Vassal 3.6.10

Release Notes

Changes since 3.6.9

Bug fixes

• 11883: Fixed order of labels for "Select play mode" and "Enter your name" steps in the Welcome Wizard
• 11879: NPE when cutting and pasting a GlobalPropertyFolder
• 11860: Warn when same piece is both Mat and Mat Cargo
• 11858: Clear all PieceSlot caches after loading extensions
• 11846: Protect from null property results during search
• 11823: NPE in GameRefresher when refreshing unnamed Decks
• 11813: NPE in PieceSlot.getLocalizedConfigureName()
• 11759: Do not allow negative number of Dice or Sides
• 11748: NPE when cutting and pasting a prototype folder
• 11455: Prevent NPE when adding empty KeyStrokes to list
• 11452: Prevent NPE if invalid file specified in img tag

Vassal 3.6.9

Release Notes

Changes since 3.6.8

Bug fixes

• 11825: BoundsTracker once again repaints entire maps, reverting 11521
• 11821: Include the AreaOfEffect bounds in the piece bounding box only if the AoE is visible
• 11814: Ensure that valid BasicName property is used to identify piece when no translation is available
• 11808: PieceCloner.clonePiece() should not expand inner pieces unconditionally
• 11806: NotesWindow re-open assigns focus properly to retain caret position
• 11805: Fixed NPE: tab.getTitleAt() can return null, so check for that

Other improvements

• 11804: Log element name on build exception, if available
• 11803: Report exceptions thrown while loading modules

Vassal 3.6.8

Release Notes

Changes since 3.6.7

Bug fixes

• 11778: System.setProperty() in BugDialog throws if the value is null
• 11727: Fixed incorrect properties file path, which prevents working on translations
• 11716: Dereference symbolic link to executable before attemping to find install dir
• 11678: Prevent clearing the tile cache when a module is open
• 11617: Closing a reopenable Map should not close game
• 11565: Global Option List Preferences not initialising Global Property correctly
• 11544: Broken links to and within Reference Manual
• 11543: Closing game should reset multiplayer flag for console
• 11540: Display translated Basic Piece/Basic Name in Scrollable lists in Game Piece Palette
• 11537: Cancel key in Multi-Piece Editor (Edit all contained pieces) correctly backs out with no changes
• 11515: Piece dropped into incorrect position in the stack when dragging within a stack to a lower position
• 11513: Piece "disappears" when dragged to grid space with an existing stack and "snap to defined point"
• 11510: Updated Opt-in version of the 'Leading Zeros in Integers' handing
• 11496: Safer GKC Configurer for Fixed # From Deck

Other improvements

• 11798: Added Chinese translation
• 11796: Added Polish translation
• 11790: Updated bundled Java to 19 for Windows and MacOS
• 11704: Added Place Marker editor hotkeys
• 11700: Irregular Grid editor - add region with Insert or Ctrl+Right Click
• 11622: Added support for Open Recent... submenu
• 11600: Player context menus: Show keyboard shortcuts right-aligned and with symbols
• 11570: Update Module Extension window, add missing description
• 11564: Prevent Notes windows always starting open at very last character of note
• 11557: Auto-select contents of Edit boxes when they get focus
• 11546: Default dialog-closing button behaviors for Enter/Esc; Key shortcuts added to Piece Definer (see Game Piece help); Piece Definer list boxes jump to entry starting with that letter; Key shortcuts added editing Layer trait (see Layer help); Most text fields support Ctrl/Cmd+Z for undo/redo
• 11545: Description of Prototype will auto-include any BasicName
• 11541: Add hotkey to start specific chess clock
• 11534: Add Open all Contained Pieces option
• 11524: Option to 'always use format' on text label (even if label is blank)
• 11521: BoundsTracker - Track bounds and repaint just for the regions of added pieces; rather than the whole map
• 11499: TurnTracker Forward Only Toggle: Allow module designers to disable the backwards TurnTracker button
• 11497: Don't play sounds while fast-forwarding a log

Vassal 3.6.7

Release Notes

Changes since 3.6.6

Bug fixes

• 11465: DoActionButton claims its icon in remove-unused-images
• 11417: Fix Ctrl key with Does Not Stack trait
• 11406: Don't show image scale option for panels inside Chart Windows
• 11388: Correctly draw hex coordinates for odd-numbered columns spanning tile boundaries
• 11372: Delayed Notes from subsequent saves displayed out of order
• 11369: Leading zeros handling in Set Dynamic Property
• 11362: Match expanded Inventory nodes by entry value, not by display text
• 11347: Inventory should not reveal face down deck images
• 11344: Prevent Undo from triggering Deck Empty Hotkey
• 11343: Ensure that the pivot point is used for rotating Cargo
• 11329: Invisible Pieces belonging to another player can still stack together

Other improvements

• 11487: Removed obsolete option from startup script
• 11460: Show a dialog when connection to the game server is lost
• 11446: Tweak version number display in online window (numbers at end, grayed out)
• 11414: Improved version mismatch messaging
• 11373: Make columns in Delayed Notes table sortable
• 11361: Allow Calculated properties to set Game Piece Layer
• 11356: SetupStack can match literal grid names even if Zone only reports Zone name (e.g., uses $name$ as Location Format)
• 11351: Documented that Mats w/ cargo can't go in decks
• 11348: Polygon Editor improvements (move whole shape, tab between points)
• 11346: Update bundled Java to 18
• 11330: Allow .toString() to be called properly on property names in Beanshell

Vassal 3.6.6

Release Notes

Changes since 3.6.5

Bug fixes

• 11327: Fix Action Button not working after refreshing pre-defined setups
• 11325: Implement the missing Play Sound trait 'Send sound to other players' functionality
• 11315: Show correct Turn Tracker tooltip
• 11302: Fixed link typo in GamePieceImageDefinitions page of Reference Manual
• 11287: Fix ConcurrentExecutionException in Game Refresher with Mats
• 11278: Scale tiled images to target size rather than by scale factor
• 11254: Tiler dialog doesn't cancel tiling when Cancel button is clicked
• 11248: Catch InvalidDnDOperation exceptions when inappropriate drag-and-drops attempted
• 11227: Fix NPE when copying vertices from a zone with no vertices
• 11232: Stop edit of table when TableInfo is closed
• 11223: Copy/Paste conversions fixed for Zone Properties to/from Global and Map Properties
• 11188: DoActionButton hotkeys were not found by search

Other improvements

• 11303: Preference to control drag-at-edge scroll rate; per module defaults for edge scrolling
• 11297: Don't copy out unused images on removal
• 11296: Don't block the EDT when clearing the tile cache
• 11292: Strip leading and trailing whitespace from module names and versions
• 11286: Improved Setup Stack descriptions in editor
• 11279: Module "other" strings displayed in About screen
• 11276: Place Marker (and Replace With Other) include name of added piece in summary
• 11260: Editor now remembers its most recent image-picking (and sound) directories separately from its memory of last save/load of games and logs
• 11258: New BasicName trait defaults to Prototype's name; Changing Prototype's name changes BasicName trait's, if identical; At-Start Stack with no name displays name of first contained piece or folder in editor
• 11256: Added a preference for the tiler max heap; tiler will retry up to that limit
• 11255: Updated downloads URL to the one for our download page
• 11243: Enable Sum and Count in GKC Report Expressions
• 11233: UI Cleanup: don't scroll-at-edge the map if a file or link is being dragged instead of a piece
• 11229: Allow 'Select All Regions' when defining them; right click to delete now works for single unselected region
• 11071: Improved version number checking

Vassal 3.6.5

Release Notes

Changes since 3.6.4

New features

• 11124: Console supports up-arrow / down-arrow for command history
• 11122: Console can show/set properties of selected piece
• 11117: Log files can be fast-forwarded and appended to

Bug fixes

• 11218: Grid Editor incorrectly changes some grid settings on Cancel
• 11196: Game Refresher should not refresh stacks not on maps
• 11186: Disable load and edit actions for null modules
• 11179: Chart Windows display their names properly in their window titles
• 11162: Turn Tracker does not display a spurious blank line if its report format is left empty
• 11160: Prevent At-Start Stacks from creating additional spurious pieces on main map
• 11156: Games incorrectly load normally during 'Load Continuation'
• 11150: Use heuristic value for tiler max heap, retry with 50% more on failure
• 11149: Capture tiling error messages Java incorrectly writes to stdout
• 11139: Deal-to-Other key in Mask Trait now recognized in Search
• 11135: Fixed Discord console drag-and-drop bug
• 11127: Don't throw exception if there's a drive letter in a filename
• 11121: Fix problem where undo wasn't allowed when starting a new game with logging turned on
• 11119: Fixed NPE in NamedHotKeyConfigurer.setValue()
• 11115: Fix ClassCastException due to Zone properties not accounting for folders
• 11109: LOS Range incorrect when thread is not snapped to hex centres
• 11106: Fix NPE when duplicating GamePieceImage
• 11105: Added missing Editor.SendToLocation.getSendLocation translation key
• 11096: Remove "duplicate this item" option from Game Piece Image
• 11095: Deduce the existence of localized image directories which lack ZIP entries
• 11094: Exclude GamePieceLayout image names from unused image list
• 11093: Image directories for i18n were not found in 3.6.4
• 11089: Write text files in UTF-8, not the default encoding
• 11081: Prevent GameRefresher from changing visual order of pieces

Other improvements

• 11216: Inventory has checkbox to enable zoom (defaults off)
• 11209: Global Options settings for (a) Inventory Security, and (b) Send-to-Location generating move trails. Inventory now defaults to "old behavior" on seeing private windows, but can be turned to secure.
• 11205: Improved Polygon Editor (cut/paste vertices, delete polygon) & Improved Region Editor (drag-at-edge works again, move regions inside of zone)
• 11197: Better auto-description for Translatable Message trait and BasicPiece
• 11194: The errorlog console command is available at all times
• 11164: Upgrade bundled Java to 17.0.2+8
• 11135: Prompt to save/discard/cancel before loading the new game
• 11120: Permit hyphens and periods in GamePieceImage names
• 11107: Warn if Decks or Stacks defined before [Map Boards]
• 11098: Screenshot "typo" fix for Turn Tracker's global hotkey

Vassal 3.6.4

Release Notes

Changes since 3.6.3

New features

• 11079: Main window & map accept Drag-and-Drop for loading saves and logs
• 11032: List Key Commands tool for Editor

Bug fixes

• 11073: Fix situation where Send-to-Location throws exceptions when it can't find target counters
• 11069: Fix crash in Load Deck when an invalid deck file selected in file picker
• 11067: Fix NPE in SetupStack.isOwningBoardActive()
• 11065: Improved error handling when a temp file can't be created
• 11062: Fix problem on Windows where a click at edge made it slowly scroll all the way in that direction
• 11060: Fixes to various Toolbar Buttons that weren't respecting the "disable-on-global-property" settings
• 11056: Don't attempt to send to already-hung-up connection
• 11053: Suppress Empty Deck Hotkeys when refreshing game
• 11041: Inventory windows respond to hide-if-property-true
• 11039: Display Loaded message instead of Cancelled when refreshing Predefined Setups
• 11038: Allow 'Use Same Boards' option on Private Map to be removed
• 11031: Turn Tracker List configure box missing labels
• 11025: Guard against ClassCastException when MultiActionButtons change property values
• 11024: Communicating with tiler over socket fails for some users; use stdout instead
• 11020: Don't display lock option for P2P rooms, which aren't lockable
• 11011: Fixed typo in DiceButton docs

Other improvements

• 11076: Editor's search function (and List Key Commands) will now "find" the keys for Undo & Step Forward
• 11074: Support Send-to-Location source/target matching with $...$ expressions
• 11070: Documentation updates for DrawingMouseover / DrawingMouseover Index
• 11059: Right Click menu added to Show Error Log window in Module Manager
• 11054: Don't let old versions of PoG load and crash

Vassal 3.6.3

Release Notes

Changes since 3.6.2

Bug fixes

• 11008: Prevent URLConnection cache from holding edited modules open on Windows
• 11007: Fix ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in StringEnumConfigurer
• 11003: Fixed bad tile message; added plea for help with TileNotFoundExceptions
• 10997: Editor: Don't close window when moving Map or other components relative to Map
• 10992: Fix NPE in SpecialDiceButton.getAttributeValueString() after deleting tooltip
• 10985: Reset save dialog filename after close of game
• 10983: Fix bad Inventory.Counter.equals()
• 10981: Reinstate AbstractBuildable.getComponents()
• 10979: Prevent Save Game from clobbering log being replayed
• 10970: Fix problem where rotated pieces did not move-fixed-distance in correct direction
• 10969: Fix Refresh of Pieces in Decks, remove old pieces completely
• 10964: Fix Deal-to-Side Mask bug - Finish evaluating expression properly
• 10954: Fix stack overflow infinite loop if invalid property name put in blank
• 10947: Collect diagnostic information for an SSLHandshakeException
• 10940: Fix NPE in TurnLevel
• 10942: Fix NPE in SendToLocation
• 10934: Repaint the background in the SetupStack editor
• 10931: Fix NPE in KeyCommand.makeMenuText()

Other improvements

• 10961: Use heuristic value for initial tiler heap; use 3/4 physical RAM as max heap

Vassal 3.6.2

Release Notes

Changes since 3.6.1

Bug fixes

• 10925: Turn Tracker Button can never be size 0
• 10915: Undo of Send To Location sent to bottom card of deck returns the card to the top of the Deck
• 10908: Fix NPE when using Send Back in SendToLocation
• 10907: Disabled Toolbar Buttons on Map Windows didn't initialize starting state properly
• 10906: Show an error dialog if reading a corrupted prefs file
• 10903: Stacking units placed by At-Start stacks didn't allow Action Buttons on said pieces to function until the piece was moved
• 10901: Unchecking Cycle Message box in a Report trait clears the fields
• 10899: Show the player window before the welcome wizard
• 10894: Warn about movement trails inside of rotates only when editing module
• 10893: Fix NPE: RandomTextButton raw rolls/counts support
• 10891: Pieces in decks were not being updated during Refresh Counters
• 10889: Added diagnostic to determine what is trying to add stacks to stacks
• 10887: Wasn't possible to click add to add an Action Button trait to a piece

Other improvements

• 10929: Use '/usr/bin/env bash' in VASSAL.sh for greater portability on Unix

Vassal 3.6.1

Release Notes

Changes since 3.6.0

New features

• 10879: Dice Button raw result and counts reporting

Bug fixes

• 10876: Remove unwanted nulls from Inventory
• 10871: Display proper name for Set Global Property and Place Marker in Editor
• 10869: Inventory shouldn't show pictures/text for pieces in private windows not currently accessible
• 10861: Polygon read from coordinates list should never be null

Other improvements

• 10880: Create HintTextFields lazily