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Hi,

I wonder if there is a way to get the entity that is copied when you do a shift-right-button ?
Because I want to do my own paste from this source...

I already tried this one,
but it only works when doing the paste operation with shift-left-click on a single destination.

I am writing a mod that is doing multiple paste at once on several destination objects.
So I defined a selection tool, that I want to use for the paste part, calling several times copy_settings.
But for the copy part, it would be nice if I retain the classical factorio copy that users already know : "shit-right-click".

So I just need to get the source part of the on_pre_entity_settings_pasted, before the classical paste is done.

I don't understand what you're asking for...

Sorry for my english, I will rephrase :

When the user clicks on shift-right-mouse on an entity (the "copy" part of the classical copy-paste process), I would like to get the entity that was selected.
I.e. the entity that will appear as the source in the on_pre_entity_settings_pasted, ONLY IF the user makes a shift-left-click to paste.
So I would like to get this entity BEFORE the user makes any paste with shift-left-mouse.

Because I want to make my own multiple paste selection tool. So the on_pre_entity_settings_pasted will not be triggered by my custom selection tool taht I will use for multiple pasting.

EDIT : to be short, there is already a player.selected variable.
I'm looking for a player.copy_source variable. That contains the last entity that was shift-right-clicked.

Rseding, here is the tool I wrote, so that you see what I try to say.
viewtopic.php?f=92&t=30163

look at image no2.
it's here that I would like to use the classical shift-right-mouse source object.

Looks like it was implemented in 0.13.13:

FactorioBot wrote:

• Scripting
  • Added LuaPlayer::entity_copy_source - the source entity used during entity settings copy paste.

Factorio Lua API wrote:entity_copy_source :: LuaEntity [Read-only]

• The source entity used during entity settings copy-paste if any.
  nil if there isn't currently a source entity.

Added LuaPlayer::entity_copy_source - the source entity used during entity settings copy paste.

Thx Rseding !