Requested Capablities

[Unseelie]

How about an 'Open Portfolio' button on the 'Select a Game' dialog. It's really annoying to have to open a blank portfolio and confirm hero settings, just to be able to select 'Open Portfolio' from the file menu.

And yes, I know I can double click on a portfolio file...

[Silveras]

Originally Posted by Unseelie

How about an 'Open Portfolio' button on the 'Select a Game' dialog. It's really annoying to have to open a blank portfolio and confirm hero settings, just to be able to select 'Open Portfolio' from the file menu.

And yes, I know I can double click on a portfolio file...

There's an "Open File" button between the "Ok" and "View Manual" buttons on that blank hero record. That takes me to the Open File dialog where I last saved a Portfolio.

[Unseelie]

Originally Posted by Silveras

There's an "Open File" button between the "Ok" and "View Manual" buttons on that blank hero record. That takes me to the Open File dialog where I last saved a Portfolio.

If you mean the 'Configure Your Hero' pane, there certainly isn't one there on the Mac OS. I'll have to look at Windows when I get home.

[Silveras]

Originally Posted by Unseelie

If you mean the 'Configure Your Hero' pane, there certainly isn't one there on the Mac OS. I'll have to look at Windows when I get home.

Interesting.. yes, when you first open the application and the default blank Portfolio opens, the Configure Here there has (on Windows) a button to "Open File".

[McTaff]

Just thought of something else handy to have for the Min/Maxers: A Damage Per Round calculator. Should be fairly easy to have it spit out in there somewhere, with additional lines accounting for variable conditions (Bane, favoured enemies, cunning weapon, etc). Seen some brilliant .xls ones, but they require you to input numeric variables to represent feats and not all combinations are possible. HL would neatly spit out a nice set of numbers, the only things it would need would be AC, Touch AC and saves of the target.

Extra points given if an aggregate score from the Bestiaries could give average AC's/saves from a given CR.

[frumple]

Idea for templates. The ability to have a list of the base creatures abilities of a certain type and have the user select which ones apply. For example a template might require the base creature to lose all bonuses to Stealth that are due to coloration or environment. So having the template generate a list of all modifiers to the skill and have the user select the ones that apply.

Also the ability to have more than one user file open in the editor at a time would be useful for the data file authors when comparing and copying code.

[Mathias]

Originally Posted by frumple

Also the ability to have more than one user file open in the editor at a time would be useful for the data file authors when comparing and copying code.

You can launch more than one copy of Hero Lab at a time, and have an editor open in each.

[frumple]

That snacking sound you hear it me planting heel on hand firmly on my forehead.

Why didn't I ever think of that.... Sigh... Thanks Mathias.

[BoomerET]

You're hitting yourself on the head with Cheetos snacks?


BoomerET

[Unseelie]

Originally Posted by Mathias

You can launch more than one copy of Hero Lab at a time, and have an editor open in each.

In Windows. Not in OS X. I'd also like to see this capability, or the ability to open more than one copy of Hero Lab.