Submitting first version of Enlinker to try to get feedback

[UnknowableCoder]

After a few weeks of posting mostly idiotic questions out on the DFHack Discord, I finally managed to implement what I had long since wanted in DF: an alternative logic system that allows the user to set a threshold (and optional delay) for building activation and de-activation, providing endless new exciting possibilities for dwarfputing in general, on one hand, but also massively simplifying relatively simple things such as e. g. opening and closing a fortress "door" made of both bridges and floodgates through a single lever. Given my chronic lack of inspiration for good names, I call this Enlinker, but I'm sure we could figure out something better...

Along the way, I decided it would be a good idea to store this information such that it would also work in Adventure Mode, so one could build e. g. a trap-filled maze for others to explore or an alternative entrance to a fortress that an adventurer could also use. This led me to develop some sort of system (still mostly experimental) that could load and save information based on the site-id, as suggested by the helpful folks over on the Discord.

The bulk of the logic is implemented in a C++ plugin that I will be also submitting to consideration through the main DFHack repo, but here I present the Lua code that implements the GUI that allows for user interaction.

Examples in Fortress Mode:

Building whose state is not managed by Enlinker:

Building whose state is managed by Enlinker:

Setting the building's state to depend on itself (this is bound to be useful at some point...):

Seeing a list of currently linked-to buildings and their weight in the input count:

Example in Adventure Mode:

Alternative view (all functionalities of Fortress Mode except adding new links - current links can be re-weighted, but no new buildings selected).

[myk002]

putting on hold until we can discuss a bit more on the plugin

[myk002]

closing due to lack of docs; please reopen if you have time to finish this project