Friday Facts #237 - Rich & interactive text

[torham]

OMG!! After all these years! Its definitely Saturday already, and no FFF.

[markheloking]

Yep... they're late again...

Only the second time in years though, I mean, pretty impressive overall imo.

I wonder if they actually just forgot or if they're still working on it

[Zavian]

Well Klonan normally posts the forum link, and if he's in the US atm, then by his clock he isn't late (yet).

[markheloking]

Aaahhh, that would explain a lot actually.

[EDIT]
It's finally up folks!

[Jap2.0]

Yeah, I'm in the eastern US, and it was posted at 5:35, so there was plenty of time. It actually seems like they've been coming earlier recently (this being a minor exception).

[POPISowyNumer]

Can i have just one itsy bitsy complaint?

WHY ON THIS GAY EARTH ARE THOSE COMMANDS SO GOD DAMN LONG?
I really hope that's just mashup for sake of preview, but if f.e. color command will be longer than 10 signs total i riot.

[Jap2.0]

Can i have just one itsy bitsy complaint?

WHY ON THIS GAY EARTH ARE THOSE COMMANDS SO GOD DAMN LONG?
I really hope that's just mashup for sake of preview, but if f.e. color command will be longer than 10 signs total i riot.

They're adding easier ways to put them in chat, etc.

[CzBuCHi]

I can imagine also another usage of this:



lua can replace icon strings with code, that returns given signal and has loadstring function to execute it ...

[Deing]

This looks most awesome!
You know, in Minecraft they have the json format in /tellraw commands and books and stuff, that was really useful and cool for map making. Now it's in Factorio, too, Great!

[Roxor128]

Will you have both [color= and [colour= tags supported?

POVRay Scene Description Language supports both.

HTML only supports the American one (or this was the case last time I was writing HTML by hand), which gave me a lot of trouble when coding pages and not getting the expected results.

[ownlyme]

can it be used in the mod settings?

[thuro]

So the spritepath changed I take it? I can get icons by ctrl clicking but typing doesn't work.

[Mathematician]

So the spritepath changed I take it? I can get icons by ctrl clicking but typing doesn't work.

The syntax changed. By trial and error I ran onto the right one.
Simply type [item=solar-panel] etc.