Hi Dave, I have sent this to the new VASSAL forum also as the Yahoo group is not being used much anymore.
While there is no Hot Key to reverse a Deck at the moment, what you actually want is a way to return a piece straight to the bottom of the Deck, rather than have to muck around with Hot Keys and Reversing the Deck. While a 'Send to bottom' option could be added to the [b]Return To Deck[/b] trait, the programming for this is actually quite complicated. However, there is a neat way to implement 'Return to Bottom of Deck' using a [b]Trigger Action[/b] trait. A Deck is just a special form of a Stack and the Stack manipulation commands (arrow keys) work for counters in a Deck. Say your [b]Return To Deck[/b] trait is Ctrl-R. Add a Trigger Action 'Return to Bottom of Deck' that issues two Key Commands: 1. Ctrl-R to return the counter to the Deck. 2. Down-Arrow to send the counter to the bottom of the Deck. Regards, Brent. >*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > >On 7/02/2008 at 10:51 AM David Neumann wrote: >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 > ____________________________________________________________ Brent Easton Analyst/Programmer University of Western Sydney Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
