The last couple of days a discussion has started about some way to easily get lists into Maptool and to acces them in a friendly way. This has boosted the discussion about 'Tables' in general in MT and before you knew it the basis was created for dynamic transferable tabels with more then one column.
What I created with help of biodude is VERY rudimentary, but at least it works AND is now available in the bottom left corner.
If you view my work as a Beetle (the car) then in analogue you could say that biodude has the plans laid out to create a Hummer en aliasmask has already constructed a Ferrari, but he still needs to check the engine.
The main purpose of this function is to
1. easily store lists/tables onto a token (so you can transfer them)
2. easily access these tables to retrieve info
3. being able to create tables with more then two columns
The retrieval is no longer limited to 'list' functionality (e.g. store 100 names, click on a button and 1 name randomly pops up).
- It has now rudimentary tools for a name generator (have a look inside)
- the ability to retrieve data from a 'normal' table, that is without an index
And I've added raodan's properties editorto the campaign file so you can actually edit tables.
How to operate
2. select the Lists:Lib token (wolf)
3. run ListBuilderFrame (red button)
4. open excel file
5. copy your data from excel
6. paste them into the textbox
7. enter title of the table
8. press save
8. depending on the size it can take a while to process...
9. a frame will pop up with a json object, which confirms that the operation was succesfull
10 click the blue button, a lists of lists is given (there are a few, very bad, examples in there) select one and clik ok will produce a random outcome.
other ways to use
Note
- if you run [Tables("weapons")], that is a table without an indexnumber and without arguments, you'll get an error
- that weapons will also appear in the 'lists' macro (blue button) and selecting it will also not work.
Stuff to do...: loads especially what biodude has in mind is beyond my capabilities and intention. But for now I'll work on this in collaboration with whomever wishes to join in.
I guess this is actually a 'drop in resource' but I have no clue how to start this topic over there...
Download v0.9
TablesPlus.cmpgn
TablesPlus.rptok
TablesPlus ExampleTable.zip