Highlight changed/matching items in player inventories
Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2017 6:18 pm
Sometimes -- particularly when my inventory is cluttered -- I have difficulty trying to find items that I already have or just finished crafting. Thus, I'd like to suggest a few quality-of-life improvements to the inventory as an option:
When opening the inventory:
Highlight new item stacks that have been collected since the inventory was last closed. Changes to quantities of existing stacks should not be highlighted.)
Highlight newly hand-crafted items, even if they add to an existing stack. (If I'm crafting by hand, I'm likely to want to use the item I just crafted.)
Highlights could be turned off permanently via a config options, or temporarily turned off by closing and reopening the inventory (which, because of the "since the inventory was last closed" limit, causes existing highlighting to be "forgotten")
When filtering recipes:
Apply the filter to inventory contents as well by dimming all squares that do not contain a matching item. This allows Ctrl+F "iron pl" to be used to quickly find iron plates in the inventory, and ctrl+F "ore" to find all the rogue ore you've managed to accidentally grab that should be in the smelters (even though there's no recipe that matches "ore")
When opening the inventory:
Highlight new item stacks that have been collected since the inventory was last closed. Changes to quantities of existing stacks should not be highlighted.)
Highlight newly hand-crafted items, even if they add to an existing stack. (If I'm crafting by hand, I'm likely to want to use the item I just crafted.)
Highlights could be turned off permanently via a config options, or temporarily turned off by closing and reopening the inventory (which, because of the "since the inventory was last closed" limit, causes existing highlighting to be "forgotten")
When filtering recipes:
Apply the filter to inventory contents as well by dimming all squares that do not contain a matching item. This allows Ctrl+F "iron pl" to be used to quickly find iron plates in the inventory, and ctrl+F "ore" to find all the rogue ore you've managed to accidentally grab that should be in the smelters (even though there's no recipe that matches "ore")