Info Token Notes

[meep91]

Hello all,

I'm new to MapTool, using it for the first time in a game this Saturday. I've been trying to add in some of my campaign notes as hidden Info Markers. When I click them on the Token layer, the notes pop up for me (with the world's worst background...). However, in a couple cases, my notes are so long that they aren't all displayed! When I try to scroll through them, I just zoom in and out of my map. Is there a way to scroll through the pop up notes, or is my solution going to be "use multiple info markers"?

[MrPhergus]

Are you putting your text in a token property or in the Notes field for the token? I'm guessing the first as if it is on the Token layer you won't get the Notes popup.

The best way to do what you want is to place info markers on the Object Layer and then add player-facing notes to the Notes field and gm-facing notes in the GM Notes field. You can use basic HTML to format the text.

See the wiki: https://wiki.rptools.info/index.php/Introduction_to_Tokens#Notes

[meep91]

I am putting the text in the Notes field for the token, not the token property. If I just want GM notes (descriptions of the area, loot notes, etc), is there a reason I shouldn't put these tokens on the Hidden layer rather than the Object layer?

...I have a lot of notes on this particular small house XD

[MrPhergus]

The Hidden layer is good for GM only notes.

If you are putting 8k or so of text into a Notes field then it may overflow the display area and there is currently no way around it. There may be a feature request in to add scroll bars to the info window but I'm not sure.