Any way to have more than 1 glyph map for the same input device, and choose which one to use?

[TheEmbracedOne]

Hi, it's me again, with yet another question or possibly feature request.
I would like to make multiple glyph maps for the same input device and choose within the tag which one to use.

My use case is that there are different contexts where I would like to sometimes display glyphs with a background (the back tilted squares in this case):

while in some places, without a background:

Up until now, I faked these backgrounds by putting an image behind my glyohs, but most of my use cases, I use Glyphs with text, so it's hard to align them. This is why I thought that perhaps having multiple glpyh maps could be the solution, so I could make a glyph map with the same icons where the background would be "baked in" into the glyph texture..

So in this example, I'd like to have two playstation glyph maps, and depending on context, I'd either use <Glyph Submit type=bg> for the one with backgrounds, and <Glyph Submit type=nobg> for the one without backgrounds:

This could also benefit a use case where a game had a setting for light or dark glyphs (not my use case, but thought I'd mention another use).

[Orange-Panda]

There is support for loading an entirely separate set of glyphs using InputGlyphs.LoadGlyphCollection which would be perfect for the light mode/dark mode set of glyphs use case you describe.

However, I don't think having multiple styles in a single glyph collection will be a feasible addition (at least with the current infrastructure). This is something I will consider but I don't believe this can be added without really significant changes unfortunately

[Orange-Panda]

Additionally I reflect on the design of the collection loading and realized the program could potentially have multiple collections in memory at once (having one as the default matching current behavior) and add functionality that tries to get glyphs from a different non-default collection in memory. That would essentially function as the original request where you could switch styles on a per output basis and would seemingly be backwards compatible too.

I'll have to experiment with this idea so still no promises but it is more feasible than I originally thought.

[Orange-Panda]

Update: I was able to implement the process of loading several collections at once and sorting them by a string key so I feel comfortable saying this feature is planned to be fully implemented.

The internal changes that made this possible have also caused loading collections to be significantly more performant since it only initializes it once (before it was initializing it every time it is loaded).

There is still work to be done making the access of the secondary collections possible publicly but wanted to share this update to keep you in the loop on progress.

[TheEmbracedOne]

Thank you for the update, and good work, wow!

[Orange-Panda]

This feature is now available with the 2.0.0 release.

A summary of the implementation:

• GlyphCollection now has a key value that is used for identifying it
• You can now load multiple collections on start using the Additional Collections field on the RewiredGlyphManager
• Most glyph queries now have a collectionKey parameter which is used for targeting secondary collections
• You can also target secondary collections in glyph rich text using the set= parameter such as set=dark where dark is the key of some GlyphCollection
• The other built-in components do not yet support targeting secondary collections as of 2.0.0 but this may be implemented if desired
• The LoadGlyphCollection method is still available and is now used for loading a collection and setting it as either the primary or secondary collection

[TheEmbracedOne]

Godly. Thank you so much! I'm grabbing the update and will get to work right away!