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
Replace "feature_toggle" implementation with an easier-to-understand
boolean option called "lootabc".
Provide "showrace", an option to display the hero by race glyph rather
than by role glyph.
Document the above.
Remove some obsolete Mac options.
This adds a generic feature_toggle mechanism to
the game. Code that wants to offer two different
ways of doing something can add an entry to
feature_toggles[] (in decl.c), and create a
preprocessor macro for its array index in decl.h.
Then the code can test it using
if (feature_toggle(FEATURE_NAME))
..do_this..
else
..do_that..
The player can toggle the alternate code path
on using OPTIONS=feature_toggle:feature_name_1 feature_name_2 ...
This seems better than creating brand new options
for controlling features (ala prayconfirm, which
could switch to this single option feature_toggle
mechanism as well)
My first use of it is to allow toggling of the selectors
on the loot menu, which I'm hesitant to just change back
because now people are actively using the new selectors and
the complaints would be really loud if the interface were
to just switch back after they adjusted.
The default behaviour is the new behaviour "iob", but with an
OPTIONS=feature_toggle:loot_menu_selectors
in your config file, it will revert to using "abc" as it did
in 3.3.1. I'll add a Guidebook page of "features/behaviour
that can be toggled" later.
The toggles can only be done in defaults.nh, and are
not saved with the game.
> while testing the new wc_-Features for Gem I noticed
> in nh340b11 options.c parse_options there is a bug.
> If a optionname starts with "font" a opts+=4; is
> performed on it, but if via string_for_opt an
> error occurs badoption is reporting i.E.
> Bad Syntax: _menu use "?g" ...
> instead of font_menu.
>
> Possible fixes include shift the pointer back (bad)
> or use another pointer.
>
> <Someone>
- 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.
part 1 touches core files
ntconf.h changes differ slightly from Yitzhak's original.
Makes Borland happy with current sources.
Hides "rawio" on Graphical Port which doesn't do anything with rawio
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.
Note: actual option setting code in parseoptions already does this correctly
- avoid testing the same options values vs multiple boolopts entries
- apply similar change for complex option testing
- remove some dead code
also corrects a cut-and-paste error that I made in options.c
The following options can be set in the game now:
WC_HILITE_PET
WC_ALIGN_MESSAGE
WC_ALIGN_STATUS
WC_SCROLL_MARGIN
WC_MAP_MODE
WC_FONT_MESSAGE
WC_FONT_STATUS
WC_FONT_MENU
WC_FONT_TEXT
WC_FONTSIZ_MESSAGE
WC_FONTSIZ_STATUS
WC_FONTSIZ_MENU
WC_FONTSIZ_TEXT
I was asked how a window-port controls which options are
set to SET_IN_FILE, DISP_IN_GAME, or SET_IN_GAME.
This provides a run-time way to change an option's SET_IN_FILE,
DISP_IN_GAME, or SET_IN_GAME status through code, rather
than clog up options.c with a lot of compile-time #ifdefs
for different ports to offer different default option settings.
Update the documentation to reflect this.
Several boolean options were mis-categorized and became
unsettable during play. Also, the eight_bit_tty option got
dropped into limbo. Fixing that revealed a typo which would
have broken compilation for MSDOS.
`eight_bit_tty' has been renamed `wc_eight_bit_input',
but its only use anywhere in the code is for output.
- added support for new options
- fixed couple of typos in options.c
- added sunken edge around message window
- added capability to replace font in the font table (if we will want to
change font sizes dynamically later)
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.
- allow spaces between the different possibilities
- add a missing null at the end of the list of prefixes to prevent index()
from going crazy
- slight re-wording of the Guidebook
>
> I'd like the default for "Would you like to see your <whatever>"
> at the end of a game to be "y" instead of "n". I haven't asked
> for full disclosure in order to have it skipped if I press the
> space bar once too often by mistake.
This changes the way the flags.end_disclose array is used to
allow what this request is asking for. It should be backward
compatible with previous "disclose" options.
The order that the end_disclore options are stored:
inventory, attribs, vanquished, genocided, conduct
There is an array in flags:
end_disclose[NUM_DISCLOSURE_OPT];
with option settings for the each of the following:
iagvc [see disclosure_options in decl.c]:
Legal setting values in that array are:
DISCLOSE_PROMPT_DEFAULT_YES ask with default answer yes
DISCLOSE_PROMPT_DEFAULT_NO ask with default answer no
DISCLOSE_YES_WITHOUT_PROMPT always disclose and don't ask
DISCLOSE_NO_WITHOUT_PROMPT never disclose and don't ask
Those setting values can be used in the option
string as a prefix to each disclosure option
to get the desired behaviour for that option.
For backward compatibility, no prefix is actually required,
and the presence of a i,a,g,v, or c without a prefix sets
the corresponding value to DISCLOSE_YES_WITHOUT_PROMPT;
The actual prefixes used are controlled by the following in flag.h:
#define DISCLOSE_PROMPT_DEFAULT_YES 'y'
#define DISCLOSE_PROMPT_DEFAULT_NO 'n'
#define DISCLOSE_YES_WITHOUT_PROMPT '+'
#define DISCLOSE_NO_WITHOUT_PROMPT '-'
As far as the docs go, I don't know if I've got the *roff
stuff right. The TeX stuff looks okay when I converted it to .pdf.
This increments EDITLEVEL. If that is a problem, I can
add a routine to restore.c to perform a conversion of the old
values in flags. Let me know.
Fixes:
- menu shortcuts implemented
- most windows close on space (except for menus with
PICK_ANY style)
- "hilite_pet" option is implemented
- map scrolling is improved somewhat (it now scrolls if
the char is within 5 spaces from the edge of the map -
configurable by #define CLIPAROUND_MARGIN)
- added 3 winhack-specific options:
win32_map_mode:[tiles|ascii4x6|ascii6x8|ascii8x8
|ascii16x8|ascii7x12|ascii8x12|ascii15x12
|ascii12x16|ascii10x18|fit_to_screen]=20
win32_align_status:[left|top|right|bottom]
win32_align_message:[left|top|right|bottom]
Note: aligning status window to left or right edge of the screen does
not look good.
Incorporate a slightly cleaned up version of <Someone>'s patch to enable a
"pettype:none" startup option that allows one to start the game without a pet.