Report was for 'F' followed by '.' reporting "cmdassist: Invalid
direction key!" and then by a direction grid (which happened to
include '.' for self). That behavior applied for all the movement
prefix keys ('m', 'G', &c). When 'cmdassist' was off, "F." would
yield "Unknown command 'F.'." instead.
Now you'll get "You can't fight yourself.", either instead of the
"invalid direction key" part of cmdassist feedback (followed by a
direction grid which excludes up, down, and self since they aren't
applicable for prefix keys) or of the "unknown command" result.
Likewise, "You can't run upward." or "You can't rush downward."
for "G<" and "g>", respectively.
Fix an inconsistency with blindfold removal, eliminating possibility
of a panic (3.6.0) or an impossible (since mid-December, 2016). The
'A' command treated blindfold removal as a multi-turn operation, the
rest of the wear/unwear code as single-turn operation so didn't try
to guard against it being disrupted.
Report was for
You finish taking off your boots.
You float gently to the altar. [destination was a red herring]
[take some action to run through moveloop() for next turn]
Your movements are slowed slightly because of your load.
Having float_down() do the next encumbrance check instead of
waiting for moveloop() to do so was straightforward. However,
while testing I noticed the reverse situation (not due to the fix
for the above) when putting on levitation boots
Your movements are now unencumbered.
You finish your dressing maneuver.
You start to float in the air!
Having float_up() do the encumbrance check isn't adequate to fix
this, because it takes multiple turns to put on boots but the
properties they confer are enabled immediately, so moveloop() runs
while hero is already levitating even though the game hasn't told
the player about it yet. Fix is a hack to defer the effect of
levitation on encumbrance until the boots are fully worn, which
might lead to strangeness somewhere. It's also boot-specific so
will need to be updated if some other multi-turn armor that confers
levitation ever gets added.
Report was for losing strength when sitting on a throne, but the
message issue was more general than that. Character was wearing
gauntlets of power, so no visible change in strength took place,
but player was told "you're already as weak as you can get" (because
the attempt to reduce strength didn't change current strength;
however, it did change the hero's underlying strength, observable
once the gloves were removed).
There was a beta report last January that was related: in that case
the player thought that gauntlets of power were preventing blessed
potion of gain ability from raising strength, but it was actually
giving a misleading message claiming that strength was already as
high as it could get.
Fix: vary the message when something prevents an attribute change
from being noticeable.
Noticed while working on something else:
You entered the dungeon N turns ago
was missing the terminating period, and when polymorphed into a
1 hit die critter, plural "hit dice" is incorrect. 0 hit dice is
confusing even when fully spelled out, so include an explanatory
remark with it.
Don't include score (available if configured with SCORE_ON_BOTL)
unless player has the 'showscore' option enabled. The value is
an approximation--accurate as far as it goes, but the value can
change depending upon how the game ends. Someone who asks to have
it displayed on the status line will probably be used to that, but
others might start reporting bugs for it.
Some discussion in the newsgroup about nearby peaceful monsters becoming
hostile if they observed the hero attacking a peaceful monster made me
look at the code and I spotted a couple of problems. An auto array was
being initialized in an inner block--some pre-ANSI compilers couldn't
handle that. Worse, it was inside a loop and may or may not have
resulted in unnecessary setup each iteration. Make it static. Oddly,
the array had the same name as a function but `gcc -Wshadow' either
didn't notice or didn't care.
A more significant problem was that mon->mpeaceful was being set to 0
without checking whether mon->mtame was set, potentially resulting in
humanoid pets being both tame and hostile at the same time. This change
prevents that but doesn't do anything interesting about pets who observe
attacks against peacefuls. (I also wonder why chaotic peacefuls now get
upset by seeing other peacefuls be attacked; it seems out of character.)
There was also a check for non-humanoid peacefuls seeing another of the
same species be attacked, but it was checking for an exact match without
regard for littler or bigger incarnations of the same species. I've
added the latter.
This also reformats a couple of block comments.
The automatic annotations supplied for various special levels were
treating the quest leader's summons as being mutually exclusive with
the other things of interest. It's not, so wasn't shown if the entry
portal was on either the bigroom level or the rogue level. Handle it
differently from the rest so that it can stack with annotations for
those levels. (The annotation for the portal itself, which doesn't
get added until traversed, was already handled differently and shown
correctly on those levels.)
Temporary map views for detection or #terrain allow moving the cursor
around to get the brief location description provided by getpos's
autodescribe feature and were doing so by forcing the 'autodescribe'
option to True, then leaving it that way. Save the option value prior
to such operations and restore it after instead of leaving it changed.
I couldn't reproduce the reported problem of the "In what direction?"
being issued after the screen was cleared, but bypassing pline() in
favor of putstr(WIN_MESSAGE) for tty prompts did also bypass
if (vision_full_recalc) vision_recalc(0);
if (u.ux) flush_screen(1);
done in pline(). Inadvertent loss of the latter could conceivably be
responsible for the problem. If so, the escape code used by cl_end()
may be broken for somebody's termcap or terminfo setup since clearing
to the end of the line in the message window shouldn't erase the rest
of the screen.
Regardless, the prompting change also bypassed the ability to show
the prompt with raw_printf() if the display wasn't fully intialized
yet, so some change to the revised prompting was necessary anyway.
Switching back from putstr(WIN_MESSAGE) to pline() resulted in
duplicated entries in DUMPLOG message history, one with bare prompt
followed by another with response appended, so more tweaking was
needed. The result is use of new custompline() instead of normal
pline(). custompline() accepts some message handling flags to give
more control over pline()'s behavior. It's a more general variation
of Norep() but its caller needs to specify an extra argument.
Update DUMPLOG's message history to include player responses to
most queries. For tty, both getlin() and yn_function(). For other
interfaces, only yn_function() is covered. (It's intercepted by a
core routine that can take care of the logging; getlin() isn't.)
Also includes saved messages from previous session(s), for the
interfaces which support that (tty), to fill out the logging when
a game ends shortly after a save/restore cycle.
The tty interface was using pline() to display prompt strings.
Having 'MSGTYPE=hide "#"' or 'MSGTYPE=hide "yn"' in .nethackrc
would suppress many prompt strings (in the two examples mentioned,
entering extended commands or the vast majority of yes/no questions,
respectively) and generally lead to substantial confusion even if
done intentionally, so switch to putstr(WIN_MESSAGE) instead.
Noticed on nethack.alt.org; the Bell of Opening could trigger a
segfault if applied near a trap door or bear trap (and a few others)
that had no monster at the trap location. Reproducible if done
while mounted; {open,close}{fall,hold}ingtrap() would try to access
monst->mx and monst->my of a Null monst pointer if given one when
u.usteed was non-Null.
To-be-3.6.1 bug, caused by a patch (of mine...) incorporated about
a week after 3.6.0 was released that was intended to be for naming
Sting or Orcist. Any artifact creation ended up breaking illiterate
conduct whether user-assigned naming was involved or not (because
oname() is always used to apply the name, not just when do_name() is
executing).
This should be handled differently but I don't want to go through
the dozen and half or so calls to oname() to add an extra argument.
The dumplog data was including a final tombstone unconditionally,
which looked awfully strange for characters who didn't die. Make
it conditional, like actual end-of-game tombstone. (One difference
though: dumplog has a tombstone for hero who died from genocide,
end-of-game does not. I think the latter should display one even
though no grave gets generated.) [Potential for future enhancement:
add some alternate ascii art in place of tombstone for survivors.]
The list of genocided and/or extincted species was never shown
since caller passed 'a' to list_genocided() and it expected 'y'.
Also, once shown, the list entries were lacking indentation that
other sections of the dump generally have.
Both vanquished monsters and genocided/extinct monsters included
a blank line separator even when there was no feedback, making a
noticeable gap in the dumplog text. Have them report "no creatures
vanquished" and "no species genocided", when applicable, so that
their separator lines always have something to separate.
When dumping, omit a couple of blank lines each from vanquished
creatures list, genocided species list, and tombstone so the
relevant sections of the dump are more compact.
When a female dwarf grows (via level gain) into a dwarf lord, it
changes sex as well as base monster form because all dwarf lords
are male. The earlier fix for #H4276 (16-Mar-2016, to give an
alternate grow-up message acknowledging the change) used the wrong
monster form (monst's old one instead of new one).
Fix a couple of typos, change one entry which referenced internal
coding issues to a more general description for end-users, and remove
a duplicate about color handling for status hilites and menucolors.
(I've only skimmed through the first section. There are likely more
inconsistencies in the file.)
"They say that an ooze will bite your boots and a rockmole will eat them."
'rockmole' should be two words. Also, rock moles won't eat leather
boots, so change 'will eat' to 'might eat'.
Back when dead green slime left a corpse, gelatinous cubes wouldn't
eat that, but they would eat globs of green slime without being
affected. Add the missing glob check so g.cubes will engulf globs
of green slime instead of eating those.
Bug report was:
> "Completed sokoban" achievement was logged when picking up
> a randomly generated bag of holding in the gnomish mines.
The picking-up code was missing checks for the branches, so
you could get the achievements outside the correct branches.
Apparently some screen readers keep reading the status lines
at the bottom of the screen when parts of those change.
Add an option to prevent updates to those lines.
For "the poison was deadly" against hero, hit points were set to -1
(which gets displayed as 0 when shown) but the status lines weren't
being updated, so stale positive HP value was visible during final
disclosure.
Adds two new configurable keys to the cursor targeting: 'A' (getpos.menu)
and 'a' (getpos.menu.cansee). First one shows a menu of all interesting
glyphs on the map, second one shows only those in sight.
Travel command also now obeys the "request menu" -prefix, showing
the menu with interesting targets in sight, and then traveling there.
Idea via the NetHack accessibility research by Alexei Pepers.
This is a modified version of Jason Dorje Short's key rebinding
patch, and allows also binding special keys, such as the ones
used in getloc and getpos.
One of the ways to play NetHack on nethack.alt.org is via a HTML
terminal in browser. Unfortunately this means several ctrl-key
combinations cannot be entered, because the browser intercepts
those. Similar thing applies to some international keyboard layouts
on Windows. With this patch, the user can just rebind the command
to a key that works best for them.
I've tested this on Linux TTY, X11, and Windows TTY and GUI.
