> - I'd like to see another option added: scroll_amount. In
> combination with scroll_margin, this would control the amount
> of squares the screen is scrolled when the scroll_margin is
> reached (currently, this amount is 1, but if I recall
> correctly, it used to be more). For example, if both were 5,
> when you came within 5 spaces of the left screen border, the
> screen would shift 5 spaces to the right).
>>> - When I set font and font size of the message window, the
>>> message window size doesn't calculate correctly to show the
>>> number of message lines specified. For example, I set the font
>>> size to 6, and the number of messages to display to 8. Now
>>> there is whitespace at the top of my message window. When I
>>> set the font size to 14 now, I see only 5.5 message lines.
>>> This is unintuitive: the interface should recalculate the
>>> window size needed to display the correct number of lines.
>>>
>> I agree, especially since the message window size is
>> recalculated correctly if you save and restore. An easy way out
>> would be to set those options to DISP_IN_GAME.
>
> That seems like a good work-around until the proper fix is done.
The patch is attached. I moved the code that was computing the font
size to mswin_message_window_size(). This will cause the message
window to resize properly if the message font size changes. There
are also 2 minor bits in mswproc.c to invalidate the message window
when the font changes.
> Oops:
>
> "NetHack.exe - Entry Point Not Found
>
> The procedure entry point Process32Next could not be located in the dynamic link
> library KERNEL32.dll."
>
> And the program refuses to run. Same goes for NetHackW.exe.
>
> Windows NT 4 (to be precise: 4.00.1381, SP6)
> IE 5.0 (to be precise: 5.00.2919.6307)
>
> The Help for Process32Next shows the following compatibility list:
> QuickInfo
> Windows NT: Requires version 5.0 or later.
> Windows: Requires Windows 95 or later.
> Windows CE: Unsupported.
> Header: Declared in tlhelp32.h.
> Import Library: Use kernel32.lib.
The link is no longer valid. I found another
link, http://tultw.com/bios/latin.htm
but this doesn't seem like something we
want to direct maintenance effort towards.
So this removes the link altogether.
<Someone> wrote:
> Linux, Redhat 7.1 nethack 3.4.0
>
>Please see attached patch file.
>
>I'm attempting to move more stuff into the "read-only" area, in
>preparation for a port to another OS.
It turns out that the processentry32 structure contents
are slightly different on 2000/XP than they are on
95/98/Me according to the docs.
szExeFile
Pointer to a null-terminated string that specifies the name
of the executable file for the process.
Windows 2000/XP: The file name does not include the path.
Windows 95/98/Me: The file name includes the path.
Ensure that we check for the target values at the end of
the string.
<email deleted> on Sunday, August 18, 2002 at 15:28:18
> comments: player is blind, and not hallucinating (initially). On #loot:
>
> You trigger a trap!
> A cloud of ultraviolet gas billows from the large box.
> You stagger and get dizzy...
# ifdef WIN32
#define SAVESIZE (PL_NSIZ + 40) /* username-player.NetHack-saved-game */
files.c had:
# if defined(WIN32)
#define SAVESIZE (PL_NSIZ + 60) /* username-player.NetHack-saved-game */
It has to be 40 for savefile compatibility with 3.4.0.
From a bug report,
August 12, 2002 at 11:37:10
When I am polymorphed into a purple worm (didn't check other forms)
and bite a green slime I turn to stone (not slime).
three new features for the message window we discussed:
- Graying out lines that are old -- slightly cleaner than <Someone>'s version.
- Message concatenation.
- --More-- prompt if there are more messages this turn than fit in the
window.
As a by-product of these changes, some other things have changed, too:
- The message lines array is now used in a round-robin way, i.e. the
messages are no longer copied one line up when adding a new message.
- clear_nhwindow no longer redraws the window, which significantly
reduces screen flicker.
- A caret bug was fixed.
- The last line is no longer highlighted, as this seems unnecessary
since the most recent messages are in a different colour
- A bug was fixed that caused two lines too many to be drawn on each
paint.
> [Cast a healing spell in a shop where no mimic was visible] So,
> "The small mimic looks better.". However, my picture still looks
> the same. Either the mimic should be shown, *or* I shouldn't get
> any message about the mimic healing. Both solutions seem equally
> valid to me.
If the mimic was mimicing the "strange object", then the healing causes
them to start mimicing something else with no message (the observant
player could notice however).
If the mimic was already mimicing a real object, a message similar
to this one results:
"The crude dagger seems a more vivid black than before."
Add syntax that <Someone> introduced for the Mingw Makefile.gcc
to make it easy to use unix-style path separation throughout
the Makefile.
Put all the .exe files into ../util
Put all the .obj files into o/
Problem was due to the use of obj
in the caller (bhito), after delete of
the obj within animate_statue().
map_object(obj * 0x0000ff00, int 1) line 254 + 3 bytes
newsym(int -18, int -2) line 702 + 102 bytes
bhito(obj * 0x002f6c00, obj * 0x002f7398) line 1665 + 21 bytes
bhitpile(obj * 0x002f7398, int (obj *, obj *)* 0x0055220b bhito(obj *, obj *), int 37, int 11) line 1701 + 11 bytes
bhit(int 0, int 1, int 10, int 0, int (monst *, obj *)* 0x0054e0e0 bhitm(monst *, obj *), int (obj *, obj *)* 0x0055220b bhito(obj *, obj *), obj * 0x002f7398) line 2707 + 29 bytes
weffects(obj * 0x002f7398) line 2434 + 51 bytes
spelleffects(int 3, char 0) line 824 + 11 bytes
docast() line 552 + 11 bytes
rhack(char * 0x005b6034 in_line) line 1813 + 3 bytes
moveloop() line 405 + 7 bytes
main(int 3, char * * 0x002f2b10) line 93
to work with any call to getdir().
When cmdassist is set, instead of the
message:
"What a strange direction!"
you get a screen of help showing the valid direction keys.
!cmdassist will suppress the extra help information.
Provide some command assistance for newbies, but
suppress it with !cmdassist in the config file.
If someone misinterprets the Guidebook ^D, ^T
type command notation, this will pop up some
further information to possibly assist them and
explain the notation.
Several flags added since 3.4.0 were destined for flags
(to be saved with the game) but were placed in iflags for
savefile compatibility. These include:
boolean lootabc; /* use "a/b/c" rather than "o/i/b" when looting */
boolean showrace; /* show hero glyph by race rather than by role */
boolean travelcmd; /* allow travel command */
int runmode; /* update screen display during run moves */
This patch has no effect unless you define this in your port's
XXconf.h file.
#define SAVEFILE_340_CONVERT /* allow moving of some iflags fields to flags
without destroying savefile compatibility */
Without it, the new flags remain in "iflags." With it, the flags are moved to
"flags" and the structures are converted when the save file is read. There
is no reverse compatibility. If you save the game after conversion, you
can't load the savefile on 3.4.0, only 3.4.1.
"It was hidden under a green mold corpse! It bites!"
Never seen corpse from a never seen monster can be
revealed by the hider.
-problem is that the corpse of the monster is
always created with dknown set to 1 when make_corpse() finishes,
even in the case where you never knew what it was while alive.
can't just blind yourself with a cream pie in your inventory
directly by applying it or by throwing it.
On 27 Jul 2002 14:11:06 GMT, <Someone> wrote:
> <email deleted> wrote:
>> <email deleted> (<Someone>) hypothesised:
>>
>> [cream pie]
>>> So I a)pply the pie. What I want to do is to hit MYSELF in the
>>> face with the pie, thereby blinding me and giving me T-P for
>>> just a few turns.
>>
>> Not a bad TTDTDTO ("Thing The DevTeam Didn't Think Of," which is
>> subtly different to a YANI, and not a bug; sorry, I seem to be
>> on a neologismathon today.)
> I tried throwing a cream pie upwards, hoping it would blind me,
> but no luck:
>
> "A cream pie hits the ceiling. What a mess!"
>
Change the message for paying off consumed items to
"You paid for a xxxx at a cost of nnn gold pieces."
to distinguish it from objects that you still have in your inventory which is
"You bought a xxx for nnn gold pieces."
Warwick's plname files.c addition broke the
build on both win32 and CE because NAMES_MAX
wasn't defined.
In win32 it was defined in limits.h, but only
when _POSIX_ was defined.
In CE it just didn't exist in any of the
header files. Since it was also complaining
about strdup(), I #ifdef'd Warwick's code out
under CE.
Allow single character variations in player names
to remain unique in file names by encoding rather
than substituting.
"plnam one", "plnam_one", and "plnam~one" at the
"Who are you?" prompt get unique filenames after this patch.
> It's probably best to empty
> mswin_update_inventory() in win\win32\. If I
> remember correctly there is some code in there now
> which probably behaves badly if perm_invent is
> switched on
for now at least, until there is more time to look into it.
<email deleted>
> Yet more nitpicking about potions of oil being lit by sparks from axed
> statues, I'm afraid.
>
> Konosja's potions of oil catch light!
> "That will cost you 66 zorkmids (Yendorian Fuel Tax)."
> "That's in addition to the cost of Konosja's potions of oil themselves, of
> course."
> You snuff the lit potion.
>
> a) why is the Fuel Tax on (in this case) six potions the same as on one?
>
> b) if you a)pply-light a potion, it's just "in addition to the cost of
> the potion". Is Yname2() the right name-function for catch_lit() to
> be using? It's odd for Konosja to be talking about herself in the
> third person.
>
> c) Grammar on the snuffing message is wrong for multiple potions.
Since -s doesn't function properly under the WIN32
graphical interface as yet, disable it altogether.
Also clean up nhusage() so that it does work with
the WIN32 graphical interface.
<Someone> writes:
Why do you "feel transparent" when you gain see invisible from a
fountain when blind and _not_ invisible? Transparency usually refers
to _being_ invisible.
Another try.
<Someone> writes:
Why do you "feel transparent" when you gain see invisible from a
fountain when blind and _not_ invisible? Transparency usually refers
to _being_ invisible.
Good point. I think this may have been what was intended, but it's
been like this for quite a while.
<Someone> writes:
I can accept that losing gold into a fountain recharges it to make it
possible to find a gem in it in future (however weird that is). What
_does_ seem wrong is that receiving a warning about a Minetown
fountain prevents finding gems and gold there.
This does not fix a reported bug where you
can't attack a hidden creature that is
co-located with a boulder, but it might
assist the player in understanding what is
going on.
> The intention is, I believe, to cater for the situation where you, a
> chest, and a dungeon-trap are all on the same square; previously
> (C340-71), you wouldn't have been able to check the chest for traps
> because an #untrap in direction '.' would always have tried to disarm
> the dungeon trap. However, since you can't trap-check containers on
> adjacent squares, it'd wouldn't hurt if the question was dispensed
> with when you specify a direction that isn't your square.
>
> (Note that "you cannot deal with traps while trapped!", so there's
> still several situations when you can't trap-check a chest on a
> trap-square, even though you can loot it, until you've untrapped
> yourself; is this really consistent? Should the if(u.utrap) check
> be moved to the "case y:" branch of the switch?)
> > On Saturday, 6 Jul 2002, <Someone> wrote:
> > What's the rationale behind using "money" for what used to be
> > "gold" (as in "The hill orc picks up some money" or "You notice
> > you have no money!")? Has the zorkmid been devalued?
[...]
> At least let *leprechauns* pick up gold. Unlike orcs, they're not the
> kind to pick up just "money".
nethack.allison