How do I see the ship's current command

[user1679]

Is there a way to see what a ship is currently doing? The "cancel current command" option doesn't tell you what command it is
currently following. If you command a ship to take a long trip, there's a chance you may not remember what you told it to do...

I looked all over the menus while my pilot flew us around but couldn't find anything. I remember in X3 the UI would tell you what a
ship was up to (eg: jumping to Argon Prime, flying to Argon Shipyard, etc.).

[Tomonor]

Yes, in fact, ships (captains) can now execute chains of commands. To see the current chain, you have to get onto the Information tab of the ship and there will be a Behaviour tab button on the top left corner. That's where you can set different default behaviours for the said ship, but it will also show you the command chain. You can add, remove, reorganize the command priority.

Be warned though, because a wrongly organized command chain might hold back the ship from functioning properly. For instance, it took me a few days to find out why can't I upgrade my ship, only to realise it had a command stuck that kept it from executing that process.

[user1679]

Thank you @repatomonor, I didn't even notice the behavior button. The UI is a little unintuitive, even selecting the current
ship seems to take more cicks than necessary.

[Tomonor]

Thank you @repatomonor, I didn't even notice the behavior button. The UI is a little unintuitive, even selecting the current
ship seems to take more cicks than necessary.

Yeah, that's a signature of X games, always improving the GUI in future builds. But this still works.

[pref]

Displaying current command would be really nice in the object list.

[Falcrack]

They do have a little icon to the right of the ship name in the object/property list, which gives a clue as to what the ship is doing. There is also the InfoCenter mod which gives more detailed information than is shown in vanilla.

[Misunderstood Wookie]

Already exists,
Go to the X4 Nexus, or Scripts and Modding section for X4 here

Grab the GUI Workaround API
and Info Center, the latter of which is a mod for the former that integrates a new tab on the menu that is left of gameplay screen which shows all of your property and what they are currently doing, proceeding to do, be it travel, trade to and from what, in simple terms it is a run down menu of your stuff and what command or action that it is taking currently.