For ^X and final disclosure, report external issues that affect game
play: midnight, other night, new or full moon, and Friday the 13th.
The 'new feature' entry in the fixes file rambles a bit but if it
heads off even one spurious bug report, it'll have been worth it.
Extend support for highlight rules that specify percentages from HP
and spell power to experience level and experience points. For both
of those, the percentage is based on progress from the start of the
current Xp level to the start of the next Xp level. 100% isn't
possible so is used to enable highlighting a special case: 1 point
shy of next level, most likely to occur after losing a level.
This is something I had in mind a long time ago and then forgot all
about until fiddling with the final disclosure of experience points
recently. It turned out to be trickier than expected because it needs
to check whether Xp should have a status update when it hasn't changed
but Exp has gone up. The latter might hit a percentage threshold that
switches to another highlight rule. Fortunately changes to Exp, at
least that aren't part of level gain or loss (which always trigger
status updating), are all funnelled through a single place (I hope).
The PDC_NCMOUSE has to be defined on the command line
or above the #include entries in win/curses/cursmisc.c.
This does the former command line change.
If a punished player picks up the iron ball, gets engulfed and
saves, then the saved game will have missed saving the dangling
chain since it was not on the floor or in the inventory. Upon
restoring the saved game, the game will be in a bad state since
the ball will be worn but the chain will be missing.
One of the claims in #H8849 was that a monster which zapped a wand
that the hero had fully identified made hero's knowledge of it revert
to "a wand". That doesn't happen; it had to have been a different
wand which hadn't been seen up close yet. But the hero should lose
track of known number of charges if a wand is zapped outside his/her
view. When implementing that I noticed that a monster playing a fire
horn to burn away slime was using the routine that gives wand
feedback. Add a separate, similar routine for magical horn feedback.
Half this diff is due to moving a naming support routine from mhitm.c
to do_name.c.
Fix a couple of glitches and add an enchancement. The monster
attributes structure left the 'hidden' field uninitialized unless user
specified "hidden". Mimics were being flagged with mon->mundetected
because they pass the is_hider() test but they 'hide' by taking on an
appearance rather than being unseen due to mundetected. hides_under()
monsters fail the is_hider() test, but can become mundetected if there
is at least one object present. Eels/other fish are neither is_hider()
nor hides_under() but can be mundetected at water locations. So alter
'hidden' handling to deal with these various circumstances.
Asking for 'hidden' for any type of creature will result in having its
location be highlighted if it can't be actively seen or detected. So
using '2000 ^G piranha' will fill up the Plane of Water "normally" but
'2000 ^G hidden piranha' will result in a ton of draw-glyph/delay/
draw-other-glyph/delay sequences and take a painfully long time. Moral
of the story: don't combine 'hidden' with a large count unless you
want to spend quite a while watching the level's fill pattern. Turning
off the 'sparkle' option will cut the flashing in half but still take
a long time. If you really need to fill a level with hidden creatures
and can't bear the flashing/highlighting, use blessed potion of monster
detection or #wizintrinsics to have extended detect. Then all created
monsters will be seen so none will trigger location highlighting.
If you create a 'stalker' or 'invisible stalker' or 'invisible <other-
mon>' its location won't be highlighted, but for 'hidden stalker' or
'hidden invisible stalker' or 'hidden invisible <other-mon>' it will
(provided you don't actually see it due to See_invisible or sensemon()).
Throwing or kicking a lit lamp, lit candle, or lit potion of oil
wasn't giving off any light as it travelled to its destination.
Now it does, and dungeon features, objects, or monsters that are
temporarily seen as it moves from square to square till appear on
the map. In the monster case, they go away as soon as the light
moves beyond range, but when it finishes moving the "remembered,
unseen monster" glyph will be drawn at their location. I think that
part has some room for improvement, but mapping temporarily seen
terrain features is the primary impetus for this change.
Also, any message delivery while the "lit missile" travelled still
showed its light around the hero. Noticeable for lamps or stacks
of sufficient candles if hero has no other light source.
This cannibalizes the monst->mburied bit for temporarily seeing a
monster. It has been present but unused for ages. I needed to
replace a couple of vision macros to make sure they didn't examine
it any more so that overloading for transient lighting doesn't
introduce any vision oddities. For version $NEXT, monst->mtemplit
can be given its own bit. It is only set during bhit() execution
and cleared by the time that returns, so has no effect on save files.
placebc was triggering an impossible sometimes on the plane of
water
It turned out to be because movebubbles issued an
unplacebc(), but a downstream function called
placebc(), so when movebubbles() issued its own
placebc() there was a problem.
The downstream function that beat movebubbles to the placebc()
turned out to be unstuck(). There could be others.
Changing an inventory item's bknown flag wasn't followed by a call to
update_inventory() in many circumstances, so information which should
have appeared wasn't showing up until some other event triggered an
update.
Fixes#196
If you didn't die from turning into green slime but then died because
green slimes had been genocided, the message given assumed that you
had just seen "OK, you don't die" from answering No to "Really die?".
Its wording didn't make sense if the reason you didn't die was an
amulet of life-saving. Give a different message for that case.
Also, if you survive turning into slime (via either method) and either
green slimes are still around or you answer No to "Really die?" when
they've been genocided, give a message after "You survived that attempt
on your life" pointing out that you have done so in green slime form.
Useful since prior to 3.6.2 you would have reverted to original form--
despite the Slimed countdown saying you had turned into green slime.
Even though a goodpos failure in mnearto() would return 0 to
the caller and trigger proper overcrowding handling for mtmp,
the 'othermon' would be left with its mx,my set to 0,0 under
that circumstance and then trigger a mon_sanity_check()
failure and accompanying impossible() message a short while
afterwards.
This also includes the addition of some flags that proved useful
for troubleshooting the mystery sanity_check failure and helping
to understand some of the code paths the struct monst data had
been through. They are only used for inspection when issues are
reported or when debugging, they don't presently control the
code flow. Their setting and use is done in an overloaded way
that should not intrude on the existing use of mspare1 for
MIGR_LEFTOVERS. mon->mstate is just a pseudonym for mon->mspare1
and does not alter save file content.
This doesn't solve the <0,0> problem but it does prevent mnexto()
from using uninitialized coordinates if enexto() fails. It also adds
several debugging messages.
enexto() was ignoring map row #0 (unlike column #0, row #0 contains
valid map locations). Fixing that doesn't matter for Plane of Water
though since that row is stone there--that's probably a bug. It was
also repeatedly re-testing the top+1 and bottom rows and left and
right columns after they had already failed to be acceptable. It
still does some of that, but less.
There was a post-3.6.2 discussion on a forum where someone had
tried to copy the NetHack 3.6.2 exe file overtop of an
existing NetHack 3.6.0 playground, and then try to run it.
We have never suggested trying that, nor do we attempt to
provide any backward or forward compatibility between the
supporting files found in nhdat that would allow that. Any
particular version of NetHack expects to have matching
support files designed and matched to that version.
This adds optional support for helping to prevent the
opening of nhdat containing support files from an
unmatched version of NetHack.
If you #define VERSION_IN_DLB_FILENAME in your
platform's include/*conf.h file, it will use a
name such as nhdat362, instead of plain nhdat, and
will exit more gracefully than the fault/crash
mentioned in the discussion if it doesn't find the
file it is looking for.
Developers - please note that if you do
to cause NetHack to look for an nhdat* file with
the version info appended to the name, you will likely
have to modify your build/clean/spotless mechanics
beyond the C compile itself to properly deal with the
new generated file name.
Add a bc sanity check. It seems to work ok--in other words, not
trigger--under normal punishment. I don't have any test cases to
exercise its warnings.
This dragged in a couple of minor bc changes that were pending. I
should have cleared those out before tackling the sanity checking.
Preserve temporary fake object's previous dknown value by storing it
as a flag value within the m_ap_type field of the posing monster, and
recalling it when it is needed.
This is intended to help eliminate observable differences in price display
between real objects and mimics posing as objects.
98% of this is just switching the code to utilize macro M_AP_TYPE(mon)
everywhere to ensure that the flag bits are stripped off when needed.
Some port of yacc was generating '#include <stdlib.h>' before our
'#include "config.h" and needed a specific define from config1.h to
be supplied on the command line to avoid conflicting contents within
that header file, but then config1.h drew complaints about redefining
the macro. Guard against that.
Redo the UCHAR_P handling from df84da3ec2
(5 weeks ago) and 02b21865fd followup.
The earlier #define was happening too late in the #include sequence;
tradstdc.h is processed before global.h+(vmsconf.h,unixconf.h,...).
Also, DEC C in 'common' mode complains about indented '#' starting a
line but not in column 1. Putting #pragma in column 2 was deliberate
in case of an ancient compiler which doesn't understand that directive.
Splitting the difference via non-indented '# pragma' may or may not
mollify the latter when it's bypassing conditionally excluded code.
During shop repair, give a message about the shopkeeper using a spell
(if hero is close enough) before "Suddenly, <various repairs occur>."
And when shop repair is for a single untrap of landmine or bear trap
adjacent to shk (and the hero can see it happen), say "<Shk> untraps
<trap>" rather than just "Suddenly, a trap is removed from the floor!"
Change in meaning of mnearto()'s return value wasn't progagated to
shkcatch(). Make it an int instead of boolean so that it can
communicate both 'moved successfully' and 'moved but had to move
another monster out of the way to do so'.
The curses interface wouldn't build with HILITE_STATUS disabled. I
started adapting it to handle genl_status_update() but that was taking
too much effort with each niggling detail leading to another. This
goes the opposite direction: forcing the old STATUS_VIA_WINDOWPORT
behavior without having that #define available. That dragged along a
bunch of unexpected changes too.
Take care of a minor 'TODO' and make another stab at getting truncated
encumbrance and/or level-description to reset to full size when enough
space becomes available.
Put the prototypes for routines in botl.c into the same order as the
corresponding functions are in the file. Also a few were missing and
another few used STATIC_OVL when STATIC_DCL was appropriate.
I've noticed many instances of the game pausing and not being sure why,
then pressing <space> and having it resume. The curses interface had
a tendency to put its equivalent of the --More-- prompt, >>, somewhere
where that wasn't visible, either off the right hand edge (possibly) or
underneath the window borders if those were enabled. Especially the
very last one it issues prior to exit. (An extra one compared to tty
behavior.)
This ended up being a pretty substantial overhaul of message window
handling. I wouldn't be surprised if it has off-by-one errors which
happen to be paired up and cancel each other out. ">>" is still drawn
in orange if guicolor is on, now in inverse video when that is off.
If it happens to be drawn at the same screen location in consecutive
instances, the first ">" will toggle between blink and not blink so
that there'll be no doubt as to whether the keypress registered when
dismissing it (moot if the text preceding it is different but there's
no attempt to be smart enough to check that, just screen placement).
This changes the recently added msg_window:f for curses to start
viewing the old messages on the last page rather than the first. For
msg_window:Reversed (the default for curses) and for either direction
when all of the message history happens to fit on one page, there's
no change. But for multiple pages, the FIFO feedback now pads the top
of the first page with blank lines so that the last page is full, and
it starts out showing that last page first. So if you only want to go
back few or several messages, they will be in view immediately.
Old layout:
|first message (oldest) | |1st message of last page |
|2nd message of 1st page | | ... |
| ... | |final (most recent) mesg |
| ... | | (blank filler) |
|last message of 1st page | | (blank filler) |
| (1 of 2) => | | <= (2 of 2) |
and ^P started with first page visible and needed normal menu handling,
<space> or '>' or '|', to go forward to view the most recent messages.
New layout:
|1st message of last page | | (blank filler) |
|2nd message of last page | | (blank filler) |
| ... | |first message (oldest) |
| ... | | ... |
|final (most recent) | |last message of 1st page |
| <= (2 of 2) | | (1 of 2) => |
and ^P starts on last page (two of two in this example) but can go
back with '<' and '^'.
So if the total size takes one and third pages (which isn't uncommon
for the default number of kept messages), you'll see 3/4 of the most
recent messages on the initial screen, then you can page backward if
you want to see the other 1/4.
The page indicator is deliberately drawn a bit differently just to
draw attention to the fact you're starting on the last page. I'm not
sure whether that is actually worthwhile but it was trivial to do.
I didn't noticed this because I've been building for tty+curses+X11
and either of the first two cause iflags.extmenu to exist. Make it
unconditional; there's not much benefit from trying to suppress it
for configurations that don't need it.
When the 'time' option is on and context.botl isn't already set,
call a simpler status update routine that ignores all other fields.
When that flag is already set, full status update takes care of time
along with the other fields.
Expected to reduce bottom lines processing time but not screen I/O.
Only lightly tested.
Have the curses interface save and restore message history for use
by ^P. It doesn't spit the saved messages out into the visible
message window after restore; that's too distracting.
Noticed while testing statuslines on a small terminal window. Using
the cursor to pick locations that panned the map to view a new subset
would end up showing a new view of the regular map rather than a
different section of what was currently displayed. For farlook that
caused monsters to take on new hallucinatory forms which was fairly
inconsequential, but for #terrain and various forms of detection it
reverted to the ordinary map instead of showing the map features that
the player requested or the temporarily revealed monsters and such.
Most interfaces keep track of the whole map and just show their view
of the new subset when panning, similar to redisplay after being
covered up and then re-exposed, but tty isn't doing that. I made
same change to Amiga as to tty since the code it was using was very
similar. I haven't touched any of the other interfaces and assume
that they don't need this. I've verified that curses and X11 don't.
Implement the 'statuslines' option for tty. 2 and 3 line status are
similar to curses. Tty's version doesn't include insertion of extra
spaces for enhanced readability, or ignoring 'showexp' when space is
needed for other fields, or right justifying 'score' and suppressing
it when there isn't room for the entire number. It continues to have
abbreviated condition and encumbrance descriptions that curses lacks
which get used when the normal ones take up too much space.
'statuslines' can be set with 'O' so it is feasible to switch back
and forth between 2 and 3 lines on the fly. But only if the display
is at least 25 lines (actually ROWNO+4) or else CLIPPING is enabled
at build time.
This fixes the bug where after resorting to abbreviated condition
values it sometimes (always?) wouldn't switch back after more room
became available. Abbreviated encumbrance values had problems too
(lack of leading space and not changing value if encumbrance changed
to anything other than unencumbered) and this fixes that as well.
Using ^P right after resize or 'O' of align_message, align_status,
statuslines, or windowborders would result in
'curses_display_nhmenu: attempt to display empty menu'
because some memory cleanup I added several weeks back was being
executed when the curses interface tore down and recreated its
internal windows.
This fixes ^P handling by making sure that that menu (which is just
text but uses a menu to support '>'/'<'/'^'/'|' scrolling) will never
be empty and it also fixes the window deletion to not throw away
message history until it's final deletion at exit time.
^P uses a popup window to display previous messages and it was never
deleting that window, just creating a new one each time. Same with
the routine which displays an external help file. Using either or
combination of both close to 5000 times would probably make internal
window creation get stuck in an infinite loop. Delete those windows
after they're used so it'll never be put to the test.
The memory cleanup I added for map/status/messages/invent was only
being preformed at end of game, not when saving. Fix that too.
