More descriptive tooltips

by teemu

Adds more information and stats like entity size and behavior, recycling etc to item and recipe descriptions.

Utilities
4 months ago
2.0
647

i Scrolling down a tooltip

a month ago

Hi! Just curious, is there some way to scroll down a tooltip when hovering an item? Or is that feature planned?
Playing with mods like AAI Programmable Vehicles or mods that add vehicles/armors make it so the tooltip overflows from the screen when looking at stuff that can be applied to an equipment grid. I know that you can scroll down to see al the info in the Factoriopedia, but that doesn't help when I just wanted to see the current battery for my equipment grid.
Cheers, ty for your mod!

18 days ago

How does it overflow?

18 days ago

Sure. As in the tooltip is just so utterly big that "overflows" the screen size.
Example: Let's say that you have the mods AAI Programmable Vehicles, and some mods that add vehicles to the game.
AAI Programmable Vehicles adds what I understand are 2 extra prototypes per "base" vehicle prototype. So every vehicle shown on the tooltip for personal equipment (like the personal battery, personal roboport...) that can also go on equipment grids on vehicles basically triplicates it's size (since instead of, let's say, 5 vehicles, now there's 15 + armors, etc) (refering to the Placed in equipment grid -> Placed in: ... section on the tooltip) and it's just so big that the tooltip windows just "overflow" the game's (factorio's) window.

That's what I asked in my original question. If this happens, and there's some kind of important info (like a battery's current energy) on the bottom of the tooltip, is there any way to reach the bottom? Using shift + mouse scroll wont work, and changing the interface size of the game kinda works but depending on the mods installed it won't since there's too many vehicles. Using alt + click to open it in the factoriopedia won't work neither because it doesn't show that specific item's stats, but the "prototype's" afaik (in the battery's case, show the battery capacity, not the clicked battery's current energy level).
Sorry if this sounds too obtuse. Let me know if you need me to reparaphrase this.

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