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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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