Add option to Icon Selector for adding images instead of icons

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Add option to Icon Selector for adding images instead of icons

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The Icon Selector when changing a station name should have an option how the selected icon is added, as icon or as image.
What ?
I suggest adding an option in Settings -> Interface to select if the Icon Selector should add the selection as icon or as image.
Why ?
When the station name is mentioned in messages, for example when LTN reports a delivery, the message reads:
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The Icon Selector always adds the selection as icon, which results in messages having those [Item: Wood] explanations after each icon as you can see in the first station name.This makes station names rather long winded and unreadable. For me the idea of the Icon is to compress a thousand words into a single image. So I would like to add the selected icon as Image
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Re: Add option to Icon Selector for adding images instead of icons

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Need to point to this post:
viewtopic.php?p=548021#p548021
Optera wrote: Mon Jun 21, 2021 2:01 pm As always, there's a mod for that: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Rich_Text_Helper
However i just used a script to replace all item= with img=item/ : viewtopic.php?p=537888#p537888
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