Open Recent menu

Technical Support & Bugs
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Several years ago, VASSAL implemented a “Open Recent” menu item under File. We at VASL had particularly asked for this and were pleased to see it done.

Recently I have received some user feedback about the “Open Recent” option:

Currently have MacOS Sonama 14.5, VASSAL 3.7.13, VASL 6.6.9 Beta 4; however these issues have been present a long time.

  • After starting a new game and then saving it for the first time, the new file name is not added to the “Open Recent” list.
  • After using the “Open Recent” list to open a file, make changes, and then save the file, VASL does not populate the File Name field with the name of the file that it just opened.
  • After using the “Open Recent” list to open a file, make changes, save the file, fill in the file name, VASL does not give a “replace existing file warning”.

As well, a “Clear the File Menu” function.

Not sure if these comments are best posted here or over at “Feature Requests”?

Thanks for your help as always

Doug

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Open Recent was added in Vassal 3.6.8. Is there a version between 3.6.8 and 3.7.13 where it works for you?

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I have checked with users and the answer is no, there is no version of VASSAL which appears to have the features/functionality for the Open Recent file menu that they would like. This is not so much a bug as a feature request. IIRC, the two Save Game references in the OP reflect how the VASSAL File menu has always worked.

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Try one of the VASSAL-3.7.14-SNAPSHOT-2fd8e37-save-recents builds from the builds archive. That should add saved games to the Open Recent list at the point when they’re saved.

I don’t know what this refers to.

Do you get such a warning when you’re saving over the saved game you opened normally?

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Sorry, I lost track of this. The answer to your question in the previous post is no. I have never seen such a warning in VASL/VASSAL that I recall.