Hidden Object-Information

[Mr_Happy_212]

What?

Hide the equipment box when you hover over an object that has more Information that your screen can Show.

Why?

The box is over the description of the object, so you cant see what is under it.

[bobucles]

Could you please show an example? ctrl-print screen, Mspaint and ctrl-V work wonders.

[eradicator]

There's mods that auto-hide the minimap, which is far larger than the gun inventory:
https://mods.factorio.com/query/hide%20minimap
Hiding the gun inventory in a mod would hide the toolbar too though :/
https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Con ... ewSettings
I guess one could add hiding the technology progress to that mod if it doesn't already.
You can also press L to see more info.

+1 don't cut off tooltip of large logistic containers (somehow..., maybe scrolling? *sigh*)

[Amarula]

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There are a few use cases where I want to check the status of an entity, say to see if a miner has run out of resources, or if a boiler has run out of fuel. A fairly straightforward solution would be to put the entity status box in front of the equipment box instead of behind it. You would then run into the issue of needing to move your mouse so you weren't over any entity in order to see the equipment box, I don't know how inconvenient that would be in practice.
I object on principle to the idea of needing to use a mod to be able to see information that the vanilla game is trying to show me. The display is already there, and if I am using my big screen monitor the issue doesn't happen, only when I am limited to the display on my laptop.
And as requested, here is an example of the entity information being hidden...

[QGamer]

I encountered this problem when I first started playing Factorio. I went to the options and turned off the minimap, and it has happened a lot less often.
However, this does become an issue when you hover over a logistic chest and the network has a ton of different items in it.

[Cabble]

This problem also occurs with a higher vertical resolution (3440x1440). Logistic network contents seem to be the most common problem.

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[Xelephant]

If you want to see the content of the logistic network, just press "L" to view it. On Small Resolutions there is a problem seen the whole entity information, turning off the minimap works best there.
Hope this is improved the readability in the new GUI rewrite anyway.