Bilka wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2019 1:30 pm https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Lua ... p.on_event

Thanks! I didn't expect it there... My mistake.

However, there are a few points mentioned by others that I would like to see there too: 1. Events received from other mods should be distinguishable as such. For example a special field in the event table called mod_name (string) added automatically by the game. So the first mention of this was not...

People seem to be misunderstanding how the entire Lua API works... which Isn't too difficult to do since none of you can see it. ... I've written the function that would have to be used to do that validation just for this example. Note the function isn't actually complete because there are parts th...

And all of that assumes you allow all events to be raised. Any event you don't allow reduces both the 12'000 lines of code to check, lua binding and the switch/case. What I tried to say is that it would be much less if done properly. For each event you need one line of code per argument for switch ...

I was thinking about what it would take to check everything passed through rase_event and it's just not a task that I think any sane human would want to sign up for. There are currently 144 events. The checks for all of them on the C++ side is around 3000 lines of code and that's not counting all o...

Indeed, now it works, thanks!

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