Tool bar - why is it locked?

[Hade]

How do I replace items in the tool bar? Once I put something there, it's there forever. It's really annoying I can't just replace something else over it.

[Fel]

The items are not really there, they are shortcuts to items in your inventory.
You can clear them by clicking with your middle mouse button (or rebind "toggle filter").

You also have access to 10 hotbars that you can switch between (Ctrl+ 0 to 9 or clicking on the number on the left of a bar to pick which bar to replace it with) so you shouldn't have to remove filters all that often.

[Hade]

Clicking middle button does nothing.

[Warlord]

Originally posted by Hade:

Clicking middle button does nothing.

Point at the particular hotbar item you want to clear, then click the middle mouse button. If it does not work, go into controls and check what "Toggle Filter" has been changed to. Reset all controls to default, if you want to.

[Hade]

The controls are at default, never changed them.

[Fel]

Then you might not be playing on windows, I think the default for it is different in mac for example.
Just look at in the controls settings, there is even a search function to find it more easily since you have the name of the entry.

[Hade]

I'm using windows 10. I've looked thru all the settings, nothing helps.
I really don't want to be constantly looking thru my varies tools bars for what I need. It's just easier to play out of my inventory unfortunately. I have issues with the tool bar, because if you misclick then you have multiple copies of the same items everywhere that you can't clear. I'm surprised this is how it's set up.
I don't remember having this issue from when I played this game over a year ago. .

However I appreciate the responses.

[Cegorach]

From the Wiki:
https://wiki.factorio.com/Quickbar

"Adding and removing items
Clicking Left mouse button on an empty slot opens the item selection window, allowing the selection of the item to be linked in that slot.
With an item in the hand, clicking Left mouse button or Middle mouse button on an empty slot creates a link to that item.
Existing links can be removed by clicking Middle mouse button on the slot.
On macOS the default binding is instead Command + Right mouse button.
A slot must be cleared before a new item can be placed in it."



Unless you're playing with mods then I don't know

[Warlord]

Originally posted by Hade:

I'm using windows 10. I've looked thru all the settings, nothing helps.
However I appreciate the responses.

Look specifically for the keyboard binding for "Toggle Filter". Tell us what control it is set to.

You may claim to have not changed controls, but I've heard of other people in which the default controls somehow got changed anyway, preventing use of the toggle filter button. If you point at the reset controls button, it should have a way of showing which/how-many controls are not at default and will change. Worse comes to worse, click it anyway. If you are already on default, it wouldn't hurt to press it.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2511292508

[Hade]

Okay, so some experimenting told me that the game does not recognize my middle mouse button. I reset it to mouse button 4 in it worked.

Thanks everyone for talking the time to help me troubleshoot this, much appreciated.

[Biometrix]

Originally posted by Hade:

Okay, so some experimenting told me that the game does not recognize my middle mouse button. I reset it to mouse button 4 in it worked.

Thanks everyone for talking the time to help me troubleshoot this, much appreciated.

I had this same issue. I ended up setting it to Alt Left Click, but what is "Mouse Button 4?"

[Fel]

By default windows supports up to 5 button for a mouse.
Left click, right click, scroll wheel click and two extra buttons that usually are used as "previous" and "next" by most applications.
Those are mouse button 4 and 5.