Windows 10 DPI Scaling Strikes Again!
DPI scaling may affect your MapTool experience in odd ways. We've previously discussed the effect on the readability of MapTool text as well as a workaround to fix it. Recently, community member Vishika complained the templating tool has issues in the new version of MapTool. We discovered DPI Scaling had once again bit MapTool. However, through the diagnosis, we discovered how…
Blast from the Past: Planned Changes for MapTool 1.4 pt2
MapTool 1.5 finishes much of the work planned in 1.4. Take a look at what was planned years ago to see how much has come to fruition. #VTT
Blast from the Past: Planned Changes for MapTool 1.4 pt1
MapTool 1.5 finishes much of the work planned in 1.4. Take a look at what was planned years ago to see how much has come to fruition. #VTT
Blast from the Past: Interview with RPTroll
R. K. Athey, aka RPTroll, is the RPTools Bard and a member of the RPTools Staff. As Bard, RPTroll manages the social media sites for RPTools as well as other marketing tasks, such as interviews. He's also responsible for managing and providing content to the rptools.net site. The video interview below is from 2014. It's a wide-ranging discussion about VTTs featuring…
Blast from the Past: Interview with Craig
Craig 'no avatar' Wisniewski is a current member of the RPTools staff and its lead developer. Craig writes most of the design documents we use behind the scenes to determine how features will work within MapTool and is active in release automation and release management. He's one of the primary review gates for new code coming into the tools. This interview…
Blast from the Past: Interview with Dorpond
Bill Hart, aka Dorpond, is a member of the RPTools staff who provides guidance and support for new features in MapTool. While not as active as he once was, he still supports us as needed. Dorpond was the driving force for much of the Light and Sight capabilities in MapTool today. He drove home the point that an elf with lowlight…
MapTool 1.5.1 Released
The RPTools Staff and Community are proud to announce the release of MapTool 1.5.1. This release contains bug fixes as well as a few functional bits that didn't make it into 1.5.0. #vtt
Windows 10 Font Issue
Windows introduced DPI scaling to help with readability issues on monitors with high resolution. This appears to occasionally cause problems for some applications like MapTool.
Multi-line Properties Editor
As part of the 1.5.0 release, MapTool included a popup window to allow for multiple-line editing of properties. Prior to this release, you would need to copy a long properties entry to another editor, make your changes, then copy it back. With 1.5, you can simply click into the properties field, then on the down arrow next to the property value…