In case you haven't seen it, the Qt screen layout is (a bigger
instance of):
+--------------------+------+--------------------------------+
| messages |invent| status |
| |subset| |
| | | |
| | | |
+------------------------------------------------------------+
| map |
| |
...
| |
+------------------------------------------------------------+
where some status fields include an icon and the inventory subset is
a miniature map showing a paper doll-style display of object tiles
for worn and wielded items. The two separating lines in the top half
can be dragged to resize the three windows there. The default message
window width to too small to see full text of some messages but can
be scrolled left and right. The window for the equipped subset of
inventory is unconditionally present; 'perm_invent' is a no-op.
Paper doll inventory layout (view with fixed-width font...):
Old New two-hand dual-wield
x H b x H b x H b . H b
S " w S " w W " W X " w
G C G G C q G C q G C q
= A = = A = = A = = A =
. U . l U L l U L l U L
. F . . F . . F . . F .
Legend:
'.' = blank, b = blindfold, '"' = amulet, '=' = left and right rings,
w/W = primary weapon, x/X = alternate/secondary weapon, q = quiver,
H = helmet, S = shield, G = gloves, C = cloak, A = suit, U = shirt,
F = boots, l = leash, L = active light source (lamp/candle/Sunsword).
Slots which don't have something equipped are shown blank.
'q' was missing; 'G' used to be shown on both sides. 'l' and 'L' are
new; for either, it picks the first one in inventory that's in active
use. The 'S' and 'x' slots vary depending upon weapon situation
since wearing a shield, wielding a two-handed weapon, and engaging in
two-weapon combat are all mutually exclusive.
Noticed while working on Qt's version of persistent inventory
window (paper doll-style display of equipment in use), leashing
or unleashing a pet wasn't updating persistent inventory. Leash
descriptions format differently when in use so immediate update
is warranted.
The Qt menu entries which were executing nethack's help command
(the '?' menu) were doing so because their command keystroke was
a meta-character and such characters are being converted to '?'
to indicate an error in conversion to Latin1 character set. The
old Qt3 code didn't perform any such conversion.
This fix feels fragile because there are two different places
deciding how to disambiguate partial extended commands (the code
for Qt's '#' handling and a new routine in the core). Qt menus
now send '#' and enough letters to satisfy '#' handling for any
command which uses M-c or has no regular keystroke nor M-c one.
(If it were to send the full extended command name, the letters
after the unambiguous prefix would be left in the input queue to
be processed as subsequent commands.)
There is a fundamental problem that this doesn't address: if
the player uses BIND directives in the run-time config file, the
Qt menu bindings will break unless the BINDs are all done before
selecting windowtype. Qt's menu bindings translate a click on
a menu entry into the keystroke used to invoke the corresponding
command, so using BIND to change that after the menus are set up
will result in the wrong commands being executed.
Changes affecting everybody (using Qt): rename game->Save to
game->Save-and-exit and game->Quit to game->Quit-without-saving.
OSX-specific changes: add separate nethack->Quit and change
game->Quit-without-saving to game->_Quit-without-saving to prevent
that from being hijacked for the nethack menu. nethack->Quit menu
entry works. Command+Q is a keyboard shortcut for it. They bring
up a menu with choices of "Quit without saving" and "Cancel and
return to game". It's not the same as the handler for the window
Close button, which used to offer "Save" or "Cancel" (with the
latter triggering an infinite loop) but now offers "Save and exit"
or "Quit without saving". They don't share any code. The
game->_Quit-without-saving entry doesn't work; it runs nethack's '?'
command like a bunch of other broken menu entries. If it did work,
it would give nethack's "Really quit?" prompt and proceed from there.
The "Quit without saving" response for nethack->Quit confirmation
bypasses that and just quits.
Also OSX, add a second 'about' entry. The first one is hijacked and
added to the nethack menu, the second is help->_About_Qt_NetHack_
and avoids hijacking. Both nethack->About and help->_About_ bring
up the same dialog box showing version and assorted other info.
A lot of flailing about with for relatively small amount of progress.
Menu hackery: change a couple of menu entry names on OSX to
control where they end up.
Move nethack's 'O' command from its hijacked position (due to name
"Options") of "nethack->Preferences..." to "Game->Run-time options".
Move persistent Qt settings on OSX from "Game->Qt settings" to
"nethack->Preferences...".
The Qt settings dialog (now accessed as Preferences...) desperately
needs a title and/or other explanatory text but I haven't figured
out how do to that. The values set with it are persistent, with
apparently quite a few choices for where to save them for future
runs. I used it to increase the size of text in the status window,
and found my settings stored in binary file
~/Library/Preferences/org.nethack.NetHack.plist
The subdirectories ~/Library and ~/Library/Preferences are
standard OSX per-user things. The file name is derived from values
set up in main routine: qt_main.cpp is setting OrganizationDomain
to "nethack.org" and ApplicationName to "NetHack". I've added a
value for ApplicationVersion but don't know whether anything cares
about it.
An earlier change resulted in place_worm_tail_randomly() sometimes
removing a long worm from the map unintentionally. It was still on
the monster list so if wizard mode sanity_check option was On, there
would be warnings of a monster which isn't on the map.
The change which triggered this was necessary so I'm inclined to
blame place_worm_tail_randomly() laziness.
This is a superset of the pull request's fix.
Fixes#377
Instead of an additional options file directive to end the last
section of a CHOOSE directive, simplify by using an empty-name
section, [], instead. So
...
CHOOSE one,two
[one]
...
[two]
...
[]
...
As with the short-lived END-CHOOSE directive, if no [] is present
then the rest of the file is part of the last choice.
Add an optional way to terminate the last section after a CHOOSE
directive in the run-time options file so that it's possible to
revert to common options. If no END-CHOOSE directive is present
then the last CHOOSE section continues until the end of the file.
(All existing uses of CHOOSE already behave that way.)
Change the Guidebook to refer to OPTIONS=x, AUTOPICKUP_EXCEPTION=y,
CHOOSE=z, and so on as "directives" rather than "statements". It
just feels like a better fit.
Add ^X (as "Attributes (extended status)") to the "Info" drop down
menu, also Overview, and Annotate.
Attributes and Overview work, Annotate results in running southeast.
Existing entries Conduct, Adjust, and Skills execute nethack's '?'
command so I didn't bother holding back on adding Annotate. Other
existing entries (Inventory, Discoveries, Spells, and Name) work.
If there's any sort of pattern involved, I'm not seeing it.
The Game menu has "Save", which shows up and works, but that's
supposed to be followed by "Quit" which doesn't show up when the
menu is used. This doesn't attempt to deal with that.
Command+q keystroke, which should close the application, behaves
the same as previously mentioned "quit nethack" in nethack menu:
runs nethack's '?' command and then resumes play.
Prevent an infinite loop that occurred if player clicked on the
close window button and then tried to cancel out of that in the
dialog it brings up.
I don't know whether Qt interface on platforms other than OSX
need this but they're getting it. The choices are changed from
"Save" or "Cancel" to "Save and exit" or "Quit without saving".
Since save allows subsequent restore, not being able to cancel
out of the application shutdown should only be an inconvenience.
Unresolved issues:
I don't know whether there's any other way to bring up that dialog,
where Cancel might be a viable choice. If so, handling that might
be tricky. Quit should definitely be available as an alterative
to Save, but that type of dialog doesn't seem to allow more than
two choices.
Picking "nethack" from application menu and then "quit nethack"
from the resulting pull down menu results in executing nethack's
help command (the '?' menu) and then just resumes play.
Add Michael's fix for control+x.
The enum name of the argument suggests that option+x should have
been sending control characters but that wasn't the case for me.
Before this fix, both control+x and option+x behaved like dead
keys, not transmitting anything for nethack to use. After this
fix, control+x sends ^X as desired but option+x is still dead.
options.c gave some unused variable warnings in the 'msg_window'
parsing if compiled without having tty enabled.
The 'msg_window' option should be available if either tty or curses
is the interface in use, hidden otherwise. The code to parse it
was included if TTY_GRAPHICS is enabled, so it worked in curses for
a tty+curses binary but not curses without tty one. This fixes that.
It is still displayed by 'O' when X11 or Qt is in use if the binary
also supports tty or curses. I've left that as is.
Testing some hints revisions resulted in some bafflement which
turned out to be caused by 'make spotless' in the dat subdirectory
not removing 'options'. It wasn't removing several other generated
files either. That used to work but got clobbered when the lua
special levels replaced levcomp and dgncomp.
When chatting to the quest leader to try to gain access to the
rest of the quest, if your experience level is good enough but
your alignment strength isn't, in wizard mode you'll get prompted
about whether to have piety boosted. Normally you would answer
'y' and be able to go to lower quest levels. But if you answer
'n' you'll immediately be prompted a second time. Not because
the no response didn't register but because the if/else-if/else
logic checks twice for whether your alignment is inadequate and
if you answered no the first time it will still be too low the
second, with the first answer not carrying over.
Fixes#376
I noticed that Qt status showed both Lev and Fly at the same time
when they should be mutually exclusive (Levitation overrides Flying).
I wasted a bunch of time trying to track down a Qt problem but it
turned out to be a core issue. If Flying is set first (which won't
happen if both are set in the same #wizinstrinsic operation), setting
Levitation via #wizintrinsic was attempting to update the flag that
indicates that Flying is blocked, but doing so too soon and failing.
Setting Lev via other means while Fly was already set didn't have
this problem so it wouldn't occur during normal play.
Also, #timeout lists timed properties which can have a timeout value
in normal play, then a separator, followed by properties that can
only become timed due to #wizintrinsic. Move Displacement from the
second group to the first now that it can be obtained as a timed
value by eating a displacer beast corpse.
The check for mon's max HP being at least as high as its level
turns out to be wishful thinking. Just disable it. Maybe we'll
flag critters who got or gave up HP during cloning and let them be
exceptions, then turn it back on, but not now. Or maybe reduce
mon->m_lev when cloning. That would weaken them though.
Keep the 1 extra HP that an earlier fix for this check gave to
monsters who rolled the minimum possible value while being created
(Nd8 that yielded N boosted to N+1, 1d4 for 1 boosted to 2).
The status lines are out of date. This brings status conditions
up to 3.6.0 level: adding Stoned, Slimed, Strangled, Deaf,
Levitating, Flying, Riding. It also reorders a few things:
put encumbrance after hunger, put Confused after Stunned, and
Blind after Hallucinating. Also renames Sick to FoodPois and
Ill to TermIll.
So, the portion of status devoted to conditions is now (left to
right on one line):
Satiated/[omitted]/Hungry/Weak/Fainting/Fainted,
[omitted]/Burdened/Stressed/Strained/Overtaxed/Overloaded,
Stone, Slime, Strngl, FoodPois, TermIll,
Stun, Conf, Hallu, Blind, Deaf,
Lev, Fly, Ride.
It's actually two lines. The upper line has a 40x40 or so icon
(aka tile, defined in qt_xpms.h rather than a data file) above
the corresponding text on the lower line. I created a blank icon
and used it for all the added conditions. At some point someone
with artistic talent will need to draw a bunch of things.
Tin handling code used tin->cknown to indicate that the variety
(soup, deep fried, pureed, &c) was known, but neither object
identification nor end of game disclosure was setting cknown for
that type of object.
^I behaves as if cknown is set, so the problem was hidden during
times when anyone was likely to be paying attention.
Adopt the suggestion that candy bar stacks which get split should
keep the same wrapper text for both halves of the stack. The patch
stuck with using obj->o_id to manage the wrapper which prior to the
patch wasn't a factor in merging and splitting. Switch to obj->spe
instead, comparable to tin varities, so mergability is already
taken care of.
End of game disclosure tacks on T-shirt text to formatted items.
Do the same for candy bar wrappers.
Qt menus have [ok][cancel][all][none][other stuff] buttons across
the top but it was disabling [cancel] for inventory viewing and
other pick-none menus. Enable that so that [cancel] is a viable
alternative to typing ESC or clicking on [ok] for dismissing the
menu without picking anything.
Qt's implementation of '#' puts up a rectangular grid of buttons
containing command names from the alphabetized extcmdlist[]:
| # ? adjust annotate
| apply attributes autopickup call
| cast ...
When 3.6 put all commands into that list, the hardcoded 4 columns
resulted in so many rows that the grid wouldn't fit on the screen
(at least not on my smallish laptop screen). There's no scrollbar
so the commands beyond "takeoff" were inaccessible off the bottom.
Warning messages from within Qt were issued to stderr complaining
about trying to render something off the screen (once each time the
'#' command grid was generated).
It was also including wizard mode commands when not in wizard mode.
Suppress those when they're not applicable, and change the grid to
use 6 columns then and 8 for wizard mode. The appropriate amount
ought to be calculated on the fly but these values work ok with the
current command list. (On my screen; if something smaller is used,
the original problem could come back, just not as severe as before.)
Having an alphabetized list go across rows instead of down columns
feels counter-intuitive so transpose the grid.
| # autopickup ...
| ? call
| adjust cast
| annotate ...
| apply
[Having another button next to <cancel> that lets the user switch
back and forth between the two orientations could be worthwhile.
A full-fledged wc/wc2 option for that doesn't seem warranted.]
The commands can be selected by typing their names as an alternative
to mouse click. The input widget supports <backspace> but lacked
handling for <delete> so add that.
When typing a command by its name, a new grid showing only matching
candidates gets displayed so that you can switch back to mouse input.
It looks pretty bad but does work as intended. I didn't touch that;
however, it looks different now due to the columns-vs-rows change.
The menu after picking "?" looks worse. It assumes a fixed width
font and tries to align things in two columns with spaces, but the
result when using a variable width font is ugly. This makes no
attempt to address that.
Prevent corpses left by cancelled trolls from reviving. Their
revival is an innate ability but is clearly a magical one, so make
that be subject to cancellation magic.
Change existing corpses that are scheduled to revive to rot instead
if they get cancelled as objects. Rider corpses are excluded.
Uncancel an ice troll whose corpse is put into an ice box.
Commit e9f53ab7f6 at the end of May
to fix corpses taken out of ice boxes by monsters changed removing
corpses from ice boxes by anybody to always give them rot-away
timers, even for trolls. Make an exception for ice troll corpses:
give those revive timers instead.
A reddit thread mentioned that throwing rocks at unicorns behaved
the same as throwing gems at them: not treated as an attack and if
teleporting away is allowed, they will. Change to treat shooting
gems and glass at unicorns with a sling as an attack rather than as
just giving the gem or piece of glass to them, and treat throwing
or shooting rocks and gray stones as an attack too.
If picked up by blind hero while not yet seen, gems and glass
format as "gem" and rocks and gray stones format as "stone" so the
player can always tell the difference. Forgetting to unwield a
sling before interacting with a unicorn is on the player's head.
Fix at least one typo. Change a few quoted and/or italicized words
to fixed width (tty) font. In the "Curses and Blessings" subsection,
mention dropping objects onto altars and the terms "BUC" and "BUCX".
tiles2x11 didn't complain about the tile definitions of the renamed
objects. It seems to me that all processors of win/share/*.txt
ought to be sharing the same code instead of apparently rolling
their own. (Maybe the issue was issuing diagnostic messages rather
than noticing the name mismatches? I haven't looked.)
I tried wishing for "splashes of venom" but was told that no such
thing exists even though "splashs of venom" and "2 splash of venom"
both work to produce "2 splashes of venom". After the spurious
failure, retrying with EDIT_GETLIN enabled showed that "splashes"
had been singularized to "splashe" so fix that.
"2 splashes of venom" IDed to "2 uncursed blinding venoms" because
the base name omits "splash of" prefix. And due to that, explicitly
wishing for "splash of {acid,blinding} venom" didn't work either.
Change the names to include the prefix, and add a hack to makedefs
to keep generating the old macro names without the prefix. (Wishing
for "{acid,blinding} venom" still works due to post-3.6.6 changes
to " of " matching.)
A recent newsgroup or reddit complaint stated that only 75% of a
monks attacks used martial arts. It turned out to be true; the
'valid_weapon_attack' intended to control whether skill gets
exercised was being overloaded for skill use. So the monk's 1..4
base damage used skill for 2..4 but not for 1. That was never
intended (nor for other roles and other skills; a damage value of
1 is meant to miss out on a chance to train the skill for future
enhancement but should still get a skill bonus or penalty for the
current attack).
If hero is a monk who is wearing a suit, have ^X mention the to-hit
penalty for that in the status section even though it isn't a normal
status line item. Combat feedback makes it annoyingly obvious, but
player might forget if MSGTYPE=hide is used to suppress the "Your
armor is rather cumbersome..." message.
For Qt, if unable to load either nhfiles.bmp or x11tiles, quit after
giving the can't-load-tiles feedback instead of continuing on and
eventually triggering a segfault.
Noticed when the comment about "this can go away when compatibility
with 3.6.x is no longer needed" was modified recently. Make it and
the code it applied to go away.
The recently added sanity check for monster maximum HP was giving
false complaints when Nd8 monster had N mhpmax. Most noticeable
for level 1 monsters (level 0 monsters use 1d4 instead of 0d8 and
weren't affected) but possible for higher level ones if they were
unlucky--from their own perspective--with all their d8 rolls.
Give level N monsters a minimum of N+1 HP, so minimum of 2 for
level 1 monsters, making 1/8 of those stronger. Same minimum for
level 0 monsters, 25% of which will become stronger now. (The pull
request's patch gave every Nd8 monster 1 extra HP; this only does
so for Nd8 and 1d4 ones which have rolled lowest possible amount.)
Also relax the sanity check so that existing to-be-3.7 save files
don't continue to trigger sanity complaints for existing monsters
that have the old minimum.
Fixes 365
When a mind flayer scores a hit against a headless target (or worm's
tail), there's a message that says that the attack hits and that the
target is unharmed. Since an ordinary mind flayer has 3 such attacks
per turn and a master mind flayer has 5, it can become excessively
verbose.
This doesn't eliminate the attacks until a hit fails to do harm, so
ordinary misses still get repeated if they happen first. Once a
successful hit doesn't do anything, any remaining AT_TENT+AD_DRIN
attacks are silently skipped. That way feedback isn't as verbose
and mind flayers don't seem to be quite so stupid about using their
tentacles when those won't work. Unfortunately they need to relearn
the lesson every turn they attack.
hitting a hidden monster didn't reveal that monster. It stayed
hidden despite the feedback describing it as if it could be seen.
The pull request's two line fix handled a monster's blast hitting
another monster but left two related issues as-is: monster's blast
hitting hidden poly'd hero left hero unrevealed and poly'd hero's
blast left hidden monster unrevealed. Same code, different bug:
poly'd hero's blast affected mindless monsters.
This unhides an affected target before the message about it being
hit rather than after. That would look better if preceded by a
message describing the object (mimic or hides-under) or furniture
(mimic) or empty spot (ceiling hider) as being or concealing a
monster but I didn't put in sufficient effort to accomplish that.
Fixes#367Fixes#362
If the Wizard fled up the stairs on level 1 and escaped the dungeon
(which can only happen if he isn't carrying the Amulet or any of
the invocation items), the number_of_wizards counter wasn't being
decremented. If that was the only Wizard, he couldn't be brought
back into play because he wasn't on the migrating monsters list, and
he wouldn't appear on the Plane of Earth when the hero eventually
went there. If that was one of two, the remaining one couldn't use
Double Trouble anymore. (I'm not sure about Earth handling in that
situation; should be moot now.)
Wizard mode blessed genocide of "*" when the Wizard is on current
level caused the same problem.
Fix by keeping the number_of_wizards counter up to date if mongone()
is called for the Wizard, handling both cases. Also, don't let the
Wizard escape the dungeon unless he's one of two at the time, making
the first case no longer possible.
If wizard mode blessed genocide of "*" is used on the level where
the quest nemesis is present, the killed-the-nemesis feedback will
now be given. I'm not completely convinced that this was the right
thing to do, but it only applies to wizard mode so may not matter.
Fixes#372
Give an implied explanation for the seemingly odd copyright info in
the source files and the run-time startup banner.
The extra Hack version number, the release dates, and the newsgroup
creation are from
https://homepages.cwi.nl/~aeb/games/hack/hack.html
which is the "Brouwer's /Hack/ page at CWI" external link near the
end of Andries Brouwer's Wikipedia page.
A recent fixes entry reported things incorrectly. The invocation
failure message inappropriately referring to the Bell and Candelabrum
as artifacts was given when reading the Book after both of those have
been used to set things up and either or both of them are cursed, not
when they weren't used before the Book.
Fixes#369.
Fixes#370.
The default entries inserted by makedefs -s (starting in 3.6.6,
to guard against having an empty data file which led to divide by
zero crash when nethack picked a random entry) lacked a terminating
newline so the first entry from the file (for the usual case when
that data file wasn't empty) got implicitly concatenated to it.
If the first entry got chosen during play, the initial portion
corresponding to the default entry was decrypted properly but the
concatenated portion corresponding to file's first line didn't.
So gibberish was appended to default engraving or epitaph or bogus
monster; also, the input file's first line would never appear.
The newline fix in makedefs is different from pull request #370
but accomplishes the same thing.
The bulk of the patch is an enhancement to #wizrumorcheck to show
first (default inserted by makedefs), second (first in input file)
and last engravings, epitaphs, and bogusmons in addition to rumors.
The command name has become a little misleading but the limited
functionality doesn't call for separate commands.
