MapTool ALPHA Build 102 Release Notes

Post by **trevor** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:15 pm

Now for some good fun:

Build 102 (3/30/06)
* Clean up key movement calculations
* Using the arrow keys is an implicit token pickup
* Hit numeric pad 5 or 'd' to complete the move
* Disable mouse token movement when using key movement
* Connect to server in the background
* Fix dragging from token stack panel

I need everybody to try out dragging from the token stack panel and try moving the token with the keypad (no arrow keys yet)

Note that this closes two of the big final trackers .... WOOOOOO!

NOTES:

- Dragging from the token stack panel in OSX doesn't work, I'm looking at it
- Keyboard movement should only move tokens that are on the screen but doesn't restrict this yet

RPTroll · Post by **RPTroll** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:40 am

the '5' key on my laptop didn't drop the token. Don't know why, the rest of the keys work with the 'fn' key pressed.

Stack stuff = cool. No problems after I figured out double click did the trick.

Emryys · Post by **Emryys** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:19 am

The "5" key doesn't seem to drop
Dragging works great except... ususally after I take a token out of a stack, then move via the "Num Key" commands, they don't always work and when they don't the draw tool thickness menu changes

When you double click on the stack, perhaps then you could be able just to select the token as well as be able to drag it. This way you could use the key pad movement from the stack instead of draging it out first then switching to keypad moves

Post by **trevor** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 9:35 am

Emryys wrote:The "5" key doesn't seem to drop
Dragging works great except... ususally after I take a token out of a stack, then move via the "Num Key" commands, they don't always work and when they don't the draw tool thickness menu changes

Sounds like a focus problem. Easy to fix, good catch.

Emryys wrote:When you double click on the stack, perhaps then you could be able just to select the token as well as be able to drag it. This way you could use the key pad movement from the stack instead of draging it out first then switching to keypad moves

Yeah, I had thought about that, but decided to do the build so that we could get a feel for it. It'll take a bit more work to flesh out that panel, we'll probably just release it the way it is, then fix it shortly after 1.0.

Post by **trevor** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 9:22 am

So either this release is super duper great, no one is trying it, or you guys are just being quiet

My turn to get the twitches

So, is the keyboard movement working better now ? How about the token selection cycling ?

Any thoughts on the way Connecting to Server works ?

We're almost there to 1.0 ! WOOO

RPTroll · Post by **RPTroll** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 4:38 pm

okok. Here's a few things.

q and Q to cycle through tokens is cool but if you have a token moving via keypad and q to the next, the moving token keeps moving. You have to '5' to place it before you can move the newly selected token. That my be by design but it would seem more logical to drop the current token on q.

To recreate:
Select token and begin moving with numpad.
Press q
The token selection will shift to the next token but the keypad still moves the original one.

When I q to select tokens in a stack, it shows the name but not the token. This may be by design as well but I think I would prefer to have the token that is selected appear on the top of the stack.

Double clicking on the stack brings up tokens in the stack. When I select one and drag it off, it doesn't appear until after I let go of the mouse key. At this point it follows the mouse and I have to click again to lay place it. This may be working as designed as well.

Personally, I sort of like the idea of just selecting the token from the pop up and having it appear on top of the stack to be moved or whatever. I seem to remember some folks wanted the tokens to remain as they were stacked but I don't remember the reason.