Investigate adding Icon Badges support

[KiwiHawk]

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/icon-badges

Designed to make icons and recipes easier to distinguish for those with various forms of color blindness.

[simonakosrobert]

Found a way to use the Icon badge mod

I've added this part to the data-updates.lua file:

if mods["icon-badges"] then

  local badge_list = require("badge_list")
  if Ib_global and Ib_global.perform_default_badging then
    if not Ib_global.downstream_mod_active or (Ib_global.downstream_mod_active and Ib_global.activation) then
      if pcall(Process_badge_list, badge_list) then
      else
        log("Icon badge error: Something is wrong with the Icon badge mod!")
      end
    end
  end
end

And here is a test badge_list.lua file in the same folder as the data-updates.lua:

local badge_list = {}

badge_list["item"] = {
  ["bob-basic-transport-belt"]                     = {ib_let_badge = "0",   ib_cluster = "belts", },
  ["bob-turbo-transport-belt"]                     = {ib_let_badge = "4",   ib_cluster = "belts", },
  ["bob-ultimate-transport-belt"]                     = {ib_let_badge = "5",   ib_cluster = "belts", }

}

-- Fluid
badge_list["fluid"] = {
  ["bob-hydrogen"]                                    = {ib_let_badge = "H",   ib_cluster = "fluids", },
  ["bob-oxygen"]                                      = {ib_let_badge = "O",   ib_cluster = "fluids", },
  ["bob-chlorine"]                                    = {ib_let_badge = "Cl",  ib_cluster = "fluids", },
  ["bob-nitrogen"]                                    = {ib_let_badge = "N",   ib_cluster = "fluids", },
  ["bob-hydrogen-chloride"]                           = {ib_let_badge = "NCl", ib_cluster = "fluids", },
  ["bob-heavy-water"]                                 = {ib_let_badge = "HW",  ib_cluster = "fluids", },
  ["bob-ammonia"]                                     = {ib_let_badge = "Am",  ib_cluster = "fluids", }
}

-- Recipe
badge_list["recipe"] = {
  
  ["bob-hydrogen-chloride"]                           = {ib_let_badge = "NCl", ib_cluster = "fluids", },
  ["bob-heavy-water"]                                 = {ib_let_badge = "HW",  ib_cluster = "fluids", },
  ["bob-ammonia"]                                     = {ib_let_badge = "Am",  ib_cluster = "fluids", },
  ["bob-hydrogen"]                                    = {ib_let_badge = "H",   ib_cluster = "fluids", },
  ["bob-oxygen"]                                      = {ib_let_badge = "O",   ib_cluster = "fluids", },
  ["bob-nitrogen"]                                    = {ib_let_badge = "N",   ib_cluster = "fluids", }
}

return badge_list

and also added icon-badges as optional to the info.json file.