Quick access bar for circuit selection (mockup image inside)

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Quick access bar for circuit selection (mockup image inside)

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To edit one of the quick access slots, you'd right click it, which would put a highlight around it, then click the signal (or set the constant) you want to put there.

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I want this.

I pretty much always set the number to 0, 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, or 1000. It's frustrating when I want to select 50 but actually get 40, then overshoot and get to 60. Now most of the time I just copy-paste or use blueprints so I won't have to deal with that slider.

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Re: Quick access bar for circuit selection (mockup image inside)

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This should have a useful preconfiguration for about halve of the slots (should not be completely empty at start), which can be changed by the player (in game and in game-configuration). A save-button can save this and it changes it then for all games. Hm. More things are possible with this. :)

This is also useful for selecting any filter-selection!
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Re: Quick access bar for circuit selection (mockup image inside)

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Great idea, really lovely.

I would use this to set some constants such as -2^31 that are at least difficult to remember and always awkward to type out. I also have my favourite virtual signals (like Red and Yellow) that I routinely use for circuit designs.

This would really be a big help.
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Re: Quick access bar for circuit selection (mockup image inside)

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The belt sorter mod by judos has some of this functionality.
(A custom filter and it remembers the most recent values.)
In case anyone is motivated to write this as a mod. :)
https://mods.factorio.com/mods/judos/beltSorter

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