Major update

Post by **Jerome** » 22 Aug 2007, 20:30

Today's update gives you these features :

Different - and supposedly better - user interface for playing cards. To examine the content of a card pile, it is not enough anymore to move your mouse cursor over the pile: you must now also keep the CTRL key down. Move an entire pile by pointing the card at the bottom of the pile and dragging it.
A new icon in the stack inspector allows you to invert the order of the cards in a pile. That is useful to change a discard pile into a draw pile by flipping all the cards and inverting their order. It can also be used to add a card to the bottom of a pile: invert the pile, add the card, invert again.
Stacking can get in the way for some game boxes, so I've added a new icon to enable or disable stacking. The setting is applied to all players.

AlMightyBob · Post by **AlMightyBob** » 23 Aug 2007, 17:27

Great update, thanks.

The new user interface for the cards is definitely an improvement.

Redcap · Post by **Redcap** » 25 Aug 2007, 04:11

Very very cool update, any word on the customizable dice?

letsgored · Post by **letsgored** » 28 Aug 2007, 15:56

Jerome, this is a very good update, thanks.

Do you think in the near future you could extend the CTRL key function to a player's hand? Have it where if I'm holding the CTRL key while I use the flip card/tile mouse click on a card/tile in my hand, every card/tile flips and if I'm holding the CTRL key while I drag a card/tile from my hand to the table, all card/tiles are dragged out to the table in a stack. I think that function would allow for correct play of the game box I'm working on now. Thanks.

Jason

joseph · Post by **joseph** » 30 Aug 2007, 22:53

good work!
I have a question:
Should I add a map tab without image but only text in next release?

Joe

Post by **Jerome** » 31 Aug 2007, 11:59

letsgored wrote:Do you think in the near future you could extend the CTRL key function to a player's hand? Have it where if I'm holding the CTRL key while I use the flip card/tile mouse click on a card/tile in my hand, every card/tile flips and if I'm holding the CTRL key while I drag a card/tile from my hand to the table, all card/tiles are dragged out to the table in a stack.

Hi letsgored!
It can't work as you describe. A hand can contain a mix of counters and cards, and counters and cards can't be stacked together.
However, as you pointed at, there's a need for grouped moves, especially for the miniature gaming community. So I will try to think of a single mechanism that could satisfy all the requirements. I will probably use the SHIFT key for that.

Post by **Jerome** » 31 Aug 2007, 12:06

joseph wrote:Should I add a map tab without image but only text in next release?

Hi Joseph!
I'm not sure to understand. Are you looking for a way to display a page of text?
Currently you can do that by providing the page as an image file.