Determine if my entity has been clicked?

[coreyog]

I'm hoping to create a new kind of Assembling Machine. In order to do so, i need a way to open my own GUI when the building has been clicked on. I found a post back in 2013 asking if it was possible and they were told it wasn't. Somewhere I believe the wiki said the same thing. I'm hoping that both of these are out of date.

I've looked for work arounds but because I'm working on an assembling machine, I can't even use the onplayerrotatedentity event to see if the user has interacted with my assembling machine.

Is there any way to do this? If not, are there any work arounds?

[Choumiko]

You still can't replace the vanilla gui with your own.
Here's a work around i'm using: (put it in control.lua)

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function ontick(event)
  if event.tick%10==0  then
    for pi, player in ipairs(game.players) do
      if player.opened ~= nil and player.opened.valid then
        if player.opened.name == "your-assembler-name" then
          if player.gui.left.your_custom_gui == nil then
          --create your gui
          end
        end
      elseif player.opened == nil then
        local gui=player.gui.left.your_custom_gui
        if gui then
        --one of your assemblers was open and has been closed
        --read the gui's textfields, checkboxe etc, do some stuff
        --destroy your gui
        end
      end
    end
  end
end
game.onevent(defines.events.ontick, ontick)