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Posted: **Sun Apr 12, 2020 11:41 am**

TL;DR

Fire an event when the user clicks in a special way (for instance by middle-mouse-clicking) on any entity or item - anywhere in the game

What ?

When the user clicks in a special way (instance by middle-mouse-clicking) on any entity or item anywhere in the game a special-click-event shall be fired.
This can be used for mod developers to jump into a help system like for example "Where is it made?"
You can see this in Evospace:

: Evospace.help.system.png (1.54 MiB) Viewed 1643 times

Or from crafting options:

: Evospace.help.system.2.png (1.21 MiB) Viewed 1643 times

Or even from help window itself:

: Evospace.help.system.3.png (370.47 KiB) Viewed 1643 times

: Evospace.help.system.4.png (386.75 KiB) Viewed 1643 times

Posted: **Mon Mar 22, 2021 1:22 pm**

This was implemented with https://wiki.factorio.com/Prototype/Cus ... _prototype so it can be used with any custom keybinding.
Modding interface request thread: 96125

Posted: **Mon Mar 22, 2021 5:39 pm**

Amazing!
Thank you Devs!

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Middle-mouse-clicking on anything

Middle-mouse-clicking on anything

TL;DR

What ?

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