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• Type: Mod
• Name: SmartDisplay
• Description: Adds an item that can display numbers from the circuit network, with several formating options.
• Tested-With-Factorio-Version: 0.13.0
• Locale: english, french, german
• Multiplayer compatible: tested on a headless server...
• Tags: Circuit Network, display
• License: You are free to use and distribute this mod and also to modify it for personal use, but not to release a modified version without permission (unless visibly not maintained anymore).
• Portal download : https://mods.factorio.com/mods/binbinhfr/SmartDisplay

Description

Description
Do you want to read some nice numbers from the circuit network straight on your map ?
Well, ok, I know that GopherAtl and his Nixie Tubes are doing it very nicely, but I found that they can take a lot of place if you want to display several big numbers, and that they are not always very readable by my old eyes.
So I inspired myself from this famous mod and I created Smart Display, a more classical display item, with a basic font and some options to change font size, add some description text before of after the number, align left/center/right, fix the number of digits and even add leading zeros, thousands separator or kilo/mega/giga/tera divisors. You can even display this composite text on the general map (key 'M'), and it will update even if you are far from the Smart Display.
When you click on the item, you have access to a special window with the extra formating options. The main window (which is a lamp interface) allows the user to choose the value of the circuit network that he wants to display. The condition is not taken into account, and will always show "=" and the current value when you reopen the item.
Don't forget to connect the item to the network with red or green wire if you want the item to be activated.

Here is an example with a chest displaying its coal content on a ground panel and also on the general map.
You can even use my TimeTools mod to create a nice onground clock...

smartdisplay-screencopy08.jpg (159.51 KiB) Viewed 19725 times

And don't forget to search this new Smart Display technology !

smartdisplay-screencopy02.jpg (38.46 KiB) Viewed 21071 times

To allow the update on the map when you are far from the zone, I had to integrate a little radar in the device, so that it removes "fog of war". If you are not comfortable with this and think it's a bit cheating, you can disable this feature by editing the config.lua file.

judos wrote:Oh wow, I didn't know it's possible to actually read the signal value. No that I saw your implementation I'm amazed Just downloaded the mod and it is really cool to have this kind of display in the game.

HeiRos wrote:There is a problem with non-english letters. Using "Rohöl" as prefix causes the error

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Error while running the event handler: __SmartDisplay__/control.lua:378: Unknown entity name: sd_font_char_10_195

binbinhfr wrote:Sorry... You have to use standard ascii letters signs and numbers. See the font I created in graphics/font-arial.png

		asc = string.byte(c)
		-- prevents crash for non-ascii-chars
		if asc < first_asc or asc > last_asc then
			asc = 63
		end
		--debug( c, "=", tag )
		deco = surf.create_entity({name = "sd_under_c" .. font_scale_tag, force = force, position = {x,y}})

HeiRos wrote:Not a good solution, but better then nothing.

Neotix wrote:Can you add option to show text also on map (it can have standard font like train station)?

Neotix wrote:I mean the map after pressing "M" when you see entire factory. On that map you can see players and stations names.
It would be great to see also text from selected smart displays. In that way we could use map as operator's display (similar to that https://www.isa.org/uploadedImages/Cont ... PandID.jpg) where we see various status and values from entire factory.

I event posted almost year ago a mod request (viewtopic.php?f=33&t=15016) and your mod is almost what I need.

Neotix wrote:Now this mod is awesome in another level of awesomeness.
No more running throe entire factory only to check if something is wrong.

Neotix wrote:I found another minor issue. Map is not refreshing under Fog of War. So to see actual values, it need radar near smart displays.