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[Alex]

Well done, this is good stuff

Just wanted to make a quick reply:

Yeah, it's a bit of grey area. Regarding the use of reflection, however, I would argue that restrictions as a security precaution is not a good idea in the first place, at least not in its current form.

This is based on the idea that an incomplete and easily bypassable security measure is worst than no security measure at all. It can lure users into a false sense of safety, when the fact is that running untrusted code from the Internet is fundamentally unsafe (unless it's in an industrial grade, battle-tested sandbox, like a modern browser).

I'm acutely aware of this, and the restrictions are not a security precaution (as you say, they're incomplete and basically entirely useless as that), and aren't presented to the player as such (or at all)! They're mainly there because it's fairly likely that your average modder could write file IO code that would mess up a user's system *by accident*. Even an otherwise excellent programmer could easily make a mistake like this if they don't have a properly careful mindset when writing, say, code that handles file deletion. So this is in place there to prevent half-baked attempts and signpost "don't do this" to someone with more experience that *could* bypass it. Someone malicious could find a way around pretty much no matter what, and this isn't concerned with that at all.

If there's some functionality that I could add to the API that would make life easier, btw, that'd be the best way to go - then I can put some effort into making sure that code is "safe" and more modders could benefit from being able to use it.

Edit:

Why this isn't in the base game is something I'll never understand.

Haha! Fair, fair. (The real reason: that bit of the UI is *old* at this point.)

[Usinaru]

How is this not vanilla already? Thanks !!!

[Jaghaimo]

If there's some functionality that I could add to the API that would make life easier, btw, that'd be the best way to go - then I can put some effort into making sure that code is "safe" and more modders could benefit from being able to use it.

Being able to (officially) mod base game UI would be a game-changer (ba-dum-ts)! It could be split into being able to modify existing vanilla UI, and being able to introduce new UI components. Probably the latter first, so that then existing UI can be rewritten using this new exposed API (thus automatically becoming modable).

[Fuegoredux]

This is great! Save a huge amount of time looking through planets.

Two places that would benefit from a search feature is the codex and the ship simulator selection. Would these be a possibility in the future?

[andylizi]

Two places that would benefit from a search feature is the codex and the ship simulator selection. Would these be a possibility in the future?

Yeah, there're lots of places in the game that can benefit from a search function. Unfortunately I don't think my method is very… realistic, so to speak. If I were Alex, I could've implemented planet search the "correct" way literally within 10 minutes. But since I'm not him (last time I checked), I had had to spend days on this hacky mod chanting black magic. What's worse, it will almost certainly become obsolete at some time in the future.

All that to say, it'd be way more realistic to just ask Alex for these features, and I'm confident they'll be added to the base game eventually. I did this mod because I wanted that time to be now, and my first instinct as a programmer whenever a piece of software annoys me is to Fix It Myself™ (and maybe send a PR afterward). It was a nice challenge by itself, but doing it for everything is a bit much…

(It'd be really nice if I could name this mod "Search Everything" though……)

[chus]

Hi,

Is it possible for you to add the ability to filter unexplored ruins? Cause sometime you will get survey data from probe/survey ship/derelict ship about a planet, and it might cause people to miss the planet if they are not careful enough...

Thank you!!

[lili]

hai nihao
youmeiyou xingqu lai yuanxingxinghao(Starsector) zhongwen luntan https://www.fossic.org/
jintian kandao youren banyun le nide mod, suoyi bijiao haoqi
suishi huanying

[andylizi]

Hi,

Is it possible for you to add the ability to filter unexplored ruins? Cause sometime you will get survey data from probe/survey ship/derelict ship about a planet, and it might cause people to miss the planet if they are not careful enough...

Thank you!!

Unfortunately this feels a bit out of scope to me. If I support filtering for one specific condition, then there'd be no reason to not support every other kind of conditions, and that's a bit too much work for me. So for the sake of consistency, I'd perfer not adding it.

hai nihao
youmeiyou xingqu lai yuanxingxinghao(Starsector) zhongwen luntan https://www.fossic.org/
jintian kandao youren banyun le nide mod, suoyi bijiao haoqi
suishi huanying

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I don't really mind though. I have registered an account there before, but then decided I don't want to bother with their forum rules about publishing mods.

[FreeBubbles]

Add a filter for "market conditions" in the planets list please.

[kokuto]

Will this be updated for 0.96?

[andylizi]

Will this be updated for 0.96?

Done! Please update to the latest version

[jericho]

I might just be dumb but how do i download this mod? I've gone to the link but then i get stuck and don't know how to move from there.

[andylizi]

I might just be dumb but how do i download this mod? I've gone to the link but then i get stuck and don't know how to move from there.

Ah, sorry for the confusion! You need to click and expand "Assets", then "PlanetSearch-1.2.1.zip"