Am i mission a option somewhere....
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Am i mission a option somewhere....
First off i'm really liking the tool.. just started using it this week and my players really liked it... the set up i'm using it in as follows..
My main desktop is running the map as the server. my (windows) tablet is connected as GM and i have a all-in-one 20inch touch screen computer laying flat on the tablet running as client for the players to move around on (if anyone cares we are playing Edge of the Empire Star wars RPG)
It worked great..
I only has 1 "issue" with using the whole set up.. mainly just a minor annoyance.
Is there some way to reverse the right/left click when clicking on the back ground. By default (on the tablet/touchscreen) when you touch and drag on the background you get a selection box.. to move the map around you have to touch and hold for a bit (1-2 seconds) so the computer recognizes that you a doing a right click then you can drag the map around... The pinch to zoom works ok.. little choppy but completely reasonable
i could probably set the computer to reverse the touch but that would add TONS of other issues
any other suggestions on how to "deal" with this would be great
My main desktop is running the map as the server. my (windows) tablet is connected as GM and i have a all-in-one 20inch touch screen computer laying flat on the tablet running as client for the players to move around on (if anyone cares we are playing Edge of the Empire Star wars RPG)
It worked great..
I only has 1 "issue" with using the whole set up.. mainly just a minor annoyance.
Is there some way to reverse the right/left click when clicking on the back ground. By default (on the tablet/touchscreen) when you touch and drag on the background you get a selection box.. to move the map around you have to touch and hold for a bit (1-2 seconds) so the computer recognizes that you a doing a right click then you can drag the map around... The pinch to zoom works ok.. little choppy but completely reasonable
i could probably set the computer to reverse the touch but that would add TONS of other issues
any other suggestions on how to "deal" with this would be great
Re: Am i mission a option somewhere....
I am afraid I can't answer your question but your setup sounds really cool. Any chance of some pictures?
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I can answer your question: no there isn't.
However its a good request, I've been struggling with it in the beginning as well and there has been a discussion whether to change it or not... its basically a matter of what is done more: move the map or move the tokens. I can completely imagine that different styles of play requires different interactions. So ill drop this as a request on the forum.
edit: done: http://forums.rptools.net/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=26263
However its a good request, I've been struggling with it in the beginning as well and there has been a discussion whether to change it or not... its basically a matter of what is done more: move the map or move the tokens. I can completely imagine that different styles of play requires different interactions. So ill drop this as a request on the forum.
edit: done: http://forums.rptools.net/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=26263
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Re: Am i mission a option somewhere....
SURE! =)Jagged wrote:I am afraid I can't answer your question but your setup sounds really cool. Any chance of some pictures?
here they are.. 1st one is my POV other 2 are where my players sit
http://imgur.com/uPrVkbG
http://imgur.com/KUOpR2d
http://imgur.com/AOLRH0x
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Re: Am i mission a option somewhere....
Nifty setup!
Touch: Drag screen
Touch & Hold: Select
How do your players currently move their tokens around after selecting them?
So you want to change the default behaviour to be:xakic wrote:I only has 1 "issue" with using the whole set up.. mainly just a minor annoyance.
Is there some way to reverse the right/left click when clicking on the back ground. By default (on the tablet/touchscreen) when you touch and drag on the background you get a selection box.. to move the map around you have to touch and hold for a bit (1-2 seconds) so the computer recognizes that you a doing a right click then you can drag the map around... The pinch to zoom works ok.. little choppy but completely reasonable
Touch: Drag screen
Touch & Hold: Select
How do your players currently move their tokens around after selecting them?
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Re: Am i mission a option somewhere....
No what I was aiming for is if you touch a area that is NOT a token or something movable and drag it would move the map like right clicking does now instead of doing the area selectFull Bleed wrote:
So you want to change the default behaviour to be:
Touch: Drag screen
Touch & Hold: Select
How do your players currently move their tokens around after selecting them?
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Re: Am i mission a option somewhere....
Ok, lets spell out what you are looking for.xakic wrote:No what I was aiming for is if you touch a area that is NOT a token or something movable and drag it would move the map like right clicking does now instead of doing the area select
Currently the mouse functions like this--
Left Click: Select
Left Click and Drag (Map): Selection Box
Left Click and Drag (Token): Move Token
Right Click: Context Menu
Right Click and Drag: Move Map
It sounds like you have the following options with your touch screen--
Touch:
Touch & Drag (Map):
Touch & Drag (Token):
Touch & Hold:
Touch & Hold & Drag:
Rather then surmise what those do now, you should fill them in and then provide a description of what you want them to do.
It seems like just swapping mouse buttons won't fix your problem. It sounds like we would need to be able to set each of the 4 mouse options individually. Or, even better, have more native touchscreen support.
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Re: Am i mission a option somewhere....
Looks great!xakic wrote:SURE! =)
Re: Am i mission a option somewhere....
I created a feat request and I think its best to discuss there, but this
sounds terrible. Basically if I want to move a token I click and drag it somewhere else... this is no longer possible with the above method.Full Bleed wrote:Left Click: Select
Left Click and Drag: Selection Box
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Re: Am i mission a option somewhere....
Isn't what you've quoted how it works now?
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Yeah... I was stating current default mouse behaviour (not suggesting something new) and asking the user how his touchscreen control translates so we could see how things correlate and avoid adding something like "swap mouse buttons" and find that it fixes one thing and breaks another.Jagged wrote:Isn't what you've quoted how it works now?
Wolph is right that if you left click and hold on a token you do drag it now... but that's the same action for creating a selection box (just not clicking on a token).
Edit: I've added a third option to distinguish that there are two behaviours from Left-Click-Drag depending on whether you are on a token or the map for clarification.
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Re: Am i mission a option somewhere....
not if you click on a token. but if you don't you're right, thats how it works now. Maybe it isn't bad,but it does require good thoughtJagged wrote:Isn't what you've quoted how it works now?
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Re: Am i mission a option somewhere....
Thats why I think it would be nice if we could build some kind of framework for the controls so that people could build their own. Then you might get popular sets. Probably too much work though