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Posted: **Tue Jul 05, 2016 4:22 pm**

I'm going to guess that setting the property of a prototype as a function to be determined at runtime is not possible, like this:

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  {
    type = "item",
    name = "an-item",
    icon = "__modmodmod__/graphics/icons/thing.png",
    stack_size = some_function()
  }

As I said, I don't think this will work but I'd like confirmation because it would make my life easier if it did, but I don't want to go marching off down a dead end if it can be avoided

Thanks!

Posted: **Tue Jul 05, 2016 4:41 pm**

Well, it does work, but the function will be evaluated when creating the prototype. So it probably doesn't do what you want?

Posted: **Wed Jul 06, 2016 8:15 am**

That's what I thought, my question referred to the function being evaluated each time the property is accessed, rather than once when all the prototypes are created.
Thanks for clearing this up!

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