Whoop whoop, here we go!!!!!

I have a small mod that write some evens to a file so that I can use it to post it to Discord (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/FactoriGOChatBot-companion)

One of the things is player death messages:


script.on_event(
defines.events.on_player_died,
function(event)
local player_index = event ...

Ah great, support for IntelliJ (and most likely others from JetBrains). I will look into this the next time I change stuff for my plugin

Allright, I have it now setup with that plugin but for example this piece of code


script.on_event(defines.events.on_built_entity, function (event)
log_message(event.created_entity.name)
end)


The IDE still doesn't know the type of event (it is EventData) but I like to know the actual type ...

Yes that was my problem with the extension I already found a couple of thins not listed there (probably due to it's age). I will take a look at your suggestion Bilka, thanks!

Guess it has been a long day... thanks!

https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaGameScript.html#LuaGameScript.write_file

write_file (filename, data, append, for_player)

So I have this piece of code:


local function log_message(msg)
msg = game.tick .. " " .. msg
game.write_file(baseFolder .. baseFile, "[FactorioChatBot ...

Hi,

I'm a programmer (with no LUA experience) and I want to make a small mod for Factorio. One thing that I think makes life 100% better is using a good IDE with typing / autocomplete support. You don't want to spend tracing bugs and finding a typo like defines.events.on_research_fnished if your ...