Changing
if (ammo_and_launcher(otmp, uwep) && mwep->otyp == ELVEN_BOW)
(with 'uwep' typo) to
if (mwep->otyp == ELVEN_BOW && ammo_and_launcher(otmp, mwep))
(with fixed 'mwep') moved ammo_and_launcher()'s hidden non-null
test to after 'mwep->otyp'. If mwep was Null (so monster must be
throwing non-ammo such as darts or daggers rather than shooting
with a launcher), a crash occurred. (Throwing such things while
the monster is wielding any weapon doesn't have this problem.)
I don't think 3.6.2 can crash here. If hero's uwep is a bow, otmp
must be arrows to get past pre-3.6.3's incorrect ammo_and_launcher()
check. And a monster won't shoot arrows unless wielding a bow, so
monster's mwep would be non-Null regardless of what uwep is.
I tested a kobold with darts and an elven bow. But I also gave it
one elven arrow to provoke it into wielding the bow and my test
didn't throw darts with nothing wielded....
A typo caused the bow and arrow check when a monster was wielding an
elven box to test the hero's weapon with monster's ammo. [I looked
at the old slash'em code where I think this came from and it doesn't
have the typo but does have a different bug. A monster could get a
multi-shot volley by wielding an elven bow when throwing darts or
spears. The extra bow and arrow check is intended to prevent that.
The typo was probably by me but I have no memory of that code....]
Elves with bows (or other monsters who manage to pick up and wield an
elven bow) will shoot bigger volleys after this fix. That will make
them more dangerous but also cause them to run out of arrows more
quickly.
From the newsgroup (reported for slash'em but applies to nethack too):
a chaotic monk was crowned and told he or she had been "chosen to
steal souls for My Glory!" while being given a spellbook of restore
ability which has nothing whatever to do with soul stealing. There's
alternate wording for when Stormbringer can't be given because it
already exists; also use that for when it's not going to be given
because the character is discouraged against wielding weapons.
Add the contributed code that checks for attempting to start a
duplicate timer. It's based on a comment which must have been there
at least 25 years and doesn't solve any known problems, but it is
conceptually similar to the large amount of sanity checking which has
gone into 3.6.x.
It didn't work as is because it was comparing two unions with '=='.
I don't know offhand whether C++ supports that but C doesn't (through
C11 at least; don't know about C17). The union ('anything') is simple
enough that two instances can be compared without jumping through hoops.
I've also added another check for timer 'kind' (level, object, monster,
or global).
Nymphs won't steal gold from the hero (so that their steal-item damage
isn't a superset of lerprechaun's steal-gold damage; straightforward
back when gold wasn't kept in inventory), but hero poly'd into a nymph
would steal gold from monsters.
Fixes#204
3.6.2's attempts to fix turning off SEDUCE in 'sysconf' introduced
an unintentional change in behavior for hero poly'd into nymph form:
theft attack always angered the target. The actual change was
intentional but its ramifications were unexpected.
Asking curses to report whether the Ctrl key was being pressed during
a mouse click was sending mouse position reports--even those aren't
being requested--and actual Ctrl+Left_click was reporting a pair of
duplicate Ctrl+Mouse_position_report events when a click was actually
performed. So turn off Ctrl key reporting.
Mac with one-button mouse can be configured to send "secondary click"
for Ctrl+Click. A laptop trackpad handles that differently (press the
button while two fingers are on the touchpad to send secondary click)
and doesn't support Ctrl+Click as an alternate way to do that. If this
would work within curses then they could operate the same regardless
of how the user set the mouse or trackpad configuraiton. But I wasn't
able to make it work right.
Fixes#200
The Guidebook claims that there's no symbol for 'S_strange_object'
which is literally true, but there is one for S_strange_obj. It has
been in place longer than the paragraph claiming that there's no way
to customize that symbol. I'm not sure why variant spelling was used.
Also, files.c doesn't use loadsyms[], it calls a routine which returns
a pointer to a specific element in that array.
would describe it as trapped if you could see its location, but if
the trap was unseen that trap would remain unseen, at least in some
circumstances. Mark the trap as seen.
Wizard mode ^E and any mode spell of detect unseen or wand of secret
door detection failed to find mon->mundetected monsters if they were
hiding under objects, and failed to find those or other hiders or
mimics when the hidden monster was at a trap location. The fix for
the latter initially only worked if the trap was known, so took two
tries when a monster hid at the location of an unseen trap. So this
makes the additional change to find both things at the same time; it
isn't manual searching that stops as soon as something is found.
For ^X and final disclosure, report external issues that affect game
play: midnight, other night, new or full moon, and Friday the 13th.
The 'new feature' entry in the fixes file rambles a bit but if it
heads off even one spurious bug report, it'll have been worth it.
When kicking an altar, trigger divine wrath (minor: luck or alignment
loss) before deciding whether hero has hurt himself in the process.
Add some variation to the wrath penalty so that it can't be used to
precisely control Luck.
Typing ^H actually passed a 16-bit value back to the core which got
interpreted as ^G after the extra bits were discarded. I don't think
any previous changes to the curses interface caused this. It's
astonishing that no one ever noticed; the world must be full of numpad
users.
Fixes#202
When swallowed, you can take things from the engulfer's inventory, if
there are any, via pickup. Items might be worn by the engulfer and
when "picked up" those weren't being unworn before being added to
hero's inventory. Then they would be formatted as "(being worn)" and
could trigger warnings or worse.
Conceptually they should be worn on the outside and not be accessible
from the inside, so I've made attempts to pick up worn items fail
rather than fix up the unwearing.
Using ':' when swallowed to look at the engulfer's inventory describes
that inventory as "contents of <mon>'s stomach". That's weird for any
worn items, but the situation is so rare I haven't made any attempt to
deal with it.
Extend support for highlight rules that specify percentages from HP
and spell power to experience level and experience points. For both
of those, the percentage is based on progress from the start of the
current Xp level to the start of the next Xp level. 100% isn't
possible so is used to enable highlighting a special case: 1 point
shy of next level, most likely to occur after losing a level.
This is something I had in mind a long time ago and then forgot all
about until fiddling with the final disclosure of experience points
recently. It turned out to be trickier than expected because it needs
to check whether Xp should have a status update when it hasn't changed
but Exp has gone up. The latter might hit a percentage threshold that
switches to another highlight rule. Fortunately changes to Exp, at
least that aren't part of level gain or loss (which always trigger
status updating), are all funnelled through a single place (I hope).
Highlighting via attributes got broken three months ago. May or
may not have been noticeable depending upon which attributes are
supported. Too many variations of attribute designations...
When I implemented getmsghistory()/putmsghistory() for curses I was
assuming that DUMPLOG would only be used with tty, but it is interface
neutral and can be used with curses (or others). So curses message
history needs to behave like tty message history and be sure to pass
along messages that bypass pline() and the normal message window.
(Mainly one-line summaries of long quest messages, but also old
messages fetched from a save file and available to be re-saved without
having been shown if new session doesn't generate enough new messages
to flush them.)
Wizard mode shows the number of points needed to reach the next level
(unless already maxxed out at 30) for ^X and end of game disclosure.
Do it in normal play for the latter too. (I think it would ok to do
that for ^X too but haven't gone that far.)
Even when it was wizard mode only, the phrasing for past tense had a
minor grammar bug, and it could make the line a little too long for
tty and curses (not sure about others) when level was high, resulting
in wrapped text. That looked bad for tty, which first tries removing
indentation (just 1 space in this case), making that line outdented
as well as wrapped. So change the phrasing slightly when experience
level is 'too high'. I had a version which formatted, measured, and
re-formatted if necessary but that was overkill; simple hardcoded
rephrasing suffices particularly when measuring was against assumed
display width (80) rather than actual width.
Turns the "fix" in commit 319dcf4746
handled removing the default answer for single-line-prompt plus
multi-line-answer but not for multi-line-prompt plus long-enough-
answer-to-reach-another-line. The logic wasn't quite right and I
misunderstood what is stored in linestarts[] so even correct logic
wouldn't have solved things.
A recent fix for #wizidentify showing "Not carrying anything" after
listing inventory items still showed "Not carrying anything" after
"(all items are already identified)". Fix is easy.
Trickier bug was that ^I performs object ID on selected items while
the inventory routine is still in progress (but after it has processed
every item) and the ID routine will call update_inventory() which
will call the inventory routine to reformat invent. So the inventory
display routine was called recursively without having returned to
wizidentify where iflags.override_ID gets cleared to revert to normal
inventory. The nested call was unintentionally narrowing the contents
of persistent inventory window to whatever items were still unIDed.
(Any inventory update, including ^R, restored it to full inventory.)
With 'popup_dialog' On, a one line popup with question and likely
responses and default answer was shown, but without having the
cursor displayed at the end of emphasize that it was waiting for an
answer. Make the popup be one character wider so that there is room
to show the cursor. No effect when 'popup_dialog' is Off and prompts
are shown at the bottom of the message window; those already have the
cursor sitting at the end.
Make final inventory disclosure use a full width menu instead of
the default 38-column width with lots of wrapping. Also, increase
that default from 38 to 40 for the rest of the time. Commit
9f6588af49 made the 38 vs 40 portion
matter much less but I decided to keep it in anyway.
When a menu or 'things that are here' popup has only a couple of
lines and they happen to be narrow, a sized-to-fit window isn't
always easy to spot when it is shown over the ends of old messages
rather than over the map, even with a border box around it. Give
such windows a minimum size of 5x25 so that they always stand out
enough to be immediately seen. This will cause more message text to
be rewritten occasionally (after dismissing the menu or text window)
but the curses interface seems to discount that as something to be
concerned about.