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Refresh from a client that is already running. While Heroes of the Storm is up, a chip
appears in the header of the window. It reads the account that is signed in — rank, placement
status, account level, heroes, gold, shards, gems, loot chests and leaver penalty — and writes it
into that account's record. It signs nobody out and it closes nothing: the client is left
exactly as it was found, and afterwards it stands on the ARAM screen, ready to play. Until now
refreshing meant starting the game from a row, which signed the running account out first.
The app finds out by itself which account is signed in, by reading the battletag off the
profile. If no account in Smurftown carries that battletag, nothing is written and the chip says
so.
Which region the client is playing in is asked when the answer is not already known. The game
shows it on none of its screens, and rank and heroes are stored per region — so an account that
plays in one region is refreshed without a question, and one that plays in several is asked
before anything is read. Cancelling that question writes nothing.
A small window walks you through it. Heroes of the Storm only takes clicks while it is in
front, and no application can put it there from the outside — so the window asks you to, waits
until it actually is, and then shows each step as it happens: which account was found, which
region, how much of the collection has been read. The region question is asked in that same
window rather than in one of its own. It stays open when the run is over, so there is something
to read when you come back from the game.
A click on a row opens the edit dialog, and the pointer turns into a hand to say so.
Everywhere on the row except the rank medal, the hero strip and the two round buttons, which
have gestures of their own.
A click on the rank medal opens the rank grid right there — the same 28 medals the dialog
shows, and the pick is written straight into that row's region. That is two clicks instead of the
five it used to take to correct a rank the game was misread on. A rank set by hand does not
pretend to have been read: the timestamp under the name stays where it was.
A click on the hero strip opens the edit dialog on the Heroes of the Storm tab, where the
hero picker is.
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The edit dialog opens on the region of the row it was opened from. It used to always start on
the account's first Heroes of the Storm region, so editing an Americas row showed the European
rank and hero list.
Only one game run at a time. Starting an account from a row while another run is in progress
used to be possible and produced two flows clicking into the same client, each landing on
whatever screen the other had just opened. It is now refused with a message.