Bug/unintended side effect in VASSAL 3.7

Technical Support & Bugs
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This is more of an unintended side effect of a new feature, rather than an actual bug, but, when playing Terraforming Mars with a friend today in 3.7 for the first time, we noticed there was a button appearing on the toolbar that used to be hidden in a menu.
It turns out the problem was the button had the simple label +1, and VASSAL 3.7 was automatically converting that to just 1 (thanks to the new processing of button labels), and so not matching the button label for the menu. I was able to fix it by changing the button label to {"+1"}.

I’m not sure if this is worth trying to fix, but I thought I should mention it. I’ll be posting an updated version of Terraforming Mars shortly that fixes this minor error (along with a few others).

Edit: we were actually using VASSAL v3.7.1.

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I’m not sure there’s anything to fix. You’re wanting +1 to be a string, not a numeric value, right? So the label ought to be a string, which means it needs quotes around it.

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My point was, it’s an unwanted change in behavior from VASSAL 3.6 and before, and therefore there might be more complaints about it. As I said, I’ve already fixed it for Terraforming Mars.