Item status!

Content.Client/GameObjects/Components/IItemStatus.cs

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+using Robust.Client.UserInterface;
+
+namespace Content.Client.GameObjects.Components
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Allows a component to provide status tooltips next to the hands interface.
+    /// </summary>
+    public interface IItemStatus
+    {
+        /// <summary>
+        ///     Called to get a control that represents the status for this component.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <returns>
+        ///     The control to render as status.
+        /// </returns>
+        public Control MakeControl();
+
+        /// <summary>
+        ///     Called when the item no longer needs this status (say, dropped from hand)
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <remarks>
+        /// <para>
+        ///     Useful to allow you to drop the control for the GC, if you need to.
+        /// </para>
+        /// <para>
+        ///     Note that this may be called after a second invocation of <see cref="MakeControl"/> (for example if the user switches the item between two hands).
+        /// </para>
+        /// </remarks>
+        public void DestroyControl(Control control)
+        {
+        }
+    }
+}