> 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 cmdassist message shows all the valid directions even if you are
polymorphed into a grid bug. I noticed this when I typed a diagonal
direction as a grid bug and got the dialog, telling me the key I just typed
was valid, but it wasn't. Limit the keys to those valid for grid bugs.
Since only developers know that "13" is EACCES, try to include the text
message. I'm not 100% sure the ifdefs are complete, but it can be tweaked
as needed. This was the only common message in files.c that included errno
so it's the only one I changed. Of course, "13" is only one of several
possible errno values that might reasonably show up here.
- If you have Gnome installed on solaris, the GETRES support wouldn't build.
I don't have access to a solaris system with Gnome installed, but hacked
unixconf.h to force the GETRES code itself to be compiled. So, I believe the
unixres.c change will work for folks really using Gnome on Solaris.
Whether the rest of the gnome code will build there is beyond me.
- I accidentally left TIMED_DELAY defined and the Solaris build failed.
While solaris has usleep(), this is not part of SVR4 as far as I can tell.
But, SysV does have poll, so I implemented msleep() for SysV systems in
terms of poll. So, you can now define TIMED_DELAY on any SYSV build.
<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.
Releasing Schroedinger's Cat from a box which is being carried would
place the monster at the coordinates of wherever the box was last on the
floor instead of adjacent to the current location.
Also, the message sequence
The housecat inside the box is still alive!
The large box is empty.
seemed a little strange. This makes it say "is now empty" when a cat has
just been released.
> 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.
If you dug in a pit next to a sleeping, angry monster, you'd stop every
turn due to a complex check at the end of dochugw. It turned out this
was due to a long-standing bug in the special case vision code that failed
to set the COULD_SEE bit for the locations where it set the IN_SIGHT bit.
It looks like the underwater code had the same problem (it didn't set the
bit, obviously there are no pits underwater). However, the same could
occur if you see the angry, sleeping monster with Xray vision. In this
case, setting COULD_SEE is not appropriate, so added a mcanmove check to
the complex check in dochugw.
Avoid ever putting an "I" on the hero's location by checking it in
map_invisible(). It appeared there were a few other special cases that
could call map_invisible() for actions involving the steed, so checking there
catches them all.
<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.
Since cansee() is false for all locations while swallowed, need to test if
the monster being hit is the one that swallowed you to ensure that various
artifact hit messages, including the DRLI message, are printed.
Digging a pit while a xorn set the trap time, but falling into a pit did
not. While lookin at this, it occurred to me that the same inconsistency
might occur while polymorhing from/to a xorn, and there was.
Switch the default Linux build behavior to use random instead of lrand48,
since lrand48 exhibits some obviously non-random behavior. random() has
been in glibc for a long time. Even if no other changes are made to
nethack's random number generator, this will improve the Linux behavior.
This is derived from the proposed patch and feedback to it. This applies
the last-position cache behavior without an option, making the behavior
more like it is for interfaces with a mouse, where holding the mouse still
acts the same way as the travel cache. The code is not #ifdef'd either.
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.
I found that the setting of GUIDECMD sys/unix/Makefile.doc didn't cut
it with groff-1.18. Also, the command was duplicated in the rule to
generate Guidebook.txt.
Due to limitations in some interface's display capabilities, don't let
polymorphed players web over stairs or ladders. As a side effect, this
side-steps missing checks for webs when going up or down stairs and ladders.
Because hmon_hitmon caches the monster data type, it needs to update this
whenever the monster might polymorph. It already did this for potions, but
not for jousting. There are other more complex ways this could be addressed.
Unix code does not always go thru hangup() when EOF is encountered.
There is a similar end_of_input() that is sometimes called instead, which
was missing a test of program_state.something_worth_saving.
When dismounting by choice and not impaired, the player could end up in a
known trap even if better positions were available. This change allows
the landing spot to prefer non-traps in these cases.
In May 2002, <Someone> wrote:
>In src/options.c, there are these options with their descriptions:
>
>#####################
>{ "font_size_map", "the size of the map font", 20, DISP_IN_GAME },
> /*WC*/
>{ "font_size_menu", "the size of the map font", 20, DISP_IN_GAME
> }, /*WC*/
>{ "font_size_message", "the size of the map font", 20,
> DISP_IN_GAME }, /*WC*/
>{ "font_size_status", "the size of the map font", 20, DISP_IN_GAME
> }, /*WC*/
>{ "font_size_text", "the size of the map font", 20, DISP_IN_GAME
> }, /*WC*/ #####################
>
>Surely all those descriptions shouldn't be the same?
>nhversion: 3.4.1
>
> nhfrom: 3.4.1 Official binary release for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Me/XP
> (nh341win.zip)
> comments: Whenever I run NethackW.exe, the nethack window
> appears, and does not run anything. When I close out of the
> program, I get this message:
> Waiting for access to C:\GAMES\NETHACK341\record. (X retries left). > The X seems to always be either 9 or 59. I don't know how to fix this > > problem, any help would be greatly appreciated
<Someone> writes:
>win32 open() returns -1 if failed - same as POSIX open().
> There is no STDIN in GUI applications so 0 is a valid return
> value from open().
> So it should read like that unless that breaks Amiga code:
Since I can't test the Amiga code, I added a macro
OPENFAILURE to keep the Amiga code the same as it
is now. It should probably be reviewed by someone on
the Amiga team to verify if open() on the Amiga returns
0 or -1 on failure. If the latter, the macro could be
removed completely.
The number_pad option can now optionally hold a value
{0,1, 2 } for {off, on, DOS-mode} but plain number_pad and
!number_pad in config files still work as before.
When number_pad:2 is set, iflags.num_pad_mode is set to 1
which triggers the following behaviour:
> '5', M('5') and M('0') are mapped in rhack()
>in cmd.c, only when they are entered as a command. When used as a
>number, like in the 'n' command, no mapping takes place. '0' is
>already mapped to 'i' by the core. The
>only difference [<Someone>] left in (deliberately) is when you press Ctrl-0;
>this used to map to C('i'), which is an invalid command; now
>keep it '0' (which is interpreted as 'i' by the core.)
Fix the reported problem of combat messages referring to Orcus as
"it" when the data.base entry uses "he"; extend use of gender-specific
pronouns to named and other unique monsters as well as to humanoids.
If any of those should stay as "it", they'll need to be M2_NEUTERed....
And prevent level followers from chasing you across levels if they
are fleeing at the time. It's an old change I've been sitting on which
is not related but happens to be right next to the pronoun code.
I encountered a look vs pickup cockatrice corpse
bug today.
If you looked at a location with ':', you
would instantly get
"Touching the cockatrice corpse is a fatal mistake..."
but if you used "m," you got the full list of
things at the location to choose from.
This patch makes the behaviour consistent
and more informative to the player.
You now get the partial list of things felt
up until the cockatrice corpse is encountered,
and then you get the
"Touching the cockatrice corpse is a fatal mistake..."
Before, the code was never displaying the partially
built list because the feel_cockatrice() call was
happening before the window display call.
From the newsgroup: prevent monsters from level teleporting out of
the quest into the main dungeon. The player can't do that and monsters
weren't supposed to be able to, but from time to time the quest nemesis
has seemingly vanished after reading a cursed scroll of teleportation.
His disappearance was due to ending up on a random level between the
quest entrance and the top of the dungeon.
This also fixes an obscure bug that I noticed while trying to
reproduce that problem: uncontrolled level teleports by the player in
the quest had 80% or thereabouts chance of ending up on the quest home
level. All 12-15 main dungeon levels above quest entrance were included
in the random range of 1 thru current+3, then any choice which tried to
pick one of those was converted to quest level 1. (Monster destination
wasn't getting that adjustment.)
Since traps can no longer provide an infinite supply, and people were
complaining that they always ran out of ammo before, make it less likely
to break enchanted and blessed ammo, and more likely to break eroded
ones.
If the player gives the 'T' command while not wearing any armor,
don't suggest "use 'R' to remove accessories" unless the character is
actually wearing accessories. Likewise for 'R' while not wearing any
accessories, don't suggest "use 'T' to take off armor" unless wearing
some.
Add missing amulet case to the silly_thing() handling for 'W' and
'T'. Also handle boots, gloves, and lenses as plural in the message
there. silly_thing() has been simplified a little bit in the process.
>Steps to reproduce problem:
>1) make sure you don't have race, role, gender specified in your
> defaults.h, then add
> OPTIONS=role:Valkyrie,race:Human,gender:male,align:lawful
>2) start a new nethackw.exe game
>3) Uncheck "Random" from gender box, now you can select from male
> or female, not only female.
>4) Select male and click OK.
>5) When game begins press shift+O (Options) and look to gender.
> Your valkyrie is male.
defaults.nh values were not used the dialog initialization. That's
why both male/female options were available for Valkyries. This is
now fixed.
Also added: checking for consistency of the initial settings and
resetting all incompatible values to ROLE_NONE.
"You can't loot or pick up containers on the floor if you're not
skilled enough to reach them from your saddle, but you can check
for and disarm traps on them; this seems a little odd. (Likewise,
being able to set land mines and beartraps while riding.)"
A core fixup if the the port startup code sets an invalid flags.female when
starting a new game. The old comment regarding being unable to change
flags.female was not completely correct. The flags.pantheon can be used to
differenciate new games from a restored game.
