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Additional UI elements and adv. glob namespace

Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 7:40 pm
by drs9999
So after the 0.6 update I thought about new modding features.

I would like to have more GUI elements, more precisly I like to have checkboxes and list boxes(+ radio buttons and sliders).
I do not have an use for the last two things, but with them the list is more complete , I guess ;)
(Also nice to have are picture buttons, but this was suggested before)

And finally I want to suggest to implement something like an extented glob table. This table is accessible/editable/shared between all games.
E.g I could use it for blueprints-data, so blueprints can be shared between different games.

It also could be usefull to implement some sort of achievementssystem.

That is it so far. Thanks for reading.

Re: Additional UI elements and adv. glob namespace

Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 10:05 am
by slpwnd
The idea for "extended glob table" has been around for a while. It will happen eventually:)

Re: Additional UI elements and adv. glob namespace

Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 6:23 pm
by zer0t3ch
slpwnd wrote:The idea for "extended glob table" has been around for a while. It will happen eventually:)
What's the word on the new GUI elements?

Re: Additional UI elements and adv. glob namespace

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2013 10:57 pm
by ficolas
I think you can make checkboxes with the buttoms and the styles (you can set a background image for buttons)

Re: Additional UI elements and adv. glob namespace

Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2013 3:27 am
by zer0t3ch
ficolas wrote:I think you can make checkboxes with the buttoms and the styles (you can set a background image for buttons)
True. I'm thinking of making a mod for other mods to build off of that adds a bunch of styles and GUI elements like that.

Re: Additional UI elements and adv. glob namespace

Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2013 9:31 am
by ficolas
zer0t3ch wrote:
ficolas wrote:I think you can make checkboxes with the buttoms and the styles (you can set a background image for buttons)
True. I'm thinking of making a mod for other mods to build off of that adds a bunch of styles and GUI elements like that.
I also thought about making a mod to do that + a java program to create GUIs in factorio, but with the new GUI elements they are adding is not that necessary (For example I was thinking about a function to make a keyboard appear at the screen, but with the textboxes that is no longer needed)

The java program would still be usefull, but I havent done anything with factorio since like a month...
Now id like to update my mod that I dont even know if it works for the new version