1) Update documentation for using bison/flex
2) Fix use of $(CC). In the makefile, it's supposed to be $(cc).
Otherwise it won't compile. [caused during recent dependency
updates]
Provide a way to have a port-specific debug-mode commands
if PORT_DEBUG is defined at build time.
Add a win32 keystroke checking routine to assist debugging
of international keyboards.
Fix a problem with the way NetHack was handling
international keyboards by letting ToAscii() come
up with an input character based on the virtual key,
and the shift and caps lock state.
> This patch adds a bit of help on where a win32 bison/flex port can be
> downloaded, how to set it up, and provides default settings for that
>port. It seems the homepage has been stable for at least four years.
>The bison outputs from this port are y_tab.c and such, so I changed
>the defaults in the makefile to be such. The flex output is yy.lex.c.
>One question that was fwd'd to me after the release dealt with
>using bison and flex.
The problem with the new autocomplete was tracked down to
be the result of differences between different implementations
of backsp(). The differences go all the way back to the
early MSDOS port by the look of it, and the win32,
and Mac tty ports all seemed to pattern themselves after the
MSDOS port for that routine. Apparently, it didn't cause any
harm until now.
The problem is that backsp() sends a character sequence
of 0x08, 0x20, 0x08 on at least those ports, where the Unix
tty code only sends 0x08. So the characters in the new
autocomplete were all being erased from the screen.
This patch only fixes the win32 tty port, so I've left the
conditional code in getline.c for DOS and Mac. I
- restructured Install.nt quite a bit. It now contains instructions
to build a graphical nethack using NMAKE, too. I merged
the instructions for command line builds, and separated the IDE
build; that made more sense to me. It is shorter, too.
- added some lines to all Makefiles so they now build
NetHackW.exe when GRAPHICAL is "Y", and NetHack.exe
otherwise. I espacially did not test this on Borland.
Previously, the makefiles would always build NetHack.exe.
- changed the IDE files to build NetHackW.exe instead of
nethackw.exe. This is only cosmetic, but consistent with the
other executable.
- made a small change to pcmain.c, as the MinGW linker
cannot decide between main() and WinMain() when both are
present, as explained in <Someone>'s original
message. (I used a #ifndef instead of comments ;-)
The MinGW graphical build indeed seems to work.
This uses pmatch() as a default pattern matcher,
and #defines USER_SOUNDS_REGEX for Qt
to enable the code for regular expressions.
This is enabled for win32tty and win32gui.
CTRL+ALT was being treated as a valid ALT-sequence,
so the meta bit was being set on it, letting it slip past this
check in wintty.c "if (!i) i = '\033';"
This overhauls the ALT processing in nttty.c, some of
which was using scancode mappings from the DOS port
needlessly.
> Oops:
>
> "NetHack.exe - Entry Point Not Found
>
> The procedure entry point Process32Next could not be located in the dynamic link
> library KERNEL32.dll."
>
> And the program refuses to run. Same goes for NetHackW.exe.
>
> Windows NT 4 (to be precise: 4.00.1381, SP6)
> IE 5.0 (to be precise: 5.00.2919.6307)
>
> The Help for Process32Next shows the following compatibility list:
> QuickInfo
> Windows NT: Requires version 5.0 or later.
> Windows: Requires Windows 95 or later.
> Windows CE: Unsupported.
> Header: Declared in tlhelp32.h.
> Import Library: Use kernel32.lib.
The NOCWD_ASSUMPTIONS conditional code allows readonly
parts of NetHack to be separated from areas that require write-access.
This allows the recent panic log needed a prefix.
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
#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.
- 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.
