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Cargo Capacity Script

This is a simple script that I use for my mining ships, but can be used to monitor the capacity of any cargo containers, connectors or other storage blocks used on any ship of any grid. It is set up for vanilla gaming mode but supports the DLC Pack Industrial Cockpit. Any other modded cockpit can also be used to determine the screen you want start at the top listed display surface which will be "0" and proceed down the list numerically. It requires at a minimum, 1 cockpit, 1 storage block with a group name, 2 timers, optionally lights can be used as a visual alert.

How to Use
Build a ship with any number of storage blocks including drills, connectors, cargo containers, cockpits, etc, Group these and give them any name you wish. change the name Capacity in the script to that name...
// What the your cargo group.
const string groupName = "Capacity"; to

// What the your cargo group.
const string groupName = "Miner Capacity";

next do the same for the cockpit
// What the cockpits name needs to be.
const string displayName = "Cockpit"; to

// What the cockpits name needs to be.
const string displayName = "Miner Cockpit";

The timers can be set to the below names or renamed the same way as the above strings were
// The Timer to be triggered When Full
const string timerName = "Timer Full Cap";

// The Timer to be Triggered When Capacity of Cargo Group is at 0 pct for unloading
const string timerName2 = "Timer Unloaded";

Finally select the cockpit display you want to script to display on and set it to text and images
In the script do the following:

//Change the number in the following line to match the selected display you want. Used list below for Reference
display = cockpit.GetSurface(2);

//GetSurface Locations within Cockpits
//Large Grid
// Industrial - 0= Large Display, 1= Top Left, 2= Top Center, 3= Top Right. 4= Keyboard, 5= Number Pad
// Utility - 0= Top Center Screen, 1= Top Left, 2= Top Right, 3= Keyboard, 4= Bottom Left, 5= Bottom Right
//Small Grid
// Fighter - 0= Top Center Screen, 1= Top Left, 2= Top Right, 3= Keyboard, 4= Bottom Center, 5= Number Pad
// Industrial - 0= Top Left, 1= Top Center, 2= Top Right. 3= Keyboard, 4= Number Pad
// Utility - 0 = Center Display, 1 = Left Display, 2 = Right Display, 3 = Keyboard
Adjust the display screens settings to what ever you want one exception is location, I recommend center as it is set up for that.

If you get an exception error that means one of your user defined blocks are not named correctly, or you have blocks in the group that are not storage blocks, ie Large Ion Thruster, these will cause an exception. If you get an exception and correct the discrepancy you will have to go back into the script and check it again.

How it works
As you are mining or transferring cargo to you cargo group, the script monitors that groups given capacity, as it fills up it will give a visual display in text of percentage as well as a visual representation of the level used. when it reaches 99 percent capacity it will trigger the full timer, when cargo is moved out of the storage containers when capacity reaches 0 it triggers the cargo empty timer.

Setting up you timers, timers are basically used as relays, in my case I group my drills together and place them in the full timer, I also place a interior light on the outside of my ship usually somewhere near the real central axis. I set it to turn on when the timer is activated and my drills are turned off. the second timer can be used to turn the light back off but I don't recommend using it to turn drills back on.

Once every thing is up and running the program block should display capacity percent in the right hand column of the control panel.

If you have any question please leave them below, If you don't like this script, oh well don't use it. Any suggestions can be left below but fair warning, I'm not a programmer I took me a long time to get this working and with out all the help form people on Keen's discord channel answering my questions and talking me through setting this up I would of said heck with it so thanks Malware and the rest for helping me get this finished.