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What?

More moddability of a players interaction with map markers.
New property: LuaControl .selected_chart_tag → LuaCustomChartTag
Or new event: on_chart_tag_clicked
Why?

I'd like to give the player a natural and well integrated way to select a destination for my transportation network on a map. ChartTags already show a selection box, so they seem like the best way to do it.
And the only way i can come up with to implement this is either via a custom hotkey+player.selected or an on_click_event. For flexibility i'd prefer .selected_chart_tag as it allows me to chose which hotkey to combine it with.

Currently chart tag selection and editing is not game state so that information isn't available to expose for mods to read.

Rseding91 wrote: Thu Oct 24, 2019 2:07 pm Currently chart tag selection and editing is not game state so that information isn't available to expose for mods to read.

Well, eh. That's kinda tautological. I mean, technically all i want is the position that the player clicked. And this was as close to "feels realistic" of an idea as i could come up with. Because "give me the map coordinates of every mouse click so i can do the logic myself" seems less realistic to me even though it would be more versatile.