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Adds a tab to your default Minetest Game inventory in which other mods can add simple buttons to access special functionality.

Just open the inventory menu, select the “More” tab and click on a button.

The mod itself does not add these buttons on its own, instead other mods need to depend on this mod.

Example:

(Your inventory menu might look different because of different mods.)



Download (and stuff)
Download: sfinv_buttons1.0.0.zip

• Version: 1.0.0 (this is a SemVer)
• Mandatory dependency: sfinv (part of Minetest Game 0.4.15)
• Optional dependency: intllib
• Git project page (with readme file): http://repo.or.cz/minetest_sfinv_buttons.git
• API documentation (important for modders): http://repo.or.cz/minetest_sfinv_button ... er:/API.md
• License of everything: MIT License
• See also: Unified Inventory. Unified Inventory has its own button system. If you use Unified Inventory, you do not need to use Simple Fast Inventory Buttons.

This is must have if using default inventory.
Could you also make possible to choose icons only mode? Then there could be buton grid instead of list

I don't see an use of an icon-only mode.
IMO it would be less usable since the corresponding text is now hidden inside a tooltip. I think the button+icon variant is the best because the text makes it clear what it is for and the icon makes it easier on the eye.
Also, this tab disables the normal inventory grid to make room for all buttons.

But if I hear feedback from actual users on how they perceive the mod's usability, I'd gladly take it. :-)

But the mod already has a fallback mode if the space for buttons is completely used up: It displays a scrollable text list instead. This means, this mod supports an arbitrary amount of buttons.

However, I would generally not recommend mods to add huge amounts of buttons, to keep things simple. Buttons should only be added for accessing their core functionality, such as the main form.
If a modder would like to add, let's say, a complete “control panel”, adding a new sfinv tab would be better. Note: sfinv is a new Minetest Game mod by rubenwardy, it has a quite powerful API. Interested modders should take a look at it.

How can i execute a command?
What are the lines of code therefore?

Do you want to learn how to add your own button with this mod?
In this case, read API.md which is included with the mod.

http://repo.or.cz/minetest_sfinv_button ... er:/API.md

If you meant something else, sorry. I have no idea what you want from me. :-(

Very nice! This should be quite good to make a replacement for unified inventory's button bar

cHyper wrote:How can i execute a command?

Wuzzy wrote:If you meant something else, sorry. I have no idea what you want from me. :-(

Maybe he wants a button that executes a chat-command, like "/privs".

Nice mod!
It would be great to have a fake unified inventory mod which automatically converts the unified inventory buttons into simple fast inventory buttons.

hajo wrote:

cHyper wrote:How can i execute a command?

Wuzzy wrote:If you meant something else, sorry. I have no idea what you want from me. :-(

Maybe he wants a button that executes a chat-command, like "/privs".

yes.
i mean chat-commands!
but how can i do that?

It would be great to have a fake unified inventory mod which automatically converts the unified inventory buttons into simple fast inventory buttons.

Or just convince modders to support both mods. The APIs are both relatively simple, so the overhead should be rather small. It's a pity that Unified Inventory has no API documentation whatsoever.

yes.
i mean chat-commands!
but how can i do that?

I fear this is not directly possible as Minetest does not expose a list of registered chat commands.

But what you could do instead is write a mod which adds a button which does the same action of the chat command. If you don't know how to do it, you should either learn how to mod or ask a modder to do it for you.

Wuzzy wrote:

yes.
i mean chat-commands!
but how can i do that?

I fear this is not directly possible as Minetest does not expose a list of registered chat commands.

But what you could do instead is write a mod which adds a button which does the same action of the chat command. If you don't know how to do it, you should either learn how to mod or ask a modder to do it for you.

minetest.chatcommands

See irc commands:

Oh, sorry, rubenwardy, for not knowing about the completely undocumented minetest.chatcommands table. :P

Here! Have a PR: Add icon bar mode - adds an icon bar to every page



Put sfinv_buttons_use_icon_bar = true in minetest.conf to enable

Really I need to make a sfinv.register_on_player_submit_fields function, would make this a lot easier

Also, I made a mod which uses this mod: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=16290

And as soon as the 10th or 11th button is added, this mod breaks.

Version 1.0.0 released!
This mod has been long enough in version 0.1.0, is finished and no bugs have been found. It's about time for an official release. :-)

Not much changed, I just fixed some typos.

Woohoo!