Fog of War in 3.2: What does locking a region accomplish?

Hi,

I am a new user (Mac OS X 10.7, java 1.6.0_33) and loving the program. But some things still puzzle me. One thing is what locking a region when applying Fog of War to a map accomplishes. When the region is locked, I can still:

Delete the region.
Rotate the region.
Scale the region.
Edit the region's shape.
Show/Hide the region.
Move figures to and from the place in the map below the region

I can think of nothing else to try to see what locking accomplishes... Please educate me.

Best regards,

Uthin

 

Re: Fog of War in 3.2: What does locking a region accomplish

Hi Curtis,

In that case, is there not a usability concern here? Regions can have some of their attributes changed even when not in Manipulate/Edit mode? At least the way I see it. I had expected the Lock to mean "now this region is frozen and can not be altered in any way (with the exception being - of course - visibility)".

I have created some regions with quite a few knots. It has happened a few times that I accidentally have clicked and moved one of these regions when in Edit mode. Since it seems d20Pro lacks an undo feature for such occurrences as well as a lock feature that still allows editing even when not "freed", I am forced to reconnect every single knot to their previous locations by hand.

I am sure I am not the only one finding this extra work tedious and unnecessary. I know, I could just have NOT moved the stupid region in the first place, but some of us do have more than the regurlarly allotted amount of thumbs, even when working with a computer mouse. :mrgreen:

I did a search on the feature requests board but couldn't find anything regarding this. Do you know if the above is slated for fixing, or should I go and make this a feature request?

Best regards,

Uthin