I started out adding a few new status conditions to X11's "fancy status"
(the default) to gauge how difficult it was going to be. In the process
I found several latent bugs. After fixing those, I decided that the same
status conditions should be added to the alternate "tty-style status".
Lots more latent bugs, some of the same nature, others different. Things
spiraled until the code change is very substantial.
Code for the old two-line status is still present but I don't know how
to activate it. Unlike tty-style status, it composes and displays two
lines of text and isn't capable of highlighting portions of that text,
so it would be considered deprecated anyway.
All testing was done with the default NetHack.ad (except when turning
'fancy_status' off) so I don't know whether the new code might override
previously customizable status settings. I'm not sure whether this list
covers all the fixes....
both tty-style and fancy
add new status conditions 'grabbed' (by eel), 'held', 'trapped', and
'sinking-into-lava' (others will eventually follow); grab and lava
are on by default, the others have to be enabled via options
both tty-style (not handled) and fancy (faulty boolean logic)
polymorphing didn't change Xp to HD (silver lining: rehumanizing
didn't need to reverse it)
tty-style only; fancy was ok
force white text (on black background) instead of settling for gray
turning on optional showexp, showscore, and/or time worked but turning
them back off again didn't remove the relevant fields
polymorphing when showexp was on didn't suppress Exp-points
tty-style only; fancy uses different layout
condense conditions into simple left-to-right space separated list
instead of giving them specific locations and having gaps of blank
space for conditions that aren't in effect
tty-style only; not applicable for fancy (status_hilites not implemented)
all highlights stuck if 'statushilites' was reset to 0 to disable them
displaying anything with bold attribute stuck; it wouldn't revert to
normal text if a different highlight rule without bold was used for
subsequent updates
avoid inverting leading space that separates from preceding field when
highlighting with inverse video attribute
add support for 'dim' attribute using gray foreground (only viable
after the fix for white foreground)
fancy only
reorganize the field layout so that things line up nicely instead of
having columns with six, seven, or eight lines be spread over same
amount of vertical space
line up the values of the six characteristics, similar to how vertical
status works in curses: all two digits; when exceptional strength is
present, the '18' lines up and rest goes past implicit right margin
use status conditions as provided by core instead of duplicating them
(other fields still duplicate stuff done in botl.c); doing this
required forcing 'VIA_WINDOWPORT()' if built without STATUS_HILITES