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KirkMcDonald / kirkmcdonald.github.io

Simple web-based calculator for the game Factorio.
Apache License 2.0
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Suggestion: some way of highlighting dependencies #54

Open timeshifter opened 6 years ago

timeshifter commented 6 years ago

The only "difficulty" I'm having in mathing everything out, is identifying what is used where. A tree view with a filter would be magnificent, but in the current UI, maybe an exclusive button similar to the "toggle item group" functionality, that simply highlights all recipes (and parent recipes) that use the selected ingredient. Perhaps a color gradient to indicate how "far away" from the specified item the recipe is, aka if I highlight Engines, then Electric Engines would be one step away, and production science would be two steps.

Just a thought, I'm not really sure what the ideal extension of the current UI would be, but it'd be a useful function.

MeAmAnUsername commented 6 years ago

Did you know there is a "visualize" tab? I think it does exactly what you're asking here (and otherwise I don't know exactly what you're asking for, I suggest adding a description of the specific problem you have)

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timeshifter commented 6 years ago

I'm fully aware of that tab. It's a very sparse view, whereas a normal treeview list would be very dense.