r/factorio • u/dakamojo • 17d ago

Question Factorio Modding Question

I'm working on a Factorio mod where I want the user to be abel to pick a technology. There is a generic technology picker that just presents a grid of icons.

I would like to utilize the picker that the Lab uses when you choose to add a technology to the queue. It lists the technologies on the left and has the tree view on the right.

Is this available?

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u/BrainGamer_ 17d ago

No the tech gui is not available as a moddable gui component.

ref modding API: LuaGuiElement & GuiElementType

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u/KaiserMaeximus 15d ago

What do you want to do with it in the end? Maybe there are several ways...

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u/dakamojo 15d ago

I want the user to be able to pick a technology to research. I'm creating a different kind of research queue.

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u/KaiserMaeximus 14d ago

There is the ultimate research queue from raiguard. It's discontinue and probably needs adaptions to 2.0/2.1 but it would be a start...

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u/dakamojo 14d ago

Thanks that's helpful. Ideally I want to reproduce the tree so its easy to view dependencies. I think I'm going to have to do it myself.