Hi,

First of, loving this mod - awesome work :)

It would awesome if there would be support for these signals to dynamically update what amounts/items are displayed.

[virtual-signal=signal-everything] Everything - Show sum amount of all items
[virtual-signal=signal-each] Each - Show individual items and amounts

Thx,
zee

Thanks, glad you enjoy it.

I can probably implement the everything pretty easily.

The each is a bit more difficult as that would be a 1-Many operation. I’ll see if I can think of a nice way to do that. It would also potentially cause an issue if you had EVERY single signal. Would also only be possible for the rich-text option.

Thanks :D

Thanks for the feedback.
I've implemented the following in v1.4.0

[virtual-signal=signal-everything] Everything - Show sum amount of all items
[virtual-signal=signal-each] Each - Show the count of how many different signals are present
I also added support for [virtual-signal=signal-anything] IF it is also used in the condition.

At this stage I don't plan on implementing a signal that will expand to ALL the signals present as that may cause unintended consequences.
If there is further interest in a similar feature I might make a specific keyword that can be used BUT then it would only ever be that keyword and the counts of all items ONLY in the message.

A list, similar to https://mods.factorio.com/mod/dish-display-signals , might work for Each.

A list, similar to https://mods.factorio.com/mod/dish-display-signals , might work for Each.

Haven’t seen that mod before. Will take a look to see what I can do.

I did a basic implementation but there is a limit for the length a message can be on a display (500 characters) so it will always end up being cut off.

[item=electronic-circuit][1] [item=electronic-circuit,quality=uncommon][2] [item=electronic-circuit,quality=rare][3] [item=electronic-circuit,quality=epic][4] [item=electronic-circuit,quality=legendary][5] [item=copper-wire][1] [item=spidertron-remote][1] [virtual-signal=signal-0][1] [virtual-signal=signal-0,quality=rare][1] [virtual-signal=signal-deny][1] [virtual-signal=signal-deny,quality=epic][1] [virtual-signal=shape-vertical][1] [virtual-signal=signal-stack-size][1] [virtual-signal=signal

If you want this I can still add it but it will be limited unless an official forum request is made to make the max message length longer

Last Thread Status:
ACCEPTED: implemented support for variable signals (signal-anything, signal-everything, signal-each)
REJECTED: Suggestion for expanding to ALL items on signal due to 500 char message limit (unless this limitation changes)

Wow, awesome, Excellent work - Thanks for adding the new options :)