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[2.0.7] Confirm button for constants not confirming
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2024 6:04 pm
by berggen
1. Wire up something so you can enter a constant.
2. Enter some constant value, like 4.
3. Hover over the confirm button to check that (E) keybind is set for confirming.
4. Hit E.
5. Text field contains "4e" instead of being confirmed.
Re: [2.0.7] Confirm button for constants not confirming
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2024 6:09 pm
by Kyralessa
I know you can type some letters in the box to get e.g. multiples of values, as described here in "Smart number format":
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-388
Not sure whether "e" is one of those. (Maybe it's the scientific notation E, e.g. 10e3 meaning 1000?)
Re: [2.0.7] Confirm button for constants not confirming
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2024 6:40 pm
by robot256
Yes. E is used for scientific notation in number fields now. I haven't heard of anyone actually using it that way, and a lot of people with the same complaint as you, so we should make a suggestion thread to upvote to get it changed back to confirm
Re: [2.0.7] Confirm button for constants not confirming
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2024 9:47 pm
by berggen
Yeah, seems like an oversight, because the UI still hints me to press E to confirm
Re: [2.0.7] Confirm button for constants not confirming
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2024 9:50 pm
by Genhis
Thanks for the report. Since number fields now allow formulas
including functions, this is working as intended. If you don't have the input field focused, E will work normally.
Re: [2.0.7] Confirm button for constants not confirming
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2024 7:10 pm
by berggen
I do not believe this is working as intended. Please see the attached screenshot:
- Screenshot from 2024-10-22 15-02-21.png (455.47 KiB) Viewed 290 times
As you can see, the UI still hints the user to confirm with E (by default).
This isn't a major bug, but thoughtfulness about whether removing the old functionality was intended is probably good here. If the old functionality was intended to be removed, please consider removing the UI hint for it.
Re: [2.0.7] Confirm button for constants not confirming
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2024 7:19 pm
by Loewchen
berggen wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2024 7:10 pm
I do not believe this is working as intended. Please see the attached screenshot:
As you can see, the UI still hints the user to confirm with E (by default).
You are in a field that accepts this key as value, it will work once the focus is not on that field.
If you want to discuss this further open a Gameplay help topic please.