting that tag?

Yes, it overrides the status screen of your custom playership only. Other ships (or vanilla ships will use the standard dsShipInterior)
To do that you have to put the shipScreen=xxx line into the <PlayerSettings> of your custom ship, that's why I wrote it like that

so simply, in your custom ship, add the shipScreen line:

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		<PlayerSettings
			desc=				"This ship is a playable custom ship"
			initialClass=		"true">
                        shipScreen="&dsMyCustomScreen;"
                        
			<ArmorDisplay>
				armorblahblahextravaganza
				</ArmorDisplay>

			<ShieldDisplay>
				<Image imageID="&rsWolfenShields;" imageX="0" imageY="0" imageWidth="136" imageHeight="136"/>
				</ShieldDisplay>
				
			<ReactorDisplay>
				blah blah
				</ReactorDisplay>
			
			</PlayerSettings>

Sorry if I didn't explain it better before

Not a problem. The syntax just looked weird, having the shipScreen= outside the tag like that. Thanks for explaining!
Now, another question...I see <PlayerSettings> has <ShieldDisplay>, <ArmorDisplay>, and <ReactorDisplay>...Does it have an equivalent for the weapons display? This is why I asked about documentation for <PlayerSettings>.

[george moromisato]

Not a problem. The syntax just looked weird, having the shipScreen= outside the tag like that. Thanks for explaining!
Now, another question...I see <PlayerSettings> has <ShieldDisplay>, <ArmorDisplay>, and <ReactorDisplay>...Does it have an equivalent for the weapons display? This is why I asked about documentation for <PlayerSettings>.

Looks like a typo to me. I think it should be inside the tag:

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<PlayerSettings
   ...
   shipScreen="..."
   >

   ...

</PlayerSettings>

Everything else looks right to me.

[digdug]

.Does it have an equivalent for the weapons display?

<PlayerSettings> contains the settings for a playership like starting money or description in the ship selection screen. It contains the details for the shield HUD <ShieldDisplay>, reactor and fuel bars (top left of the HUD) in <ReactorDisplay>, armor HUD in <ArmorDisplay>.
The bottom left part (weapons) of the HUD is not moddable and hardcoded. (well, we can change the colour of the HUD since the image resource is not hardcoded, but we cannot change the size for example)

@George
ops! indeed, that is a typo
Thanks for pointing that out.

[steelwing]

Thank you for the help, George and digdug!
I'm probably not the first, but can I get in a feature request for the ability to mod the weapon and radar displays? I doubt I would actually ever mod the radar myself, but it would be best to be able to mod everything. A truly custom playership should be able to have fully customized displays, as much as is appropriate.

[TheLastBrunnenG]

You can also override the screen entirely by making a dockscreen and giving it the UNID &dsShipInterior;

I'm sure there are better examples, but if you need to see it in action, I used this trick in my Playable Pteravore mod (http://xelerus.de/index.php?s=mod&id=669). I replaced dsShipInterior, dsShipConfig, dsCargoHold, and dsManualRefuel with custom dockscreens, each with new dockreen graphics too. Works well.

[steelwing]

You can also override the screen entirely by making a dockscreen and giving it the UNID &dsShipInterior;

I'm sure there are better examples, but if you need to see it in action, I used this trick in my Playable Pteravore mod (http://xelerus.de/index.php?s=mod&id=669). I replaced dsShipInterior, dsShipConfig, dsCargoHold, and dsManualRefuel with custom dockscreens, each with new dockreen graphics too. Works well.

Thanks, I'll definitely check it out.