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Suggestions / Add new Property Set to all Tokens on a Screen?
« on: November 02, 2013, 12:12:57 PM »
This may not be something folks are clamoring for, but from my (ignorant!) perspective it seems like it may be a simple coding addition, and would have saved me hours this morning. (I.e., if I were in full control, I'd have coded my tool to do this job rather than brute force it the first time through.)
I would like the ability to add a new Property Set to all Tokens which appear in a Screen (or by Screen Set). I'd be fine if this new Property Set copied all properties from each Token's default. Finally, I'd like to set the Condition under which this new "global" Property Set applies.
In terms of an example, I'm converting a No Limit-only tournament layout to a tournament during which alternating rounds are played NL and Fixed Limit. To keep my players sane, I'm using a radically different color scheme for each Game Type. After creating new Global Properties for each element with my new color scheme, I had to go into each token on the Screen and add a "FL" Property Set with the Condition that Game Type is Limit. I'd then copy the token's default formatting and manually select from my list of newly created Global Properties which one I wanted. This last step would take a significant amount of coding and I wouldn't request that portion be automated, but the initial steps involve a lot of repetitive mouse clicks which seem easily automated (says the guy who would not be doing any of the coding).
This sort of thing would come up any time someone would want to drop in a new global condition on their tournament displays (such as different Screens for alternating rounds). If there's any thought to adding to the list of potential Game Types, then this sort of thing seems very like to crop up for other folks in the future.
Thank you for your consideration Corey.
I would like the ability to add a new Property Set to all Tokens which appear in a Screen (or by Screen Set). I'd be fine if this new Property Set copied all properties from each Token's default. Finally, I'd like to set the Condition under which this new "global" Property Set applies.
In terms of an example, I'm converting a No Limit-only tournament layout to a tournament during which alternating rounds are played NL and Fixed Limit. To keep my players sane, I'm using a radically different color scheme for each Game Type. After creating new Global Properties for each element with my new color scheme, I had to go into each token on the Screen and add a "FL" Property Set with the Condition that Game Type is Limit. I'd then copy the token's default formatting and manually select from my list of newly created Global Properties which one I wanted. This last step would take a significant amount of coding and I wouldn't request that portion be automated, but the initial steps involve a lot of repetitive mouse clicks which seem easily automated (says the guy who would not be doing any of the coding).
This sort of thing would come up any time someone would want to drop in a new global condition on their tournament displays (such as different Screens for alternating rounds). If there's any thought to adding to the list of potential Game Types, then this sort of thing seems very like to crop up for other folks in the future.
Thank you for your consideration Corey.