GUI element functionality to filter/sort by localised name
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2018 4:21 am
This idea is meant to address viewtopic.php?f=28&t=32611 and related concerns. I currently find myself wanting to filter a list of technologies based on some user-entered search parameters, including name. I can't filter on localised name, for all the reasons already discussed in that thread.
What I propose is that the container GUI elements could accept some parameters that control the visibility or order of their children, executed at display time and not otherwise represented in game state.
Old way, statefully sorts on prototype name:
Proposed way, locally/ephemerally sorts on localised name:
Old way, statefully filters out some items based on prototype name:
Proposed way, locally/ephemerally filters out some items based on localised name:
What I propose is that the container GUI elements could accept some parameters that control the visibility or order of their children, executed at display time and not otherwise represented in game state.
Old way, statefully sorts on prototype name:
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-- make parent container
local flow = player.gui.top.add{type = "flow"}
-- get list of item names
local names = {}
local n=0
for name,_ in pairs(pairs(game.item_protytpes)) do
n=n+1
names[n]=name
end
names = table.sort(names)
-- add item buttons to parent in sorted order
for name in names do
flow.add{type="button",caption=game.item_protytpes[name].localised_name}
end
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-- make parent container, tell it how to sort children
local flow = player.gui.top.add{type = "flow", child_sort_attribute = "caption"}
-- add item buttons to parent
for _, prototype in pairs(game.item_protytpes) do
flow.add{type="button",caption=prototype.localised_name}
end
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-- make parent container
local flow = player.gui.top.add{type = "flow"}
-- conditionally add item buttons to parent
for name, prototype in pairs(game.item_protytpes) do
if string.find(name, "basic", 1, true) then
flow.add{type="button",caption=prototype.localised_name}
end
end
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-- make parent container, tell it which children to show
local flow = player.gui.top.add{type = "flow", child_filter_attribute = "caption", child_filter_regex = "basic"}
-- add item buttons to parent
for _, prototype in pairs(game.item_protytpes) do
flow.add{type="button",caption=prototype.localised_name}
end