Item filters: Be able to write 2s for 2 stacks of current item

Fabriken AGI · Post by **Fabriken AGI** » Sat Jan 25, 2025 8:12 pm

It would be sweet to be able to write for example, 2s for two stacks of the currently selected item.
Either as a simple value replace, or maybe if possible, as a "variable/higher order value"

Muche · Post by **Muche** » Sat Jan 25, 2025 9:17 pm

Could you please elaborate what do you mean?

I know of item filters in quick bar, player inventory, splitters, inserters, storage chests, wagons, car/tank/spidertron trunks.
Do you mean that for inventory/wagons/trunks, while selecting an item filter one could select a number, e.g. 2, and upon confirmation it will reserve 2 slots for that item instead of 1?

Do you mean you want to translate the amount of a particular item in a chest/wagon into number of stacks that item occupies, to be usable in further circuit calculations?

Also see Read this before making suggestions.

Fabriken AGI · Post by **Fabriken AGI** » Sun Jan 26, 2025 12:36 am

Muche wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2025 9:17 pm Could you please elaborate what do you mean?

I know of item filters in quick bar, player inventory, splitters, inserters, storage chests, wagons, car/tank/spidertron trunks.
Do you mean that for inventory/wagons/trunks, while selecting an item filter one could select a number, e.g. 2, and upon confirmation it will reserve 2 slots for that item instead of 1?

Do you mean you want to translate the amount of a particular item in a chest/wagon into number of stacks that item occupies, to be usable in further circuit calculations?

Also see Read this before making suggestions.

For example, when setting items+quantity in a requester chest. id like to be able to just write 2s for two stacks etc in the quantity field. Similar to when doing just that in parameterized blueprints

Muche · Post by **Muche** » Sun Jan 26, 2025 3:19 am

As number fields support formulas (enabled by default, I believe), it may be viable to add such custom variables (for stack size and rocket capacity size) when editing an item signal in a logistic section, to be able to enter "2*s" or "r/2" and get 200 or 50.

In the meantime one option is to do the size lookup manually, i.e. select an item signal, focus the number field, hover the mouse over the item again to activate its tooltip with stack size / rocket capacity size info, and into the field enter e.g. "2*S", where S is the size for that item.

Another option is to use selector combinator for dynamic size lookups.

But this might too much setup for static requests, and using a parametrized blueprint of a requester chest might be easier.

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