[Mod] Improved chests [improved_chests]

[Daïmanu]

This mod adds new chests with a few more features:

• Take all blocks from the chest
• Put all my blocks in the chest
• Swap my inventory with the chest's one
• Sort the chest inventory, according to nodes full name (eg. default:dirt) or short name (without mod) (eg. dirt)
• Set the name of the chest

+ Screenshots

Note the text on the left

+ Todo

• Enable locked chest
• Replace default chests
• Allow differents size for inventories (some mods use 9x4 inventories)

Licence of code and medias: WTFPL

Download: https://github.com/Daimanu06/improved_chests/archive/master.zip
Browse the code: https://github.com/Daimanu06/improved_chests

+ Changelog

• v0.1 (2014/09/29) Initial release

This is my first mod, so don't hesitate to comment it and to suggest improvements !

[Sokomine]

This mod adds new chests with a few more features:
Take all blocks from the chest
Put all my blocks in the chest
Swap my inventory with the chest's one
Sort the chest inventory, according to nodes full name (eg. default:dirt) or short name (without mod) (eg. dirt)
Set the name of the chest

My chesttools mod does the same regarding the first three parts - but behaves diffrently in the other ones. You've made very nice textures for the buttons. And don't get worried about there beeing a similar mod out there - happened to my first mod as well :-) And they're all slightly diffrent approaches anyway.

This is my first mod, so don't hesitate to comment it and to suggest improvements !

It's a pretty good start for a first mod if it does what the description says! Unfortunately, I wasn't able to check. And there's the first request for improvement: Please supply the mod in something like .zip format. You can also attach the mod directly to your forum post. In the long run, hosting mods on Github is also recommended (especially when they tend to get more mods :-))

[Zeno]

Github is also recommended (especially when they tend to get more mods :-))

I sort of take it to an extreme: I won't use a mod if it's not on github (or something similar that supports git of course). I don't do this for any moral or ethical reason but mainly because I don't want to have to constantly check a whole heap of different sources for updates. Even if I'm forking I tend to ignore mods without git support. It's probably a laziness issue on my part.

[Daïmanu]

As requested, the code is now on a git repository.

Thank you for your comments :)

[jp]

IMO, the arrows and the 'A-Z' in the formspec buttons needs to be re-worked. They're too weirdly big. You should do it smaller and not expanded on all the height / width.

Good work anyway, thanks for the share ;)