- incorporate a more portable way of calling the real getres*id() functions
on Linux platforms that uses the glibc interface rather than calling
the system call directly. The previous version didn't work on ia64 linux.
- fix destruction of primary game windows
- One, it makes the color of the cursor box dynamic (these are the gnmap.c
changes), based on hp/hpmax (continuous colors white -> yellow -> red ->
magenta rather than discrete like in Qt).
- Two, it adds a new window, NHW_WORN (all the other changes and new files
gnworn.[ch]), placed at the end of the first row, to the right of the status,
with tiles of all the items currently equiped. I had to change the spacing of
the first row (no longer homogeneous) to accomodate this, but I think it still
looks okay. It's mostly like the Qt version but the equiped items are in
slightly different places, and a bit more compactly (added quiver, ball/chain,
monster skin armor; see the definition in gnworn.c for the layout).
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?
<email deleted> <email deleted>
Followup-To:
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.
>>
<email deleted>
>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
Allow the special level and dungeon compilers to handle input
files which have CR+LF delimited lines. Apparently Cygwin doesn't
convert MSDOS style line ends into newlines the way stdio should
do for text I/O. The resulting unexpected CR characters result in
syntax errors.
And explicitly using '\n' on both the lex and yacc sides of
MAP processing allows removal of the old NEWLINE hack for Mac MPW.
It won't matter what numeric value that character escape sequence
has internally.
#649
<email deleted> on Friday, March 22, 2002 at 13:27:03
software: os: w2k workstation
nh: stock tty nethack.exe
comments: When you move onto a space and your pet moves onto the space
next to you on your left, your @ is displayed w/ normal attributes
instead of bright.
hilite_pet option is enabled
IBMGraphics option is disabled
#656
<email deleted> on Friday, March 22, 2002 at 16:59:37
nhfrom: 3.4.0 Official binary release for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Me/XP
software: Windows 98 SE playing the ASCII version
comments: Sometimes when I'm standing next to my pet the @ turns grey, it goes
back to white after I move.
This was a tricky one. While the error was ultimately because
he was specifying a non-existant directory in defaults.nh, the
error message lead me to the wrong area until I traced through
with a debugger.
It turns out that an fqn buffer was being re-used before it
was finished being used with the original information in
sys/share/pcunix.c, so the error message listed the
wrong file!
This adds one more buffer and fixes the problem.
Note that it could only affect plaforms with
PREFIXES_IN_USE defined (NOCWD_ASSUMPTIONS
or VAR_PLAYGROUND)
It also alters the WIN32 error message to give them a
hint as to what the problem might be.
<email deleted>
<email deleted>
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 9:27 AM
Subject: #R668: Windows 2000 Lock File Creation Error
> nhfrom: 3.4.0 Official binary release for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Me/XP
> I get an error after unzipping nethack to c:\nethack, and changing the
> configuration (defaults.nh) to reflect this in the hackdir, levels and save
> configuration items.
>
> The error I get is "cannot creat lock file (C:\nethack\NHPERM_lock.)" after
> entering nethack at the command line and answering the Who are you? question.
- forgot to apply this change before making the 3.4.0 binary (it was
actually built using these settings). It's safer for the game itself to be
non-group writable so that someone on a public server can't exploit a
bounds checking or similar error to infect the executable itself with
a trojan horse.
Fix a documentation inaccuracy pointed out by Michael. Intended for
the 3.4.0 source tarball, even though it was submitted after the
code freeze. Does not affect compiled binaries.
Changes to the resource file used for the Macintosh port.
Specifically, remove hardcoded version string and popup dialogs.
This is formatted with BinHex so it can be stored on non-Mac
systems without losing the resource fork. Though it is text,
it is not intended to be human-readable.
- support X11 tile files (with or without XPM) that are 40 tiles wide
- rearrange some X11 code to share more code between XPM & non-XPM options
- clean out some deprecated X11/winmap.c #ifdefs
- update Qt code minimally to handle such an XPM file
- keep boolean and valued option sections together
- be more consistent in use of terms "graphical port"
and "graphical interface" in the document (use the
latter where noticed)
- don't mention options available in other ports so
much since this document is not a general
document.
- move the numeric keypad stuff to the end. It seems
to assume number_pad on. So I stated that it does.
(Many players never play with number_pad on, and
I'm one of them. I'm not sure of the merit in having
the section in here at all, since it exists in the
Guidebook doesn't it?) How accurate is the text
that is there if you aren't in number_pad mode?
This is so it can be shared with Qt.
If, for some reason, we have to cut another source tarball for
3.4.0, then this will be included. Otherwise, this will
turn out to be a post-3.4.0 patch.
Unfortunately a couple of glitches were encountered during the build of
the DOS binary.
Also, somewhere along the way the ability to separate the debug info
for the win32 tty binary into its own PDB file was removed from
Makefile.msc. I wasn't aware of that until I went to build the binary,
and discovered that I had no PDB file to stow away for bug
reports.
- 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.
- a couple of README updates
- some color changes for windowcolors
- prevent crash From a bug report, but better than a crash. It
probably renders the map_mode:fit_to_screen ignored in defaults.nh.
part 2 touches only port files
Makes Borland happy with current sources.
Fixes bug in WM_PAINT handling in rip/splash code.
Fixes getline() bug (H0009)
Tidies up source.
Fixes up copyright notices.
Adds TODO docs for Borland. (Removes "TODO" note)
Small changes to defaults formatting.
Fixes ALT key on Graphical Port non NetHack mode.
Hilites pet in Graphical Port text mode.
Also Implements windowcolors for status and message window in graphical port.
On graphical port,
tested to see it actually works.
Tested on platforms Makefile MSC/BCC Graphical/Console, MSC IDE for
compile and run and performing hilite pet in graphical text, not
displaying rawio, alt key.
