Event.on_alert_click

[eradicator]

What?
An event that triggers when a player clicks an alert icon (i.e. missing robots, damaged entities etc). That contains the entity, icon, (unlocalized) message, and ideally a custom alert name.

Why?
While LuaPlayer.add_custom_alert() allows to add an alarm there is no callback if the player actually notices/reacts to the alarm. I'd like to show some additional GUI elements when the player clicks an alarm. For easier management it would be nice if LuaPlayer.add_custom_alert() was extended to include as additional parameter (or return value on call) a custom alert name/unique ID. A good example for this would be a classical "you have a new message" that opens the message. But existing mods would also benefit from this. For example ore-monitoring mods would being able to not only show a map position but for example also show the status display of a nearly depleted ore field and the estimated remaining usage time.

[Rseding91]

I would add this in but at the moment the game doesn't know the alert was clicked. All of that logic it view-logic and outside the game state and as such mods can't access it without causing desyncs at the moment.

[eradicator]

I would add this in but at the moment the game doesn't know the alert was clicked. All of that logic it view-logic and outside the game state and as such mods can't access it without causing desyncs at the moment.

*sigh* Oh well. How are the chances of the GUI rewrite (0.17?) changing enough of the background logic to make this possible?

[Mylon]

Can this event be raised by the player? That is, when the player clicks an alert, the player's client builds the event context and sends it to the server?

It's a bit of a hack and I imagine would cause some delay, but it could work without a significant rewrite.

[Rseding91]

Can this event be raised by the player? That is, when the player clicks an alert, the player's client builds the event context and sends it to the server?

It's a bit of a hack and I imagine would cause some delay, but it could work without a significant rewrite.

That's how all events work currently.

[eradicator]

So. Now two and a half years and a gui rewrite later, any chance of this happening?

[Rseding91]

So. Now two and a half years and a gui rewrite later, any chance of this happening?

gui rewrite has nothing to do with this. The game-state still does not know anything happened because it's all view logic - the same as before - nothing is sent to the server - no input action is created.