Added setting to be able to delete buildings while placing, closes #45

src/js/changelog.js

@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ export const CHANGELOG = [
             "Zoom towards mouse cursor (by Dimava)",
             "Added multiple settings to optimize the performance",
             "Updated the soundtrack again, it is now 40 minutes in total!",
+            "Added a button to the statistics dialog to disable the sorting (by squeek502)",
             "Updated and added new translations (Thanks to all contributors!)",
+            "Added setting to be able to delete buildings while placing (inspired by hexy)",
             "Allow editing waypoints (by isaisstillalive)",
             "Show confirmation when cutting area which is too expensive to get pasted again (by isaisstillalive)",
             "Show mouse and camera tile on debug overlay (F4) (by dengr)",

src/js/game/hud/parts/building_placer_logic.js

@@ -641,7 +641,10 @@ export class HUDBuildingPlacerLogic extends BaseHUDPart {
         }
 
         // Deletion
-        if (button === enumMouseButton.right && !metaBuilding) {
+        if (
+            button === enumMouseButton.right &&
+            (!metaBuilding || !this.root.app.settings.getAllSettings().clearCursorOnDeleteWhilePlacing)
+        ) {
             this.currentlyDragging = true;
             this.currentlyDeleting = true;
             this.lastDragTile = this.root.camera.screenToWorld(pos).toTileSpace();

src/js/profile/application_settings.js

@@ -243,6 +243,7 @@ export const allApplicationSettings = [
     }),
 
     new BoolSetting("alwaysMultiplace", enumCategories.advanced, (app, value) => {}),
+    new BoolSetting("clearCursorOnDeleteWhilePlacing", enumCategories.advanced, (app, value) => {}),
     new BoolSetting("enableTunnelSmartplace", enumCategories.advanced, (app, value) => {}),
     new BoolSetting("vignette", enumCategories.userInterface, (app, value) => {}),
     new BoolSetting("compactBuildingInfo", enumCategories.userInterface, (app, value) => {}),
@@ -289,6 +290,7 @@ class SettingsStorage {
         this.compactBuildingInfo = false;
         this.disableCutDeleteWarnings = false;
         this.rotationByBuilding = true;
+        this.clearCursorOnDeleteWhilePlacing = true;
 
         this.enableColorBlindHelper = false;
 
@@ -495,7 +497,7 @@ export class ApplicationSettings extends ReadWriteProxy {
     }
 
     getCurrentVersion() {
-        return 21;
+        return 22;
     }
 
     /** @param {{settings: SettingsStorage, version: number}} data */
@@ -588,6 +590,11 @@ export class ApplicationSettings extends ReadWriteProxy {
             data.version = 21;
         }
 
+        if (data.version < 22) {
+            data.settings.clearCursorOnDeleteWhilePlacing = true;
+            data.version = 22;
+        }
+
         return ExplainedResult.good();
     }
 }

translations/base-en.yaml

@@ -841,6 +841,11 @@ settings:
             description: >-
                 Disabling the tile grid can help with the performance. This also makes the game look cleaner!
 
+        clearCursorOnDeleteWhilePlacing:
+            title: Clear Cursor on Right Click
+            description: >-
+                Enabled by default, clears the cursor whenever you right click while you have a building selected for placement. If disabled, you can delete buildings by right-clicking while placing a building.
+
         lowQualityTextures:
             title: Low quality textures (Ugly)
             description: >-