[MOD 0.15.x] The Fat Controller. Remote train manager 2.0.7

[Vin]

Would it be possible to not trigger the 10 minute time for trains that are paused at stations? I have my Taxi trains / FARL set at stations, as do a lot of twitch streamers from what I understand. Maybe a sub-checkbox that says "Don't warn for paused trains."

Click the exclaimation point in the FAT controller window. You can customize whether you want to hear the three warnings.

[Talguy]

Would it be possible to not trigger the 10 minute time for trains that are paused at stations? I have my taxi trains / FARL set at stations, as do a lot of twitch streamers from what I understand. Maybe a sub-checkbox that says "Don't warn for paused trains."

Click the explanation point in the FAT controller window. You can customize whether you want to hear the three warnings.

I do want to hear those warnings, just not for paused/manual trains. It doesn't make sense, since the train is controlled manually. It should assume that the player is controlling that train and thus is aware of any issues the mod is warning the player for.

[JamesOFarrell]

I do want to hear those warnings, just not for paused/manual trains. It doesn't make sense, since the train is controlled manually. It should assume that the player is controlling that train and thus is aware of any issues the mod is warning the player for.

yeah, this is a bug. I have some time off this week so I think i'll probably get a few hours of modding in. I'll try and fix this.

[Choumiko]

I noticed that too and was wondering: What would cause a train to be at a train stop for >10 minutes? No path is covered by another alarm, as well as signal. All i can think of that is left is out of fuel? Or is it intented to notify me of trains with only 1 station in their schedule?

[n9103]

Both I imagine, and seems useful for that purpose.

[Talguy]

I do want to hear those warnings, just not for paused/manual trains. It doesn't make sense, since the train is controlled manually. It should assume that the player is controlling that train and thus is aware of any issues the mod is warning the player for.

yeah, this is a bug. I have some time off this week so I think i'll probably get a few hours of modding in. I'll try and fix this.

shouldn't that be an easy fix? I mean there's https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... anual_mode

[JamesOFarrell]

I do want to hear those warnings, just not for paused/manual trains. It doesn't make sense, since the train is controlled manually. It should assume that the player is controlling that train and thus is aware of any issues the mod is warning the player for.

yeah, this is a bug. I have some time off this week so I think i'll probably get a few hours of modding in. I'll try and fix this.

shouldn't that be an easy fix? I mean there's https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... anual_mode

Shouldn't be hard to fix at all. I like the idea of adding a few more useful alarms at the same time though, running out of fuel would be nice,.I need to add the patch that was postd above as well.

[cpy]

I don't see info in first post so i assume this works in 0.12 MP?

[Narc]

I don't see info in first post so i assume this works in 0.12 MP?

I've used it with multiple people and it's perfectly okay.

[Kane]

Any chance of getting Force Support down the road. What I mean by that is if I'm Force2 I can't see Force1 Trains etc.

[billw]

Not sure if this is mentioned yet:
GUI responsiveness seems very bad for in multiplayer: have to spam button, sometimes 10 plus times to view a train. Sometimes it just won't work at all. Other GUI works okay.

[SirRichie]

It works fine for me in multiplayer. For me the GUI is very responsive.

[JamesOFarrell]

It works fine for me in multiplayer. For me the GUI is very responsive.

It is more to do with how many trains you have than it being multiplayer I think. I am deleting elements before redrawing them because of a bug that was patched in 0.12 so I need to spend the time to re-write it without the hack. I was hoping to do it recently as I had time off work but I ended up spending time with the family instead.

[Kane]

Will there be forces updated into overtime? For example as far as I know it's quite broken if you are separate teams.

[happymoep]

@JamesOFarrell
(Sorry if you've answered this before, but I could not find any post where you did.)
Why don't you put the source up on GitHub or similar?
This would let me find out what you updated in what version and would enable people to send in pull requests in case they fixed something for you.
In the end of July you said you'd fix some signal sounds and apply a fix for manual trains if you found the time, and mid August you were talking about rewriting this "deleting elements before redrawing"-hack.
I have no idea if you got to do that already as there doesn't seem to be a date mentioned for your releases. I know you said you spent time with your family instead but I don't know if you've changed anything since that last post.
If you really don't want to upload the source to github you might just add release dates to your version history.

I'm just asking, don't mean to be rude

[JamesOFarrell]

@JamesOFarrell

Not rude at all, these are good questions. I started writing an explanation for why i don't use git hub but it was taking to long so created a repo instead. It was quicker. Here you go. Feel free to submit pull requests.

I have done none of the work on TFC I talked about. When I have time to mod these days I find I am playing around with Lua Combinators instead of my other mods. Here is the current todo list for TFC:

• Change the buttons over to have icons.
  Remove the code that deletes elements before updating them
  Rollback to using styles for everything
  Add support for multiple player forces
  Display train names on gui
  Ability to rename trains
  Release a version that works with thunder gui
  Add OR support to the station filter
  Add running out of power alarm
  Fix bugs with alarms
  Display trains with alarms at the top of the list
  Red "!" banner when a train had a triggered alarm

This about covers what bugs me in game and the requests in this thread.

[Kane]

I tested this with Forces (Teams) in Multiplayer and I don't even see the icon loaded anymore in the game. Even loading a MP Game then SP nope

[ibsteveog]

It works fine for me in multiplayer. For me the GUI is very responsive.

It does not work for headless multiplayer servers

12.10 console:

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  69.715 Error MultiplayerManager.cpp:105: MultiplayerManager failed: mulitplayer.cannot-save-map("Error while running the on_load: __TheFatController__/control.lua:31: Gui write access while saving game is not allowed.The save event shouldn't abused to change the game state in any way.")
  69.718 Info MultiplayerManager.cpp:865: networkTick(4071) mapTick(6511705) changing state from(InGameSavingMap) to(Failed)
 105.840 Received SIGINT, shutting down
 105.896 Error Util.cpp:46: Error while running the on_load: __TheFatController__/control.lua:31: Gui write access while saving game is not allowed.The save event shouldn't abused to change the game state in any way.

[JamesOFarrell]

New version 0.3.0. It supports different player forces, i think. I wrote it a while ago and never released it but with 0.12.11 breaking all the mods I thought I better release something. Also had fixes from some dude on github, I may not have looked at them before i merged them so good luck everyone

[Lone_Player]

Hi, Tested it with 0.12.11 & it is working, after a few Second´s it, is updating the Train´s List, and is ready to work with

The Text showing;

Collapseded Button read´s : Unknown key:"text-trains-collapsed"
& expanded : Unknown key:"text-trains"
is Factorio 0.12.11 related & reported --> https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =7&t=17098