2022-05-08 Gridmapper new release

It’s nearly 10:00 in the morning on a Sunday. I’ve been up for a while. In the mornings, my bones ache.

A few days ago I reviewed some very old emails I had in my inbox containing patches for Gridmapper. I don’t quite remember what I didn’t like about them back when I got them. As I was looking them over, I figured I might as well install them.

A web app to draw maps, with a strong focus on keyboard use. Mostly useful for dungeons, castles, possibly spaces ships. – Gridmapper

=> Gridmapper

If you prefer the old version, you can still get it: Gridmapper 1.4.

=> Gridmapper 1.4

As I’ve been using it to draw some taller maps, I find that the browser scrolling up and down along with my keyboard commands is super annoying. If anybody knows how to stop that, I’d love to know.

=> An example dungeon map

​#RPG ​#Maps ​#Gridmapper

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Hey, I believe .preventDefault() can be added to your keypress events stop the keys from jumping the page about

– ranen 2022-05-09 16:56 UTC


Thank you very much, I hadn’t thought of that! Seems to work locally. 👍

– Alex 2022-05-10 16:28 UTC


I like the updates! Up and down spiral stairs are very helpful.

– acodispo 2022-05-12 12:51 UTC


At the time when got the proposal I was concerned about the localisation of the map: U and D doesn’t work for German, for example. But a few days I looked at it and figured, it doesn’t really make a difference. If I need to publish something for a German audience and I really need the info, I can just edit the SVG files. 😀

– Alex 2022-05-12 15:17 UTC


Oh, very good point! Maybe using a little up/down arrow symbol rather than a letter would be more universal? I don’t know much about SVG but maybe I will play around with it.

– acodispo 2022-05-13 12:38 UTC


Excellent. I think right now it’s a text element in the SVG definition, and using a unicode arrow doesn’t look good if I remember correctly, so we’d have to draw a little path element in there.

– Alex 2022-05-13 16:08 UTC

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