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(this is very loosely related to the "Allow placing GUI elements relative to the "Surface List" GUI" threads)

I have a mod where clicking on an entity may bring you to a remote view of a specific surface. I only want to show that surface and not allow navigating away. But I can't see a way to turn this off.

Given that there are a number of "feature flag" requests for controllers, maybe adding a feature_flags = { ... constants from ControllerFeatureFlags ... }, to LuaPlayer::set_controller and then add e.g. "no-surface-list-gui" as a constant to the ControllerFeatureFlags which is only useful if the controller is of type "remote".

This already exists as part of game view settings https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/con ... rface_list

Osmo wrote: Wed Sep 23, 2026 1:38 am This already exists as part of game view settings https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/con ... rface_list

Thanks for pointing this out; as this is per-player it might work for me (need to test it).