Quick Core Actions for Flight Director

[mdonahoo]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

A pre-defined set of narrative tools that help the Flight Director perform common actions in the game, like spawn ships, or change ship status. The problem is that some users may not have experience with actual flight directing , or previous experience with older versions of the software, so a Quick Actions screen will help reduce the learning curve for new Flight Directors, and provide some quick ways to narrate the story.

Describe the solution you'd like

A pre-defined screen of buttons that act as quick actions for Flight Directors to perform certain actions on the timeline. It'll need to use the APIs for the timeline and other game artifacts.

Additional context

See screenshot for in-game mock-up.

[mdonahoo]

Mock-up for quick actions screen for core flight director screen.

[alexanderson1993]

Nice. This looks very similar to the Macro Buttons core in Thorium Classic, which I'm planning to re-implement in Thorium Nova. We can use this issue to track development on that feature.

The work I've been doing on the timeline features (which is available in a feature branch, but I haven't talked about too much) will work very nicely with this

[brentjanderson]

Can I throw out the idea of a command palette too? Raycast-like or Quicksilver-like or whatever you want to compare it to. Having the ability to construct commands to fire off on one-off basis using command-k would be incredible.

[alexanderson1993]

That's planned. #277