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**as long as something isn't part of the {{c|<canvas>}}, one can write & edit {{wiki|CSS|CSS}} snippets that changes the look for yourself if you save it as a userstyle with Stylus. | **as long as something isn't part of the {{c|<canvas>}}, one can write & edit {{wiki|CSS|CSS}} snippets that changes the look for yourself if you save it as a userstyle with Stylus. | ||
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* looking up the names of sheet [[attributes]] or [[Repeating Sections]] | * looking up the names of sheet [[attributes]] or [[Repeating Sections]] | ||
* Figure out [[RowID]] of something in a Repeating Section. Some sheets makes the RowID easy to find, but majority of sheet's don't. | * Figure out [[RowID]] of something in a Repeating Section. Some sheets makes the RowID easy to find, but majority of sheet's don't. | ||
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{{:Character Sheet Development/Debugging}} | {{:Character Sheet Development/Debugging}} | ||
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* [[Stylus]] | * [[Stylus]] | ||
Revision as of 15:11, 4 March 2022
 | Page Updated: 2022-03-04 |
Using the built in Web Dev tools in your browser helps a lot with figuring things out. Both Firefox & Chrome (others) have their own versions.
Open it: pressing F12 or Right Click anywhere & select "Inspect".
- Firefox Web Developer Tools
- Chrome DevTools
- Open with Cmd+Option+C (Mac), Ctrl+Shift+C
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Uses in Roll20
- Get extra info to send with a Roll20 bug report
- Tweaking Roll20 looks with Stylus
- as long as something isn't part of the
<canvas>, one can write & edit CSS
snippets that changes the look for yourself if you save it as a userstyle with Stylus.
- as long as something isn't part of the
Macros
- looking up the names of sheet attributes or Repeating Sections
- Figure out RowID of something in a Repeating Section. Some sheets makes the RowID easy to find, but majority of sheet's don't.
- Especially useful on newer by Roll20-sheets where we don't have public sourcecode for the sheet.
- Can be quicker than searching through the public sourcecode
Character Sheet Development
- make live edits on you sheet and see how things change(like adjusting the width of a number input to look good)
- inspecting other's sheets to se how they achieved some specific effect.
- HTML/CSS debugging: figure out why something works or doesn't work in your code, to narrow down the problem, like why a css class is not working.
- sheetworkers/javascript debugging: reading the web console to figure out what's going on with your sheetworkers. Open the console and keep an eye on it when you use the sheet like normally & see what it reports.
- Example: If you add something like
console.log("ifWounded is trigger")orconsole.log("Set strength mod to" + strmod)() in your sheetworkers, you can see what steps that take place, what is left out, and know what values your variables have at different stages.) - JS Debugging in Chrome, and in Firefox
- Example: If you add something like
