Expose player map marker interaction (player.selected or on_click)

[eradicator]

What?

More moddability of a players interaction with map markers.
New property: LuaControl .selected_chart_tag → LuaCustomChartTag
Or new event: on_chart_tag_clicked

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Why?

I'd like to give the player a natural and well integrated way to select a destination for my transportation network on a map. ChartTags already show a selection box, so they seem like the best way to do it.
And the only way i can come up with to implement this is either via a custom hotkey+player.selected or an on_click_event. For flexibility i'd prefer .selected_chart_tag as it allows me to chose which hotkey to combine it with.

[Rseding91]

Currently chart tag selection and editing is not game state so that information isn't available to expose for mods to read.

[eradicator]

Currently chart tag selection and editing is not game state so that information isn't available to expose for mods to read.

Well, eh. That's kinda tautological. I mean, technically all i want is the position that the player clicked. And this was as close to "feels realistic" of an idea as i could come up with. Because "give me the map coordinates of every mouse click so i can do the logic myself" seems less realistic to me even though it would be more versatile.