EDMC_ConstructionHelper

A plugin for the Elite: Dangerous Market Connector (aka EDMC) to help you keep track of the goods required for colonization construction projects.

Installation

Download the .zip file an unpack it into the plugins/ directory of EDMC, which is shown in the Plugins tab of the Settings window of EDMC

See also the relevant page on the EDMC Wiki

Usage

When EDMC is started with the ConstructionHelper running, then there will be a space on the main EDMC window with a listbox on top and a button to open or close the overlay window on the bottom.

Once you docked at one or more active construction sites then the listbox will contain names of all known construction sites and the space between the listbox and the overlay window button will contain a list of all the goods that you need to finish the selected construction site(s).

Multiple Construction Sites

Once you have docked at a construction site that you haven't visited previously and wasn't know to the plugin then a name for this site (the plugin will try to come up with something short and useful) is added to the listbox and the needed goods will be displayed by selecting that new entry in the listbox.

If you have visited more than one construction site then you can select multiple sites in the listbox. If you do so then the list of needed goods will be the sum of the goods needed for all selected sites.

If you select no site then the list of needed goods will be empty.
If you visit a new construction site then the selection will be reset to only this new site as mentioned earlier.

Overlay Window

The overlay button will open (or close) an overlay window that contains the same list of needed goods as the main window. It is a simple borderless window that tries to stay above all other windows, in particular the ED game window. If it will be visible for you will depend on your setup. It does work for me on my Linux system and it seems to work on a typical windows system if ED is not running in fullscreen mode but e.g. in borderless mode. By default the overlay window will be in the top left corner of your (primary) screen but that can be changed.
Note: if you can't see the overlay window, check if there is a list of goods displayed in the main EDMC window. If there isn't then the overlay window is a small, easy to miss dark rectangle in the corner of your screen. (And it may be fully transparent, making it impossible to see.)

Customization

Until I get around to writing a preferences gui you can customize things like the position of the overlay window, the font size and color in there, etc. by opening the file EDMC_ConstructionHelper.py and changing the values for the settings in the upper part of the file.

Technical Stuff

This plugin is based on the ColonisationConstructionDepot logfile event that FDev introduced with the "Corsair" update on Tuesday April 8th 2025. It identifies construction sites by the fact that it sees such an event from there and then tries to come up with a suitable name for the station with the same MarketID.

Licence

This software is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

Greetings, CMDR Hans Wijn

ToDo

• find and fix bugs
• preferences gui
• remove construction sites finished by someone else
• display current ship cargo
• sort goods by category
• double click action: remove / rename
• option to use the EDMC Overlay plugin instead of the TK window
• remember construction sites between EDMC sessions
• allow user to change site names