I'm making a GUI tool, and I'd love it if I could respond to two things: The user pressing a key to show/hide the GUI, and the user pressing enter on a textbox. Is it possible to get the user's keypresses? Hopefully as an event? And also, is it possible to find out if the user pressed enter on a tex...

"game" is always nil on_load by design because you're not meant to do anything with it on_load. There are only 2 things meant to be done on_load: 1. Re-register event handlers (if you do conditional event registration) 2. Re-setup meta-tables (if you use meta-tables) Other than those 2 th...

So this is a really weird problem. -- bluMisc_0.1.0/info.json { "name": "bluMisc", "version":"0.1.0", "title":"", "description":"", "author":"", "contact":"" } -- bluMisc_0.1.0/con...

It seems that this function does exactly the thing you are looking for: LuaEntity.set_circuit_condition You know, I'd completely dismissed that little function because it looked like you could only use it to set the conditions on things like decider combinators and arithmetic combinators. I complet...

Wow, sorry. I didn't expect to run into an actual developer. You guys are really active on the forums. :( I was mostly trying to answer the question based on what I knew from reading the official API docs, but I was also venting a lot of frustration at how limited it all feels. For example, I was ho...

You are running the control.lua in the data phase, when there is no game/player. Just delete the require 'control' from data.lua, control.lua is loaded automatically when a game loads/initializes. Interesting! Thanks. :) So does any .lua file in the top-level directory of a mod folder get automatic...

From what I've read so far, Factorio modding is extremely basic and crude right now. It's really just a bare-bones framework to be (hopefully?) extended later. Either that or the documentation is just missing a huge chunk of information. At the moment, it's not possible to read anything from a circu...

What's going on? This is exasperating.

The circuit network doesn't operate in a way that you could do this without an entity. All of the contents of the circuit network are based off entities inputting those numbers each game tick. Without the entity there's no number so you can't "send a number" into the circuit network and e...

I've been looking around the wiki and the API documentation, and even Googling but I can't find an answer to this. What I want to do is create an entity that has read/write access to the circuit network(s) it's hooked up to. And not just in a combinator sort of way where it can only do a limited num...