Fix "objects[0] class #1 not in order!" panic. The new check to
make sure that the elements of objects[] were in ascending order
by object class uses a plain 'char' index so -1 to indicate 'no
previous value' didn't work on a system using unsigned chars.
Verfied by temporarily adding '-funsigned-char' to CFLAGS before
and after the revision. Before: panic, after: no panic.
Fixes#337
The bases[] array allows finding the index of the first object in
a particular class. Extend it so that bases[class + 1] - 1 is a
reliable way to find the last object in any class. The array had
to be extended by one so that the last class has a [class+1] entry
available, and object initialization now makes sure that classes
within objects[] are in ascending order so that [class+1] always
holds a higher index than [class].
Provide a way to communicate additional behaviors and/or appearances
desired from NetHack window port menus.
This is foundation work for changes to follow at a future date.
groundwork only - window port interface change
This changes the last parameter for add_menu() from a boolean
to an unsigned int, to allow additional itemflags in future
beyond just the "preselected" that the original boolean offered.
There shouldn't be any functionality changes with this groundwork-only
change, and if there are it is unintentional and should be reported.
Make some progress on a couple of next minor release checklist
items, hopefully without introducing too many new bugs. This
is just the initial commit, and work continues.
Checklist items:
Savefiles compatible between Windows versions, whether 64-bit
or 32-bit in little-endian field format.
Selection of file formats:
historical (structlevel saves),
lendian (little-endian, fieldlevel saves),
and just for proof-of-concept, ascii fieldlevel saves
(the ascii is huge! 10x bigger than little-endian).
For the fieldlevel save, all complex data structures recursively
get broken down until until it is one of the simple types that
can't be broken down any further, and that gets when it gets
written to the output file.
New files needed for this build:
hand-coded:
include/sfprocs.h
src/sfbase.c - really a dispatcher to one of the
output/input format routines.
src/sflendian.c - little-endian output writer/reader.
src/sfascii.c - ascii text output writer/reader.
auto-coded (generated):
include/sfproto.h
src/sfdata.c
This is just one approach. I'm sure there are countless others
and they have different pros and cons.
For producing the auto-coded files a utility called
universal-ctags, that is actively maintained and evolving,
was used to do all the heavy-lifting of parsing the
NetHack C sources to tabulate the data fields, and store
them in an intermediate file called util/nethack.tags
(not required for building NetHack if you already have a
generated include/sfproto.h and src/sfdata.c)
util/readtags (also not required for building NetHack
itself) will decipher the nethack.tags file and produce
the functions that can deal with the NetHack struct data
fields.
You can obtain the source for universal-ctags by cloning it
from here:
https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags.git
The combination universal-ctags + util/readtags has been
tried and tested under both Windows and Linux, so it is
not tied to a particular platform.
Note: util/readtags will work only with universal-ctags
output, so other ctags are unlikely to work as-is.
Universal-ctags can be build from source very easily
under Linux, or under Windows using visual studio.
Another one from 6.5 years ago, identifying a type of gem should give
a new price for any unpaid gems of that type and adjust shopping bill
accordingly. Report was for rubbing with touchstone and learning
worthless glass with price not changing until the learned 'gem' was
dropped. Fix works for that and also other forms of identification
(and for amnesia, raising prices of forgotten gems); no dropping is
required for the price to change.
Theoretically could apply to any type of item, but prices of gems are
by far the most sensitive to whether or not they're identified.
Noticed while investigating the report about sortloot interacting
with persistent inventory window when identifying all of invent and
possibly skipping some items. [This doesn't fix that.]
End of game disclosure was using makeknown() on inventory. It is a
jacket around discover_object() which passes the flag to exercise
Wisdom. That's useless at end of game [now; conceivably wrong if
disclosure of characteristics exercise ever got added], so call
discover_object() directly to suppress exercise of Wisdom.
discover_object() was also calling update_inventory() for every item
being discovered. That's not useful when looping through inventory
at end of game.
Noticed while investigating the report about sortloot interacting
with persistent inventory window when identifying all of invent and
possibly skipping some items. [This doesn't fix that.]
End of game disclosure was using makeknown() on inventory. It is a
jacket around discover_object() which passes the flag to exercise
Wisdom. That's useless at end of game [now; conceivably wrong if
disclosure of characteristics exercise ever got added], so call
discover_object() directly to suppress exercise of Wisdom.
discover_object() was also calling update_inventory() for every item
being discovered. That's not useful when looping through inventory
at end of game.
The menu for picking an item to name when using the "on discoveries list"
choice for #name or C when that list spanned multiple pages was exiting
for <space> instead of advancing to next page. Space was being assigned
as the selection letter for class header lines, which made no sense.
Apparently tty doesn't mind if you use add_menu() without preceding
it with start_menu(), because doclassdisco() (the new with 3.6.0 '`'
command) works for me with all four settings of menustyle.
I'll push a formatting guide at some point. There may still be
outstanding changes, but please feel free to resolve those as you arrive
a them.
To the best of my knowledge, there is no changes to the actual code
content, but the formatter does have the occasional bug. If you run into
an issue, please fix it!
Use the grave accent (back tick) character as the keystroke for a
new command which prompts for an object class and then shows a subset of
the discovered objects list covering just the selected class. Similar
to the 'I' variant of 'i' for viewing inventory, and mainly useful once
the '\' discoveries list has grown long.
Implement <Someone>'s menu-mode for #name, primarily because it
is the natural place to add [re]naming entries in the discoveries list,
something that was requested in the newsgroup ten or so years ago. The
latter allows changing the type name of something which has previously
been named and is no longer being carried.
This also makes the C command become a synonym for #name or vice
versa; one or the other could now be reassigned to something else.
#name
What do you want to name?
a - a monster
b - a particular object in inventory
c - a type of object in inventory
d - a type of object on discoveries list
Menu group accelerators provide unseen alternate choices: C for monster,
y for individual object, n for object type (and d for discoveries, but
that's only interesting if inventory is empty so that usual b & c are
omitted and discoveries entry moves up to b). These alternates allow
`#name y' and `#name n' to work the same as before, for users who have
trouble retraining their fingers. Using C to name a monster now takes an
extra keystroke, but using `C C' for it could make that be less annoying.
The fix to prevent naming an unknown gray stone "the Heart of Ahriman"
from revealing whether the object was a luckstone was inadequate to prevent
using the same trick with "the Mitre of Holiness" to determine if an unknown
helmet was a helm of brilliance. (I don't know whether whoever figured out
the first one has realized the second yet; no one had mentioned it in the
newsgroup the last time I looked.) To get this right we need to check for
objects sharing the same set of shuffled descriptions in addition to testing
whether they have identical descriptions. Doing that meant reorganizing how
object shuffling is done, but it produces the same behavior as before.
There was a great deal of inconsistency in
different menus on how headings were displayed.
This allows the user to select what they like best.
I was motivated to do this, because I wasn't satisfied
with the appearance of ATR_INVERSE in the menus
on win32tty, and several of them specified it.
to make that field unconditional, otherwise
NetHack won't compile without TEXTCOLOR defined.
Also provides at least an interim solution for the has_color()
problem that Warwick pointed out.
Lastly, Archeologists know touchstones.