Global Key Command to a Deck

[Brent_Easton]

Hi Dave,

Your response, however, brought something else to light. Why is there
no hotkey for reversing a deck?

Is there some way to do this ‘remotely’? In the module I’m making,
there is an opportunity to draw two cards and place 1 on the bottom of
the draw deck. Normally, I just treat the discard deck as the bottom of
the deck, but here it is important because the draw deck does not get
reshuffled until all the cards have been drawn. So, I need to ensure
that the card I placed on the bottom of the deck is seen before the
cards already in the discard pile.

My thought was to have a key command that would reverse the deck, send
the card to the deck, then reverse it again. Without a hotkey, I don’t
think I can do this…

While there is no Hot Key to reverse a Deck at the moment, what you actually want is a way to return a piece straight to the bottom of the Deck, rather than have to muck around with Hot Keys and Reversing the Deck.

While a ‘Send to bottom’ option could be added to the Return To Deck trait, the programming for this is actually quite complicated.

However, there is a neat way to implement ‘Return to Bottom of Deck’ using a Trigger Action trait. A Deck is just a special form of a Stack and the Stack manipulation commands (arrow keys) work for counters in a Deck.

Say your Return To Deck trait is Ctrl-R. Add a Trigger Action ‘Return to Bottom of Deck’ that issues two Key Commands:

1. Ctrl-R to return the counter to the Deck.
2. Down-Arrow to send the counter to the bottom of the Deck.

Regards,
Brent.