- My "various Windows refinements" patch from yesterday went into 3.4.x correctly
- My "NumberPad" patch went into 3.4.x, but should be backed out
- My "various Windows refinements" patch from last week was for 3.5.0, but is incomplete; you can safely ignore that.
- I'll make a new "various Windows refinements" patch for 3.5.0 tonight.
> Receiving Excalibur from a fountain while blind doesn't update the
> display (i.e. the missing fountain) immediately.
Various other topology changes had the same problem. The display
was only being updated if the hero was invisible on the assumption that
it wouldn't matter otherwise, but a blind character who moved off the
affected location would still have the old map info (fountain, trap, &c)
shown--until he walked back onto that spot or searched next to it or
regained sight--even though the player is told about the map change as
it happens.
<Someone> reported that a tame dwarf wouldn't eat food tossed at it.
He also reported that it wouldn't eat off the ground, which I couldn't
reproduce nor see in a problem in the code. The code in thitmonst didn't
allow for sharing food with non-domestic, already tame monsters.
If you zapped a WoStriking while outside a shop and broke the door and 2
separate objects, the shopkeeper would come out to get paid but if you
tried, it would result in "dopay: not to shopkeeper?" due to stolen_value
not adding the cost of the 2nd object to the right accumulator.
> It appears that if showrace is set, and your race is not human, a
> potion of invisibility (or any other form of invisibility) doesn't cause
> your symbol to disappear on screen, even if you don't have see invisible.
mapping the 5 and 0 to '5' and '0' respectively
when NumLock is off, to make entering numbers easier. The core will map '5' and
'0' to 'g' and 'i' respectively. This solves W341-5.
Note: I changed nhdefkey.c and mhmain.c, so both the tty and the windows
interface will show new behaviour. I deliberately did not change nh340key.dll.
Note: Maybe the same change should be made to the MSDOS port.
Note: The behaviour of getobj is a little bit strange: It doesn't use
yn_question's facility for returning a number, but handles that itself. The
net effect of this is that if you type d55$ (to drop 55 zorkmids,) only the
first '5' is shown
(2 troublesome bands removed
and will follow later)
Here's the new patch with the Windows improvements; this should apply to the
3.4.2 tree. Note the changed filename in the diff lines.
What's in it:
> some MessageBox tidbits:
> - Let all MessageBoxes display an icon
> - Introduced NHMessageBox to have messageboxes display a consistent title
> - Change icon in mswin_display_file from MB_ICONERROR to MB_ICONEXCLAMATION
> for non-fatal error
>
> And to solve #U355: NetHackW won't run on Win2K OS:
> - Avoid a crash when closing the main window while the splash screen is
> displayed.
> - Make sure NetHack starts normal when closed minimized
> - Center the splash screen on the screen, not on the parent window (which may
> be off-screen)
What's new in it:
- Show copyright banner in textbox in splash screen instead of over the picture
- Show news in splash screen only if iflags.news (solves W341-6)
- show complete version information in splash screen when it is used as about
box
As suggested in the newsgroup, re-factor the calculation of carrcap
so that any change in strength or constitution affects your capacity.
The integer division was rounding off the result.
When you drop a container in a shop, gold in that container is added to
your credit. However, if you put gold into a container after it was already
on the shop floor, no credit was given. Then when you picked up the bag or
tried to take out the gold, you'd be debited for it. This change causes
in_container to handle gold the same as container dropping does.
Implement Pat's suggestion of allowing even identified touchstones
to test gold, removing the getobj hack recently added. This actually
brings the touchstone a bit more in line with the data.base entry.
Implement Pat's suggestion of allowing even identified touchstones
to test gold, removing the getobj hack recently added. This actually
brings the touchstone a bit more in line with the data.base entry.
1) make two-weapon combat perform two attacks instead of always either
hitting twice or missing twice;
2) address <Someone>'s report of weapon skill to-hit adjustment being ignored
for bare-handed and martial arts attacks;
3) address newsgroup complaints about the intrusive "your armor is rather
cumbersome" message given every time a monk wearing a suit attacks;
this implements the suggestion that it only occur for those times where
you miss because of the penalty involved, suppressing it when you miss
due to other reasons and when you successfully hit;
4) bonus fix: a side-effect of #3 is that the order of the messages "your
armor is cumbersome" and Stormbringer's "bloodthirsty blade attacks" is
inverted, making a sensible sequence instead of implying precognition.
This patch fixes the MinGW Makefile:
- Adds support for the keystroke DLL.
DLLs are interchangeable between gcc and msc builds.
- Gets the Makefile to work for Win95 and friends
- Adds the -mms-bitfields flag to ensure savefile compatibility between
MinGW and MSC files
- Fixes various minor issues: layout, make spotless, and some duplicate
commands that are now governed by a new tag ($(O)gamedir.tag).
> "A cloud of sangria gas billows from the chest.
> You stagger and your vision blurs."
> When I see the gas billowing from the chest, I'm not yet
> hallucinating. Shouldn't the gas have a normal colour, then?
> Only after my vision blurs should the gas assume a fake colour, I
> think.
>
> "A cloud of sangria gas billows from the chest.
> You stagger and your vision blurs."
> When I see the gas billowing from the chest, I'm not yet
> hallucinating. Shouldn't the gas have a normal colour, then?
> Only after my vision blurs should the gas assume a fake colour, I
> think.
>
A suggestion to the mailing list. If the response is more than a single
letter and doesn't match any class description, don't say "symbol" in the
followup message. I left "symbol" in if the response in a single
character, I thought it was more helpful.
<Someone> wondered post-3.4.1 why paper golems are affected by cold.
Given what I know of paper, straw and wood, and fantasy golems of each
type, all three types of golem seem like they should resist cold. The
others were less clear to me, someone else can address them if necessary.
Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by
<email deleted> on Tuesday, March 11, 2003 at 07:48:17
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mailversion: 1.17
nhversion: 3.4.1
nhfrom: Our 3.4.1 source release, unmodified
hardware: i686 arch.
software: Debian woody, gcc 2.95.4
comments: When polymorphing to eg. horned devil, and wearing a helmet,
I get "Your pierce through your elven leather helm.". Likely
there is a broken variable there.
Prevent burying a ball from ending your punishment.
When you bury the ball, internally NetHack Punishment
ceases, but a new trap type of TT_BURIEDBALL immediately
kicks in (acting similar to TT_INFLOOR in some ways).
You can eventually work the ball free (or teleport, etc.),
but that will just return you back to normal Punishment.
Incorporate a mod submitted by <Someone> to implement the TODO in the
class genocide code by walking thru the species to find a class to genocide
if the user input does not match the class description.
3.4.1 included a change which requires you to be able to use hands
in order to manipulate containers; that makes sense but has introduced
an unintended side-effect. It has become much harder to uncurse a
two-handed weapon or combination of a one-handed weapon and a shield
because you can't get scrolls or potions out of your bag. This adds a
new major trouble for prayer to address that, escalating it above the
normal minor cursed item trouble. It also removes a nonsensical check
for combination of two-handed weapon and shield that I added long ago.
Not related, but same file: add the missing artifact touch checks
for putting on accessories (quest amulets and lenses). I can't remember
if this was From a bug report.
The recent bones panic included "program initialization failed"
during final rundown. The cause of the panic has already been fixed;
this fixes the silly message that was delivered with it.
Also, disclose the contents of carried statues along with normal
containers when the game ends.
Add <Someone>'s suggestion for the expected input value to the prompt for
playing a tune, and implement handling for alternate note "H" which seems
to be used as a variation of "B" by some Europeans. The Amiga part is
untested but "can't be wrong"(tm).
<Someone> reported that couatl and ki-rin could wear boots and gloves.
Two problems: 1. all minions were created with a sword and armor, even those
that couldn't use them. 2. couatl and ki-rin were missing some important
bits in their M1 flags.
Now neither couatl or ki-rin are created with armor, and they won't try
to wear any armor they cross in the dungeon.
