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swni wrote:What is the difference between startup, runtime-global, and runtime-per-user? E.g., which ones are accessible where (such as control.lua and data.lua). If a user changes a setting from the main menu (i.e., there is no game running), and then loads a game, does the loaded game see the old values for the settings or the new values? (I assume "startup" means it only changes new games, whereas runtime means it also changes existing games.) If a user changes a setting from within a game, and then loads a different game, what happens?

swni wrote:Specifically I'm interested in settings for a mod that affects map generation, so I'm assuming "startup" is most suitable for that use case.

data.raw['map-gen-presets'].default["rich-resources"] =
    {
      order = "b",
      basic_settings =
      {
        autoplace_controls =
        {
          ["iron-ore"] = { richness = "very-good"},
          ["copper-ore"] = { richness = "very-good"},
          ["stone"] = { richness = "very-good"},
          ["coal"] = { richness = "very-good"},
          ["uranium-ore"] = { richness = "very-good"},
          ["crude-oil"] = { richness = "very-good"}
        }
      }
    }

swni wrote:What is the lua interface for reading the settings? I am aware of settings.get_player_settings(<LuaPlayer>)[<SettingName>].value but when I tried to dump the "settings" table to see what other interface options there might be I didn't see any. (I guess it's all hidden behind a metatable.)

local var = settings.startup.['settings-name']

local var = settings.get_player_settings(game.players[event.player_index])['settings-name']

swni wrote:I noticed that setting names are global across all mods. That's a bit inconvenient, because it forces the use of really long setting names to avoid accidentally clobbering someone else's mod. It would be nice if settings where namespaced by mod, and perhaps by default you only see your own mod's settings, but there was a way to examine settings belonging to another namespace if for whatever obscure reason you needed to look up the settings for another mod. (I don't plan on it myself.)

swni wrote:Finally, not really a question about the new interface, but my mod takes arbitrary lua code as part of its configuration... any suggestions from anyone on how to make that less painful on the user? I was thinking of providing several preset configurations in a drop-down box with an option for falling back to config.lua in case the user wanted the full customizability.

• add a list of mods on side to select which one settings to display
  set the limit of height of settings gui (scrolls)
  slider for numeric values as an additional to the text field
  the addition field for a numerical prototype: display_style = "digits / slider / both"

sparr wrote:I can't get factorio to recognize my settings.json file. My mod is loaded, but options>mods says no mods have options.

data:extend({
	{
		type = "bool-setting",
		name = "name-test1",
		setting_type = "startup",
		default_value = true
	},
	{
		type = "string-setting",
		name = "name-test2",
		setting_type = "runtime-per-user",
		default_value = "Hello",
		allowed_values = {"Hello", "foo", "bar"},
	}
})

ZlovreD wrote:viewtopic.php?f=34&t=32890&start=40#p258222
and/or settings.lua

Nexela wrote:factorio install folder \tests\mods\test_mod_1.0.0

sparr wrote:Thanks for posting that. I'm sad to see the top of the thread is no longer accurate; I wasted time following it

That said, on to bigger and better questions!

in my on_tick handler, event.player_index is nil. how do I get a global setting when I don't have a specific player to query against?

Optera wrote:Sorting settings by their strings forces me to use pretty silly key names as i want my settings to be grouped thematically.
"modname-sorting-parameter"
Edit: i misinterpreted my earlier tests. It sorts by strings AFTER localization so every language sees the options in a different order.
An order property like in item prototypes would be appreciated.

Subgroups would be the cherry on top, but only very few mods would have enough settings to warrant those.

• First by mod
• Then by "order" (order string)
• Then by localized name
• then by prototype name

Supercheese wrote:Oh, so there is an "order" property that can be set? It's impossible to know such things without documentation...

wormmus wrote:Is it possible to have some way of sorting the options that a mod provides?

0.15.2 allowed in the locale file:
[A] Blah
Blah
[C] Blah

0.15.3...I haven't figured out how it sorts them but it now ignores the [A] [C].

UPDATE:
Apparently now it sorts the mod-setting-name.

No, it sorts how I said it sorts 2 posts before yours -> posting.php?mode=quote&f=34&p=260819#pr260664