Can Global Properties act on report message values such as $location$ ?
As a for instance: A counter is used to mark which piece is about to attack. I understand how to use message reports to write something like, “C6 attacks to the right …”. But is it possible to use change property to alter the value of, say, $location$ to give a report such as this: “C6 attacks C7”?
If not, is there another way it can be achieved?
Store the $location$ in a global property. Then report that.
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How do I do that?
The piece in the $location$ has to save the value of $location$ to a global variable using a “Set Global Property” trait. Once it’s there, global actions can use the name of that global property instead (which now holds the value of the pieces location).
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Apologies for being late in acknowledging your reply. Thank you for this.
I am having some difficulty getting to grips with global properties and actions. But then I am not the brightest bunny in the colony.
Is there a chance of a tutorial on these sometime soon, do you know?
Unfortunately, VASSAL’s big weakness right now is documentation. We have some people looking into that currently. Have a look at the relevant thread here:
http://www.vassalengine.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1707
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