Well if it is needed or not, if people like it, than Dan should implement it. I may have a rough understanding of computer programming, but I know that to do this would take him about 10 mins. So he can do this and the bigger ideas that he has.

Most likely it would be a fairly easy coding. I think a potential issue would be lag. I've explained this in a few other threads suggesting this idea. As things stand now, the server only polls your cargo for 3 items (sometimes only 2) when you click on a particular recipe. If this idea were added, it would have to poll your cargo for all items for all the recipes as soon as you open the lab. Eliminate the potential for a slow loading lab and I'll give it a +1, but until then, I have to say -1.

What about having it in a little popup when you scroll over it? kinda like how the medal requirements for the battle market items are. Could be either on the pic of the lab item, or maybe when you go over the item it self in the list. The name of the item already pops up there. You would just have to add a number to it. This way it would still only have to do two or three at a time. or even less if its just when over that one item.