"secret" information - how to show to only a single player?

Module Design
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I have the following use case.

  1. There will be pieces with “secret info” in the game that will need to be discovered by player. The presence of the piece will be visible at all times, but the property value(s) are hidden info.
  2. The players will need to explore the hex they are in, before they can view the secret info.
    2a) Multiple players can explore the hex, which will place an exploration marker.
    2b) The presence of the exploration maker will be a required condition to see the secret info.

So the question is - how to allow a player to see the secret info, while keeping it hidden from other players?

If it were possible to send the info to a temporary window (visible only to that player) , that would work… However, I don’t think Vassal has that functionality…

Any ideas?

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The Alert() function pops up a private window where one could see property values. Maybe that could work.

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Thanks! I will try that…