Hi, Mark, Thanks for your reply. Your proposed solution is the one that I believe is the only possible solution provided by the current version of VASSAL, since today you are only allowed to select one side from the "Chose player side" dropdown box. Thus, this would require me to create a "player" for all possible side combinations.
For example, I'd have to create a side for all the possible combinations for Factions A, B, C & D: Faction A Faction B Faction C Faction D Faction A & B Faction A & C Faction A & D Faction B & C Faction B & D Faction C & D Faction A & B & C Faction A & B & D Faction A & C & D Faction B & C & D Faction A & B & C & D Then do the same thing for Factions E, F & G: Faction E Faction F Faction G Faction E & F Faction E & G Faction F & G Faction E & F & G Thus, the "Chose player side" dropdown would have all these "sides" listed in them. In addition, I'd have to make the player windows usable for all the appropriate selections. For example, the window for Faction A would be available for Faction A, Faction A & B, Faction A & C, Faction A & C & D, etc. Although doable, this doesn't seem like a very user-friendly solution. IMO, a more user-friendly solution would be to allow the players to pick the side(s) they are playing in a list box, which would allow the player to select more than one side via ctrl+click, instead of the current dropdown box, which only allows one side to be selected. (I'm not saying to do away with the dropdown box, just provide the module creator the option to use a list box instead of a dropdown.) Thus, the list box would only contain 7 sides: Faction A Faction B Faction C Faction D Faction E Faction F Faction G The player then could select one or more of the sides he wanted to play from the list. This would mean I would only have to make the windows accessable to the appropriate Faction, not all the possible Faction combinations. I don't know if this is doable, but, if so, I think it would be a worthy enhancement. Otherwise, if no one can provide a viable option, then I will have to create my module as described above, with the multiple Factions (ugh). I hope this makes sense. Thanks for your time. Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 12:21 PM Subject: [vassalengine] Re: Question regarding multi-player module Kevin, I don't know if I follow you all the way through but for The Napoleonic Wars I have 5 hands. Since there are not always 5 players I gave access to the Austrian/Russian/British Hands by creating a player ID, say AU/RU which I then added to both the Austrian and Russian Hands under the belongs to side: Worked for me so a player could control 2 or 3 hands. Dunno if it would work in your setup. Mark --- In [email protected], "Kevin Coombs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > QUESTION 2: If the option of a list box is not possible, can anyone suggest a way in which I can allow a player to represent more than one side (faction) in a module that has multiple-defined sides? > > Thanks. > > Kevin > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
