Hi there,

How do i get custom attributes to be included in a blueprint. I have a request chest and i store information about request slots an items in a global table. Now i want these global variables to be copied when the user blueprints the chest. How can i do this i did not find any information ...

In case somebody is interested in the Mod i will upload a new Version until tomorrow and updated the Main post to comply with the General Mod Post style.
I will also add a small Video explaining what the Mod does and hope it will not be to shitty :D

So far the following Changes will be in the new ...

Hehe cool that was my workaround so far anyway

Hi again,

the solution prg gave me works excellent

the loop with pairs does not work

i have this gui

local gui = player.gui.center.add({type = "frame", name = "LokiChest_gui", direction = "vertical"})
gui.add({type = "table", name = "title", colspan = 2, style = "lokis-table"})
gui.title.add ...

Thanks a ton aubergine thats exactly what i need

Hi Gtrak,

Thanks for the Feedback and the compliment, glad you like it
Did not think of blueprints when creating the Mod the problem here is that it will copy the "current" slots and not the table assosciated with the chest
For now a workaround would be to create the setup outside of your ...

thanks a lot for the help will test it when i am home tonight

To all the 9 People who downloaded the mod. I hope you like it and it runs without problems so far.
I am still working on the mod cause i really like robots and this greatly improves efficiency of robots in supplying construction chains with materials.

Here are some News.
- added the function that ...

ah sorry i think my question was not phrased properly.

I know i could access the variable like that but i can not access it like this

for i = 1 to 5 do
local wantedchild = "labelfillup"..i
local currentchild = maintable.children.wantedchild
print currentchild.name
end

is there a way to do ...

Hi Folks,

Another Question about gui elements.

Is there a way to refer to an gui element by variable?
lets say i have this element created in a loop

gui.maintable.add({type = "label", name = "labelfillup" .. k, caption = "Fillup Amount: "})

and i now want to get the one with labelfillup5 is ...

Was thinking about the mod Yesterday. I think i will change it so that the request gets deleted instead of set to 1.
Also i want to add an Option to check for items in the network first.

Lets say you have the robot set to fill the chest with 400 iron plates it gets filled up production starts and ...

Hi together,

I put my first workin in Progress on the Forum so if you want to test it Check it out its really cool already.
hope it runs as smooth as my tests for everyone.

viewtopic.php?f=97&t=33674

Greets
Loki

Hi Everybody,

I decided to put out my early Alpha here to get some Feedback from you guys.
Let me say that i never made a mod before but i wanted this Feature so i sat down yesterday Evening and looked at some Mods of other people to see how stuff works and after a sleepless night i have a basic ...

Hi Adil,

Thanks for pointing me to the API. Was already too late for me Yesterday.
Found the LuaStyle Section that should answer all my Questions for now
Will check out later what i can get done if i am stuck i will come back

Greets and Big Thanks Loki

QUick update i figured out how to get the custom function going. and i was able to add gui elements like a button etc.
Now i just need to find out how i change sizes and positions etc.

We will get there

Hi there,

I would like to have a GUI to make some settings in my Mod but i cant find any good tutorials on how to do it.
I was looking at other mods but i can not get it to work somehow.
Does someone have a good tutorial on that or can give some tips?

also i have a question for custome events ...

For everybody who wants to know.

it is defenetly doable.
I have a testversion up and running and i hope what i did there is not totally unusable in a bigger scale but we will see that
For now i have 2 chests up and running without any problems :)

will post the mod as soon as i finished the ...

Hi There,

I just figured out my mistake :)
i tried it with slotinfo.name before but that was an error too.
problem was he did not like the empty slots....
when you print it out as string it does not seem to bother him but if he expects a table and gets a nil he is not happy :D


for i = 1, ent ...

Hi together,

I just started to get into the whole Modding thing and i am stucl with this

for i = 1, ent.request_slot_count do
local slotinfo = ent.get_request_slot(i)
message_all(slotinfo)
end

this code works but it prints only Unknown Key:"Fast inserter" (given i have a fast inserter in ...

Hi thanks for link with the circuit network i was thinking about that too but it seems a bit unpractical (impossible?) if you have a large number of chests that you want to control.
I started to learn how to mod Factorio and i will see if i can make this mod happen by myself with a bit help from ...