I've overhauled the status display for curses. Horizontal layout
supports both 2 lines and 3 lines which can be changed dynamically
via using 'O' to set 'statuslines'. Fields are spread out a little
more than they used to be, making it more readable--at least to me--
but the extra spaces get squeezed out when lines become too long.
If 'showexp' is on and either conditions or hunger+encumbrance go
off the right edge, experience points are suppressed (but the option
is left on, so they'll come back once there is room).
For traditional 2-line hozizontal status, if hunger+encumbrance+
conditions go off the right edge even after experience points are
knocked out, there will be a '+' in the rightmost column if there
are any conditions that are all the way off. At present it doesn't
use the tty method of switching to abbreviated condition names to
reduce their legnth. I'll probably tackle that eventually if no one
beats me to it.
For 3-line horizonal status, there was an older implementation (but
disabled via #if 0) with gold and score moving to the third line.
(I'm not sure how status conditions were handled.) This one ignored
that and modified 2-line from scratch, moving alignment from line one
to line 2 and level description, time, and conditions from line 2 to
line 3. It looks like this (view with a fixed-width font...).
Wizard the Hatamoto St:16 Dx:15 Co:18 In:8 Wi:11 Ch:7 S:25
Lawful $:21 HP:25(25) Pw:6(6) AC:4 Xp:2/21 Hungry Burdened
Dlvl:1 T:36 Blind Lev
Score is actually right aligned with the edge but I've deleted several
spaces to keep the line shorter here. The status conditions line up
with the hunger slot as that shifts due to changes in gold/HP/power/AC/
experience, and conditions prefer that column even when hunger and/or
encumbrance are blank. Howver, if the number of conditions increase to
the point where they would go off the edge, the whole list shifts left
instead of trying to stay lined up with hunger. (It's just coincidence
that the lefthand parts of lines 2 and 3 seem to line up in this sample.
In general, they don't.)
The vertical layout has reordered most of the fields and now has a few
blank lines to separate those fields into some groups for readability.
Lines have the form of
Field-name : Value
and when highlights apply, now they only affect the value portion.
Single digit characteristics are padded with a leading space so that
all six of them line up (for "18/xx", "/xx" protrudes to the right).
HP and Pw are aligned with each other. Hunger and encumbrance share a
line. When there are more than three conditions, they're shown three
per line instead of wrapping across lines. And if too many lines are
present, it will squeeze out enough blank ones to fit.
To see the vertical status, you need a display size of at least 106
columns with 'windowborders' explicitly off, or 110 with them on; also
set option 'align_status' to 'right' or 'left'. (With borders on,
including the default 'auto' setting, the vertical status appears at
width of 108 columns, but does so by hiding 2 columns of the map; using
110 columns avoids that.) Resizing from outside the game or changing
align_status via 'O' both cause dynamic reconfiguration of the layout;
there's no need to save, make config changes, then restore.
More groundwork for overhauling the status display for curses, plus
a few functional changes. It was doing a full status update for
every changed field (except conditions), instead of waiting for a
flush directive after gathering multiple changes at a time. Since
it already does gather every change, the fix to wait is trivial.
This decouples 'hitpointbar' from 'statushilites'. When highlighting
is off, it uses inverse video only. When on, it behaves as before:
using inverse video plus the most recent color used to highlight HP
(which can vary if that has rules to highlight changes or percentage
thresholds) but ignoring any HP attribute(s). This also enables the
latent 'statuslines' option and changes 'windowborders' option from
being settable at startup only to changeable during play.
'statuslines' can have a value of 2 (the default) or 3 and applies to
'align_status:bottom' or 'top'; it's ignored for 'left' and 'right'.
At the moment, setting it to 3 only allows status condition overflow
to wrap from the end of line to 2 to the beginning of line 3, and if
window borders are drawn they'll clobber the last character on line 2
and first one on line 3. There's no point in trying to fix that
because it will go away when the main status overhaul changes go in.
Condition wrapping for vertical orientation (left or right placement)
was already subject to the same phenomenon and will be superseded too.
This also changes the meaning of the 'windowborders' value so could
impact players using source from git (or possibly beta binaries for
Windows, but not for OSX where curses interface wasn't included).
Old:
0 = unspecified, 1 = On, 2 = Off, 3 = Auto (On if display is big
enough, Off otherwise; reevaluated after dynamic resizing);
Unspecified got changed to 3 during curses windowing initialization.
New:
0 = Off, 1 = On, 2 = Auto;
0 gets changed to 2 for default value at start of options processing.
So old value of 2 is changing meaning and explicit old value of 3 is
becoming invalid. Implicit 3 changes to default 2. Explicit 3 could
be the subject of a fixup but there isn't much point since 2 can't
have a similar fix. Users who are using old 2 or explicit 3 will need
to update their run-time config files.
This adds 'statuslines' to the Guidebook and moves some other recently
added documentation of curses options from among the general options
(section 9.4) to "Window Port Customization options" (section 9.5).
None of them have been added to dat/opthelp which seems to be missing
all the wincap options.
Originally I made a lot of changes (mostly moving C99 declarations to
start of their blocks) to the old '#if 0' code at end of cursstat.c,
but have tossed those, except for one subtle bug that assumed 'int'
and 'long' are the same size.
Fixed declarations of draw_classic, draw_vertical and draw_horizontal.
Moved definitions of locals before code. Added initialization of
locals. Changed comments to c-style.
