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Just throwing this out there: It would be stupendously amazing if we could position GUI elements relative to the "static" GUI elements that are almost always shown. For example, the top-right GUI, the quickbar, shortcut bar, guns/ammo GUI, map editor GUI, etc. Right now it is possible to position elements like this by using hardcoded constants combined with display resolution and scale, but it is a very ugly method that is prone to error.

Thanks!

+1

I would love to attach some gui to the hotbar, such as a custom additional progress bar (alongside health, shield, mining progress...) and other uses.

Is this possible yet?

+1 maybe now that raiguard is on the other side of the "fence"?

The relative gui system is so cool and it's so annoying to fall back to easily broken coordinate hacks

we already have player.gui.relative.add(...) .anchor = https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/def ... e_gui_type

what we REALLY need is displaying these relative guis *above* the anchor gui.
currently they can only be displayed to the side...
for example you could display a bunch of extra stats in a crafting machine window, or i didn't need to manually calculate the inventory position for my https://mods.factorio.com/mod/market2 which is a HUGE hassle, doesnt look perfect and is generally a ridiculous solution.

that's what i tried to propose in player.gui.relative[].bring_to_front() ?
maybe i didn't explain it well

I've been waiting for this for 3 years. PLEASE make it happen

+1

I also want an possibillity to displaying these relative guis *above* the anchor gui.

oh sorry, now i understand what you meant.
defines.relative_gui_type doesn't contain the quickbar, the weapon box, the map etc yet

was about to make a ui for induction charging and wanted to attach it to the weapons because that's where the battery is

raiguard wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 6:47 pm Just throwing this out there: It would be stupendously amazing if we could position GUI elements relative to the "static" GUI elements that are almost always shown. For example, the top-right GUI, the quickbar, shortcut bar, guns/ammo GUI, map editor GUI, etc. Right now it is possible to position elements like this by using hardcoded constants combined with display resolution and scale, but it is a very ugly method that is prone to error.

Thanks!

I Agree. You mean like CSS's position: and align: ? Maybe in combination with some markup-like language for defining gui-hierarcies, sprinkled with inspiration from XAML/UWP?

Controversal take: hide the existing gui and overlaying pure web-tech-based rendering elements of chosen flavor, that subscribes to channels of events and data? I.E Angular+RxJS or *MQ-channels?

Now that Raiguard is a developer, he is free to implement this himself