Vassal 3.7.6 WIN64
I have a text label that I would like to visible on a piece, regardless of whether it is hidden/masked or not. However, regardless of whether I put the Text Label before or after the Mask trait, it hides the text label (for other players), when the unit is hidden.
WITHDRAWN - I created a simple module to test this and it works as designed in the test module. So something is flaky in my module.
So having done some investigation, it appears the root cause for this:
Although I put TEXT LABEL was correctly located so as not to be affected by MASK, the actual $property$ it was trying to display is buried deeply in a prototype that is affected by MASK.
Ideally, I need to be able to flag this (dynamic) $property$ as not needing to be masked…
Any possible way to do this (without a complete re-architecture)???
Solved it by generating the property that needed to be displayed such that the property was NOT masked.
Lesson - while a (masked) $property$ will not “cross the mask boundary” (i.e., can’t be seen by opponents when the piece is hidden), commands can “cross the mask boundary.” Thus, I had to ensure both the Text Display trait AND the associated $properties$ were on the right side of the “mask boundary.”