[Script] Dealer -- Is there a way to deal to a player, even if that player's token is not selected?

I use the "Dealer" Script (thanks, @keithcurtis) to hand out "bennies" in our Savage World campaign. A benny is akin to an Inspiration in D&D.

I have a Deck labeled "Bennies" (really just a deck of single sided tokens) and use the "Dealer" script, and this macro:

!deal --give ?{Bennies|1} --Bennies
@{selected|token_name} gets ?{Bennies} bennies!
/fx burst-water

I select a player token, click the macro button, and enter the # of bennies to be awarded at the prompt. The players all see that bennies have been awarded, along with a little glowy FX around the player token. 

This works great, but I'm trying to automate the start of the night where players and GM start with a set # of bennies at the start of the play session -- so I just need to press a "Start-Bennies" button, and the macro will auto-deal each player a set number of bennies. I'd love a feature like this:

!deal --give 3 --Bennies --ids <token id> [<token id> ...] 

But the deal script doesn't support dealing deck cards to a token (yet).

Is there another script that selects named tokens, that I could perhaps combine with using the Deal macro?

I'll page the Metamancer. :) Hold on.

There are some who call me...

...Tim?

You can do what you want with metascripts. As I understand it, Dealer is expecting you to have one token selected, which it then translates into a character. If you grab SelectManager, you can:

1) virtually select your tokens (optional, you could manually select them, too)

2) iterate over them, and

3) give that information, one at a time, to the Dealer command line.

If you chose to manually select all the tokens before running it, the command would look like this:

!forselected deal --give 3 --Bennies

If you wanted to virtually select them (meaning you don't have to click on them on the board -- you could have other things selected but act on the tokens you designate), you would add that onto the backend of that command line:

{& select -M1234567890abcdef, Bob, Hoocha Man}

The {&select} tag takes a comma-separated list of token names, ids, or character names.

You could store that as a list and get it at the time the command was run. If you wanted to keep it in an attribute, for example, you could do:

{& select @{MuleCharacter|BenniesResetList} }