LuaControl.is_technology_gui_open and LuaControl.close_technology_gui

[protocol_1903]

As in title. Checks for if the technology gui is open, and a way to close it if so.

[Osmo]

I think this won't be very useful (aside from tech gui not being part of game state to check if its open) because by default opening technology screen pauses the game and scripts won't be able to run and do anything about it.

[protocol_1903]

In pYSEx we have a custom starmap (sorry not sorry we do funky things) and part of this is having a way to 'override' the usual map. We do this by moving the player around when they click the starmap button, and we check for that by checking the player's cursor position on the screen when the button is clicked. It's jank as all hell but it works. The problem is that this check succeeds even when the tech GUI is open, and since it's not part of the game state (iirc) we can't work around it.

[Bilka]

Wouldn't it be better for you then if you could stop the player from opening the star map? Or get a reliable event when the player opens it?

[protocol_1903]

That too, I hadn't considered that. I figured it was even less connected to the game state