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Autocompletion for Fabricator manual schematic loading

Started by R-26 Lightspeed, December 28, 2024, 03:18:35 AM

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R-26 Lightspeed

This suggestion is autocompletion support for schematics when manually hacking the [Load Schematic] at Fabricators, to make it easier which schematics you have in situations where you have a lot.
A similar thing already exists for manually hacking schematics at Terminals, an autocomplete that specifies through grey-out options which schematics you already have, so i'm hoping the code would already mostly exist.

The reason for my suggestion is that if you play in a way that gets you a lot (and i mean a lot) of random schematics (such as with extracts) in the hopes that you would get some useful ones, attempting to load any that start with letters like R into a Fabricator suddenly becomes very tedious.
The list of schematics opened by the [Load Schematic] Fabricator hack is pretty slow to scroll through, especially if you happen to have 150+ schematics.
This is made worse by the fact that failing the hack forces you to go back through the same list.
 
I know that it's possible to use manual hacking to load schematics instead, but without autocompletion, it's not very practical to know which schematics you have or not.
The simplest way to check which schematics you do have in such scenarios is to make and open a scoresheet dump and ctrl+f the schematic list.

Kyzrati

Yeah it would be helpful and it's been considered before, but there are no plans to add this. It's quite complicated to implement a good autocomplete solution and this particular use is too low priority.

Of course, if you have that many schematics then yeah I guess you could do an export, although normally if you have a reasonable number you can look at your schematics list. They're alphabetized, after all, if you're interested in something specific.
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