Instant Stat Blocks For Windows Users!

[barsoomcore]

Hm, that's weird. Can you explain exactly how you go about adding new monsters? The correct procedure is copy text, shift-click widget, enter name, select type and hit "Copy". From then on, when you select that type of creature, you should see the new monster you added.

Shutting down the widget and starting it up again shouldn't have anything to do with it. Might be something funky going on with WinZip. I don't own a PC, so it's very hard for me to reproduce such issues.

Does anyone else experience the same behaviour?

 

[Exquisite Dead Guy]

Hm, that's weird. Can you explain exactly how you go about adding new monsters? The correct procedure is copy text, shift-click widget, enter name, select type and hit "Copy". From then on, when you select that type of creature, you should see the new monster you added.

Shutting down the widget and starting it up again shouldn't have anything to do with it. Might be something funky going on with WinZip. I don't own a PC, so it's very hard for me to reproduce such issues.

Does anyone else experience the same behaviour?

If I do the shift-click method it usually adds the stat block (not always... can't seem to add any to the "humanoids" list for some reason, but the few others I tried worked) and they appear on the list until the widget is closed. Upon re-opening it the new entries are gone.

I have been able to add stat blocks manually by unzipping and editing the files, but this is obviously more work.

I'll continue to use the widget either way.

Thanks.

 

[barsoomcore]

Well, that's awfully strange. Sounds like either wacky permissions stuff or zany WinZip issues. I definitely DON'T see that behaviour on the Mac. Can you find the widget file itself? Right-click on that and select "Properties". There ought to be a "Modified" property that corresponds with the time and date of the last time you saved a stat block.

Try saving a new stat block and then checking that Modified property again. It should change. If it doesn't, then you're not saving your statblocks where you think you are. Which is definitely weird, but no weirder than the other possibility -- which is that you ARE saving your statblock but then your system is for some reason rolling back the change.

 

[Exquisite Dead Guy]

Try saving a new stat block and then checking that Modified property again. It should change. If it doesn't, then you're not saving your statblocks where you think you are. Which is definitely weird, but no weirder than the other possibility -- which is that you ARE saving your statblock but then your system is for some reason rolling back the change.

The "modified" property does not change after I add a stat block using the shift-click method. I can still access the new stat block until I close the widget, but as soon as I close and restart it the new stat block is gone.

Any other thoughts? :\

 

[barsoomcore]

Well, obviously it's not writing the change to the file, just for some reason keeping it in memory. I'd like to hear from some more Windows users. I should be able to test this next week and I'll see what I see.

No really useful thoughts. But I'm not very experienced with Windows, so that's not surprising.