Oh Mighty Skywing, I SUMMON THEE!

[ashtefere]

Crossposting from the deadish obsidian forums:

Hey Skywing, I have a question/feature request if I may, and if you still work on this?

Are you able to code in new GUI commands with the client extension? For example something similar to ExecuteServerScript() ui command?

I know there is currently a sendmesagetopc server command, but I would like something instantaneous based on a UI action on the player side.

Would you be able to add in a ClearCurrentTarget gui command that I could call in a custom GUI?

This would be the same as setting the current target to OBJECT_INVALID.

Or even just the client command of selecting nothing (e.g. the ground) as a target.

Thanks!

[Skywing]

It is possible to manipulate the GUI through the CE, although it can easily be a significant amount of work depending on what you have in mind. Traditionally, this has been done by adding specially formatted server notices that you can send to a CE client with SendMessageToPC, which request that various actions can be taken. If you wanted to activate these from a GUI XML, it would have to then be in the form of a RunScript request for a gui_ script.

One of these is already available in the latest CE release, to set the caret to the end of the chat input box in-game.

Have you already searched the shipping GUI XML's for any functions that might clear the target already, first, however?