on_player_selected_area not firing

[Mylon]

I fired up a new game and ran this command:

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/c script.on_event(defines.events.on_player_selected_area, function(event) game.print("Player selected area") for k,v in pairs(event.entities) do game.print(v.name) end end)

And then grabbed a decon planner and tried to deconstruct a tree.

Observed behavior: Nothing.

Expected behavior: Messages, "Player selected area" and "tree-05" is printed.

I would like to be able to use this event to detect if event.item == "deconstruction-planner" and event.entities include a "rocket-silo", or if a certain number of entity.types are selected.

[zackman0010]

I can confirm this one is rather longstanding, since late 0.13/early 0.14 versions at least.

[Rseding91]

Deconstruction planners and blueprints don't fire that event. The event specifically says it only fires with the selection-tool item type.

I'll look into the reason why I made it work that way and see about changing it.

[zackman0010]

Thank you. I was under the impression that it should be firing because Blueprint and DeconPlanner types were children of the selection-tool type, which is why I thought it was a bug.

[321freddy]

Any news on this? I could really use this right now to modify some blueprints on creation.

[Rseding91]

I've added 3 new events to handle how blueprints and deconstruction planners operate for the next version of 0.15.

[321freddy]

I've added 3 new events to handle how blueprints and deconstruction planners operate for the next version of 0.15.

Awesome thanks! Any ETA on 0.15.20? There is no point in doing any other methods of blueprint modification when I know that it's going to be a lot easier.