Hi Don, Excellent Questions. Have you tried these and are asking for enhancements, or are you asking if anyone else has tried? Why not try and see and let us know?
>Can the Send to Location be made to accept Dynamic >properties to specify maps, boards, and xy positions? > Don't know about the others, but this particular one came up for me the other day in a module I was working on. I wanted a 'Send To Location' that would send each counter to a slightly different location so that the counters would be layed out next to each other at the destination, rather than in a stack. The answer is no, standard vassal does not support this. I wrote a special mod to 'Send to Location' to do just what my module needed. I was just in the process of deciding how to make this generic for general use. Note, that this discussion also applies to the 'Moved Fixed Distance' trait. At a minimum, just allowing $property$ as an option in the destination x & y coords will do most of what is needed. In my case, what I wanted was to lay out the pieces neatly, so I justed added a marker calked 'Index' with values of 1,2,3,4,5 etc. to each piece and implemented a Send To Location that effectively did this: X position: 30 offset by: $Index$ times: 47 Y position: 50 offset by: 0 times: 0 i.e. my counters are spaced out neatly at 4 pixel intervals. I could easily change the spacing to test how it looked. All 6 numbers could be $property$ values. Making the Map and Board names variable will need a change to make the map and board fields manually updateable. Will anyone actually want this feature? Possibility of typing mistakes, but no real problem. If the name map or board does not exist, or the X or Y position is not numeric, then then command just quietly fails and does nothing. The 'Select' and 'Clear' buttons would remain. The only argument I can think of against adding these features is added complexity So, the big question, what to people want: Send to Location ---------------- 1. Ability to have property names in the X & Y coords. 2. Option to have an additional 'Offset By x times y' option for x & y co-ords' 3. Option for Map and Board to use $propertyName$ values. 4. All of the above. Move Fixed Distance ------------------- 1. Ability to have property names in the X & Y coords. 2. Option to have an additional 'Offset By x times y' option for x & y co-ords' 3. The whole kit & caboodle This question begs the additional question - What other values specified in unit traits and game componens could logically benefit from allowing $propertyName$ values to be specified? Cheers, Brent. >*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > >On 21/07/2006 at 7:13 PM Don Holt wrote: >Can the Restrict Access piece trait accept a dynamic >property as the side to which it belongs? > >Can Send to Location be used to send a piece to a >deck? > >--- Brent Easton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Click on GameModule, then import and import the >> class >> >> VASSAL.build.module.PlayerRoster >> >> and that should do it. >> >> Cheers, >> Brent. >> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** >> >> On 21/07/2006 at 9:07 PM Stan Hilinski wrote: >> While editing a module, I deleted the "definition of >> player sides" >> line. Now I need it back, and I can't figure out how >> to do it. It is >> not in the right-click menu, and it does not >> automatically reappear >> when I start the editor. Any ideas how I can restore >> it? >> >> Stan >> >> >> >> >__________________________________________________________ >> Brent Easton >> Analyst/Programmer >> University of Western Sydney >> >> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been >> removed] >> >> > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com > > ____________________________________________________________ Brent Easton Analyst/Programmer University of Western Sydney Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vassalengine/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
