If the saved game menu has more than 13 games, it won't be able to
use 'n' for "new game" and 'q' for "quit". Switch to 'N' and 'Q'
instead of just using the next letters in sequence. Only resort to
next-letters if there are more than 39 games.
tty and curses handle a list of many save files via menu pagination.
X11 does so with one long page possessing a scroll bar. If there
are more than 52 entries, selection via mouse is needed beyond 'Z'.
Qt has one page without any scroll bar so won't provide access to
the full set of save files when there are too many to fit on the
screen.
Simplify extended command selection under Qt by allowing the
autocomplete subset be one of the choices for its [filter]. That's
the same subset as X11 uses, where #q is unambiguous for #quit
instead of competing with #quaff and #quiver.
Unlike under X11, the player can use [filter] to switch to the full
command set and get access to a few commands which have no useable
key and aren't flagged to autocomplete. (Mostly obscure wizard mode
commands but #exploremode is in that situation.)
In normal and explore modes, the [filter] button just toggles between
two sets of commands (all normal mode commands vs autocomplete normal
mode commands). In wizard mode there are four choices and you might
need to click on [filter] up to three times to step through to the
target one among four sets (all commands, all normal mode commands,
autocomplete commands for both normal and wizard, full subset of just
the wizard mode commands).
I can't take credit for this and still have no idea why it is
needed, but it fixes use of ^V as a command and as input to
to the regular version of yn_function(). In particular, '&'
command reports it as ^V. Unfortunately when 'popup_dialog' is
set, no control characters seem to be accepted by the part of
NetHackQtYnDialog(Exec+KeyPressEvent) responsible for arbitrary
input.
It also causes getlin() to terminate but I can't think of any
situation where ^V would be considered to be valid input for
getlin() so won't worry about that.
I put it in as '#if MACOSX' because I don't know whether any
other Qt platforms need it.
Prevent Qt from inserting an extra entry in the Help dropdown
menu displayed in the menu bar across the top of the screen
when nethack has focus. "Search [______]" lets the user enter
a string to search for but doesn't give nethack any control
over that so we can't have it.
I haven't found a sane way to get rid of it. The insane way
of not naming any menu "Help" works. This uses "\177Help" so
that it still looks like "Help" but won't match that string.
Qt on OSX is inserting "Search [_____]" as the first entry in
the Help dropdown menu (the one in the toolbar at the top of the
desttop). While trying--and failing--to figure out how to get
rid of that, I cleaned up a little bit of the old menu hackery
(that tries to workaround the fact that Qt on OSX insists that
some menu actions--based solely on their names--should go into
the appication menu rather than whichever menu the program is
trying to insert them into). The only observeable difference
is that 'About NetHack-Qt' will be at the top (actually second
because of that Search one) of the Help dropdown, where it is on
non-OSX builds, rather than last.
This tries to make the program name consistent too, changing
several instances of "Qt NetHack" to be "NetHack-Qt". The latter
is the name being set up as ApplicationName in qt_bind.cpp that
gets used when Qt stashes the Qt-specific settings wherever it
stashes them.
It also makes another tweak in formatting of 'About NetHack-Qt',
inserting one explicit line break to avoid some poor looking line
wrapping. I still haven't figured out how to control that popup's
size.
Try to set the initial window sizes to be big enough to show the
full welcome line in the message window when the Qt settings
(Preferences on OSX) specify Large font (Huge/Medium/Small/Tiny
seemed ok but I wasn't systematic about checking them).
While at it, I added a long comment about the status window format
and noticed a bug with experience formatting there. Again only
seemed to matter for Large font but the change to fix ignores font
size.
Plus add a couple of Qt "issues", one old and one just discovered.
Text window search behaved very strangely: at some point after
selecting [Search], entering a search string, having the string
entry popup go away, and having the search performed, but before
the result could be shown, the text window got pushed behind the
main window (map+messages+paperdoll+status). Clicking on the
main window's minimize button hid the main window and gave access
to the text window behind it. That was still functional even
after having been inaccessible; another search could be performed
and/or it could be dismissed. I still don't know what causes
that or how to properly fix it, but using raise() is a workaround
to bring it to the front where it belongs. Unfortunately you can
see it go away and come back so searching for text is distracting.
Allow <return> (when not searching) to dismiss all text windows
including RIP. Accept ctrl+[ as ESC.
Make text window searching be case-insensitive.
Searching wouldn't find a match on the first line of text. Now
it will.
This also includes an attempt to fix github issue #400 (typing a
pickup command while "things that are here" popup text window is
displayed seems to hang the program), but since I can't reproduce
that, I can't tell whether the fix works. The issue description
says that pickup started executing and "things here" couldn't be
dismissed which is different from "things here" being behind the
map waiting for it to be dismissed. The attempted fix is for text
window handling to tell Qt that it wants control of the keyboard,
so nethack shouldn't see any attempted pickup command.
If player got Qt's saved game selection widget at startup but
picked "new game" there, the save file for the last character
in the list of saved games would be clobbered with the new
character's game if a save was performed. It wasn't necessarily
easy to spot because saved game selection shows the character
name from inside the file rather than from the file name, so the
next restore would look normal except for one older character
missing.
Noticed while testing: when you used the character selection
widget (either by picking "new game" in saved game selection or
because there aren't any save files), if you blanked out the
name field or it was already blanked because a generic name like
"player" had been specified, then clicked on "play", the program
would get stuck in a loop somewhere. I didn't try to figure out
where, just changed qt_askname() to revert to original name if
it ended up with a blank one.
Support MSGTYPE=stop by having qt_display_nhwindow(WIN_MESSAGE,TRUE)
issue a tty-style --More-- prompt. For popup_dialog Off, the prompt
gets appended to the most recent message; for popup_dialog On, it is
issued via a popup and not displayed in the message window.
It accepts <space>, ^J, ^M, and ^[ (ESC) to dismiss. There's no way
to dismiss it with the mouse (for !popup_dialog) which might need
some fix....
Several adventures along the way. The '^C-in-parent-terminal triggers
infinite loop repeatedly complaining about "event loop already running"'
is now a one-shot complaint. It isn't fixed but the severity of
having it happen is greatly reduced.
Any key bindings in player's run-time config file will already be
in place by the time the Qt menus are constructed. Those menus
will use the new key assignments rather than the defaults, so not
a bug.
The save file selection widget was issuing a complaint to stderr:
|QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout "" to QDialog "", which already
| has a layout
This shuts that up, but doesn't fix the broken save file selection
so I haven't added a fixes37.0 entry.
Record a bunch of Qt stuff before I forget it all. It's probably
too late: I'll bet I've left some things out.
Doesn't include several menu problems that I've already fixed but
not checked in yet. (I don't have any other Qt changes pending.)
