<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.
> The `prompt' buffer in tty_yn_function still only holds QBUFSZ
> characters. But fixing the tty incarnation wouldn't be good enough;
> all the other interfaces would need to handle it too. I think it
> should be fixed in the core instead. Prompt strings simply should
> not be allowed to become so lengthy.
Another step in the fight against prompt sting buffer overflows.
The goes after the ones that may not have been found yet.
This makes yn_function a real core function and removes
the #define yn_function macro.
The yn_function validates the prompt string buffer being
passed prior to calling (*windowprocs.win_yn_function)(),
and if necessary, truncating it and adding "...".
This won't help if the overflow occurs in the core in
a buffer that is still QBUFSZ in size, but it will help if
a BUFSZ buffer is being passed to one of the query
functions.
Building with an old version of gcc with various warnings enabled
generated a lot of noise. Most of it was due to not guarding string
literals with `const', but there were a couple of actual problems too.
> - 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).
Add "travel" boolean option to enable/disable travel command.
Add "mouse_support" wincap option to enable/disable mouse.
- When running the win32 tty version full-screen, some people
complained about the square mouse cursor.
Newsgroups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack
Subject: Re: Getting rid of the cursor?
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On Thu, 04 Apr 2002 00:20:06 <email deleted> wrote:
> Ok, let me be more specific: when playing the windows non-GUI version, is
> there a way to get rid of the large rectangular white cursor?
>
> <email deleted> wrote in message
> <email deleted>
>> Can you get rid of the cursor in the windows version? I really hate that
>> thing.
>>
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>Newsgroups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack
>Subject: Disabling Mouse Input
>
>I purchased an older P120 laptop to be able to play Nethack at the hotel.
>I find that I rest my thumbs on the mouse touch pad all too often and my
>@ moves unexpectedly at times. I took a peruse through defaults.nh, but
>came up empty.
>
>Anyone know if mouse input can be disabled?
>
>MRSisson
- splash_screen (boolean for whether to display splash screen at startup)
- player_selection:dialog|prompts
Also moves the font and window manipulation stuff in defaults.nh
further down the file, so that a tty users doesn't have to wade
through it all to find the character adjustment samples.
Add option windowcolors to control foreground/background
color of menu, message, status, and text windows.
(foreground color is the text color).
The value of the colors is window port specific, the
core code handles the storing of the strings only.
accelerators).
[...]
- added F4/F5 functionality - same as in MSDOS port
F4 toggles between fitting the tiled display to the screen
and full size (compresses the tiles to fit / uncompresses).
F5 alternates between ascii and tiles.
- added support for wc_vary_msgcount
As Warwick suggested, instead of having fixed tile
sizes as options, allow specification of the size
explicitly.
Also, at Yitzhak's suggestion, provide a hook for
overriding the port's tile file name. That name,
and the contents of the file it points to, will
be window-port specific of course.
to allow common parsing in the core, and direct access to the
results by the window port.
Notes:
o Adds a new field, wincap, to the window_procs
structure for setting bits related to the preference
features that the window port supports. This allows
run-time determination of whether a particular option
setting is applicable to the running window port. A
window-port is free to support as many, or as few,
of the available options as it wants. Ensure that
only the ones supported have their corresponding bit
set in window_proc.wincap. [see chart in
doc/window.doc for help with that.]
o The settings I stuck into wincap for each window
port are almost certainly not accurate, so each port
team should review them. You should only include
the ones that you will actually react to and make
adjustments for if the user changes that option.
Without the setting in wincap, the option won't even
show up in the 'O'ptions menu.
o preference_update() added to the window-port
interface, so that the window-port can be notified
if an option of interest (an option with its
corresponding bit set in wincap field) is
changed.
o provided a genl_preference_update() routine in
windows.c and used it for all the existing
window ports since they don't have a functional
one of their own yet.
o this messes around heavily with iflags and the options
arrays in options.c
o I hope I didn't break any port's existing code. I
tried not to. The Mac however, in particular, should
be looked at because it suffered a namespace collision
with what I was working on around fontname. It had
Mac specific font stuff in options.c. Please test
the Mac.
