I have just installed Vassal again in Ubuntu Linux, having used it successfully under Win XP for a couple of years.
It seems to be fine except for a window sizing issue in the card hand window. If I expand the size of the window, only the window expands, not the actual inner window where the cards actually sit. I can’t scroll to the right either.
Additionally, when you do drag a card, it seems that the curser and the card image are not aligned, so the card is a couple of inches to the right of the curser.
I need the complete verison number so we can identify which of the 18
released versions and 8 betas from the VASSAL 3 series you’re using.
Look under Help → About. There should be a version number there which
looks like “3.x.y”.
Yes, I can reproduce the bug every time in 3.0.17.
Right now, we have no installer for Linux, but that’s because it isn’t
really needed. To install 3.1.0-beta2 on Linux, you’d get the file called
VASSAL-3.1.0-beta2-generic.zip from Sourceforge:
It’s just a zip file, so you can use the ‘unzip’ command to unzip it to
wherever you want (i.e., typing ‘unzip VASSAL-3.1.0-beta2-generic.zip’
in a terminal will extract VASSAL to your current directorty). Ubuntu
probably also has some graphical utilities for extracting zip files, if
you prefer that.
Once you have the archive unzipped, you can run VASSAL from the VASSAL.sh
shell script, which will be in the VASSAL directory created when you
unzipped the archive.
That was easy enough - thanks for the detailed instruction.
However, when I run Vassal.sh, it opens up a new window, but nothing gets displayed, I have left it a good few minutes to see if it’s just a first time intialisation, but no, it just stays blank.
In fact, that’s fixed both problems, the windows sizing issue does not occur in the latest Beta (and I like the look of the new vesion!!) so I will be using that from now.
Interestingly, it may be a bug, but the Commands and Colours Module was saved as a *.mod file and wasn’t found on the “open” box, I had to select “all files”.
Yes, that’s because the file filter looks for .vmod files now. We want
to have file associations on all platforms, but .mod conflicts with a
music file format.