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Hello all,
I have a couple of questions:
1) Is there a Player Viewer app that someone has made? So instead of everyone having to have full blown MapTool installed and set up, they would just launch the viewer, enter the ip information for their GM, and then they're set. No need for all the windows and menus.

2) Using macros, is it possible to pull values from a REST service? I have my own die rolling/ card dealing service that I have created and would like to use in place of the engine provided.

Thanks!

No and no. Someone made an iPad "client", but I have seen mixed reviews. Both options would require new coding work, with the latter probably being the easier IF you wanted to bypas ALL of the existing macro/text processing.

Heh. The "windows and menus" are not the problem! The problem is the movement, token selection, and macro execution. Those are the things that require enough of MapTool to be present that it's not practical to create a separate tool.

Of course, if someone wants to tackle it and create some kind of "viewer" that doesn't require all of MT to work, I'd be keen on hearing about it.


No. There is no access to the local filesystem or network resources from inside MT. The closest you can get is an HTML anchor element that triggers a separate browser window to open. (We don't want MT to become a potential DoS platform.)