VASL 6.6.0 Mac Ctrl+Left Click issue

[Michael R]

My opponent and I were using VASSAL 3.4.2 and VASL 6.6.0 . I am using a Mac, he is using a Windows OS.

When I Ctrl+Left Click on a counter to put a red circle around it, I also the see the counter menu, as if I had right-clicked on the counter. If my opponent on his Windows machine does Ctrl+Left Click on a counter, he sees only the red circle.

Edit: added "Left" to Ctrl+Click

 

[Michael R]

Loaded a save file from that game into VASSAL 3.4.6 and VASL 6.6.1 . The same behaviour shows.

 

[DougRim]

Loaded a save file from that game into VASSAL 3.4.6 and VASL 6.6.1 . The same behaviour shows.

Contact Apple and let them know the Mac has a bug! LOL

 

[DougRim]

I will note this as a bug.

 

[BigAl737]

When's the last time you slept Doug?

 

[hongkongwargamer]

FYI .. Mac / VASSAL 3.4.6 / VASL 6.6.1 .. I see the same as Michael

 

[zgrose]

I just tried to repro on my MacBook Air running Catalina (10.15.7) and could not, will dig a bit more...
Ah, one must CTRL-Left Click right on top of a counter, confirmed. Also happens in VASSAL 3.3.2 and VASL 6.6.0-beta1. Trying to dig up an older combo, too...

 

[Michael R]

FWIW, I confirmed that it does not happen when using VASSAL 3.2.17 and VASL 6.5.1 .

 

[DougRim]

FWIW, I confirmed that it does not happen when using VASSAL 3.2.17 and VASL 6.5.1 .

Good to know. Thanks.

 

[uckelman]

Try VASSAL-3.4.7-SNAPSHOT-969c426bb, available here: http://www.vassalengine.org/~uckelman/tmp/

Does that solve any of the problems you're seeing? (If so, which ones? If not, which ones?)

 

[hongkongwargamer]

Try VASSAL-3.4.7-SNAPSHOT-969c426bb, available here: http://www.vassalengine.org/~uckelman/tmp/

Does that solve any of the problems you're seeing? (If so, which ones? If not, which ones?)

CTRL- Left Mouse Click produces the right click menu and NO red circle (even though Pref is set to yes)

 

[uckelman]

Ctrl-Left Click is one of the standard ways of raising a context menu on a Mac (the other is right-clicking; Ctrl-Left Click is used by a lot of people using a trackpad on a laptop, and Ctrl-Left Click is the only way if you have a one-button mouse). We'd been handling this incorrectly in VASSAL and fixed it in 3.3.2.

We've added a Flare in our development branch for VASSAL 3.5. Whether you trigger it with Ctrl or Alt (or some other combination) is a preference---it has to be, in order not to conflict with the the standard way of raising a context menu on Macs. (We made it a preference instead of Alt on Macs and Ctrl everywhere else to avoid complaints from people who want it to remain broken.)

Until VASSAL 3.5 is out and is the release you're targeting for VASL, your best option is to add a preference for which key to use.

You can see what we do in VASSAL's Flare for that:

vassal/vassal-app/src/main/java/VASSAL/build/module/map/Flare.java at master · vassalengine/vassal

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[uckelman]

There's a fix for a different problem in 3.4.7 which by happenstance will make your red circle work with Command + Left Click on a Mac. I'm not sure quite when 3.4.7 will be released---we have three or four issues we're still working on for it---but I would guess still during October.