OLD Wolph42's 'Drop-in' Bag of MT Tricks OLD

[jfrazierjr]

[wolph42]

I noticed that the attached file is heavily outdated. Updated the OP with the latest .cmpgn file. I'll have a look if I can make this more of a drop-in later.

Edit: updated OP completely with instructions. You can now see it as an 'advanced' drop in.

[mfrizzell]

Wolph42 absolutely love the potential of this but I'm having a bit of trouble getting it going. I've downloaded the OP stuff and printed the setup instructions. To keep things simple I have a basic campaign with only one map called Grasslands. Set the campaign properties, adjusted the teleportsGrasslands macro to indicate just one numpad and 0 interpads.

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h:'<!--UPDATE THESE NUMBERS IF YOU ADD MORE TELEPORTS-->']
[h: numPads = 1]
[h: numInterPads = 0]
[h:'<!------------------------------------------------------------------------->']

Saved the campaign and reloaded it but I get an error everytime I move a PC and the pads don't teleport. I've obviously missed something but I really don't understand your code so I've got no clue what it might be. Here is the error I receive when a PC token is moved.

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Error running onTokenMove on lib:OnTokenMove : Error executing movedOverToken: the token name or id {1} is unknown.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[wolph42]

Can you upload your campaign? Also which mt verwoon are u using?

[mfrizzell]

I was trying it out using B77 and here is a link to the file as it may be to big to attach here.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8899011/Basic%2 ... 0B77.cmpgn

I appreciate you looking at this.

Edit: I also loaded your example campaign as would be expected the teleports work. I tried adding a new map and could not get teleports to work on the new map.
I copied a pair of Pads to the new map. They were set 1.
I duplicated on of the Map related macros. I renamed it to teleportsKeep.
I updated the code on this macro to numpads 1 and left interpads alone at 1.
I updated the onTokenMoveHandler case statement adding this line-

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case "Keep": teleportsKeep(selectedTokens);

And now any PC token moved on the new map causing the same error I experienced on my own campaign.

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Error running onTokenMove on lib:OnTokenMove : Error executing movedOverToken: the token name or id {1} is unknown.

[wolph42]

Ok I checked the campaign file and noticed 2 things:
1. my bad, there is also code in there for move prevention (when moving over a 'troll-defender') as this tokens wasn't there it generates errors. I removed this part of the code and uploaded a new rptok file.
2. I don't see any teleport pads in your campaign file. Without these it obviously won't work. As explained ANY token in ANY layer can operate as a teleporter as long as its name and properties are set correctly.
If you need additional help with the latter, let me know.

Good luck!

[mfrizzell]

Ahh, I used tokens that looked like star bursts for my teleport pads. Nothing like trying to confuse the guy trying to help me.

OK, So I added tour new token and it works on both the map added to your campaign file and my file, but if I move a token and it ends its movement on a square other than a teleport pad it generates that same error.

I've changed the teleport pads to something you recognize and updated the link with the new Campaign file.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8899011/Basic%2 ... 0B77.cmpgn

Thanx

[wolph42]

you have set (or left) numInterPads=1 while there are no interpad tokens on the map.

edit: which means ontokenmove will look for interpad1, but can't find it (thus id is set to '1') generating an error EVERY time you move.
I could build in checks for this, but that means decreasing speed. I've tried to keep it as lean an mean as possible. (by leaving in redundant code in v8.... )

[mfrizzell]

ahh, that did it. Thank you very much.

[jfrazierjr]

I still think there might be a better way by storing the information on lib tokens to make this easier to configure.....

[mfrizzell]

Just one more issue. When I place an interpad on my new map, I set the number of interpads on the new map to 1 and on grasslands to 2.
So I have 2 interpads on grasslands 1 and 2 and it is set for 2 in the macro.
The plains still has 1 and is set for 1.
The new map has 1 interpad and is set for 1 in the macro.

Movement on the new map produces that same error. Did I miss or not set a setting correctly?

Edit: It does work. It teleports the token from grasslands to the new map it's just movement that does not end in the teleport pads causes the error.

[wolph42]

I still think there might be a better way by storing the information on lib tokens to make this easier to configure.....

im uncertain there is a 'better' way (unless you dive into the java code), but surely there is a 'different' way, which is easier for some and more troublesome for others...

The main disadvantage of this (my) method is that its quite troublesome to set it up
The main advantage is that once you have set it up, its easy to expand.

I could think of some code to generate macros for the new maps which would make this a lot easier, but then again that's really not my area of expertise.
E.g. some macro: setup_teleport_map: which pops up an input screen where you enter mapname, name of start and end teleport token or some coordinates of an area. And then the macro would adjust or create the handler macros.

But again, not my area of expertise.

[mfrizzell]

Ninja'ed. Could you look at my last post please.
Thank you.

[wolph42]

Ninja'ed. Could you look at my last post please.
Thank you.

i missed that one indeed!
erm can you once again post the campaign file again. Im now pretty certain that that error is generated when ontokenmove looks for a token that does not exist... have you changed the 'switch' in the ontokenmove handler as well (point 6 in the manual)?

[mfrizzell]

Ninja'ed. Could you look at my last post please.
Thank you.

i missed that one indeed!
erm can you once again post the campaign file again. Im now pretty certain that that error is generated when ontokenmove looks for a token that does not exist... have you changed the 'switch' in the ontokenmove handler as well (point 6 in the manual)?

I did for the new map yes. If there is a second instance for interpads then no.

Here is the files and thanks.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8899011/Telepor ... file.cmpgn