If the Factorio API doesn't allow to

[fickle jewel]

Also since I created something that can draw anything in the gui I did this... don't ask me why... I was bored..

[brave fjord]

Oh? Are you using the camera trick?

[fickle jewel]

yes

I made something like html/js canvas

[brave fjord]

With your experience with it, can you display a GUI within the camera?

I've been (trying) to make a library that'll handle as much of the GUI stuff for you as I can. The plan was to also add a visual editor that'll have a preview so you can test your designs faster as well as make it simpler for those afraid of GUI code.

While that's a future question, I'm just currently a little stalled by dev block as I want to make instantiable elements but I'm struggling to think how to do it in the very static output of the visual editor (that is still theoretical)

[fickle jewel]

yes you just gotta do camera.add({...})

I was planning to use that to be able to click on the image, by making a grid of invisible button elements in the camera. Tho I'm not sure it's a good idea because it will probably make some lag if I create a really large image that uses for example 1920x1080 buttons

[brave fjord]

maybe a way of registering locations to listen for clicks in?
It would be a departure from the JavaScript canvas you're recreating, but hacks upon hacks, right?

[fickle jewel]

maybe I can use on_gui_hover and on_gui_leave to make a grid of button around the cursor when it's in the image and I could move that grid as the cursor leaves and enters the buttons to follow it so I only have to create a few thousand buttons instead of millions

but that's way too complicated so I won't do it

oh wait nvm the on_gui_click event has a cursor_display_location

so I can probably use that

[brave fjord]

Wait it does!?

I guess I haven't ever needed that so I didn't notice

And I was about to say there's no hover, but I was thinking of the focus events I made a forum request to exist and act like the hover events :/

[fickle jewel]

tho it would be really awesome to have access to the current player's cursor position

[brave fjord]

Best you can get is what they have "selected", but that's in world

[fickle jewel]

to recreate the white cross and the tooltip of vanilla graphs

[brave fjord]

Just force the user to use an auto clicker, duh /s

[fickle jewel]

x)

[sharp locust]

bad apple when

[lethal thistle]

If it has a graphics, it needs to play bad apple

[dusk kettle]

You can get it from a custom input

E.g. when they click

[fickle jewel]

Yeah I meant having access to it at all times, not only when they a click

[dusk kettle]

Sure

[sharp locust]

well what you could do is put an invisible grid over your gui and listen for "raise_hover_events", but yea you'd need lots of points to make it accurate, maybe just have invisible gui's over important/interesting graph points

[polar sparrow]

Doomtorio when? 🙃

[fickle jewel]

Someone already did with combinators

[polar sparrow]

of course they did

[lethal thistle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bAuP0gO5pc

[polar sparrow]

Oh I think I actually have seen that one

[hardy bane]

What do you mean by the camera trick, any information on how I can draw custom thing like js canvas ?