Duh...you're right, of course. No wonder I couldn't get it working...

Your response, however, brought something else to light. Why is there
no hotkey for reversing a deck?

Is there some way to do this 'remotely'? In the module I'm making,
there is an opportunity to draw two cards and place 1 on the bottom of
the draw deck. Normally, I just treat the discard deck as the bottom of
the deck, but here it is important because the draw deck does not get
reshuffled until all the cards have been drawn. So, I need to ensure
that the card I placed on the bottom of the deck is seen before the
cards already in the discard pile.

My thought was to have a key command that would reverse the deck, send
the card to the deck, then reverse it again. Without a hotkey, I don't
think I can do this...

Dave

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From: vassalengine@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vassalengine@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Brent Easton
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 2:58 PM
To: vassalengine@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [vassalengine] Global Key Command to a Deck



Hi Dave,

For the Re-shuffle, you can specifiy a Hot-key in your Deck to do the
reshuffle, then you can use a Global Hot Key (not a Global Key Command)
to send the Hot-key to initiate the reshuffle. Unfortunately, you can't
set a Hot Key for the Reverse command, so you can't use this technique
for Reverse.

- A Global Key Command sends a 'Key Command' to counters, but not game
components like Decks and Toolbars.
- A Global Hot Key sends a 'Hot Key' to game components like Decks and
Toolbars, but not to counters.

Regards,
Brent.

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>
>On 6/02/2008 at 11:47 AM David Neumann wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Can anyone tell me how I set up a Global Key Command for a deck?
>
>For example, if I want the Deck to reshuffle or reverse, can I do this
>using a GKC rather than right-clicking on the deck?
>
>My biggest problem is that I don't know what to put in the 'matching
>properties' box...
>
>If I leave it blank, then nothing happens.
>
>Thanks for the help,
>
>Dave

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Brent Easton
Analyst/Programmer
University of Western Sydney
Email: b.easton@... <mailto:b.easton%40uws.edu.au>






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