Settings.lua dropdown example

[UberWaffe]

Apologies if this is covered somewhere but I have not been able to find it.

Basically I just want an example of how to do a dropdown style setting. I.e. a setting where the user can only pick from a predefined list.
A list of key-value pairs would be best, but a list of strings would also suffice.

So far I have only found examples of boolean and double settings.

[darkfrei]

http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaG ... lement.add

[steinio]

This example is from Logistic Train Network:

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{
    type = "string-setting",
    name = "ltn-interface-log-level",
    order = "aa",
    setting_type = "runtime-global",
    default_value = "2: notifications",
    allowed_values =  {"0: off", "1: errors", "2: notifications", "3: expanded scheduler messages", "4: debug"}
  }

Greetings, steinio.

[UberWaffe]

Awesome, thanks! These help a lot.

[UberWaffe]

http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaSettings.html does not indicate anything, but is it possible to add hover-over / help tooltips?

I.e. when the player hovers over the setting, can I display text that explains it better?

Also, even better, can I do similar help text per option in the setting dropdown?

[Nexela]

http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaSettings.html does not indicate anything, but is it possible to add hover-over / help tooltips?

I.e. when the player hovers over the setting, can I display text that explains it better?

Also, even better, can I do similar help text per option in the setting dropdown?

This is possible by adding it in the locale.cfg file
[mod-setting-description]
my-setting-name=What I want to say

[UberWaffe]

@Nexela: Ah, thanks! That will be perfect.

[bobingabout]

I remember when I first started using it, I didn't have a clue what I was doing here.

I basically managed to piece everything I needed together from this post:
viewtopic.php?f=34&t=32890&start=40#p258222

[Rseding91]

I remember when I first started using it, I didn't have a clue what I was doing here.

I basically managed to piece everything I needed together from this post:
viewtopic.php?f=34&t=32890&start=40#p258222

By the way, I updated the first post on that: viewtopic.php?f=34&t=32890

[bobingabout]

By the way, I updated the first post on that

I noticed after I posted.
It was a bit of a struggle back on day 1, I didn't even know you could use order tags, and all my settings have that un-needed per_user option because that's what all the examples I was looking at had.