ts-assert

• Forgot to mention ts-assert during the previous update
• code-generated TypeScript assertions package, used by Docs.json.ts

Production Calculator

• Using Docs.json.ts to provide the type bindings & data, made a Satisfactory Calculator tooled specifically for how I play the game.
• made available for testing
• Going to be opening up the codebases for this, so future updates won't be as big.
• Unchecked items are those that didn't get implemented at the time of writing.

Dev Blog

Production Calculator

• Using Docs.json.ts to provide the type bindings & data, made a Satisfactory Calculator tooled specifically for how I play the game.
• made available for testing
• Going to be opening up the codebases for this, so future updates won't be as big.
• Unchecked items are those that didn't get implemented at the time of writing.

Dev Blog:

General Ideas

Bugs

• Fix tab numbers so Pool 2 after reloading is displayed as Pool 1 - either that or add ability to clear id references
• Fix bug where one cannot enter a trailing zero on a decimal

Group Production Pools

Ideas / Features

• Name individual pools
• Name groups
• Shared input & flinging

May 12th, 2024 Demo Stream

Ideas / Features

• UI for applying the same recipe selection across multiple pools
• Maybe add ability to change order of AmountSplitter distribution
• Sort recipe selection dropdowns to have default recipe at the top
• Add separate scrollbars for production pool <aside> element
• consider adding ability to enter calculations into input fields & record those calculations to save file
• consider adding ability to enter recursive number sequences
• consider adding "input needed" section on production flinging config
• consider adding tree list for ingredients view

May 13th, 2024 Tester Feedback

Bugs

• Closing the load dialog soft-locks the calculator, should return to new/load screen

May 20th, 2024 Demo Stream

Bugs

• need recursive strings to be left as-entered rather than default to library equivalent
• check around if calc resolve is being executed in the wrong places
• either the ui or the calculator repo has a bug with exporting flung output configs, where recursive numbers get converted to calculations then converted again without the right operands
• double check textures are going to correct directory, icon url says IconDesc rather than possibly expected Icon/Desc
• possible bug with output flinging, setting output to zero seems to set ingredients needed to zero (flinging steel ingots at steel beams)
• parts search filtering has jank, needs debounce?
• production flinging item selection should not filter 0-amount items

Ideas / Features

• add ability to bulk change the settings for pools & groups
• add ability to delete configured outputs from pools
• very terrible idea: live editing of json document 😅
• where the state-dependent appending of pool/group id is added to the title attribute, change text contents to non-state-dependent name
• production flinging config needs to use state-dependant name
• add debounce delay on input events before running calculations
• need to add some form of indication when the calculator is busy
• maybe add ability to drag & drop pool buttons onto groups to reassign the pools
• maybe add ability to re-order pools via drag & drop
• need to display total ingredient numbers required somewhere, when ingredients are partially satisfied
• ensure calculator tests going to json from json and back to json (there should be cases where the initial input does and does not match the final output)
• see how feasible it is to shove calculations into a web worker so ui thread doesn't get blocked by calculations
• change production input dialog to default to parts
• need to add something on the calculator to be able to see ingredients when fully-satisfied as this might not reflect the input numbers
• entering calculations should save calcuations, loading calculations should retain calculations
• add sink as an output destination, display sink points somewhere
• need a total ingredients required screen
• need to add something on the pool buttons to indicate which button is the currently displayed pool
• maybe add something on the pool buttons to indicate recently-selected pools
• re: previous todo on "input needed", add indicator in dropdown
• maybe add button to rebalance input/output numbers, i.e. if changing the production requirements and the pool now has an over supply of input, auto-change the input to be reduced
• maybe move output flinging config to pool config
• add +pool button next to group config button to shortcut add new pool here, move +pool button down to unattached pools
• maybe add the ability to have collections of groups
• need the ability to use pools as redistribution centers, allowing output to be configured based on input alone, rather than production

May 21st, 2024 Development Sessions

Bugs

• bug identified with closing the production flinging dialog not closing
• fixing the production flinging dialog results in first click closing the dialog after opening
• debounce makes current pool at time of render be used as current pool for calc
• can't add world-sourced items to production/input etc.
• need to be able to add world-sourced items to production/input etc. at some point
• parts search broke
• convert calculations checkbox doesn't resolve recursives to recursive strings
• collection group buttons should show group name not pool name

Ideas / Features

• new item production flinging input does not support calc
• when input in calculation, production flinging available column should use resolved amount
• add ability to show/hide all pool buttons
• add example json documents
• make toggle setting button have visual feedback
• group pools list should have +pool button
• fix build so it doesn't leave old stuff in build directory
• switch debounce from input handler to calculator
• adding group should add pool
• remove reliance on current pool setting
• switch to tracking current pool id instead of current pool index
• remove reliance on pool element indices
• refactor data-action-with-production-pool code
• split data bundle up
• add checkbox to save dialog to control whether calculations are resolved in save file
• deduplicate FormData-related code
• rework example saves
• generally deduplicate/refactor lit-html.ts
• add copies of saves used during stream
• need to improve loading performance
• change default save to include 1 collection with 1 group and 1 pool already assigned

May 22nd-26th, 2024 Development Sessions

Bugs

• render approach in mvc branch doesn't update on config save
• case-sensitive typo in collection action detection meant collection actions wouldn't trigger
• load from json dialog got broken in shift to mvc-esque loading
• dist syncer copies data files when it should skip them
• close dialog fails if already closed & removed from dom
• accidentally made template not update
• busy cursor doesn't seem to kick in when it should
• close dialog on production flinging isn't working
• production flinging updates stopped working

Ideas / Features

• Implement MVC-esque structure to avoid cluttering up main.ts
• automatically transpose target of button-sourced events to the button rather than the contents
• avoid using while loop when getting element parent matching a selector
• pull index.html out of git since it has been performing quite well as a rollup artefact
• change build directory for cleaner development
• defer loading of saves until latest possible moment
• add progress bar to calculator header alongside status emojis
• calculator loading screen should load as soon as possible
• prebuilt the faux recipe ingredient list to defer loading of the relatively large Docs.json.ts dataset
• remove redundant features from close dialog api
• avoid recalculating unchanged pools
• shift calculator progress bar so it's always visible
• shift calculator code to async by default

May 26th, 2024 Demo Stream + Development Sessions

Bugs

• collections name does not update when editing
• unattached groups not displaying
• looks like production adding requires two clicks when search filter is applied
• possible bug in recalculation code, adding outputs & closing dialog did not trigger ingredients row in other pool to be hidden
• switching to a class-based search filter instead of a dom-based search filter alleviates the double-click issue somewhat, but doesn't totally resolve it
• save files don't seem to be copying over to dist directory

Ideas / Features

• maybe add force full recalculation button
• make sure there is a +group button next to collection config button
• ensure new groups/collections get a pool when added
• ensure configure collection / configure group buttons are visible when not in full pool display mode
• add a Pool-esque type for warehousing that lets you define storage containers and what goes in them
• ability to configure textures associated with collections/groups/pools in a similar fashion to how one can configure signs in-game
• need to show current group pool buttons below collection group pool buttons
• change collection group pool buttons to use group name
• maybe consider a explorer-esque tree view for collections & pools in a sidebar
• maybe add hints for belt speeds needed for different outputs
• don't need to copy css over any more
• reduce length of data url hashes

May 27th-28th, 2024 Demo Stream + Development Sessions

Bugs / Issues

• web worker experiment seemed to not pass json values around as expected.
• images getting re-rendered in DOM during calculation
• no scrollbars in calculation area
• save file loading on slow connection gives no indication the save file is loading
• names.json/images.json are re-downloaded
• add pool to group doesn't trigger switch-to-pool
• loading new save doesn't load specified pool
• fling output config sets input config
• recalcualte all seems to leave busy status turned on
• modals no longer opening as modal, just as normal dialogs
• recalculate pool seems to take two clicks?
• current deferred rendering approach results in lag for render updates on larger pools
• production flinging dialog not opening as promptly as expected

Ideas / Features

• async load images
• need to be able to better highlight which pools are part of a group/collection
• need to add a toggle to include the id as part of the pool name, or at least add a method to reduce the scope of the state-dependendant check to the current group/pool
• Pool config dialog should say name of pool, so when clicking cog icon amongst several unnamed pools, you can be sure which pool you clicked on
• switching pools can get laggy, switch to dom/css-based approach rather than relying on lit-html render loop
• maybe look into doing a save/auto-load feature, would probably need to persist pool history
• change recalcualte single pool to behave more like calculator.recalculate_all() (re: recalculate_afterwards set)
• consider adding a changed/unchanged flag to pools such that calculator.recalcualte_all() without a force calculation parameter will do nothing
• maybe async load the save json into the save dialog such that the slight delay in the popup rendering goes away
• allow next render to be lazy rather than next frame
• image placeholder should reserve space to avoid repositioning surrounding text once images load
• let images get displayed if images data arrives before names
• set calculator view to start loading on landing page without interefering with rendering of landing page
• put a copy of the current pool's optgroup at the top of the pool config dropdowns to make it easier to assign production to another pool in the same group.
• make the fling production recalculation pass happen on next render not current render
• add a ℹ️ button on groups & collections to get an overview of the state of production at the group/collection level (in addition but seperate to plans to add overall production view)
• maybe add a prebuilt lunr index for handling item search
• maybe add code to detect production isolation boundaries such that a method can return one or more pools, one or more groups, one or more collections, etc. and have those isolated pools recalculated rather than recalculating everything
• add button on landing page to load save file into load textarea to allow for save files to be edited before loading

May 29th, 2024 Development Sessions

Bugs

• soft-locking the landing page came back

Ideas / Features

• add an IsolationBoundary class to avoid redundant calls to boundary functions
• consider adding a forward-only mode for IsolationBoundaries (if pool A feeds into pool B, and pool C pools into pool B, pool C does not need to be in the isolation boundary for pool A)
• shift raf/ric to promise resolvers so the execution time of the deferred code doesn't get reported as being poopy
• 'eventually' mode for deferred rendering should not re-request rendering if a request is already entered
• should really add a feedback element to indicate what the progress bar is for
• calculator header needs some padding to avoid calculator scrolling content disappearing right into it
• maybe consider node graph-based approach for calculating isolation boundaries

May 30th, 2024 Development Sessions

Bugs

• Issue identified with State.pools_impacting_pool() returning irrelevant pools

Ideas / Features

• Split css up so we don't have a landing page with css on that's not going to be used for an indefinite period of time

May 31st, 2024 Demo Stream / Development Sessions

Bugs / Issues

• seem to have broken changed property, isolation boundaries seem to have replaced this feature property though.
• forgot to keep on top of tests 😅
• loading json doesn't load calculator css
• Pool name not on config dialog, was only added to fling production dialog
• ingredients list doesn't get displayed when it should, may have been overzealous with removal of post-change recalculation, may need to add changed getter back but in a simpler fashion

Ideas / Features

• Reduce size of active DOM by hiding contents of pools not currently being displayed
• need to have some sort of consistent sort order for the reports
• add a toggle setting for controling whether the sidebar tree auto closes/expands items as-needed (maybe even scroll to current pool on pool switch / history change)
• look into adding either to the calculator or a separate page/view/etc. a power generation calulcator that says how much of a given fuel / water etc. a facility will need, how much power is required to power it, and possibly make recommendations for the number of machines to isolate from the grid. also taking into account per-machine overclocking (maybe).