Hide fluid indicator arrow

[0n0w1c]

Similar to this request: 97809

When a compound entity consists of a pump that is selectable in game, the fluid direction indicator appears on mouse-over.

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A flag similar to "hide-alt-info", alternate sprite, or scale it? While a pump is used and meaningful to the operation of the compound entity, fluid flow direction is not.

[curiosity]

hide_connection_info doesn't work? Seems like exactly what it was made for.

[0n0w1c]

While the visualization is the same, this seems to be part of the player selected logic, the code that displays the entity's selection box.
The hide_connection_info does as it should, for the connections. I believe this represents the fluid flow, the direction of the pump.

[curiosity]

It looks the same with chemical plant etc. Quite sure that arrow is a fluidbox visualization, thus should be affected.

edit: checked on the vanilla pump, indeed it doesn't obey the property. Should be fixed.

[Stringweasel]

I already have an PR open to fix this internally (7099). Ran into it with the Valves mod.

[protocol_1903]

Any updates? It's been a little while and the issue still exists

[protocol_1903]

Upon further inspection... the value doesn't even show in the prototype explorer. It also doesn't show up in the log as an "unused" value.

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[Stringweasel]

I'm also running into this bug with the Valves mod. I have three valves (pumps). The one valve has the arrow drawn when selected, but the other two has not because their output connections are linked. From a player's perspective there should be no difference.

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[Stringweasel]

This is implemented for the next release. A pump's direction arrow will now obey "hide_connection_info"