MapTool build 7 notes
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A side note on hexes. With the rewriting of the hex grid, it became trivial to add vertical hexes. In fact, the document that I was working from was vertical, and I had to translate it to horizontal.
So as soon as we work out the kinks in the horizontal, I'll drop in vertical hexes
So as soon as we work out the kinks in the horizontal, I'll drop in vertical hexes
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I have two notes on the b7 build.
#1. Can no longer switch between multiple maps. The system just shows the loading message when I try to switch maps.
#2. There is a huge cpu hit when zooming with hex maps and show grid ON. On a sq map with grid the zoom is instantaneous on my system. With hexes it is not very good. The mouse wheel zoom is way ahead of the screen display.
The properties dialog is looking sweet! Great work as usual.
-David
#1. Can no longer switch between multiple maps. The system just shows the loading message when I try to switch maps.
#2. There is a huge cpu hit when zooming with hex maps and show grid ON. On a sq map with grid the zoom is instantaneous on my system. With hexes it is not very good. The mouse wheel zoom is way ahead of the screen display.
The properties dialog is looking sweet! Great work as usual.
-David
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Thanks for the notes, I'll take a closer look. On #1 where the maps Hexes or squares ?drswoboda wrote:I have two notes on the b7 build.
#1. Can no longer switch between multiple maps. The system just shows the loading message when I try to switch maps.
#2. There is a huge cpu hit when zooming with hex maps and show grid ON. On a sq map with grid the zoom is instantaneous on my system. With hexes it is not very good. The mouse wheel zoom is way ahead of the screen display.
The properties dialog is looking sweet! Great work as usual.
-David
Dreaming of a 1.3 release
On #1, either, it makes no differance.
Example. Load an exisiting saved map. Then go Map>New Map and create a new map. Then click on icon for first map and the load message appears, but the loading is hung. UI is stil responsive and working. In fact I can create another new map. But I cannot swtich to any of the loaded maps. Must restart the program.
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Example. Load an exisiting saved map. Then go Map>New Map and create a new map. Then click on icon for first map and the load message appears, but the loading is hung. UI is stil responsive and working. In fact I can create another new map. But I cannot swtich to any of the loaded maps. Must restart the program.
-David
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Which would indicate that the renderer didn't properly handle the "I'm finished loading the image" message.Vry wrote:Have you tried left-clicking on the blank area where it says loading? That almost always causes it to go ahead and display the map for me.
Does that fix your problem ? You might also try resizing the window, that would have the same effect.
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Good info. Not sure why it would show up with this build, but I'll take a peek and get it working.drswoboda wrote:Yes, that does fix the issue. Note that I have never had to do this before so something seems to have changed in latest beta. I can't believe that I did not click in the window!! I clicked everywhere else and even loaded new maps. Sometimes the brain just lets you down.
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