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Hello, I have been trying to add a new button to the GUI of all production facilities. The button would allow you to upgrade the facility, much like warehouses and resident buildings upgrade. I would like to place this button next to the "call market cart/Instant pickup" button in the object menu. My reason for this placing it here is that the other instances of upgrade buttons throughout the game appear at the top of the menu, where the "cultivate" button appears on production facilities. I figure adding the button below, near the other functions wouldn't interfere with the cultivate function. So far I have done the following to patch0.rda\addondata\config\gui\menudefinitions\objectmenu_manufactory.dlg:


<BUTTON>
<PATHID>UPGRADE_FACTORY</PATHID>
<TEMPLATE_REF_ID>ROUND_MENU_BUTTON_SMALL</TEMPLATE_REF_ID>
<EXTENT>
<TOP>75</TOP>
<LEFT>17</LEFT>
<WIDTH>40</WIDTH>
<HEIGHT>40</HEIGHT>
</EXTENT>
<ICONGUID>7074</ICONGUID>
<EVENTHANDLER>
<UPGRADE_HOUSE/>
<EVENT>OnLeftClick</EVENT>
</EVENTHANDLER>
<ACCESSID>PRODUCTION_UPGRADE_FACTORY_BUTTON</ACCESSID>
<IS_DRAGGABLE>0</IS_DRAGGABLE>
<BACKGROUND>addondata/config/gui/backgrounds/final/general_buttons/35x35_circle.bkg</BACKGROUND>
<TOOLTIP>
<TEXT>10157526</TEXT>
</TOOLTIP>
<ZORDER>4</ZORDER>
<ICONSTRETCH>1</ICONSTRETCH>
<ICONSPACE>
<LEFT>4</LEFT>
<TOP>4</TOP>
</ICONSPACE>
<SOUNDGUIDCLICK>2809</SOUNDGUIDCLICK>
</BUTTON>
However the button will not appear in game. I searched through the other files in the gui directory for instances of the other buttons that appear on the menu, but it would appear that the objectmenu_manufactory.dlg is the only place where you can find the button definitions. Am I missing an obvious step? any help would be appreciated.

Also, i suppose i should mention that i have added the <Upgradable /> tags to the buildings (and entered in the target GUID) in the assets.xml and included the "Upgrade" function in the entry list context menu. everything should be set on that side, now i believe it to be a problem with the GUI only.

Hey, thanks for the reply!

The Icon GUID is the same as that for the "instant pick up" function, Would reusing the icon cause problems? (i am still pretty new to interface editing)

As far as the manufactory.dlg, I was hoping that packing the file in to the patch0.rda file would force it to overwrite the others, but I may be wrong. I have posted this on projectanno.de and someone said that this would not be possible. So, perhaps I could explain what I am trying to do so that others may provide possible alternatives to achieve a similar effect. I wanted to make the factories upgradable, the new building they upgrade in to would have 25% increased production output, but would also increase the costs of maintenance. I was hoping to make the upgrade ability dependent on the level of civilization, so as you "level up" you would gain access to these upgrades. The idea would be that you could increase production output without having to sacrifice too much space, allowing for larger populations on smaller maps. I wanted to do this in a way that wouldn't change the economy, only the space requirements.