Make Copy-Item-Marker more Obvious (Shift-left click after source deconstructed)

[Harkonnen604]

Not a bug actually, but feature request. I just had a problem with combinators - added more wires than I wanted, then shift-right clicked on a combinator to remember its settings, then removed the combinator (to rewire), then placed it back, and shift-left-click no longer works. It appears that shift-right-click does not store settings in memory, but keeps a reference instead, so shift-left-click reapplies them from the entity (and if settings changed, it will paste current settings, not settings by the time shift-right-click was performed). I guess it should copy settings into memory as is without any reference to original building. So far workaround is to place temporary entity to copy current setup on it.

[Rseding91]

That's by design and not worth it to change.

[ssilk]

You need a second combinator (or any other entity that you wanted to keep remembered) to do that.

What Rseding tried to explain so detailed is - that you need a bunch of questionable overhead features around this feature to behave it like so.
For example: It's not longer clear then, what's in the copy-buffer. So you suddenly need a user-interface for that.
And the workaround is simple and somehow quite logical.

I would say: won't fix.

[Harkonnen604]

It's not clear currently as well Game does not highlight copy-paste source (the one shift-right-clicked). It's like clipboard in Windows - you don't remember what's in there, and you frequently don't care because that information is relevant for like 10 seconds after you copied. Anyway, if that's by design - leave it be. Not a big issue I stumbled upon this because I didn't know how to remove red/green wires.

[ssilk]

Hm. No it highlights it. I'm sure for 0.12 it worked and there was no reason to change this.
If you press shift you will see it.

[Harkonnen604]

Hm. No it highlights it. I'm sure for 0.12 it worked and there was no reason to change this.
If you press shift you will see it.

Yeah, now I see that green rectangle. It looks so organic that I never noticed it

[ssilk]

Well, it is not obvious.

I take that as the sole suggestion from this and changed the title.

[Harkonnen604]

I think some whitish highlight of the whole building would attract more attention, e.g. the way circuit wires are highlighted.