o Add support for zlib compression via ZLIB_COMP in config.h (ZLIB_COMP
and COMPRESS are mutually exclusive).
o rlecomp and zerocomp are run time options available if RLECOMP and
ZEROCOMP are defined, but not turned on by default if either COMPRESS
or ZLIB_COMP are defined.
o Add information to the save file about internal compression options
used when writing the save file, particularly rlecomp and zerocomp
support.
o Automatically adjust rlecomp and zerocomp (if support compiled in)
when reading in an existing savefile that was saved with those options
turned on. Still allows writing out of savefile in preferred format.
o In order to support zlib and not conflict with compress and uncompress
routines there, the NetHack internal functions were changed to
nh_uncompress and nh_compress as done in the zlib contribution received
in 1999 from <Someone>.
I tagged the sources NETHACK_3_5_0_PREZLIB prior to applying these
changes.
Introduction of a new set of window port status display
routines. The new routines are conditional on
STATUS_VIA_WINDOWPORT
being defined in config.h. See the experimental section,
where the #define resides for the time being.
If a Key-down event didn't meet the expected criteria,
the event was ignored in the "peek" loop, but it was
never removed from the input queue either, so it
remained at the top of the queue.
It isn't clear if this fixes the dedicated arrow keys
hanging, but if those were resulting in strange
event values too, it just might.
The autocompletion was working, but you couldn't tell
because the text was overwritten with blanks. This was
a recent glitch created during fix for other cursor problems.
This brings things much closer to correct operation (I hope).
- The shift to only moving the cursor on input (<Someone>'s
changes) had a lot of complications, among them was
that sometimes, there is no more input. When the program was
exiting, or bombing the cursor synch never got done, so the
final messages could end up strewn any place the cursor
happened to be dwelling.
- There were two competing output systems in use: the
wintty stuff for the game, and the msmsg and error stuff
used by the sys/share/pcsys, sys/share/pctty, and
sys/share/pcunix routines. Those were meant to mimic
output to stdout, where stuff just got sent to a sequential
display. Over time, there were calls mixed in that depended
on the cursor tracked stuff from the core game, so you
really couldn't be sure where things were going to display.
It wasn't as much of an issue before, because the cursor
really did get moved around as expected. Everything
now ends up in the same output system.
- I even found a use of the real putchar() because
sys/share/pcunix didn't #include wintty.h the same
as the other files, and the macro never got defined.
Who knows where that character was being put -
the game certainly couldn't track it.
While everything I knew to be wrong yesterday is
now working, there may be some other glitches
lurking that I haven't discovered yet.
Please: test, test, test.
<Someone> wrote:
> Using the MCVS IDE I couldn't compile NetHack any longer, due to a
> misplaced #endif and a library not included in the DSP file.
> Here's a patch for both problems for 3.5.0.
> The 3.4.x verison only suffered from the first problem. Patch also
> attached.
There were still some significant startup message problems
with win32tty.
I've spent a lot of time in the debugger tracing through them all.
I think I've got them all worked out now, certainly the ones that
I was aware of. There may be some I haven't discovered.
Testing welcomed of course!
This patch also attempts to diagnose the error where someone tries
to execute NetHack directly out of a zip file, and provide
them with a (hopefully) helpful message similar to what we
might end up telling them if they wrote in. If you want
to test that part, you can comment out the line in the
Makefile that adds "dungeon" to nhdat, and delete the nhdat
in your binary and src directories, and "make install".
Then add the value of your TEMP environment variable as a
DATADIR statement in defaults.nh (here's mine):
DATADIR=C:\DOCUME~1\ALLISO~1\LOCALS~1\Temp
The diagnostic code engages if the game fails to open
dungeon. It then checks to see if it the game dir is the
TEMP directory for your system, and if so it prints the
message.
the win32 cursor restriction stuff messed up any
messages displayed during abnormal start conditions
where the window system never got initialized properly.
among them:
- messages relating to lock files or games in progress
- dungeon errors
- early panic messages
From Newsgroups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack :
> <email deleted>
> Subject: question for windows tty users
>
> I am trying to hunt down a bug, and want to know if I have
> encountered another one of those bizarre "features" that only
> occur on my computer (I seem to get a lot of them).
>
> I can reproduce this bug, or whatever it is, in the official
> Windows binary like this: Start the tty version of NetHack by
> double clicking on the program. You won't see the bug if you
> start it from the command line. When the game asks, "Who are
> you?" press ^C. NetHack will respond with "^C abort. Hit
> <Enter> to end," and then it hangs. Pressing Enter does
> nothing, and the program does not end.
>
> Can anybody else reproduce this behaviour? Thanks in advance.
>
> -- <Someone>
fix by <Someone>, updated by <Someone> on r.g.r.n.
changes the colours of the windows tty port so that blue and
bright blue, and cyan and bright cyan are distinguishable. The chief
benefit of this is that floating eyes no longer look like shocking
spheres.
1. Switch to low-level console routines for performance improvements.
2. Instead of moving the cursor around like a real tty, just track the
destination coordinates of where the cursor should be, and
defer the movement until user input is expected.
Credit to <Someone> for #2.
Introduce a new set of functions to manage delayed killers in the trunk, used
in addressing the various reports of delayed killer confusion. Since existing
delayed killers are related to player properties, the delayed killers are
keyed by uprop indexes. I did this to avoid adding yet another set of
similar identifiers.
- the new delayed_killer() is used for stoning, sliming, sickness, and
delayed self-genocide while polymorphed. Some other timed events don't
use it (and didn't use the old delayed_killer variable) because they
use a fixed message when the timeout occurs.
- A new data structure, struct kinfo, is used to track both delayed and
immediate killers. This encapsulates all the info involved with
identifying a killer. The structure contains a buffer, which subsumes the
old killer_buf and several other buffers that didn't/couldn't use killer_buf.
- the killer list is saved and restored as part of the game state.
- the special case of usick_cause was removed and a delayed killer list
entry is now used in its place
- common code dealing with (un)sliming is moved to a new make_slimed function
- attempted to update all make dependencies for new end.c -> lev.h
dependency, sorry if I messed any up
Pat Rankin wrote:
> collect them all into some new struct and
> save that separately rather than jamming more non-option stuff
> into struct flags.
This patch:
- collects all context/tracking related fields from flags
into a new structure called "context."
It also adds the following to the new structure:
- stethoscope turn support
- victual support
- tin support
Changes are: Complete copyright notice, Versions using dot format instead of comma format, and nulls at the end of strings (required, at least for Windows 2000).
> This patch fixes warnings relating to pointers (using int *
> instead of unsigned int * ), provides prototypes for some
> functions, and adds a missing argument to one of the functions
>
> It also changes a bit in the way flex/bison are used in the
> Borland makefile to allow me to test compilation with those
> utilities using a batch file.
The number_pad option can now optionally hold a value
{0,1, 2 } for {off, on, DOS-mode} but plain number_pad and
!number_pad in config files still work as before.
When number_pad:2 is set, iflags.num_pad_mode is set to 1
which triggers the following behaviour:
> '5', M('5') and M('0') are mapped in rhack()
>in cmd.c, only when they are entered as a command. When used as a
>number, like in the 'n' command, no mapping takes place. '0' is
>already mapped to 'i' by the core. The
>only difference [<Someone>] left in (deliberately) is when you press Ctrl-0;
>this used to map to C('i'), which is an invalid command; now
>keep it '0' (which is interpreted as 'i' by the core.)
>The attached is a patch for the makefiles and .rc that makes
>Borland compile. Files modified: sys/winnt/Makefile.bcc - changes
>Makefile so dependencies on dlls are removed for console, adds
>gamedir.tag sys/winnt/Makefile.msc - changes the Makefile a bit to
>make it dependent on gamedir.tag in both gui and console, and make
>the dlls a dependency only in console but without the !IF for
>$(GAMEFILE). The .rc format is made workable for both Borland and
>MSC. win/win32/winhack.rc - makes FONT format Borland compatible
What's in it:
some MessageBox tidbits:
- Let all MessageBoxes display an icon
- Introduced NHMessageBox to have messageboxes display a consistent title
- Change icon in mswin_display_file from MB_ICONERROR to MB_ICONEXCLAMATION
for non-fatal error
And to solve #U355: NetHackW won't run on Win2K OS:
- Avoid a crash when closing the main window while the splash screen is
displayed.
- Make sure NetHack starts normal when closed minimized
- Center the splash screen on the screen, not on the parent window
(which may be off-screen)
What's new in it:
- Show copyright banner in textbox in splash screen instead of over the picture
- Show news in splash screen only if iflags.news (solves W341-6)
- show complete version information in splash screen when it is used as about box)
[Also reverse the numkey patch in main trunk]
mapping the 5 and 0 to '5' and '0' respectively
when NumLock is off, to make entering numbers easier. The core will map '5' and
'0' to 'g' and 'i' respectively. This solves W341-5.
Note: I changed nhdefkey.c and mhmain.c, so both the tty and the windows
interface will show new behaviour. I deliberately did not change nh340key.dll.
Note: Maybe the same change should be made to the MSDOS port.
Note: The behaviour of getobj is a little bit strange: It doesn't use
yn_question's facility for returning a number, but handles that itself. The
net effect of this is that if you type d55$ (to drop 55 zorkmids,) only the
first '5' is shown
(2 troublesome bands removed
and will follow later)
Here's the new patch with the Windows improvements; this should apply to the
3.4.2 tree. Note the changed filename in the diff lines.
What's in it:
> some MessageBox tidbits:
> - Let all MessageBoxes display an icon
> - Introduced NHMessageBox to have messageboxes display a consistent title
> - Change icon in mswin_display_file from MB_ICONERROR to MB_ICONEXCLAMATION
> for non-fatal error
>
> And to solve #U355: NetHackW won't run on Win2K OS:
> - Avoid a crash when closing the main window while the splash screen is
> displayed.
> - Make sure NetHack starts normal when closed minimized
> - Center the splash screen on the screen, not on the parent window (which may
> be off-screen)
What's new in it:
- Show copyright banner in textbox in splash screen instead of over the picture
- Show news in splash screen only if iflags.news (solves W341-6)
- show complete version information in splash screen when it is used as about
box
