Use of build-in tooltips

[ixu]

Is there a way to call build-in tooltips from my mod - for example the one of recipes in crafting tab of character panel?

[PFQNiet]

Not yet but I suggested it.

[ixu]

Not yet but I suggested it.

Cannot see how this will help me with my issue. Could you explain?

[eradicator]

Yea, i also made a suggestion about that once.

Currently choose-elem-button is your only chance.

[ixu]

Currently choose-elem-button is your only chance.

Can you please explain how choose-elem-button displays the detailed tooltips I get when I hover over a recipe in the crafting menu?

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[eradicator]

Maybe you should start by stating what you're actually trying to do. I was assuming you're building a custom gui, for which choose-elem-button might (or might not) be a possible approach. Have you read the doc on LuaGuiElement.elem_type and elem_value?

[ixu]

The Gui is like this:

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There are sprites and sprite-buttons of items, recipes and technologies. I can set guiElement.tooltip to some self-created localised string, but in case of recipes it would be very nice to present the tooltip factorio would present.
the code is as follows (although the snippet probably doesn't say very much):

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local function CreateSprite(frame, target)
    local tooltip = target and target.HelperText
    local sprite = target and target.SpriteName
    local number = target and target.NumberOnSprite
    local show_percent_for_small_numbers = target and target.UsePercentage
    local style = Helper.SpriteStyleFromCode(target and target.SpriteStyle)

    if target then
        return frame.add {
            type = "sprite-button",
            tooltip = tooltip,
            sprite = sprite,
            number = number,
            show_percent_for_small_numbers = show_percent_for_small_numbers,
            style = style,
        }
    end
    return frame.add {type = "sprite-button", style = style}
end

[eradicator]

I can set guiElement.tooltip to some self-created localised string,

choose-elem-button shows tooltips automatically:

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/c
game.player.gui.center.clear()
local button = game.player.gui.center.add{type='choose-elem-button',elem_type='recipe'}
button.elem_value = 'iron-plate'
button.locked = true

[ixu]

That is quite cool. I missed it when I read the docu.
But actually this is not enough for my purpose.
1. This tooltip belongs to prototype. I need the one that belongs to the player (as in crafting-panel view)
2. Consequently, I would also like to have the number of objects that can be crafted displayed as a small number.
3. Since I allow a creation from my display, I would have liked to show it in the tooltip

Here is what I currently present:

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So, if I would have a free wish here, I would like a function LuaPlayer.get_recipe_tooltip(recipe) analogous to Function LuaControl.get_craftable_count(recipe)

[eradicator]

Like i said it's not a perfect solution, just a possible workaround. Showing the number can be partially faked by adding a label to the element button like it was done before LuaGuiElement.number existed. But getting the position correct is difficult if you want it in the right-bottom corner and want it to work on all gui scales.

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button.add{type='label',...}

So, if I would have a free wish here

No free wishes in this subforum, gotta go to the other one ;). Maybe you can convince someone to add .number support to choose-elem-button, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

[ixu]

I was just kidding