Add item to the keybind bar?

[katkat42]

You know the keybind bar, that bar at the bottom of the vanilla UI elements, that says, for example when looting, "Take [E]" "Take All [R]" "Exit [Alt]" ? Does anyone know how to add my own button to the pre-existing bar?

I know the bar is controlled by the KEYBIND_STRIP global. I know there are functions within this variable called AddKeybindButton(), AddKeybindButtonGroup(), and AddButtonToAnchors(). Does anyone know the arguments that these functions might take?

Also, when do I call the function to add the keybind to the bar? Do I call when the provisioning window opens? Sometime before or after? Do I trigger it with an event callback?

Thanks in advance!

[Xrystal]

Have a look at this thread.

I had a quick dabble when the question was asked in game and got a basic one running.

But, I think you need to combine the display with the custom binding table which I didn't play with.

Although, it wasn't to the existing bar.

[Halja]

http://www.esoui.com/forums/showthread.php?t=820

There is some additional linking going on to make the work. It appears to be something with the RootGUI and/or scene manager and callbacks. They could of buried it deeper but why would they expose they keybind strip in the API?

--halja

[katkat42]

Thank you! I'll fiddle around with that today.

[katkat42]

Okay, here's how it goes. The function to put a button (or button group) to the keybind bar is as follows:

KEYBIND_STRIP:AddKeybindButtonGroup(keybindStripDescriptor)

...where keybindStripDescriptor is as follows:

local keybindStripDescriptor = 
{
	{ -- I think you can have more than one button in your group if you add more of these sub-groups
		alignment = KEYBIND_STRIP_ALIGN_CENTER,
		name = "Craft All",
		keybind = "UI_SHORTCUT_TERTIARY",
		callback = function() CookAllStart() end,
	},
}

Put the first segment of code in your callback for the event that displays the keybind bar. In your callback for the event that un-displays the keybind bar (ie, EVENT_END_CRAFTING_STATION_INTERACT), put this line:

KEYBIND_STRIP:RemoveKeybindButtonGroup(keybindStripDescriptor)

I think there might be a more graceful way to do it when there's already some buttons there, but this is one way to do it.