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TargetInformer

Summary

Section titled “Summary”

Display UI for showing information about objects being targeted, manipulated, or built

TargetInformer provides a dynamic UI component that displays information based on the current game state. It responds to three different contexts with clear priority:

Priority System:

  1. Manipulation (Highest Priority): Shows info for actively manipulated objects

  2. Building: Shows info for building preview objects

  3. Targeting (Lowest Priority): Shows info for hovered/targeted objects

Signal Flow:

  • GridTargetingState.target_changed → Updates display on hover

  • ManipulationState.active_target_node_changed → Overrides targeting info

  • BuildingState.preview_changed → Shows building preview info

Usage:

var informer = TargetInformer.new()
add_child(informer)
informer.resolve_gb_dependencies(composition_container)
# Now responds automatically to targeting/manipulation/building changes

Override _to_string() on displayed object nodes to show custom names

Properties

Section titled “Properties”
target: Node:
info_parent: Control

Methods

Section titled “Methods”
func _ready( ) -> void

Initialize the target informer display when ready.

func _process( delta: float ) -> void

Update the target information display every frame.

func resolve_gb_dependencies( p_container: GBCompositionContainer ) -> void

Resolve dependencies from the composition container.

p_container: GBCompositionContainer - Container with states and configuration

func clear( )

Clears all child controls from the info parent container.

func refresh( )

Updates the target information display with current target data.

func setup( )
func add_info_label( p_text: String ) -> Label

Adds an information label to the info parent container. Creates a new label with the specified text and adds it to the UI.

p_text: String - Text to display in the label

func track_manipulatable_target( )
func _format_position( p_target: Node ) -> String

Formats a node’s global position for display. Uses the position format and decimal precision from settings.

p_target: Node - Node to format position for (must be Node2D or Node3D)

func _on_manipulation_target_changed( p_target: Manipulatable )
func _on_manipulation_started( p_data: ManipulationData )
func _on_manipulation_finished( _p_data: ManipulationData )
func _on_manipulation_canceled( _p_data: ManipulationData )
func _on_target_tree_exiting( )
func _on_building_preview_changed( p_preview: Node )
func _on_mode_changed( p_mode: GBEnums.Mode )
func _on_targeting_target_changed( _p_new: Node2D, _p_old: Node2D )

Handle targeting state changes - shows info for any targeted object (hover).

Priority Logic: If manipulation is active (active_target_node != null) or building preview is active (preview != null), this handler returns early without updating the display. This ensures manipulation and building preview info takes precedence over targeting info.

Note: This listens to target_changed but displays target_root (the resolved logical root). This ensures we always show the correct root name even when the collision target changes.

_p_new: Node2D - Newly targeted collision object (unused, we read target_root instead)

_p_old: Node2D - Previously targeted node (unused)

Source

Section titled “Source”

addons/grid_building/ui/target_informer/target_informer.gd

This API reference is automatically generated from the plugin source code. For implementation examples and usage guides, see the guides section.