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How can handout appear on ONE player's screen, not all?

Hi. I want to show handout to appear on A player's screen. Not all players, just one. If GM allows viewing by select player by putting name in journals, that player has just permission to see it. Handout not appears on that player's screen. Could you give a help? Thank you. ※ I searched and found this thread : Show to player, but only one player  and checked the Roll20 wiki . You can also drag and drop a Handout from the Journal tab in the right sidebar onto a player. That player will be given permission to view the Handout, and it will also appear on their screen immediately. 'Drag and drop a Handout onto a player' doesn't work, though. Instead, it appears to everyone when I drag and drop it on the map. Not I wanted.
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Just looked. The code has if ("character" === r)     return; This looks like a bug. Something changed at some point and they have temporary code so it doesn't crash. (It does work for handouts though.) If you click "Show to Players" it will only show to players who have the character listed in "In Player's Journals" as a temporary workaround. If you need it shown to only one player but have other people maintain control you're going to need some custom code.
If I understood correctly, basically when I drag and drop a Handout onto A player, pop up on the screen for THAT player only.  But there is a bug now so it doesn't work? Sad :( Your tip is very nice. I will use this method temporarily. Is custom code mean API script?
A handout drop *does* work and will show to that one player. A character drop *does not* work and silently fails. It's more work than it is probably worth to solve this with code (for now) but another quirk that may be useful is that when you switch who can view it in their journal it won't close the window if it is open. You can use this for example to switch a character from being viewed as "all" to just a single player, press "show", then switch it back being confident that the player you specified got it popped up if it wasn't already and nobody lost it.