Allow FindState from ui context

[AFADoomer]

I'm trying to tweak the PlayerMenu so that I can add a "Portrait" state to my player class and use that for the player animation instead of See or Spawn (because the class uses "####" frames, and you end up with random sprites as your animation).

I'd like to be able to do something like this in the code:

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    void ExtendedUpdatePlayer(int classnum)
    {
        mPlayerClass = PlayerClasses[classnum];
        mPlayerState = GetDefaultByType (mPlayerClass.Type).FindState("Portrait"); // <---  Obviously doesn't work...
        if (mPlayerState == NULL) { mPlayerState = GetDefaultByType (mPlayerClass.Type).SeeState; }
        if (mPlayerState == NULL) { mPlayerState = GetDefaultByType (mPlayerClass.Type).SpawnState; }
        mPlayerTics = mPlayerState != NULL ? mPlayerState.Tics : -1;
    }


Is there a reason why FindState (as well as some of the other non-modifying functions) can't be made accessible from ui?

[Graf Zahl]

It just got overlooked. In general, this should be C/S-safe and accessing too much of the play state is not good - but since the cast call already needs this access anyway an exception can be made here.