[Pcgen-trackers] [ pcgen-Feature Requests-1196836 ] User Adjustable Variables - USERDEFINE tag

[SourceForge.net <no...@so...>]

Feature Requests item #1196836, was opened at 2005-05-06 15:59
Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter
You can respond by visiting: 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=384722&aid=1196836&group_id=25576

Category: User Interface
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 6
Submitted By: Eddy Anthony (eddyanthony)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: User Adjustable Variables - USERDEFINE tag

Initial Comment:
We need to provide a way to allow users to manually adjust certain 
variables. This is needed because there are some variables which 
have values that depend more heavily on circumstances within the 
game than on hard game mechanics. We have the Temporary Bonus 
Tab which works great for VARs which are adjusted by a few very 
specific circumstance but when a VAR has many circumstantial 
modifiers or requires many adjustments that mechanism gets a
bit clumsy and we need something the user can just plug their own 
numbers into. Currently only ability scores work this way.

Three examples of this are Moderns Action Points and Wealth Score 
and the RSRD's Leadership score. A specific number of action 
points are granted to a PC at each level but once spent they are 
gone for good. A PC's wealth score is also a hard number derived 
from game mechanics but can go up or down depending on 
circumstances within the game. Likewise Leadership starts with a 
base number which can be calculated from the PC's stats but then 
there are many in-game modifiers which can affect it.

I suggest a new tag similar to DEFINE which would do two things, 1) 
it would create a new variable that would be added to the value of an 
existing variable and 2) it would trigger the GUI to display it in a new 
pane similar to the Ability Stat pane.

Currently the lower left pane on the Summary Tab displays 'Tips' of 
which there are three, since we already have a tips feature I don't 
think it would be a great loss to use this space for a User Variable 
Adjuster feature. It's also a prominent and logical place for it.

The tag itself will need to set the name or label that will appear in the 
GUI, the VAR it will be adjusting and possibly a new VAR to hold the 
amount of the adjustment. Might look something like this:

USERDEFINE:<Label>|<existing VAR>|<Adjustment VAR>

Our three examples might look like this:

USERDEFINE:Action Points|Action|ActionUsed

USERDEFINE:Current Wealth Score|Wealth|WealthAdjustment

USERDEFINE:Leadership Score|Leadership|LeadershipAdjustment

The tag should be global like DEFINE, this would enable any dataset 
to add an adjustable variable for whatever purpose. The existing 
VAR would need to have been DEFINEd in order for the 
USERDEFINE to be displayed, so if a PC had a USERDEFINE tag 
applied to him that adjusted a VAR the PC did not have DEFINEd 
then that user adjustment would not be displayed. Once it was 
DEFINEd it would be activated.

Once activated the GUI would display the following from left to right:

1) The name or label of the adjustment.

2) The current value total of the variable being adjusted, this would 
be a number field which the used could select and enter any number 
they wish. (I'm not sure if this will work, it may be that the 
adjustment value will need to be the editable field)

3) plus and minus icon for the user to adjust the number in 
increments of one.

4) The name of the VAR being adjusted

5) The base value of the VAR being adjusted

6) the Value of the adjustment


----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can respond by visiting: 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=384722&aid=1196836&group_id=25576