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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.

Bump?

How often do you do you import strings per game, week, month, ...?

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.

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.

ickputzdirwech wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 13, 2020 2:40 pm

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.

Actually, blueprint books do have the ability to set a hotkey, it's just unset by default:

Raiguard wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 13, 2020 5:18 pm

Actually, blueprint books do have the ability to set a hotkey, it's just unset by default:

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.

ickputzdirwech wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 14, 2020 9:19 am

Raiguard wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 13, 2020 5:18 pm

Actually, blueprint books do have the ability to set a hotkey, it's just unset by default:

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.

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.

If this feature isn't in by the time I get to making my "blueprint tools" mod, I'll add it to that.

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!