From the newsgroup: identifying by menu pops up multiple menus in
succession if the player picks fewer invent entries than are being
granted, but the second and subsequent ones could cover up the
message window and hide the feedback from prior ones.
If multiple popup menus are needed when identifying, issue --More--
before each menu after the first. The code seemed to be trying to
do this already, but it should have used wait_synch() rather than
mark_synch(), or perhaps used display_nhwindow(WIN_MESSAGE, TRUE)
instead of either one of those. For curses, both mark_synch() and
wait_synch() were no-ops. Now they do something. X11's behavior
wasn't right either; it seemed to be lagging one message behind
(something I had noticed recently and then forgotten about; I still
don't remember the context then so don't know whether this fixes
that earlier situation).
I've noticed many instances of the game pausing and not being sure why,
then pressing <space> and having it resume. The curses interface had
a tendency to put its equivalent of the --More-- prompt, >>, somewhere
where that wasn't visible, either off the right hand edge (possibly) or
underneath the window borders if those were enabled. Especially the
very last one it issues prior to exit. (An extra one compared to tty
behavior.)
This ended up being a pretty substantial overhaul of message window
handling. I wouldn't be surprised if it has off-by-one errors which
happen to be paired up and cancel each other out. ">>" is still drawn
in orange if guicolor is on, now in inverse video when that is off.
If it happens to be drawn at the same screen location in consecutive
instances, the first ">" will toggle between blink and not blink so
that there'll be no doubt as to whether the keypress registered when
dismissing it (moot if the text preceding it is different but there's
no attempt to be smart enough to check that, just screen placement).
Have the curses interface save and restore message history for use
by ^P. It doesn't spit the saved messages out into the visible
message window after restore; that's too distracting.
