Request for Selection Tool Entity Filter

[trappi_stone]

Deconstruction planner allows me to filter entities through whitelist and blacklist in the game. It would be nice to allow filtering for the selection-tool in the API where I can specify the entity types and names to prevent the cursor box from selecting them.

An example code might look something like the following:

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data:extend(
  {
    {
      ...
      type = "selection-tool",
      blacklist = {"iron-plate", "tree"},
      whitelist = {"resource"}
      ...
  }
)

[Tergiver]

Better yet, let us specify a filter function that takes an entity and returns a color value, including nil. That way we can determine which entities show up as selected and in what color(s).

[Bilka]

The original request was added for 0.17.