Get the visibility state of bottom_panel from the Editor plugin system

[wyattbiker]

Godot Version

4.x

Question

Is there a way to get the bottom panel’s Control and thus figure out its visibility status. I am working on a plugin which hides the bottom panel. But ideally would like to know whether to restore the bottom panel to its original state when the plugin’s job is done.

There is a way to set the visible state the bottom panel using EditorPlugin.
hide_bottom_panel ( ) and make_bottom_panel_item_visible ( Control item ).

EditorPlugin

[qmilfox]

extends EditorPlugin
func hide_all():
	has_all().visible=false

func show_all():
	has_all().visible=true

func has_all():
	return EditorInterface.get_base_control().get_node("@VBoxContainer@14/DockHSplitLeftL/DockHSplitLeftR/DockHSplitMain/@VBoxContainer@25/DockVSplitCenter/@EditorBottomPanel@6653")

func has_child():
	return has_all().get_node("@VBoxContainer@6642")

func has_names(a:String):
	return has_child().get_node(a)

func hide_child():
	for i in has_child().get_children():
		i.visible=false

func hide_names(a:String):
	has_names(a).visible=false

func show_names(a:String):
	hide_child()
	has_names(a).visible=true

func hide_item(a:int):
	has_child().get_child(a).visible=false

func show_item(a:int):
	has_child().get_child(a).visible=true

func has_button():
	return has_child().get_child(-1).get_child(0)

func hide_item_button(a:int):
	has_button().get_child(a).visible=false

func show_item_button(a:int):
	has_button().get_child(a).visible=true

[wyattbiker]

Your solution works so that gave me an idea. Hardest part was figuring out the node name . I took it a step further, as I don’t trust the internal numbered node names as the numbers can change. What I decided to do instead is to just search for a node name containing

EditorBottomPanel

starting at the base_control(). I guess there is always a chance of dupes so i may refine it further.

It’s a pseudo-recursive walk through the base control until it finds a match and then quits. Pretty fast for my purposes. Thanks again!

		var base=EditorInterface.get_base_control()
		var waiting := base.get_children()
		while not waiting.is_empty():
			var node := waiting.pop_back() as Node
			if node.name.find("EditorBottomPanel") >= 0:
				print(node)
				# node.visible=not visible
				break
			else:
				waiting.append_array(node.get_children())