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Yes only the "top" card should be visible.

I' talking about the deck zones but would also be interested to flip a pile of cards on the table

Hi all,

does anyone know a simple method to flip over a whole deck (or pile of cards) so that the bottom card is on top and visible - quite easy in real world but I found no way to do it in Lackey (perhaps its just me being really thick ...)

Cheers Nava

New Game is the only way to load everything. This is because you need to do it after all players connect.

You should be able to shuffle the zones in multiple ways.

So  I assume that is a "no you can't auto-shuffle a shared gamepile that is loaded by start.txt, you'll have to do it manually".

I'm maintaining a plugin (Tribbles) which now employs a shared deck zone ("Troubles") to contain a certain set of cards which will affect all players and can not be changed or altered.
I use a start.txt to populate this shared game zone; the start.txt will send all relevant cards to that shared zone whenever a New game is started. Now I've got two issues:

• Whenever Lackey starts it will not populate the shared zone, only if "New Game" is selected. Is there a way to do this?
• Whenever a "New Game" is selected, the cards will be in the exact order given by start.txt. Is there a way to autoshuffle that shared zone upon loading it? Since it is a game zone there is no <shuffle> directive - and I don't want to match that game zone to a deck zone as the cards are fixed anyways and the players should have no way to alter that side deck.

Cheers, Nava

What version of OSX are you running? I was aware of it probably not working on mac OSX lower than 10.9 but this should be fixed within a few days. I had to use a new library in order to release the iPad version but I haven't gotten around to getting it to be compatible with 10.6-10.8 yet. It will be soon though.

Could it be that you have linked Lackey against the libidn libraries you obtained via homebrew etc? Those managers tend to use /opt for installation ...

I managed to get it up and running by getting the appropriate libraries to opt/local/lib; I needed to create links to
libidn.11.dylib
libssl.1.0.0.dylib
libcrypto.1.0.0.dylib

If I would venture a guess then libcurl might be the offender.

I'm trying to figure out how to compile libcurl to work properly on macs. If anyone knows how to do this, please let me know on Skype (trevoragnitti).

Why not link against /usr/lib/libcurl4.dylib? Or do you rely on openssl for some operations?

What version of OSX are you running? I was aware of it probably not working on mac OSX lower than 10.9 but this should be fixed within a few days. I had to use a new library in order to release the iPad version but I haven't gotten around to getting it to be compatible with 10.6-10.8 yet. It will be soon though.

Could it be that you have linked Lackey against the libidn libraries you obtained via homebrew etc? Those managers tend to use /opt for installation ...

I managed to get it up and running by getting the appropriate libraries to opt/local/lib; I needed to create links to
libidn.11.dylib
libssl.1.0.0.dylib
libcrypto.1.0.0.dylib

If I would venture a guess then libcurl might be the offender.

This is a well known problem - you can only hope that Trevor will fix it one day or you could switch to an American keyboard layout whenever using Lackey.

Trevor,

That is grand! Are the functions mentioned the only ones of are there more? If so, have you got additional documentation?

It should be saved in your plugin's "pluginpreferences.txt" file, and the settings should be specific to each plugin.
I'll investigate.

I have more than one font installed - Lackey does not work well with fonts that have a " " (space) in the name. The pluginpreferences.txt show Arial.ttf, Lackey starts with Arial Narrow.ttf unless I rename it to ArialNarrow.ttf.

Whenever I manually overwrite the <tilt> entry with 0.000 Lackey starts with no tilt but when closed will write a <tilt>40.000 to the pluginpreferences.txt

BTW What is the Enable scripts preference for???

http://lackeyccg-startrek1e.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/startrek1e/updatelist.txt

The behavior is rather erratic - there are no sequences I could retrace and redo to get the same results. The only thing I can definitely say is that the longer I use Lackey to build decks the more often this happens. I was building decks for about 1 hours, then this happened (also sometimes cards couldn't be added to the Deck or the filter operator changed); it got more frequent the longer I built...

Does the "Turn filters off" button fix it? After that, will it start working as intended again?

It does; I just tried it and what happened was that one of the Filters was set to CONTAINS when switched off but changed to DOESNTCONTAIN when checked again. That would also be consistent with the search results, only the display of filter operators would then be not always correct.

Filters do not work reliably in the Mac version; sometimes filters are not honored, sometimes filters switch from CONTAINS to DOESNTCONTAIN. In the example you can see 4 filters set to select a specific personnel; the Property filter is set to TNG the displayed personnel has a property value of FC.

What is the autoupdate URL that you are using to install this plugin?
You say the filters do not work "reliably", implying that they some times do work and some times do not. Can you come up with a sequence of events (from relaunching) that reliably exhibits this malfunction?

http://lackeyccg-startrek1e.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/startrek1e/updatelist.txt

The behavior is rather erratic - there are no sequences I could retrace and redo to get the same results. The only thing I can definitely say is that the longer I use Lackey to build decks the more often this happens. I was building decks for about 1 hours, then this happened (also sometimes cards couldn't be added to the Deck or the filter operator changed); it got more frequent the longer I built...

Filters do not work reliably in the Mac version; sometimes filters are not honored, sometimes filters switch from CONTAINS to DOESNTCONTAIN. In the example you can see 4 filters set to select a specific personnel; the Property filter is set to TNG the displayed personnel has a property value of FC.

And fixed.

An additional question about those buttons - in previous versionsit was possible to give the button a title and a function i.e !Draft to Next!/exchangeclockwise and have only the title "Draft to Next" displayed. How is this handled in the new version as I can see the buttons labeled "!Draft to Next!/exchangeclockwise" instead?

[What do you mean "call" the lackey program? You mean launch it while your plugin is loaded? How exactly are you loading the plugin to get it to crash? Does it crash every time?
I haven't been able to get it to crash with your plugin.

I can replicate it very easily:

• Clean install of Lackey on a Windows XP system or a Windows 7 system (either 32 or 64bit).
• I can start then Lackey without any problems.
• After that enter necessary information (like name ea.) Go to Preferences - Plugins, enter the autoupdate address to install any of those three plugins. Wait until installation has concluded.
• Then select the newly installed plugin (using "Browse installed plugins to load one" either after restart of Lackey or immediately) -> Lackey crashes
• Open Lackey again -> Lackey crashes each time until I delete the Preferences.