Can mods create notifications?

[Tebriel]

Title covers it all - any way to add those top of the screen notifications via a mod?

Edit - I might be calling them the wrong name, maybe alerts? I'm referring to those little flags that drop down under the top information bar.

 

[rivtaldm]

Title covers it all - any way to add those top of the screen notifications via a mod?

Edit - I might be calling them the wrong name, maybe alerts? I'm referring to those little flags that drop down under the top information bar.

Yea, it can be done. I created a few of them for GeS. You clone an existing one, rename it, and replace the conditions with a scripted gui setup.

 

[Tebriel]

Yeah that's an impressive sized mod.

I've gotten an alert to show, but definitely seems a little tricky. Can't get it to only show when I want it to yet, or even manually dismiss. I wish we had documentation for this stuff.

 

[Tebriel]

The GeS mod has been a helpful reference.

Not sure if anyone can clarify, but I'm not sure how the "visible" part of this works. I can get an alert to work if I only have the AlertManager.ShowAlert() part, but that ScriptedGui thing is a mystery. I see there's an alert named unmarried_heir_alert referred to here, but it's not doing anything.

###########################
#Unmarried Heir
###########################

alert = {
size = { 58 80 }
datacontext = "[GetScriptedGui('unmarried_heir_alert')]"
visible = "[And(ScriptedGui.IsShown(GuiScope.SetRoot(AlertManager.GetPlayer.MakeScope).End), AlertManager.ShowAlert('unmarried_heir'))]"
tooltip = "TT_UNMARRIED_HEIR"

blockoverride "Color"
{
frame = 8
}
using = yellow_alert
blockoverride "button_click"
{
onclick = "[OpenGameView('government')]"
onrightclick = "[AlertManager.ToggleShowAlert('unmarried_heir')]"
}

blockoverride "Icon"
{
texture = "gfx/interface/icons/shared_icons/fertility.dds"
using = alert_icon_size
}
}

unmarried_heir_alert = {
scope = country

is_shown = {
is_republic = no
has_primary_heir = yes
any_character = {
is_primary_heir = yes
age >= 15
is_married = no
}
}
}

Also not sure why there's both unmarried_heir and unmarried_heir_alert instead of just one or the other name.

 

[Tebriel]

Got it - turned out I had a newline in that quoted visible = "" part, and that doesn't work, it needs to be a single line.
It looked like it could be multi-line in the example I was using, due to some auto-wrapping in a text viewer.

 

[Tebriel]

Hmm, so I've got the alert I need working. BUT it seems like alert tooltips are usually (always?) hardcoded. I'm specifically talking about the ones that provide extra info, such as a list of places where "starving pops" are, or a list of rebellious provinces.

Am I correct in thinking there's no way to add dynamic tooltips to alerts? Specifically I want to add a list of characters based on a number of conditions.