[2.0.21] Heating tower tooltip text is jumping up and down

[mirpa]

When fuel in Heating tower is consumed faster than it is supplied, fuel appears in "Consumes burnable fuel section" and immediately disappears. That in turn makes sections "Generates heat" and "Construction surface conditions" jump up and down too much to read. Think I saw it happening in other entities too, but don't remember which ones.

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[erkki772]

What happens when you change "auto UI" to manual?

[mirpa]

What happens when you change "auto UI" to manual?

It is not obvious how to do that. I have not found anything like that in options interface/graphics nor in debug settings.

[IsaacOscar]

I've had this problem too with combinators when the number of non-zero signals change.

I suggest modifying the GUI logic so it limits how often things can shrink per second, (but allow it to expand as fast as possible). This way everything will stay readable (unles the size keeps getting bigger and bigger really quickly, but that's far less likely then it jumping up and down).

I'd still have the problem with combinators when the signals change, so perhaps additional say that a cell in the GUI can't be reused more than a certain number of times per second, so then the signals will flash appearing and disappearing, instead of changing between different signals (which can happen so fast they blend into one).

[erkki772]

What happens when you change "auto UI" to manual?

It is not obvious how to do that. I have not found anything like that in options interface/graphics nor in debug settings.

Settings - interface - UI scale (right up)

[mirpa]

Changing ui scale makes no difference, as I would expect.

[boskid]

I am not seeing anything interesting in this bug report. You are feeding yumako mash into a heating tower which burns completly in about 3 or 4 ticks, supply of those items is relatively low and so the heating tower constantly switches between having items in burner or not having any items. If this would be to be considered a bug, the tooltip would have to be made a constant height which would require it to always show the fuel content even when it has no fuel. I am not considering this to be a bug.