Encounter powers

[Sean Abel]

Just started a new D&D campaign and I noticed that the Encounter powers are now green in the title power area with a "Red" box on the left with a E inside. Is there a way to change them so that the entire title area is red again?

[Cryptoknight]

Well crap... it seems they've changed changed how herolab renders character sheets...

Splendid...

[Sean Abel]

Was that LW or something that we have done to the code?

[Sean Abel]

There has been a post about it on LW site http://forums.wolflair.com/showthread.php?t=53015 just as an fyi. I have no idea how to fix this  does anyone else?

[Daphne]

There has been a post about it on LW site http://forums.wolflair.com/showthread.php?t=53015 just as an fyi. I have no idea how to fix this  does anyone else?

I would suggest taking a look at styles_output.aug, see outTitleAt vs outTitleEn in particular. And a sheet_powercards.dat ( lines 272 - 286 ) which has logic to set styles. I'm wondering if the perform portal[letter].setstyle[outTitleEn] is somehow preventing the other two setstyles in the block from running.

See also Dynamically Changing Styles

Edit: I almost think it might be a bug in hero lab itself.

[Sean Abel]

So under styles_output.aug lines 238-256 have the following

<!-- title & keyword text for encounter powers - red background -->
  <style
    id="outTitleEn">
    <style_output
      textcolor="f0f0f0"
      backcolor="600000"
      font="ofnttitle"
      alignment="center">
      </style_output>
    </style>
  <style
    id="outKeyEn">
    <style_output
      textcolor="f0f0f0"
      backcolor="600000"
      font="ofntkeywrd"
      alignment="center">
      </style_output>
    </style>

when in Sheet_pwercards.dat lines 276-286 may have something to do with color (which Daphne mentioned)

      ~otherwise, if this is an encounter or at-will power, change the style
      ~appropriately.
      elseif (tagis[PowerUse.Encounter] <> 0) then
        perform portal[letter].setstyle[outTitleEn]
        perform portal[name].setstyle[outTitleEn]
        perform portal[keywords].setstyle[outKeyEn]
      elseif (tagis[PowerUse.AtWill] <> 0) then
        perform portal[letter].setstyle[outTitleAt]
        perform portal[name].setstyle[outTitleAt]
        perform portal[keywords].setstyle[outKeyAt]
        endif

WARNING don t mess with the (backcolor="600000")!
Something happened and it effect the Core so I am fixing that right now

[Sean Abel]

Not sure what happened but I have 4E back working
I was running a test to see if the color would change and SMACK it effected the Core.hlz file causing a corruption.
Well if anyone is at GenCon and can talk with Colen and ask him if he can help with power cards that would be GREAT!

Thanks all

[Daphne]

So under styles_output.aug lines 238-256 have the following

<!-- title & keyword text for encounter powers - red background -->
  <style
    id="outTitleEn">
    <style_output
      textcolor="f0f0f0"
      backcolor="600000"
      font="ofnttitle"
      alignment="center">
      </style_output>
    </style>
  <style
    id="outKeyEn">
    <style_output
      textcolor="f0f0f0"
      backcolor="600000"
      font="ofntkeywrd"
      alignment="center">
      </style_output>
    </style>

when in Sheet_pwercards.dat lines 276-286 may have something to do with color (which Daphne mentioned)

      ~otherwise, if this is an encounter or at-will power, change the style
      ~appropriately.
      elseif (tagis[PowerUse.Encounter] <> 0) then
        perform portal[letter].setstyle[outTitleEn]
        perform portal[name].setstyle[outTitleEn]
        perform portal[keywords].setstyle[outKeyEn]
      elseif (tagis[PowerUse.AtWill] <> 0) then
        perform portal[letter].setstyle[outTitleAt]
        perform portal[name].setstyle[outTitleAt]
        perform portal[keywords].setstyle[outKeyAt]
        endif

WARNING don t mess with the (backcolor="600000")!
Something happened and it effect the Core so I am fixing that right now

I played arround earlier with removing some of the setstyle[outTitleAt] earlier, and it fixed the corresponding encounter power at the price of breaking the at-will coloring. Which is why I think it might be Hero Lab bug. I wonder if other work arounds could be tried, like making three different headers for the power cards, with the styles fixed and just hiding the ones that are not valid from the layout.

[Sean Abel]

I think you are correct Daphne, different headers would make everything work on its own instead of off of each other, that could even lead to color for items (that is if we can figure out how to make item cards for all items.) Unfortunately its a bit pass my abilities, at this time.

[millertgh]

First off I apologize for reviving and old topic but it wasn't closed and I did not want to muck up the forums with duplicate topics.

I was curious if a fix for this had been found? I have played around with the files mentioned above a bit but appear to be stuck. From my testing I did discover that it seems the AtWill settings are overriding the Encounter settings after the encounter settings have been put into place. I do not know if that helps any. I look forward to any response and/or progress.

Thanks