[2.0.76] Power switch GUI is not like all the other GUIs

[hgschmie]

Most (All?) GUIs have a maximum limit from which a player can open their GUI. The outline turns red if the GUI can not be opened:

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Except the power switch. I tried zooming out on a big screen and even at max zoom, I can open the power switch GUI (still showing a yellow outline).

Here it is at the same distance as the GUIs above:

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This seems to be a bug to me.

-h

[Rseding91]

Thanks for the report however that is fully intended. They along with electric poles have no distance limit on them since version 0.16 released in 2017.

[hgschmie]

Thanks for the report however that is fully intended. They along with electric poles have no distance limit on them since version 0.16 released in 2017.

Hm,

I half-expected something like this. Lamps do have a distance limit. Power-switches sit at a weird intersection; they are only useful for the power network (or not? See below) but they open a GUi that is not like the power network gui but more like the GUI of a lamp (connections to circuit and logistic network, functionality). And yet they behave like they are part of a power network (there is nothing in the power GUI that can be controlled or switched).

I am using a power switch as part of a larger entity (and clicking on it opens my custom GUI. Now I have an entity where I have inconsistent behavior depending on which I/O pin (data or power) a user clicks.

Would it be possible to add a boolean to the prototype that makes the power switch behave like "all the other GUis" ?