Since blueprint-related things have moved to the shortcut bar, that limits the amount of things you can have showing at once. I almost never actually use my shortcut bar, the only things I have showing are things that I want to know the toggled state of. I use hotkeys for almost everything there.
The one thing that I actually can't use hotkeys for is importing blueprint strings. I don't want this button to be showing at all times, so whenever I want to use it, I have to click the tiny button to open the shortcut bar settings, then click the tiny button to open the import dialog.
I would like to request a control to open this window, so I can do it much quicker and easier.
Add a hotkey for blueprint string import
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Add a hotkey for blueprint string import
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Re: Add a hotkey for blueprint string import
How often do you do you import strings per game, week, month, ...?
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Re: Add a hotkey for blueprint string import
Not ridiculously often, but it's really difficult to push two really tiny buttons every time I want to do it. Import string is literally the only vanilla shortcut that doesn't have a hotkey.
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Re: Add a hotkey for blueprint string import
Blueprint book also doesn’t have a hotkey. Really annoying. Definitely a +1
Edit: I’ll add both of them to my mod when I got time this evening.
Edit: I’ll add both of them to my mod when I got time this evening.
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Re: Add a hotkey for blueprint string import
Actually, blueprint books do have the ability to set a hotkey, it's just unset by default:ickputzdirwech wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 2:40 pmBlueprint book also doesn’t have a hotkey. Really annoying. Definitely a +1
Edit: I’ll add both of them to my mod when I got time this evening.
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Re: Add a hotkey for blueprint string import
Damn, I always assumed there was none, since it didn’t say “(Not set)” in the tooltip. Turns out associated_control_input only shows the hotkey when it is set like “(Alt + B)”. Not very intuitive.
I also couldn’t figure out how to tell the game to open a specific gui. I never messed around with the gui before. Thought it would be easier. I tried looking at factory planner for a reference but I didn’t understand how they were doing it. I’ll keep working on it though.
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Re: Add a hotkey for blueprint string import
Unfortunately import string doesn't have a GUI type and isn't ever marked as "opened" so we can't force it to open from the API. Factory Planner uses a custom dialog for subfactory strings. Unfortunately, if you want to make a mod to show import, you'll have to make the GUI yourself.ickputzdirwech wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 9:19 amDamn, I always assumed there was none, since it didn’t say “(Not set)” in the tooltip. Turns out associated_control_input only shows the hotkey when it is set like “(Alt + B)”. Not very intuitive.
I also couldn’t figure out how to tell the game to open a specific gui. I never messed around with the gui before. Thought it would be easier. I tried looking at factory planner for a reference but I didn’t understand how they were doing it. I’ll keep working on it though.
If this feature isn't in by the time I get to making my "blueprint tools" mod, I'll add it to that.
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Re: Add a hotkey for blueprint string import
That‘s a shame. At least it explained my struggle. Guess I’ll just scrap that idea and wait for it to be implemented by the devs or you. Looking forward to your Mod!
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