I was hoping to use this mod nicely with Constructron-Continued, but what is happening right now is that once ghosts are approved manually, constructrons are not dispatched to the approved ghosts. Is there any way to make this mod work with Constructron?

Hello OneWheelDude,

Maybe, but I would need to have a closer look at what Constructron does. The catch is that Construction Planner creates unapproved ghosts by changing the force of the entity, and no event is triggered for that by the game engine.

One way would be for me to try to raise script_raised_built event, although I am not sure how that would interact with some other mods - since the entity has not been built, it has merely had its force changed.

Another way forward would be to maybe allow the mod to somehow interact with Constructron via remote call or custom event - that would require some work on both sides I think.

Perhaps the best way to handle this would be to see if Wube would be interested in adding a new event to the game (on_entity_force_changed), although that could take some time even if deemed desirable/acceptable by Wube dev team.

Best regards,
Branko

I've created a post in the Factorio forums so maybe we can get the ball rolling. Feel free to correct me or add anything
https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=105467

'ello OneWheelDude,

That's quite a concise description, not much I could add to it :)

Although... This is probably one of the more esoteric uses of their API, so I don't know how much of a priority it would get.

The idea I mentioned about having a more direct integration between Construction Planner and Constructotron mod is definitively something that could be looked into, and can probably be done faster than waiting for update from Wube. I'll throw a message into that other discussion to see if ILLISIS would be interested in something like that. :)

Best regards,
Branko