Card Triggering Another Card for No Reason

Technical Support & Bugs
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I have found what appears to be a major glitch as I have no other explaination for what’s happening. I’ve gone through and rebuilt all the controls, decks, etc. for 2 days with exactly the same results.

I’m using Vassal 3.2.12 but I did test it in 3.2.13_svn9135 with the same result.

Here’s how to repeat the problem with screen shots. Here’s a link to download the module.

http://www.drnostromo.com/misc/TBK_CCG_V3.vmod

  1. Open the module. When asked for a user name, just hit “Cancel” to bring up the main controls.

  2. Start new game and pick the “Bear” player side.

  3. Open the Card Table. Click the “Setup” button near the top of the card table. This randomized some cards and decks. That’s working fine.

  4. The shield for the “Bear” clan is in the upper right part of the card table. The Bear player clicks this shield to get a choice of races represented by 2 cards that appear in the middle of the table as shown here:

  1. The Bear player can click the “?” in the upper right hand corner of each card to get information on that race. If you do so, you can right click the info sheet and select “Close” to send it back.

  2. All race cards have a dynamic property called “RaceSet” which is initially set to 0. The map has the hotkey - CardTableSwitch - which is applied to any piece that is placed on the card table. In this case, the “RaceSet” variable is set to 1 as they land on the table. The chat window shows test messages to show this is working properly.

  3. The Bear player decides which card they want and they drag it to the gray box next to the bear shield. This triggers the card (based on the zone and “RaceSet” = 1) to reset the “RaceSet” on the remaining card and sending back to the deck. You can see from this screen shot and from the message that will appear in the chat window that this is working properly.

  1. Now, here’s the weird part. If you click the card that’s currently in the grey box, it shifts and another card will appear in the far upper left corner of the card table. These cards are also attached …if you move one, the other moves with it.

At this time, I have no trigger on the card that will operate if “RaceSet” = 2. You should be able to click or move that card at will with absolutely nothing happening. Also, the new card that appears is not going to a region or zone …it’s just popping up somewhere near the upper left corner.

2

Thus spake DrNostromo:

[This message has been edited.]

I have found what appears to be a major glitch as I have no other
explaination for what’s happening. I’ve gone through and rebuilt all the
controls, decks, etc. for 2 days with exactly the same results.

I’m using Vassal 3.2.12 but I did test it in 3.2.13_svn9135 with the
same result.

Here’s how to repeat the problem with screen shots. Here’s a link to
download the module.

drnostromo.com/misc/TBK_CCG_V3.vmod

  1. Open the module. When asked for a user name, just hit “Cancel” to
    bring up the main controls.

  2. Start new game and pick the “Bear” player side.

  3. Open the Card Table. Click the “Setup” button near the top of the
    card table. This randomized some cards and decks. That’s working fine.

  4. The shield for the “Bear” clan is in the upper right part of the card
    table. The Bear player clicks this shield to get a choice of races
    represented by 2 cards that appear in the middle of the table as shown
    here:

[1]

  1. The Bear player can click the “?” in the upper right hand corner of
    each card to get information on that race. If you do so, you can right
    click the info sheet and select “Close” to send it back.

  2. All race cards have a dynamic property called “RaceSet” which is
    initially set to 0. The map has the hotkey - CardTableSwitch - which is
    applied to any piece that is placed on the card table. In this case, the
    “RaceSet” variable is set to 1 as they land on the table. The chat
    window shows test messages to show this is working properly.

  3. The Bear player decides which card they want and they drag it to the
    gray box next to the bear shield. This triggers the card (based on the
    zone and “RaceSet” = 1) to reset the “RaceSet” on the remaining card and
    sending back to the deck. You can see from this screen shot and from the
    message that will appear in the chat window that this is working
    properly.

[2]

  1. Now, here’s the weird part. If you click the card that’s currently in
    the grey box, it shifts and another card will appear in the far upper
    left corner of the card table. These cards are also attached …if you
    move one, the other moves with it.

I can reproduce 1-7 with 3.2.13-svn9135, but not step 8.

–
J.

3

That’s really odd. I’ve run the module on both a Win XP 32-bit desktop and a Win 7 64-bit laptop and the glitch occurs every time on both machines.

4

I don’t know if this will help or not but I just made a log file on the XP system.

http://www.drnostromo.com/misc/test.vlog