I’m having a hard time finding Vassal practical for most games. I mean, it works… but the interface appears to be 100% click-based.
For instance, to scroll horizontally in a window, I can’t find any options besides dragging the scroll bars. There’s no click-drag (e.g. Google Maps style) drag-scrolling, there’s no OSX multitouch scrolling, there’s no hot-button-pan scrolling. Just scroll bars. :-/
Second, zooming in and out is a major necessity for just about any large-board game (e.g. Robinson Crusoe, Merchants & Marauders, etc). But again, the only way to zoom appears to be buttons in a given windows toolbar! There’s no hotkey-scroll zooming, no pinch-to-zoom, no zoom in/out keyboard shortcuts (the least desirable of all options)… it’s just maddening.
I’ve tried searching for Vassal shortcuts and usability tips, but I can’t find anything at all. Am I missing something? Is this really just how Vassal works? Are there really no tricks that I just happened to miss that can substantially improve usability?
I’m having a hard time finding Vassal practical for most games. I mean,
it works… but the interface appears to be 100% click-based.
For instance, to scroll horizontally in a window, I can’t find any
options besides dragging the scroll bars. There’s no click-drag (e.g.
Google Maps style) drag-scrolling, there’s no OSX multitouch scrolling,
there’s no hot-button-pan scrolling. Just scroll bars. :-/
This will be different in the reference client for VASSAL 4.
Second, zooming in and out is a major necessity for just about any
large-board game (e.g. Robinson Crusoe, Merchants & Marauders, etc). But
again, the only way to zoom appears to be buttons in a given windows
toolbar! There’s no hotkey-scroll zooming, no pinch-to-zoom, no zoom
in/out keyboard shortcuts (the least desirable of all options)… it’s
just maddening.
There are hotkeys for zooming if the module author created them.