Game Master: Toolbar Action Creation – Arma Reforger

We will be creating a specific General Toolbar action. The Faction and Command toolbars are quite similar to the General Toolbar and we will touch upon them as well though these also interact with either the faction or the AI group.

Script Creation

As we will be creating a general toolbar action we will need to inherit from one of the Toolbar classes:

Class	Description
SCR_EditorToolbarAction	Basic functionality for toolbar actions. You click the button and something happens, very similar to Context actions (see also Context Action Creation tutorial)
SCR_BaseToggleToolbarAction	A toggle action which can be toggled and untoggled; though in general the functionality is quite similar to SCR_EditorToolbarAction
SCR_BaseCommandAction	Used for Faction and Command bar actions that take entity targets and have a built-in function to spawn a prefab.

Methods

There are a few functions to take into account:

Method	Description
CanBeShown()	Whether or not the action will be shown in the toolbar. The action cannot be performed (not even with shortcut) if it is not shown, but you can set it up in such a way that the action is shown/hidden depending on events.
CanBePerformed()	Whether or not the action can be performed. The action cannot be selected or executed if false but the button is still shown.
Perform()	Here you actually execute the action. Write the code to bed performed here.
IsServer()	Set the return value to true/false if you want the action to be executed on server/locally
Track()	SCR_BaseToggleToolbarAction only. Track events which influence the action.
Untrack()	SCR_BaseToggleToolbarAction only. Untrack events which influence the action.
Toggle()	SCR_BaseToggleToolbarAction only. Toggle action state. To be called by inherited classes.

Config Modding

Add to Config

Locate the wanted config in which you want to create your Toolbar Action, and press the + button to add a new item to its array.

Folder	Config	Description
Data\Configs\Editor\ActionLists\Toolbar	EditToolbar.conf	General Toolbar for Edit mode
	PhotoToolbar.conf	General Toolbar for Photo mode
	AdminToolbar.conf	General Toolbar for Admin mode
	SharedToolbar.conf	Toolbar actions that are shared between all the above modes
Data\Configs\Editor\ActionLists\Command	Command.conf	Toolbar for both Faction as well as Command

UI Info

Now that the action is added you will have to fill in the variables. We will start with the UI Info. Press the Set Class button and select SCR_UIInfo from the list.

This will get you the following UI Info variables to fill in:

Variable	Description
Name	Action name
Description	Description when focusing on action
Icon	Icon of action

Other Variables

Variable	Description
Action Group	Makes sure actions are group together. Each enum is their own group divided by a divider.
Action Type	Purely visible and decides which widget the action has. ACTION: One click executes the action. TOGGLE: The action can be toggled on and off (Though ACTION can also be used for this) DYNAMIC: The action is only shown when certain conditions are met. Like placing a character as Player.
Command Prefab	SCR_BaseCommandAction only. The prefab that will be spawned when toggling the button.
Effects	Array of effects when action is performed, things such as Sound and Particle effects.
Enable Shortcut Logics	Will allow the "Shortcut" to work if true. You might want to execute the shortcut action from a different location. So "Shortcut" is purely informative.
Info Toggled	SCR_BaseToggleToolbarAction only. The Name, Description and Icon of a toggled button.
Order	This dictates the order of the action within their respected Action Group (They can have no action group). The higher the number the closer the action is in the left compaired to other actions. Actions with the same order are ordered the same as in the config array.
Shortcut	Add an Input action name if you want the action also to be executed via short cut. Note that CanBePerformed() will still be checked.