VASSAL 3.1.0-beta1

[uckelman]

Thus spake “Rodney Kinney”:

It rocks! The experience for new users is much much better than before.
This is a big milestone. Awesome!

I think 3.2 will be even more eye-catching, but I’m very happy with
3.1 right now.

Both the Module Manager and the Player identify themselves as “VASSAL” (as
in “About VASSAL” and “Quit VASSAL” on the Mac menus) Ideally, we would use
the name of the module to identify the Player. Is that possible? If not,
we should at least call it something such as “VASSAL Module Player”

Yes, I’ll do that.

Some exceptions in errorLog, attached. This was from a session in which I
did not have a Preferences file at the beginning, so the errors may be
related to that.

Up to the NPE, those are “normal” exceptions. They aren’t reported
anymore in the trunk, so will be gone in beta2. I’ll look into the other
exceptions.

On Macintosh, I get no keyboard shortcuts for any menu entries other than
“Quit”

Noted.

Not a big deal, but is there a way to access the VASSAL Tour module other
than via the Help menu? Is the documentation available for browsing
directly, without having to open VASSAL?

On the Mac, not really, unless you look into the app bundle. Is that
a problem? I think the tour is more accessible now that it’s on the Help
menu than it was before.

I’ll take a stab at updating the introductory help screens.

Thanks.

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J.

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[rk1]

On the Mac, not really, unless you look into the app bundle. Is that
a problem? I think the tour is more accessible now that it’s on the Help
menu than it was before.

I would say it’s not a blocker. It’s nice if people are able to open the Tour in the editor to see how it works.

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[uckelman]

Thus spake “Rodney Kinney”:

On the Mac, not really, unless you look into the app bundle. Is that
a problem? I think the tour is more accessible now that it’s on the Help
menu than it was before.

I would say it’s not a blocker. It’s nice if people are able to open the
Tour in the editor to see how it works.

Oh. I hadn’t considered that… Maybe we should add an ‘Edit the Tour’
item to the Help menu?

J.

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[rk1]

Oh. I hadn’t considered that… Maybe we should add an ‘Edit the Tour’
item to the Help menu?

Will that work? What happens when they try to save?

rk

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[rk1]

When starting a new game, the menu entries for Predefined Setups are not being disabled. The regular “New Game” menu item is disabled properly.

Also, the Predefined Setup’s “New Game” menu is supposed to replace the regular “New Game” menu item, but the File menu appears to contain both.

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[uckelman]

Thus spake “Rodney Kinney”:

When starting a new game, the menu entries for Predefined Setups are not
being disabled. The regular “New Game” menu item is disabled properly.

Shouldn’t it be exactly the other way around? “New Game” is being disabled
improperly?

Also, the Predefined Setup’s “New Game” menu is supposed to replace the
regular “New Game” menu item, but the File menu appears to contain both.

That was an intentional change.

J.

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[uckelman]

Thus spake “Rodney Kinney”:

Some exceptions in errorLog, attached. This was from a session in which I
did not have a Preferences file at the beginning, so the errors may be
related to that.

What were you doing when that happened? I haven’t been able to reproduce
it myself. Does it happen for you with svn ? (I’m uploading that now.)

Not a big deal, but is there a way to access the VASSAL Tour module other
than via the Help menu? Is the documentation available for browsing
directly, without having to open VASSAL?

After you’ve opened the Tour, it shows up in the Module List, just like
a regular module. You can edit it from there the same way you would a
normal module. It’s always nice to discover a feature which you didn’t
create intentionaly.

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J.

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