ALT-scroll for big tooltips

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Iridium-235
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ALT-scroll for big tooltips

Post by Iridium-235 »

TL;DR
Sometimes tooltips gets too big and portions of it are cut off. Add a feature where using the controls ALT+Mouse scroll allows you to scroll through the tooltip, making reading large tooltips easy and simple.

What?
Sometimes the tooltip gets too big and portions of it are cut off; you can't see the entire tooltip. This happens sometimes in mods but it also happens in vanilla (e.g thruster in Space Age).
See the image below as an example:Image
Note: Not my image

My proposal is to add a feature where if you hold ALT+Mouse scroll you can scroll through the tooltip, like in Cosmoteer (but only if the tooltip is too large to be read normally).

Why?
Having portions of the tooltip cut off isn't good as it makes some information inaccessible. The current methods (such as reducing GUI size) are quite tedious and adding this feature would allow players to easily read the entire description.
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Re: [QoL] Add ALT-scroll for big tooltips

Post by waitofaiorur »

Try holding "shift".
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Re: [QoL] Add ALT-scroll for big tooltips

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waitofaiorur wrote: Fri Oct 31, 2025 12:03 pm Try holding "shift".
[Koub] Indeed, moving this to Gameplay Help from Ideas and Suggestions.
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Re: ALT-scroll for big tooltips

Post by Aklofe »

Same issue, shift not resolving the problem.

I'm guessing that shift allows you to scroll the tooltip? But it does not let me do it.
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Somewhat hard to play modded, when you don't know what you are actually crafting.
Please help? :cry:
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Re: ALT-scroll for big tooltips

Post by Bilka »

For dealing with recipe tooltips you can use Factoriopedia instead, alt + click on the recipe to access it.
I'm an admin over at https://wiki.factorio.com. Feel free to contact me if there's anything wrong (or right) with it.
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