Having recently discovered the Multiple Deck posssibilities in Orphalese I'm using it more and more... It's excellent!
However even very good things can sometimes be improved...
Suppose I'm using a Coin Deck or Yarrow Stalk Deck for the I Ching. Rather than write down the lines/numbers, so that we of challenged memory don't forget (there are too many important things to remember to bother with the trivial!) I can keep that Deck Open while I open an I Ching Deck and find my one or two Hexagrams. Fine! Excellent!
However when it comes time to record the reading (which I usually do) I don't really want the Coin or Yarrow Stalk Deck included in that. It takes MUCH longer with the coins (being 18 of them) and normally I'd just record my "Question" with the row of numbers: suppose it was "777 767 - 75 changing to 777 797 - 77". That gives me all the information I need to recall exactly how I got those Hexagrams, including the important changing lines.
Two options to enable this:
1) to be able to close down the first Deck - but Dxxn! I opened the coins first and I can't close that Deck, it will close the program...
2) to be able to select to record as a reading, one or all of the Decks open.
If only I remembered to open the I Ching Deck first! - but that just isn't the "intuitive" order to do things in.
If you have time (and the inclination)...
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Greg the Yeti
Multiple Deck Enhancement
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Re: Multiple Deck Enhancement
I am not sure I understand every detail of this request but there is a modification I made earlier this summer which might help, namely that you can now have multiple versions of the program running (you have to check the option first in the Options form, otherwise you will get the usual message telling you that the program is already running). This was in response to another user who asked for it because they had two screens set up and sometimes wanted to have the program running in each one. Would it also help in this case?
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Re: Multiple Deck Enhancement
Yes, what you suggest - using a separate instance of Orphalese - would certainly do the job. However it's not my preferred option! Let me try to explain why...
Multiple Decks work so well and are so very very very nice to use that it seems a shame not to be able to use that solution.
For you as the programmer I know that each card is a "Window" and is effectively as much effort to create and control as a separate instance of the program, however for the user the experience is different.
For the user, the environment you have created is brilliant and intuitive, and while Decks and Cards and "Extra Decks" with all their cards ARE Windows, they don't APPEAR that way to the user or distract from the artistic beauty of the whole thing.
This is very important for such a thing as Orphalese, where we are using intuition, emotions and spiritual human functions to help ourselves or to help others in their lives. An un-necessary "Windowed Box" does get in the way of the creative, intuitive process!...
So while running a separate instance of Orphalese does "Get the Job Done" and is "Functionally Identical", as a User I have to say that the Mutiple Deck Solution is always more "User Friendly" "Intuitive" - "Spiritual" if I can say that about a computer program!!!
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To outline and clear out any ambiguity:
My request was simply to be able to
1) Select which of the Multiple Decks are included in a recorded reading.
OR
2) To be able to close down any of the Multiple Decks. Currently you cannot close down the first selected, because that will close the program.
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Option 1) above is the preferred option, however both are good ideas.
With regard to option 2, think how many other programs allow one to have the program open, without a document in play. OK, in Orphalese I can foresee one issue - all program control is currently in the right click on the Deck.
OK - let's suppose that a user closed down all the Decks...
Couldn't all right click controls be transferred automatically to right clicking on the "Parking Area"?
In fact, in a "Multiple Deck" environment would it not be more logical to have "Deck Specific Functions" on the right click for the Deck, while "Universal Program Functions" are not on the Deck but perhaps on the only other area - The "Parking Area".
It's just a thought. I know that's a radical one and would require a lot of work, but it would be more logical.
Another reason for suggesting option 1) above as the preferred choice!
Regards
Greg the Yeti
Multiple Decks work so well and are so very very very nice to use that it seems a shame not to be able to use that solution.
For you as the programmer I know that each card is a "Window" and is effectively as much effort to create and control as a separate instance of the program, however for the user the experience is different.
For the user, the environment you have created is brilliant and intuitive, and while Decks and Cards and "Extra Decks" with all their cards ARE Windows, they don't APPEAR that way to the user or distract from the artistic beauty of the whole thing.
This is very important for such a thing as Orphalese, where we are using intuition, emotions and spiritual human functions to help ourselves or to help others in their lives. An un-necessary "Windowed Box" does get in the way of the creative, intuitive process!...
So while running a separate instance of Orphalese does "Get the Job Done" and is "Functionally Identical", as a User I have to say that the Mutiple Deck Solution is always more "User Friendly" "Intuitive" - "Spiritual" if I can say that about a computer program!!!
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To outline and clear out any ambiguity:
My request was simply to be able to
1) Select which of the Multiple Decks are included in a recorded reading.
OR
2) To be able to close down any of the Multiple Decks. Currently you cannot close down the first selected, because that will close the program.
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Option 1) above is the preferred option, however both are good ideas.
With regard to option 2, think how many other programs allow one to have the program open, without a document in play. OK, in Orphalese I can foresee one issue - all program control is currently in the right click on the Deck.
OK - let's suppose that a user closed down all the Decks...
Couldn't all right click controls be transferred automatically to right clicking on the "Parking Area"?
In fact, in a "Multiple Deck" environment would it not be more logical to have "Deck Specific Functions" on the right click for the Deck, while "Universal Program Functions" are not on the Deck but perhaps on the only other area - The "Parking Area".
It's just a thought. I know that's a radical one and would require a lot of work, but it would be more logical.
Another reason for suggesting option 1) above as the preferred choice!
Regards
Greg the Yeti
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Re: Multiple Deck Enhancement
In the interests of clearing out all ambiguity:
The problem with including all Multiple Decks open, in a recorded reading, is the number of cards, which are not required and therefore just creating problems.
In the example I mentioned above of the I Ching. If using Coins and using the "Spread all Six Lines" of Coins Spread, then thats 18 cards! None of which are needed for the recorded reading - only the Two hexagrams from the Main I Ching Deck.
Moreover, since Intuitively you use the Coin Deck first and then go to find your two Hexagrams, in the recorded reading you will have to wade down through those 18 now "Irrelevant" Cards to get to your two Heagrams. Not nice - and I suggest that because it's not nice a user will not do this again!
Being able to select which of Multiple Decks are to be included in a recorded reading seems to me at least to be a logical and important part of "Multiple Decks". In fact the only improvement I can think of to an otherwise more or less PERFECT set up!
I put it to you that "Muliple Decks" is SO good an experience that it's calling out to be used more!
OK it's unlikely to be used much by "Tarot Card Only" users? Since Tarot Spreads don't require several Decks... A "Tarot Card Only" user will only use it to compare Decks?... There is an existing Compare Function. They don't need it!
But for any Oracle which uses a "Selection Method" before finding your "Oracle". Coins, Druid Sticks, Knuckle Bones, Dice, Yarrow Stalks, Numerology etc. For any such Oracle, Multiple Decks is the Bees Knees!
For any user who prefers to respect the Oracle by using an Orphalese reconstruction of the Traditional Method, Muliple Decks is the Business!
Regards
Greg the Yeti
The problem with including all Multiple Decks open, in a recorded reading, is the number of cards, which are not required and therefore just creating problems.
In the example I mentioned above of the I Ching. If using Coins and using the "Spread all Six Lines" of Coins Spread, then thats 18 cards! None of which are needed for the recorded reading - only the Two hexagrams from the Main I Ching Deck.
Moreover, since Intuitively you use the Coin Deck first and then go to find your two Hexagrams, in the recorded reading you will have to wade down through those 18 now "Irrelevant" Cards to get to your two Heagrams. Not nice - and I suggest that because it's not nice a user will not do this again!
Being able to select which of Multiple Decks are to be included in a recorded reading seems to me at least to be a logical and important part of "Multiple Decks". In fact the only improvement I can think of to an otherwise more or less PERFECT set up!
I put it to you that "Muliple Decks" is SO good an experience that it's calling out to be used more!
OK it's unlikely to be used much by "Tarot Card Only" users? Since Tarot Spreads don't require several Decks... A "Tarot Card Only" user will only use it to compare Decks?... There is an existing Compare Function. They don't need it!
But for any Oracle which uses a "Selection Method" before finding your "Oracle". Coins, Druid Sticks, Knuckle Bones, Dice, Yarrow Stalks, Numerology etc. For any such Oracle, Multiple Decks is the Bees Knees!
For any user who prefers to respect the Oracle by using an Orphalese reconstruction of the Traditional Method, Muliple Decks is the Business!
Regards
Greg the Yeti
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Re: Multiple Deck Enhancement
I just found yet another really nice feature of "Multiple Decks"!
(and as usual - have worked out a few comments for future development - but I know you're busy, so leave these ones to a future update!!)
"Gather to a New Deck" - BRILLIANT!
With how I had Orphalese set up it didn't work at first... but then, once I'd found out what was going on and got it working, I really like it and can see a few good possibilities for it!
If you have Orphalese set up to always start with a specific Deck, "Gather to a New Deck" doesn't work. The cards you've selected don't open in a New Deck - instead the "Card Positions" you've selected open up in the Deck that you have selected as the "Opening Deck". Worse, if you go to the Deck menu and try to change those five or ten (or 22) cards to their "correct identities", you don't get that either, but instead the WHOLE of that Deck opens up. OK you're still left with the reduced set in the original Deck, but that may not be what you wanted...
This was quickly sorted by selecting the option for Orphalese to open with the last Deck used. NOW you have the two decks that you can work with individually. VERY NICE INDEED!
Since "Gather to a New Deck" doesn't make much sense gathering say the 22 Major Arcana up in say the Belline Oracle, it would be a good idea to have as standard that it Gathers into the same Deck as you have open, regardless of your setting of which Deck opens when you start Orphalese.
(Another possibility - for ultimate flexibility - would be to add a menu item "Gather to a New (Specific) Deck" which opens up the Deck Selection Menu... However that would be extra work for which I can't currently see a practical purpose?)
Uses of "Gather to a New Deck":
1) Selecting the Major Arcana and doing a reading with only Majors. (Or doing a reading with the Minor Arcana that are left in the original Deck!)
2) The "White Eagle Medecine Wheel" Oracle consists of Several Series of Cards and there exist Spreads from only those limited groups of cards. Otherwise you would have to create seperate Decks.
3) With a Lottery Deck, you could select out 15 or 20 favourite numbers and only shuffle and draw from those. Or you could select out 5 or six numbers that you "hate" (or were drawn last week) and shuffle and draw from the Original Deck without those. With Orphalese's recent developments in Shuffling,it is my clear choice as a better way of choosing Random Numbers for my Lotto Ticket.
4) I never use them, but some people suggest the use of a pre-selected "Significator" Card. You can easily take that card out and have it either in waiting or displayed on one side, while you shuffle and Draw from the remainder.
5) I've never yet done it, but I've seen people talk about doing a reading with just one of the Suits. Just Cups - perhaps for a Romantic Reading? Or just Battons or Swords (or both of those) - perhaps for a conflict situation? Or just Pentacles for Money Woes?
6) ... Left blank for other people to work out other uses - there must be some.
It's definitely a Premier Feature!
Regards
Greg the Yeti
(and as usual - have worked out a few comments for future development - but I know you're busy, so leave these ones to a future update!!)
"Gather to a New Deck" - BRILLIANT!
With how I had Orphalese set up it didn't work at first... but then, once I'd found out what was going on and got it working, I really like it and can see a few good possibilities for it!
If you have Orphalese set up to always start with a specific Deck, "Gather to a New Deck" doesn't work. The cards you've selected don't open in a New Deck - instead the "Card Positions" you've selected open up in the Deck that you have selected as the "Opening Deck". Worse, if you go to the Deck menu and try to change those five or ten (or 22) cards to their "correct identities", you don't get that either, but instead the WHOLE of that Deck opens up. OK you're still left with the reduced set in the original Deck, but that may not be what you wanted...
This was quickly sorted by selecting the option for Orphalese to open with the last Deck used. NOW you have the two decks that you can work with individually. VERY NICE INDEED!
Since "Gather to a New Deck" doesn't make much sense gathering say the 22 Major Arcana up in say the Belline Oracle, it would be a good idea to have as standard that it Gathers into the same Deck as you have open, regardless of your setting of which Deck opens when you start Orphalese.
(Another possibility - for ultimate flexibility - would be to add a menu item "Gather to a New (Specific) Deck" which opens up the Deck Selection Menu... However that would be extra work for which I can't currently see a practical purpose?)
Uses of "Gather to a New Deck":
1) Selecting the Major Arcana and doing a reading with only Majors. (Or doing a reading with the Minor Arcana that are left in the original Deck!)
2) The "White Eagle Medecine Wheel" Oracle consists of Several Series of Cards and there exist Spreads from only those limited groups of cards. Otherwise you would have to create seperate Decks.
3) With a Lottery Deck, you could select out 15 or 20 favourite numbers and only shuffle and draw from those. Or you could select out 5 or six numbers that you "hate" (or were drawn last week) and shuffle and draw from the Original Deck without those. With Orphalese's recent developments in Shuffling,it is my clear choice as a better way of choosing Random Numbers for my Lotto Ticket.
4) I never use them, but some people suggest the use of a pre-selected "Significator" Card. You can easily take that card out and have it either in waiting or displayed on one side, while you shuffle and Draw from the remainder.
5) I've never yet done it, but I've seen people talk about doing a reading with just one of the Suits. Just Cups - perhaps for a Romantic Reading? Or just Battons or Swords (or both of those) - perhaps for a conflict situation? Or just Pentacles for Money Woes?
6) ... Left blank for other people to work out other uses - there must be some.
It's definitely a Premier Feature!
Regards
Greg the Yeti
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Re: Multiple Deck Enhancement
Five minutes from posting the above and I have a new idea for "Gather to a New Deck".
I can see that people who use it may use the same selection of cards from a Deck on a routine basis. So why not have "Collections of Cards" in just the same way as there are "Collections" of Decks?
While someone selecting (or de-selecting) certain lottery numbers may change which ones regularly, and a Significator will change each time, the other suggestions I've mentioned above would all lend themselves to be members of a "Collection"
1) The 22 Majors
2) The Four individual Suits
3) All the Minor Arcana
4) Groups of Cards in an Oracle such as the "White Eagle Medecine Wheel"
Because some of these "Collections of Cards" might be applicable to various Decks ( All the 78 Card Tarot examples given) it might be the "ultimate logical extension" to allow those to Roam freely among other 78 Card Tarots.
That would probably be more work 4U and might be more error prone? Or should such "Collections of Cards" be limited to the Deck of Origin? Thats one for discussion!
Regards
Greg the Yeti
I can see that people who use it may use the same selection of cards from a Deck on a routine basis. So why not have "Collections of Cards" in just the same way as there are "Collections" of Decks?
While someone selecting (or de-selecting) certain lottery numbers may change which ones regularly, and a Significator will change each time, the other suggestions I've mentioned above would all lend themselves to be members of a "Collection"
1) The 22 Majors
2) The Four individual Suits
3) All the Minor Arcana
4) Groups of Cards in an Oracle such as the "White Eagle Medecine Wheel"
Because some of these "Collections of Cards" might be applicable to various Decks ( All the 78 Card Tarot examples given) it might be the "ultimate logical extension" to allow those to Roam freely among other 78 Card Tarots.
That would probably be more work 4U and might be more error prone? Or should such "Collections of Cards" be limited to the Deck of Origin? Thats one for discussion!
Regards
Greg the Yeti
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Re: Multiple Deck Enhancement
Well that is maybe an idea for a future enhancement. Regarding the points you raised further up the thread, as a matter of priority I will a) build in something to let the user choose which of the open decks that are saved to a reading and b) take a look at what is happening with that "gather to a new deck bug".
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Re: Multiple Deck Enhancement
Now that Programmer God in PC Heaven has granted nearly all my requests, I've used them and come up with another suggestion...
OH NO NOT AGAIN!
Doing an Oracle Reading which uses Multiple decks is working just Brilliantly! I love it.
Just for example using the Spirit Tokens of the Ling Qi Jing, having used it and "spread" them, I can leave that Deck open while I find the selected Oracle Card in the Main Deck. Then I can select just the main Deck for Recording the reading. Absolutely ACE!
This can now interact with another brilliant feature of Orphalese - Deck Collecions (no - not Debt Collectors silly!)
Since I use this combination frequently it's well worth setting up the two Decks as a "Collection"!
Currently calling up that collection will load those two Decks in the following way:-
Any Deck that was open in Orphalese already will be occupying the "Right Arrow"
One of the Two in the Collection will be the Deck that is Open
and the other Deck in the Collection will be occupying the "Left Arrow".
If and only if you had one of those two already open, you will get just the two Decks in the Collection.
1st Suggestion: (optional?) Remove the reference in the "Right Arrow" to whatever was open, since you're using the Collection and that may not be a part of it. I can't see the need for it? It feels more natural just to have the Collection open.
I think that once someone starts using "Collections" this will become the way that they work and it will replace the need for remembering the previous Deck. Once you use them "Collections" are very nice indeed!
But for those NOT using Collections, they will want to have Right and Left Arrows remembering Deck history as before.
2nd SUGGESTION: Have the option to open the Collection straight into Multiple Decks. So that the two Decks are actually open side by side, with presumably the first of those controlling any options, such as background etc.
I hope you like. I think it would be another "killer" upgrade for when you have the time...
Regards
Greg the Yeti
Edit:-
Since some people might not want to do this, it might be possible to set up and store in the "Collection" .xml the option to always open that collection as Multiple Decks (or not). So people can have it either way.
Some Collections, which just use the feature to compare similar Decks, are better displayed in the traditional "Single Deck with History".
OH NO NOT AGAIN!
Doing an Oracle Reading which uses Multiple decks is working just Brilliantly! I love it.
Just for example using the Spirit Tokens of the Ling Qi Jing, having used it and "spread" them, I can leave that Deck open while I find the selected Oracle Card in the Main Deck. Then I can select just the main Deck for Recording the reading. Absolutely ACE!
This can now interact with another brilliant feature of Orphalese - Deck Collecions (no - not Debt Collectors silly!)
Since I use this combination frequently it's well worth setting up the two Decks as a "Collection"!
Currently calling up that collection will load those two Decks in the following way:-
Any Deck that was open in Orphalese already will be occupying the "Right Arrow"
One of the Two in the Collection will be the Deck that is Open
and the other Deck in the Collection will be occupying the "Left Arrow".
If and only if you had one of those two already open, you will get just the two Decks in the Collection.
1st Suggestion: (optional?) Remove the reference in the "Right Arrow" to whatever was open, since you're using the Collection and that may not be a part of it. I can't see the need for it? It feels more natural just to have the Collection open.
I think that once someone starts using "Collections" this will become the way that they work and it will replace the need for remembering the previous Deck. Once you use them "Collections" are very nice indeed!
But for those NOT using Collections, they will want to have Right and Left Arrows remembering Deck history as before.
2nd SUGGESTION: Have the option to open the Collection straight into Multiple Decks. So that the two Decks are actually open side by side, with presumably the first of those controlling any options, such as background etc.
I hope you like. I think it would be another "killer" upgrade for when you have the time...
Regards
Greg the Yeti
Edit:-
Since some people might not want to do this, it might be possible to set up and store in the "Collection" .xml the option to always open that collection as Multiple Decks (or not). So people can have it either way.
Some Collections, which just use the feature to compare similar Decks, are better displayed in the traditional "Single Deck with History".
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Re: Multiple Deck Enhancement
Hi Greg,Greg the Yeti wrote:I can see that people who use it may use the same selection of cards from a Deck on a routine basis. So why not have "Collections of Cards" in just the same way as there are "Collections" of Decks?
......(the following) would all lend themselves to be members of a "Collection":
1) The 22 Majors
2) The Four individual Suits
3) All the Minor Arcana
4) Groups of Cards in an Oracle such as the "White Eagle Medecine Wheel"
Regards
Greg the Yeti
I fully support your enhancement request as I have several Oracle decks that have suits; say for example Chuck Spezzano's Enlighment Deck that gets you to draw a card from the problem suit, a card from the solution suit, and a card from the outcome suit (so to speak). (In fact there are six suits in this deck and sometimes you use a combination of some of the suits!)
On a side note, you've now got me thinking about the Grand Tableau spread with Lenormand-style decks.....where, each spread position represents a house and, the reading changes depending on the card that is laid in that house. So, there's a need to record multiple card combinations for the card notes. (Hmm, another enhancement request perhaps......)
Anyway, after reading through your posts, I have a temporary and immediate solution for you. It's not the most resource-efficient answer but definitely the quickest option in that it involves no work from our wonderful programmer (but a little work from you).
Let me pre-empt this by saying I haven't yet played with the multiple decks feature (because I've been away from Orphalese for a few years and that feature didn't exist back then) but from what I understand, it's possible to have multiple decks open in the one reading so you can draw cards from each deck.
If this is true then, all you need to do is to create deck sub-sets from the full deck, containing only the cards that relate to that suit. So, these sub-set decks would become decks in their own right. Using the multiple deck feature, you could open several sub-set decks and draw from them accordingly. As an additional step, you can create collections to group the sub-sets (though I would need to experiment a bit more with this to see if it serves any purpose because if you used intuitive deck naming conventions, or a folder structure in the deck management window, they would all be listed together anyway).
Give it a try and post back here, as I'd be interested to see how/if it works.
cheers
purple_scorp
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Re: Multiple Deck Enhancement
Hi purple_scorp,
thanks for your ideas here. I've also had a "lacuna" here because of two personal cirsees...
With regard to the Multiple Deck Enhancement mentioned here, Richard got it "Done and Dusted" in the latter Orphalese 9's. however with the new Orphalese 10, he'd made a few changes that had stopped it working again. I've posted elsewhere on this, which you may have seen. I'm just really posting here as well to be polite to you and your contribution now that I've noticed it! Sorry!
We've more or less got it working again (horay!) but are trying to tie up the loose ends of ease of use...
The Multiple Deck feature is BRILLIANT and can do much more than work with "sub-decks" created from One Deck.
For example, the "Motherpeace (Guidebook Notes)" Deck, comes in a trio of Decks, which work together to alllow the user to use the full set of Notes from the Guidebook Version. I've used it and like it a lot!
Here the two extra Decks aren't any part of the Main motherpeace Deck, but are completely New Decks, created specially to allow the "Upright", "Reversed", "Left" and "Right" readings of the Main Deck and ALSO to allow full use of the 12 Zodiac Readings for the "Wheel of Fortune" Card. Try it! I was amazed at how well Orphalese can do this.
I remember a good few years ago somebody on the Forum bewale-ing that they could not do those readings. We were then playing around with ideas of "Rotating" the Cards to suit. This new solution doesn't do that, but it does seem pretty intuitive to use. Try it!
Instead of rotating the cards in the main Deck - which if you think about it would require increasing the Deck Size to 78 x 4 = 312 cards!
That would be pushing Orphalese hard! And that still wouldn't have done the Wheel of Fortune Card...
We couldn't work out a solution to that back then.
This new solution sorts both problems and keeps to 78 cards for the Main Deck. Instead of rotating the Main Deck, like we talked about back then, it's the two "Also Run" Decks that do all the rotation. A good solution! I even think it's fairly artistic and focuses on the Sun the Moon and the Mother Earth. Nice...
Thanks MysticEast!
Regards Greg
thanks for your ideas here. I've also had a "lacuna" here because of two personal cirsees...
With regard to the Multiple Deck Enhancement mentioned here, Richard got it "Done and Dusted" in the latter Orphalese 9's. however with the new Orphalese 10, he'd made a few changes that had stopped it working again. I've posted elsewhere on this, which you may have seen. I'm just really posting here as well to be polite to you and your contribution now that I've noticed it! Sorry!
We've more or less got it working again (horay!) but are trying to tie up the loose ends of ease of use...
The Multiple Deck feature is BRILLIANT and can do much more than work with "sub-decks" created from One Deck.
For example, the "Motherpeace (Guidebook Notes)" Deck, comes in a trio of Decks, which work together to alllow the user to use the full set of Notes from the Guidebook Version. I've used it and like it a lot!
Here the two extra Decks aren't any part of the Main motherpeace Deck, but are completely New Decks, created specially to allow the "Upright", "Reversed", "Left" and "Right" readings of the Main Deck and ALSO to allow full use of the 12 Zodiac Readings for the "Wheel of Fortune" Card. Try it! I was amazed at how well Orphalese can do this.
I remember a good few years ago somebody on the Forum bewale-ing that they could not do those readings. We were then playing around with ideas of "Rotating" the Cards to suit. This new solution doesn't do that, but it does seem pretty intuitive to use. Try it!
Instead of rotating the cards in the main Deck - which if you think about it would require increasing the Deck Size to 78 x 4 = 312 cards!
That would be pushing Orphalese hard! And that still wouldn't have done the Wheel of Fortune Card...
We couldn't work out a solution to that back then.
This new solution sorts both problems and keeps to 78 cards for the Main Deck. Instead of rotating the Main Deck, like we talked about back then, it's the two "Also Run" Decks that do all the rotation. A good solution! I even think it's fairly artistic and focuses on the Sun the Moon and the Mother Earth. Nice...
Thanks MysticEast!
Regards Greg