Entangle Mine Casting

[Kam]

What I am trying to accomplish is to have the Root (Ancients) and Entangle Gold Mine abilities hidden in the unit UI.

-Hiding Roots in a disabled spell book is not an issue, however even if EGM is also in the spell book the game adds it back to the unit UI.
-EGM does not work without Roots (Ancients)
-I tried using various triggers to add/remove EGM when necessary

Basically the EGM ability should operate just as it does with the standard NE but without the ability icon ever being visible.

Thoughts?

Update:

I tried the approach of limiting the cast range of EGM but found that the range field in the editor seems to have no effect. I then tried to stop the cast using "issued order targeting object" on EGM, and "issued order with no target" on Root since the building unroots to go to a mine out of range. Neither worked.

 

[WaterKnight]

Player-disabling the ability and -enabling just when you need to order it. Redirect default behavior/right click via trigger.

 

[Kam]

Player-disabling the ability and -enabling just when you need to order it. Redirect default behavior/right click via trigger.

Disable does not remove the icon, it only prevents you from ordering a cast.

 

[WaterKnight]

That's a special trait of the 'Entangle Mine'-ability then. In general, it does, for 'Root', too. Well, you can just avoid 'Entangle Mine' on the unit while it's not being cast (while it is being cast, the button is hidden, another special trait). If you need the right-click, catch and redirect via trigger.

 

[Kam]

I'm having trouble finding a set of triggers that keeps it in check though. It seems that there is some issue with counting gold mines as well as even when a mine is exhausted triggers still detect a mine, and adding a "Unit is Alive" condition has no effect.

 

[WaterKnight]

native GetResourceAmount takes unit whichUnit returns integer

I think hexing/entangling morphs them into another unit type. At least the melee init triggers replace them.