Opinions expressed:
> I actually like having "yes" consistently mean take a
> dangerous action, and "no" mean the safe route.
Also:
> I would classify the current behavior--where the "safe" answer
> is the opposite of the one for other prompts--as simply a bug.
[...]
change the dreaded "Stop eating?" prompt to "Continue eating?" with default "no"
<email deleted> wrote:
> [...] Vlad happened to be generated with a /WoDig and tried to
> make an escape hole during his last few moves. Shouldn't he
> know, that the floor in his own tower is undigable? So he lost
> valuable time with a pretty senseless action...
Zapping existing ice with cold wand/spell guaranties safe ice for
a minimum of MIN_ICE_TIME time.
Note that it could actually cause the ice to melt sooner than
it previously would have due to the randomization, but that's
an internal that the non-wizard-mode player would never
know anyway. The important thing from the hero's perspective
is that the ice should be safe for a while at least.
Also noticed and corrected a bug where the ice object effects
seem to have been getting initiated when solidifying lava in
zap.c
add a new melt_ice_away timer for ice created via zapping
a wand/spell of cold.
Some follow-up adjustments to the length of time before
the ice melts may be necessary. Ideally, I'd like to
have it so that the shorter the length of time since
the ice was created, the lesser the chance that it will
melt out from under you. Likewise, the longer it has
been, the more risky it will be to venture onto it.
At the moment, however, each spot of ice is just
getting a somewhat random time always greater
than 50, which is less than ideal.
> Not all objects say "Splash!" when they fall in the
> water. When levitating/flying and dropping things they
> don't, but when polymorphing and forced to drop items
> they do. [<email deleted>]
when floating over the water, things dropped always
make some sort of sound. Also fix up some messages
when Underwater that previously said things like
"feel what is lying on the water" by adjusting
surface() in that situation to return "bottom."
While looking into this, I noticed that if you
are polymorphed into a Flyer and you then polymorph
back into your normal form, you don't end up in
the water until you move, so this attempts to
correct that too.
> You cannot stop eating, transcribing, or removing armor, save
> the game, restore it, then expect to continue. These use
> static data structures which aren't saved.
1. Switch to low-level console routines for performance improvements.
2. Instead of moving the cursor around like a real tty, just track the
destination coordinates of where the cursor should be, and
defer the movement until user input is expected.
Credit to <Someone> for #2.
There was a great deal of inconsistency in
different menus on how headings were displayed.
This allows the user to select what they like best.
I was motivated to do this, because I wasn't satisfied
with the appearance of ATR_INVERSE in the menus
on win32tty, and several of them specified it.
On September 11, 2003 "<Someone>" wrote:
> When we're going to have a different save file format, could
> the last messages in the message history be saved as well, so
> ^P would work the same before and after saving (possibly
> including a few less messages to make room for the startup
> messages?).
This seemed like a reasonable request. This patch:
- adds the core support required.
- adds the tty supporting routines.
trunk and branch:
Do not limit role selection list by race/gender/alignment. The default.nh
selection will still be honored but the list itself will include every
possible role.
Some interface tweaks for main trunk:
- improved calculation of the size of the menu window
- made auto-arrange windows on/off option (it was reset automatically
which was unintuitive and in some cases annoying, IMO)
Pat Rankin wrote:
> collect them all into some new struct and
> save that separately rather than jamming more non-option stuff
> into struct flags.
This patch:
- collects all context/tracking related fields from flags
into a new structure called "context."
It also adds the following to the new structure:
- stethoscope turn support
- victual support
- tin support
Pat Rankin wrote:
> collect them all into some new struct and
> save that separately rather than jamming more non-option stuff
> into struct flags.
This patch:
- collects all context/tracking related fields from flags
into a new structure called "context."
It also adds the following to the new structure:
- stethoscope turn support
- victual support
- tin support
Pat Rankin wrote:
> collect them all into some new struct and
> save that separately rather than jamming more non-option stuff
> into struct flags.
This patch:
- collects all context/tracking related fields from flags
into a new structure called "context."
It also adds the following to the new structure:
- stethoscope turn support
- victual support
- tin support
Pat Rankin wrote:
> collect them all into some new struct and
> save that separately rather than jamming more non-option stuff
> into struct flags.
This patch:
- collects all context/tracking related fields from flags
into a new structure called "context."
It also adds the following to the new structure:
- stethoscope turn support
- victual support
- tin support
<Someone> wrote:
>> You're equally unlikely to be wishing for spellbooks by colour,
>> but I note that 'grey' for 'gray' only works for dragonscale and
>> stones, not the spellbook description.
>>
> I've just noticed that the fix for this only works for 'grey
> spellbook', not 'grey spell book'; 'spell book' works for wishing
> in other contexts, so it probably ought to here :-)
> Would it be possible to make autodig also dig downward
> when I press '>' while wielding an pick-axe? When digging for gold,
> after casting detect objects, this would be convenient for getting
> to buried gold and gems.
> [<Someone>]
> When I enter a desacrated temple, sometimes an enormous ghost
> appears next to me:
> You have an eerie feeling... An enormous ghost appears next to
> you!
> You are frightened to death, and unable to move.
> You regain your composure. When I don't have telepathy, and don a
> blindfold first, I get the same messages:
> You are now wearing a blindfold. You can't see any more.
> You have an eerie feeling... An enormous ghost appears next to
> you!
> You are frightened to death, and unable to move.
> You regain your composure. Why does the ghost scare me if I
> cannot even see it? How do I notice it appear?
> [<Someone>]
<email deleted> wrote:
> If more monsters fall through a trap door than can fit on the
> level below, when you go down the stairs, you get the following
> message:
> "Program in disorder - perhaps you'd better #quit.
> rloc(): couldn't relocate monster"
> This message seems to appear once for every monster-too-many that
> fell through the hole. I originally found this while
> intentionally completely filling a level with black puddings
> (there was a trap door I didn't know about). I also confirmed it
> in a wiz-mode test using gremlins and water.
[confirmed: moveloop -> deferred_goto -> goto_level ->
losedogs -> mon_arrive -> rloc -> impossible]
This patch:
- causes rloc() to return TRUE if successful,
or FALSE if it wasn't.
- adds code to mon_arrive() in dog.c to deal with
the failed rloc()
- allows the x,y parameters to mkcorpstat() to
be 0,0 in order to trigger random placement of the
corpse on the level
- if you define DEBUG_MIGRATING_MONS when you build cmd.c
then you'll have a debug-mode command #migratemons to
store the number of random monsters that you specify
on the migrating monsters chain.
> NetHack feedback form submitted by
> <email deleted>
> on Tuesday, September 9, 2003 at 06:41:34
> Hi, Just thought I'd point out a sort of inappropriate word
> choice or typo that I came across in Juiblex's Swamp. I got this
> message, after pushing a boulder into the swamp: There is a large
> splash as the boulder falls into the moat. Obviously it's a swamp
> and not a moat so that sounds a bit wrong. It says the same sort
> of thing when I #dip a scroll in the swamp as well.
<Someone> submitted the following bug report:
> An object and a pit are occupying the same square. I try to kick
> the object out of the square, but "You can't kick something
> that's in a pit!"
>
> I step into the square and escape the pit, but I can pick up the
> object, so maybe it's not in the pit after all.
>
This patch does *not* address this part of the bug report:
> If it's in the pit and it's a cockatrice corpse, should I die
> from landing on it when I fall into the pit?
Bones loading was only checking to see if a
monster was marked extinct, it wasn't adding
up the born count of a species in the current
game with the number of that species on the
bones level being loaded. That made it possible
to exceed the correct number of nazgul and
erinys via bones.
This adds a common routine called propagate()
that makemon() and restmonchn(ghostly) share,
for incrementing the born count and checking for
extinction, etc.
When a bones level is loaded, restmonchn()
will flag an illegal monster (duplicated unique,
or too many of a species) by setting the
individual monster's mhpmax to the cookie
value DEFUNCT_MONSTER. Before getbones() finishes
loading the bones level, it will purge those
monsters from the chain.
Although the overlay stuff is destined to be
removed someday, this patch just makes the
use of STATIC_DCL, STATIC_OVL consistent
in the trunk.
[As a side pointless experiment, I was able
to build a working 8086 port of 3.4.2 after
this change that worked correctly in limited
testing right up until it came time to enter
Ft. Ludios., where it couldn't allocated the
required amount of memory.]
> The bug involved using the initalign (and related) indexes into
> the array of alignments as indexes into the respective combo box,
> and these are (apparently) not equivalent. To fix, the combo box
> is queried one by one for the item with the index that produces
> that proper alignment value, and then uses that index found. I
> did not find an API that does this in one step, but this only
> happens once, at dialog initialization.
- Guidebook typo
- wizard mode prompt
[...]
> 2/3) In Guidebook* the lines subkeyval (Win32 tty NetHackonly).
> May be used to alter the value of should read subkeyval (Win32
> tty NetHack only). May be used to alter the value of
>
> 3/3) I miss a hint for the new wizmode feature levelteleport by
> menu. Neither wizhelp nor the dialog tell you about it. Maybe if
> (++trycnt == 2) Strcat(qbuf, " [type a number or ?]"); in
> teleport.c:589 could provide a hint.
>
> <Someone>
Changes are: Complete copyright notice, Versions using dot format instead of comma format, and nulls at the end of strings (required, at least for Windows 2000).
> This patch fixes warnings relating to pointers (using int *
> instead of unsigned int * ), provides prototypes for some
> functions, and adds a missing argument to one of the functions
>
> It also changes a bit in the way flex/bison are used in the
> Borland makefile to allow me to test compilation with those
> utilities using a batch file.
- set correct checkmark on "Lock Windows" menu item on startup
- redraw message window on resizing (it does not update properly otherwise)
- fixed copy/paste error in read registry settings function
- fix ring of protection from shape changers causing
real monster to be created.
- add ability to get the character class monster from
genus() or the species.
- use the character class monster when animating
guardian corpses.
Also a related bug: the guard against animating a unique
monster via tossing a statue onto a statue trap location, was
causing stone to flesh to silently ignore any statue of a unique
monster which seemed very uncharacteristic of the spell.
After this patch, statues of quest guardians and statues of
unique monsters will animate as shape-shifters posing as those
monsters, not the monsters themselves.
> Getting a sewer rat from a sink when not blind, but can't see it
> (because of boulders, etc.) gives "Eek! There's it in the sink!"
> [<email deleted>]
> When you kick iron bars, it says "you kick empty space". Maybe
> this should be something more like "you hurt your foot on the
> iron bars" or "the bars resonate with your hit". Something other
> than "empty space". [<email deleted>]
> I had some reports similar to "#U574: 3.4.1 On PocketPC, screwed
> up message area font" but regarding the keypad window. Since
> there is no separate option for keypad font, this patch makes it
> use message font option if it is set.
No objections were heard to this previously circulated
change.
> Clipping should occur right before user input (rhack) vs in the
> beginning of the move loop. For example, if hero had
> "teleportitis" and teleported because of that then the clipping
> region was not updated to reflect a new hero position until the
> next turn. This patch fixes that.
On some MSDOS ports, STATIC_OVL doesn't equate
to static, so taking_off in do_wear.c conflicts with the
one in invent.c in those environments. Somebody
out there might wish to try and build the 16 port and
tune it to work properly someday.
> fog cloud hit uses "it". I was exploring the insides of a fog
> cloud with my fifth level wizard, and cast force bolt at its
> insides. I got the message "The spell hits it. You destroy the
> fog cloud!". Shouldn't "it" be "the fog cloud"? If so, it is
> debatable whether or not the then second "fog cloud" should
> perhaps be "it"... [<Someone>]
> The lighting store doesn't sell oil (probably never added when
> POT_OIL was added). There currently isn't enough room in the
> shclass struct for another item, but that could be expanded. I
> think adding oil there would be useful for the post-3.4.x
> version.
The following files are gone (sys\wince):
- stat.h (moved to ceinc\sys\stat.h)
- fcntl.h (moved to ceinc\fcntl.h)
- errno.h (moved to ceinc\errno.h)
- assert.h (moved to ceinc\assert.h)
The following files were added:
- mhtxtbuf.c
- mhtxtbuf.h
- menubar.uu
- ceinc
- ceinc\sys
- ceinc\fcntl.h
- ceinc\errno.h
- ceinc\assert.h
- ceinc\sys\stat.h
CE notes:
Fixes:
- added new options "wraptext", "fullscreen" and "softkeyboard"
- CE341-1 fix ("wraptext" option)
- hide map scrollbars on Smartphone
- added View->Options menu
- PocketPC: added "Fit to screen" and "Show/Hide keypad" icons
on the menu bar
- Smartphone: '<', '>' keys were mapped incorrectly
- build: use source files directly from <buildroot>\sys\wince instead of
copying them to <buildroot>\wince\
<email deleted> wrote:
> Windows NetHack graphical Version 3.4.1
> comments: I have been unable to remove or put in partial groups
> of items into a bag of holding or scak. With hethack 3.3.X I
> could put 2 of 3 potions or 3000 of 8000 pieces of gold into the
> bag. The menu persents you with the following options (yn#aq)(n).
> Using # exits the menu and typing in the number you wish to use
> does nothing. The work around is to drop the number you wish to
> not store and put all the remaining into the bag then pick up the
> remaining.
> Trying to loot a bag on the floor while wielding a cursed
> quarterstaff: "You carefully open the bag... You have no free hand."
> Shouldn't I notice that I have no free hand before even trying?
add freehand() check to able_to_loot()
<email deleted> wrote in rgrn:
> Using a stethoscope while inside a monster (air elemental, vortex)
> and while riding a steed will not let you use the stethoscope
> on your steed. You'll only get the engulfer-monster's stats
> instead of your steeds.
Fix the reported but that prevented stethoscope application to your
steed while engulfed. While the inability to apply your stethoscope
to your steed while engulfed was a code oversight, I think it's a
feature that your ability to use the stethoscope is impacted in the
midst of a swirling, noisy vortex. Make it deliberate with a
two-in-3 chance of avoiding the interference (nine-in-10 chance if
you're a healer who is much more skilled at using a stethoscope).
Previously, if mksobj() was called with the 1st argument
having a value of CORPSE, and a second argument (init)
set to FALSE, the corpse would never get a timer attached.
<Someone> wishes to add a couple of new options to the wince port ("run fullscreen" and "do not use CE software keyboard").
The wincap field was full, so this adds a second field for
additional options.
Since the crysknife is the only MINERAL object in the
game that isn't affected by the "stone to flesh" spell,
and the only thing that makes it to the default
case on the switch statement in zap.c, make it
obvious that it isn't an oversight that nothing happens.
(it wasn't an oversight, right?)
[B04003 and B04004 are still marked "Reported"]
<Someone>:
> You aren't very skilled at reaching from the saddled blue dragon.
> Continue your attempt to set the land mine? [yn] (n)
> You begin setting your land mine.
> There is the trigger of your mine in a pile of soil below you.
> KAABLAMM!!! The air currents set your land mine off!
> I somehow suspect that it'd be more than the air currents, if I were
> trying to arm a land mine from dragonback while not very good at
> controlling it.
<Someone>:
> What do you want to use or apply? [cmu or ?*]
> You aren't very skilled at reaching from the saddled warhorse.
> Continue your attempt to set the land mine? [yn] (n)
> You begin setting your land mine. You escape your land mine.
> Is "escape" really the right word here?
gcc -c -O -I../include -DDLB -DUSE_TILES -oo/cmd.o ../src/cmd.c
../src/cmd.c: In function `rhack':
../src/cmd.c:1800: warning: case value out of range
../src/cmd.c:1801: warning: case value out of range
<Someone> wrote:
>This _must_ be a bug: if a character leaves a pet corpse in a
>bonesfile, someone getting those bones will receive
>"So this is how you repay loyalty?" should he sacrifice it, even
>though the loyalty wasn't shown to _him_."
Clear the appropriate fields from the attached monst structure
when loading bones.
This allows the use of the right mouse button to
look at things on the screen when the
'clicklook' option is set.
Concept came from a patch for 3.4.0
that I saw referenced on r.g.r.n
[see http://www.steelskies.com/nethack.php]
but the implementation is different.
Explicitly mention fil41b.zip as a required djgpp component.
Oddly, some people only pick up part of djgpp, then
complain to us when the Makefile doesn't run as
planned.
nethack.allison