MapTool 1.3 Development Build 63

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Re: MapTool 1.3 Development Build 63

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Azhrei wrote: It probably won't happen for b64, but I plan to move the translations out of the main JAR file and into a directory; that would allow updates without requiring a new build. As it is, if an update occurs to the English file, the translations will always be one step behind because they won't find out about the change until after the build is released. :( Separating them would let them update in parallel.
That would be very cool. If we could tweak the file for testing without new builds this way ...
Because, at least in french, we had issues with non doubled single quotes etc.
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Re: MapTool 1.3 Development Build 63

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It's a little after midnight and I'm still testing some things, so no build tonight. I'm going to shoot for tomorrow night now. :(

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Good to hear; I think that having a new build out will do the community some good. We're so close to having a 1.3 final. :)
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Re: MapTool 1.3 Development Build 63

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1.3 final will be especially nice as a plateau that is always consistent for people being brought into the world of maptool. So if you make a tutorial or something you know that the interface in your tutorial video will match what the users are looking at exactly. I think the focus will naturally shift from coding (which I don't do at all) to content (which I'm interested in doing).

Here's hoping b64 is stable/final!

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Re: MapTool 1.3 Development Build 63

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Azhrei wrote:It's a little after midnight and I'm still testing some things, so no build tonight. I'm going to shoot for tomorrow night now. :(
and.... :?:

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Re: MapTool 1.3 Development Build 63

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I've checked in my updates. So everyone that has the source checked out, please do an update and try out the resulting MT.

Things to look at in particular were listed above in a previous post, but here's a recap: macros that use Wiki: getPropertyNames() should be tested (I added a new macro, getPropertyNamesRaw but modified some shared code, so testing would be good), saving RPToks and loading them back into an older MT (since the assets will now be in binary), Test Connection now disables the UI while it's running, and the chat window should do a better job finding/creating links out of URLs.

Things that might break stuff: campaign properties now disallow names that differ only in case (so a property "ac" would generate an error when clicking Update if another property named "AC" was in the property list), and lots of cleanup to parameter checking in macros related to token properties (functions such as Wiki: getProperty() and similar). These changes are supposed to make it much easier to figure out why a macro doesn't work by providing better and more error messages (there's now three different error messages: not enough params, too many params, and wrong number of params).

Things to see if you like/dislike include the tooltips for all items on the Preferences dialog, and the new wording for "Auto-expose fog" (instead of "autoshow").

The items below are still on my hit list. I'd like to get them into SVN so that people can test them and if they seem to be working, then I'll do a b64. If it looks like I won't have time and the community tests of 5254 look good, I'll do b64 and plan on a b65 when I get these last few added.
  1. Figure out why single vs. double quotes matter when using <img src='asset://...'> inside a button label; see http://forums.rptools.net/viewtopic.php ... 30#p149609
  2. Add chat autosave support to MapTool
  3. Allow language translations to be external from the MapTool JAR file
  4. Save the view coordinates of each map so returning to a map restores those view settings.
  5. Add support for a set of global stylesheets?
I want those first two in particular (a bug fix and the chat autosave). I think bug fixes should have priority, followed by functionality that's already in the UI!

The last three would be "nice to have" features that I will add, but they're not critical. It's a bummer about how translation updates happen now though, so I'm going to look at how the ResourceBundles are defined. If I can add .maptool/language (or similar) to the search path easily, then I want to get that in there sooner instead of later.

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Re: MapTool 1.3 Development Build 63

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thnx for the update! Its amazing how you managed to answer my question 5 hours earlier than I actually asked it... :shock: (look at the post time)

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Re: MapTool 1.3 Development Build 63

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wolph42 wrote:thnx for the update! Its amazing how you managed to answer my question 5 hours earlier than I actually asked it... :shock: (look at the post time)
I think u need to double check ur definitions of am/pm lol

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Re: MapTool 1.3 Development Build 63

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aku wrote:
wolph42 wrote:thnx for the update! Its amazing how you managed to answer my question 5 hours earlier than I actually asked it... :shock: (look at the post time)
I think u need to double check ur definitions of am/pm lol
?? it might be that you see another time code but what I see is:

Post by wolph42 » Mon Apr 19, 2010 11:02 pm
Post by Azhrei » Mon Apr 19, 2010 7:03 pm

they're both pm... and as far as I know 7 < 11.

and yes its 4 hours not 5.

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wolph42 wrote: and as far as I know 7 < 11.
LOL
It depends on your Frame of reference. :P
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Re: MapTool 1.3 Development Build 63

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well, for me it's
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Re: MapTool 1.3 Development Build 63

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Azhrei: just checked out the latest source, and I get an problem report that keySetRaw() is undefined for the CaseInsensitiveHashmapObject.

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Re: MapTool 1.3 Development Build 63

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Azh, here are a bunch of images that I've made over the last couple years that you can put in as default images. Pick whatever ones you think would be a good addition to MT.

http://rapidshare.com/files/378140409/J ... s.zip.html
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Re: MapTool 1.3 Development Build 63

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Rumble wrote:Azhrei: just checked out the latest source, and I get an problem report that keySetRaw() is undefined for the CaseInsensitiveHashmapObject.
Yep. :( I added that method to CIHM and didn't do a Commit on my parser project. It's been committed now.

I guess that's a downside of checking out each piece as a separate project... I'll have to think about that.

@Jector: Thanks. I've grabbed them and I'll go through and create an art pack for them. Eventually. Prior to the next build, at least. ;)

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Re: MapTool 1.3 Development Build 63

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I got an email from Trevor the other night. He wants 1.3 out the door *now*. I was really hoping to get some feedback on the SVN code base, but I'm going to do a build right now. I'm not sure about some of the details (like whether I can sign the JAR files) so there might be a delay or two, but I've got some time while I wait for a Linux kernel build...

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