Building Hats-based tools
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In addition to the built-in functionality, Hats provides API so you can create tools that provide a tailored experienced to their users.
In general, the idea is to create tools (or, more specifically, their UI) that looks or acts differently based on which Team or Workspace is enabled.
This usually requires two steps:
Define which Workspace or Team to look for. You can either:
Hardcode the information in C#.
Allow the user to choose from a UI, using a Dropdown or some other control that allows to specify what to look for (see below). This way you would be creating a tool that the user can configure for themselves.
Use this information to tweak the tool's behaviour, by using Hats' .
To facilitate the task of creating tools, Hats comes with UI Elements that you can use in your UIs to allow the user to choose a workspace or a Team.
The built-in UI elements are only available for UI Toolkit. For IMGUI components, you will need to build them yourself.
This UI automatically displays existing teams in a dropdown. Like other MaskField in Unity, the value is stored as an int bitmask, where 0 means no Team, and -1 means all Teams.
To use it, add an element of class TeamPickerDropdown to your UIs.
Hats provides a host of public API to query the current state of workspaces and Teams.
Look into the static classes Workspaces and Teams in the Hats.Editor namespace for the full list of public API.
