#649
<email deleted> on Friday, March 22, 2002 at 13:27:03
software: os: w2k workstation
nh: stock tty nethack.exe
comments: When you move onto a space and your pet moves onto the space
next to you on your left, your @ is displayed w/ normal attributes
instead of bright.
hilite_pet option is enabled
IBMGraphics option is disabled
#656
<email deleted> on Friday, March 22, 2002 at 16:59:37
nhfrom: 3.4.0 Official binary release for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Me/XP
software: Windows 98 SE playing the ASCII version
comments: Sometimes when I'm standing next to my pet the @ turns grey, it goes
back to white after I move.
This was a tricky one. While the error was ultimately because
he was specifying a non-existant directory in defaults.nh, the
error message lead me to the wrong area until I traced through
with a debugger.
It turns out that an fqn buffer was being re-used before it
was finished being used with the original information in
sys/share/pcunix.c, so the error message listed the
wrong file!
This adds one more buffer and fixes the problem.
Note that it could only affect plaforms with
PREFIXES_IN_USE defined (NOCWD_ASSUMPTIONS
or VAR_PLAYGROUND)
It also alters the WIN32 error message to give them a
hint as to what the problem might be.
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<email deleted>
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 9:27 AM
Subject: #R668: Windows 2000 Lock File Creation Error
> nhfrom: 3.4.0 Official binary release for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Me/XP
> I get an error after unzipping nethack to c:\nethack, and changing the
> configuration (defaults.nh) to reflect this in the hackdir, levels and save
> configuration items.
>
> The error I get is "cannot creat lock file (C:\nethack\NHPERM_lock.)" after
> entering nethack at the command line and answering the Who are you? question.
- change the way the tile sizes are calculated, based on the image size,
so non-square tiles can once again be supported.
- fix Gnome port so it can actually display non-square tiles, several
height/width uses were backwards
- update Install.X11 to note the number of tiles per row in the XPM image
- this was a betabug I think, but not recorded as such
- if you kicked a throne, any GEM_CLASS item could be generated, including rocks
- changes behavior to be consistent with gems from fountains
- forgot to apply this change before making the 3.4.0 binary (it was
actually built using these settings). It's safer for the game itself to be
non-group writable so that someone on a public server can't exploit a
bounds checking or similar error to infect the executable itself with
a trojan horse.
Format multiple bad wizkit items a little better. It will scroll off the screen
if there are more than a screen of bad items, but that's probably not too
likely.
You could still get a panic. To reproduce:
- wizwish for a statue, and drop it
- wizwish for a landmine, and apply it at same location as statue
- move one square and wish for a boulder, drop it (automatically likely)
- push the boulder on the landmine to trigger it.
- the panic came from the statue this time.
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<email deleted>
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 6:01 AM
Subject: Bug in 3.4.0: spellbook fading
> Dip a spellbook in a fountain:
> "The spellbook fadefades."
>
> In get_wet (potion.c), otense is used, which returns "fades",
> redundantly, as a suffix to "fade".
Document the way to decline a wish or genocide, and allow both
actions to accept both "none" and "nothing" so that players don't
have to remember which response goes with which prompt.
The shop billing code assumes that food marked partly eaten
is worthless, but the eating code was changed to make sure that any
eating attempt will never leave food marked as not partly eaten.
The end result is that non-corpse food which is consumed in a
single byte can be eaten off shop floors for free, and if eaten
from inventory--so already on shop bill--the "Ix" display of used
up goods lists the item as partly eaten (with right price though).
This fix makes single-byte food be handled the same as other
food: the first byte taken causes the food to be auto-purchased
immediately instead of waiting until it's used up to add it to the
shopping bill.
Fix one of the problems From a bug report: Mjollnir is only
giving the intended feedback when it is thrown. Against ordinary
monsters the problem isn't too bad--you get a lightning message
without the preceding hit message--but against resistant ones there
is no message at all when you hit hand-to-hand. (There is a similar
bug for artifacts which add magic missile damage, but since no such
artifacts exist that isn't much of a problem. :-)
> <email deleted>
> Oops! [...]
> Suddenly, the dungeon collapses.
> place_object: obj not free
>
> The crash is reproducible in wizmode by wishing for a landmine, arming it and
> pushing a wished-for boulder onto it.
Fix a documentation inaccuracy pointed out by Michael. Intended for
the 3.4.0 source tarball, even though it was submitted after the
code freeze. Does not affect compiled binaries.
This patch implements two things:
- space now dismisses a menu, text or menutext window when you are
at the bottom of that window
- Page scrolling in menus now works as follows:
pressing PgDn (or Space in NH mode) moves the focus down one page,
and moves the scroll position down one page. The effect of this
is that you always get a full new page of items (which is what
NetHack players expect), and that the focus moved down one page
(what Windows users expect.)
The same (revers) goes for scrolling up a page.
A Windows user will still be a bit surprised when the focus is on
the top item, and he presses '>': he gets a new page of things instead
of the focus moving to the bottom of the page.
However, the PgUp/PgDn keys (which he probably uses) still have the
old Windows behaviour.
This band adds handling for the "5" key in the numeric keypad. This is
called VK_CLEAR in the VK_ constants. Using this band, and with
NumLock off, doing 5 will send NetHack the letter 'g'. Doing SHIFT-5 will
send 'G'. Without this band and with NumLock off, 5 does nothing. With
NumLock on, 5 sends 5.
Changes to the resource file used for the Macintosh port.
Specifically, remove hardcoded version string and popup dialogs.
This is formatted with BinHex so it can be stored on non-Mac
systems without losing the resource fork. Though it is text,
it is not intended to be human-readable.
This implements some items on the ToDo list:
- H0005: Space does the same as PgDn in text, menu and 'menutext'
windows if NetHack mode is on.
- M0004: The cursor (caret) is hidden in text windows and menu
windows.
PgUp/PgDn/Up/Dn don't move the cursor, but scroll the
window.
Put back the "better gold handling" that was inadvertently
dropped from the previous rewrite. Prevent gems rubbed on cursed
gray stones other than touchstones from being shattered. Fix
several pluralization buglets, including allowing the player to
rub a stone against itself if the quantity is more than one (just
like potion dipping is handled). Overall, streamline the rather
convoluted logic, eliminating the `goto's.
