I have a bunch of different modules for the same game system, one of which I have updated to take better advantage of VASSAL features. In order to update all the modules that use the same game system (just different counters and maps), is there a way to copy/paste or transfer the Game Piece Palette from one module to another? The map is easy enough but each counter was created with a unique name and image and will be quite tedious to update.
Thank you, J
You can edit the buildFile directly in a plain text editor. You can cut and
paste the relevant section from one module to another.
Or you can create an extension with just the Game Piece Palette and all the
game module load that one extension.
On 12 September 2010 02:20, jtessier jean@tactiquesnapoleon.com wrote:
I have a bunch of different modules for the same game system, one of
which I have updated to take better advantage of VASSAL features. In
order to update all the modules that use the same game system (just
different counters and maps), is there a way to copy/paste or transfer
the Game Piece Palette from one module to another? The map is easy
enough but each counter was created with a unique name and image and
will be quite tedious to update.Thank you, J
You can edit the buildFile directly in a plain text editor.� You can cut and paste the relevant section from one module to another.
Or you can create an extension with just the Game Piece Palette and all the game module load that one extension.
- M.
I have a bunch of different modules for the same game system, one of
which I have updated to take better advantage of VASSAL features. �In
order to update all the modules that use the same game system (just
different counters and maps), is there a way to copy/paste or transfer
the Game Piece Palette from one module to another? �The map is easy
enough but each counter was created with a unique name and image and
will be quite tedious to update.
Thank you, �J
Hmm, I’ve never toyed around with extensions before. Never knew what they were for. Two great things to try out. Thanks! J
I don’t know a lot about extensions, either. However, as far as I know, this
will work.
Editing the buildFile is not actually recommended and is very risky and
totally not supported and will probably kill you. The VASSAL developers
take no responsibility…
On 12 September 2010 13:02, jtessier jean@tactiquesnapoleon.com wrote:
Hmm, I’ve never toyed around with extensions before. Never knew what
they were for. Two great things to try out. Thanks! J
I don’t know a lot about extensions, either. However, as far as I know, this will work.
Editing the buildFile is not actually recommended and is very risky and totally not supported and will probably kill you.� The VASSAL developers take no responsibility…
- M.
Hmm, I’ve never toyed around with extensions before. �Never knew what
they were for. �Two great things to try out. �Thanks! J
Yep the Build file attempt went south. Interestingly I could copy/paste the individual units but not the whole Game Piece Palette. Something perhaps with the way I had the menu set-up.
I decided to reverse the work load and transposed the features to the module with the all counters. Still tedious but better than rebuilding over 400 counters!
Incidentally (and I’m not a programmer!) why can’t one copy/paste from one module to another via the Edit Module feature? Is this something to do with Java? Just wondering.
Thanks for your help.
Did you ever look into extensions?
On 15 September 2010 19:37, jtessier jean@tactiquesnapoleon.com wrote:
Yep the Build file attempt went south. Interestingly I could copy/paste
the individual units but not the whole Game Piece Palette. Something
perhaps with the way I had the menu set-up.
I decided to reverse the work load and transposed the features to the
module with the all counters. Still tedious but better than rebuilding
over 400 counters!Incidentally (and I’m not a programmer!) why can’t one copy/paste from
one module to another via the Edit Module feature? Is this something to
do with Java? Just wondering.Thanks for your help.
Did you ever look into extensions?
Yep the Build file attempt went south. �Interestingly I could copy/paste
the individual units but not the whole Game Piece Palette. �Something
perhaps with the way I had the menu set-up.
I decided to reverse the work load and transposed the features to the
module with the all counters. �Still tedious but better than rebuilding
over 400 counters!
Incidentally (and I’m not a programmer!) why can’t one copy/paste from
one module to another via the Edit Module feature? �Is this something to
do with Java? �Just wondering.
Thanks for your help.
Thus spake jtessier:
Incidentally (and I’m not a programmer!) why can’t one copy/paste from
one module to another via the Edit Module feature? Is this something to
do with Java? Just wondering.
Anytime that you can copy anything, from any program, in any language,
someone had to write some code for that. The same goes for pasting.
In this case, we just haven’t written the code to support copy/paste
between separate Editors. I’ve added an item in our tracker for this
feature request:
vassalengine.org/tracker/sho … gi?id=3195
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J.