Commands

Mother GUI exposes a small set of commands for navigation and screen management. These commands can be triggered from the programmable block terminal, toolbars, button panels, timers, event controllers, or other Mother routines.

`view/up`

Move the current cursor up on a display.

terminal
view/up "Bridge LCD";

`view/down`

Move the current cursor down on a display.

terminal
view/down "Bridge LCD";

`view/select`

Run the selected menu item or enter the selected menu group.

terminal
view/select "Bridge LCD";

`view/back`

Go back one step. This works across nested menus and across menu-to-menu jumps.

terminal
view/back "Bridge LCD";

`view/go`

view/go is the most flexible command. It can:

Open a named view
Switch to a named menu
Jump to a menu path

terminal
view/go "Bridge LCD" "RotorView" "Port Rotor";
view/go "Bridge LCD" "EngineeringMenu";
view/go "Bridge LCD" "BridgeMenu > Ship Systems > Mechanical";

When view/go runs from a Mother GUI menu item, you can use self instead of a literal display name so the current display targets itself.

terminal
view/go self "DoorView" "Hangar Door";

These are functionally equivalent to the view/* commands.

Screen Commands

`screen/content`

Change a surface content type.

terminal
screen/content "Bridge LCD" text;
screen/content "Bridge LCD" none;
screen/content "Bridge LCD" script;

Supported values are none, script, and text.

`screen/script`

Switch a display surface into script mode and select a script.

terminal
screen/script "Bridge LCD" "TSS_ArtificialHorizon";

Built-in scripts:


TSS_ClockAnalog
TSS_ArtificialHorizon
TSS_ClockDigital
TSS_FactionIcon
TSS_EnergyHydrogen
TSS_FactionStationAdvert
TSS_Gravity
TSS_Velocity
TSS_TargetingInfo
TSS_VendingMachine
TSS_Weather
TSS_Jukebox

Other popular display scripts:


RadioSpectrometer
SolarMapTouch_Calibration
SolarMapInfo
SolarMapMap
SolarMapPlanetary
Touch_ButtonPad

`screen/scripts`

Write the available in-game scripts to the targeted surface.

terminal
screen/scripts "Bridge LCD";

This command switches the target display to text mode and prints the available script names directly onto the screen.

Targeting Multi-Surface Blocks

To address a specific surface on a cockpit, programmable block, or sound block, use Block Name:SurfaceIndex.

terminal
view/go "Fighter Cockpit:0" "MainMenu";
view/go "Fighter Cockpit:1" "HingeView" "Turret Hinge";