Make ActionButtons editable

Ideas
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I just tried out the “forcedROMode” described in the docs in the ActionButtons section.

While implementing a “RO-Toggle” command, my demand came up: I’d like to edit the Action-Buttons “on-the-fly” to change a button/icon to represent the current status.

Would be nice, if the “actionbutton.define” function would get an “actionbutton.update” equivalent :slight_smile:
(or maybe an “actionbutton.delete” to remove a button to create it new)

Dont’t know, if changing buttons at runtime is possible, anyway…

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How about something like this:

actionButton.define {
  icon = (editor.getUiOption("forcedROMode") and "eye-off") or "eye",
  run = function()
    local mode = editor.getUiOption("forcedROMode")
    editor.setUiOption("forcedROMode", not mode)
    editor.rebuildEditorState()
    editor.reloadConfigAndCommands()
  end
}
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3

Sounds great. Good Idea, i will try that as soon as possible :slight_smile:

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4

It works, thanks! :slight_smile:

5

The only thing that the top bar mini-editor does not reflect the mode. It would be nice if it also can be turned to read only mode somehow. Any ideas?

6

Tried it and it works like a charm! Thanks again!
In fact, that basically is exactly what I tried to achieve.

The puzzle piece I was missing obviously is the “actionbutton.define” function.
Until now I used the "config.set { actionbuttons = … } definition.

And thanks for the idea to simply reload the config/UI. Did not see the forest for the trees here… :wink:

Only thing I have to figure out now is how to define the position of the button, as via “actionbuttons.define”, the button is placed at the end (which is only a cosmetic issue for me…)