Feature Request: Macro Buttons

rkathey · Post by **rkathey** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:48 am

The bar at the top of the chat window (where the chat pin check box is) looks large enough to handle a row of buttons. Might be a nice place to put buttons that are assignable to user macros.

Assignable buttons could also go in a collapsible panel like Connections, Image Explorer, and Tokens.

Post by **trevor** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:30 am

Tracker created.

The real question is whether the macro buttons would be useful when the chat panel is not visible.

rkathey · Post by **rkathey** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:55 pm

I was wondering that as well. I guess it comes down to whether or not macros will affect tokens, connections, and map data without involving the chat window.

Post by **trevor** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:20 pm

Which, once the javascript macro is built, will be a very distinct possibility.

Perhaps when the chat window is open it will be in the top part, and when it's closed buttons with assigned macros will show up in the bottom part of the map. Configurably visible as well.

rkathey · Post by **rkathey** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 7:16 pm

A better place for it might be under the connections window in stead of in the chat window.

Emryys · Post by **Emryys** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:34 pm

In Gametable, they made the side info area (token/image/who's online) into a tabbed area...

Maybe a long slender tabbed area at the bottom that includes the chat, that is a tab that switches to the chat tab or the tab "lights up" upon reciept of text, etc. and is configurable/expandable.

It might use space more efficiently

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:21 am

Buttons for dicerolling are very requested.

Maptool is the best tool for internet role-playing, but there are a weakness - buttonless.

Please, do it quickly.

Please, don't forget about FUDGE players (we need 4dF roll - range from -4 to +4).

Good luck.

Post by **giliath** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:25 am

Anonymous wrote:Please, don't forget about FUDGE players (we need 4dF roll - range from -4 to +4).

I have never played FUDGE, could you provide a little more detail? Right now DiceTool is capable of having user defined functions written in javascript and anything we add to MapTool will be able to do the same thing. This might be a candidate for that? fudge(4) instead of 4DF?

Post by **trevor** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:20 am

You're in luck ! Macro buttons are are the plate for the release just after 1.0

As a side note, you can do a /roll 1d9-5 to get a range -4 to +4 in the mean time.

brisingre · Post by **brisingre** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:05 am

or 4d3-8 to be more like fudges. Probabilty is the same that way. a fudge is d3-2, so 4(d3-2) or 4d3-8 is 4 fudges

Emryys · Post by **Emryys** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:10 pm

giliath wrote:I have never played FUDGE, could you provide a little more detail?

"The standard technique is to roll 4 "Fudge" dice at once, abbreviated as "4dF". Fudge dice are 6-sided dice with "+" on two faces, "-" on two faces, and with two faces blank"

The Fudge Guide

Fudge Dice Ideas

Fudge Dice Charts

If you need more info, just let me know...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:16 am

Thanks.

I'll be waiting for buttons

brisingre · Post by **brisingre** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:44 pm

mathematically equivalent to 1d3-2. For what it's worth.