Minor display glitch in 3.0.9

[Dragonboneman]

My Gnome Mage, Telethel, is still alive, but I've been too busy doing other stuff to play much of late. Killed Glaurung this morning, though.
However the point of this particular post is to highlight a (very) slight issue with the display. I use four visible windows, with Term-2 displaying current equipment in the bottom left of my screen.
Hopefully this rather crude .jpg image will help show the problem:



You should be able to make out a slight problem with the way Dal-i-thalion is displayed in this window.

Having had a quick look at the issue tracker on rephial.org (not that I understand much of it!) I think this problem may already be known, but I thought I'd better report this just in case.

Edit: I should mention that this is in Windows XP.

[andrewdoull]

Originally Posted by Dragonboneman

My Gnome Mage, Telethel, is still alive, but I've been too busy doing other stuff to play much of late. Killed Glaurung this morning, though.
However the point of this particular post is to highlight a (very) slight issue with the display. I use four visible windows, with Term-2 displaying current equipment in the bottom left of my screen.
Hopefully this rather crude .jpg image will help show the problem:



You should be able to make out a slight problem with the way Dal-i-thalion is displayed in this window.

Having had a quick look at the issue tracker on rephial.org (not that I understand much of it!) I think this problem may already be known, but I thought I'd better report this just in case.

Edit: I should mention that this is in Windows XP.

Number 5 is alive!

(Now I'm showing my age / bad taste in movies).

[Nick]

Originally Posted by andrewdoull

Number 5 is alive!

(Now I'm showing my age / bad taste in movies).

Oooh, yes. I mean, what are you talking about?

[Dragonboneman]

Wow, thanks for your help, guys. Reminiscing over a fictional robot that had less RAM than my laptop yet somehow achieved sentience really cleared that up!

[Daven_26d1]

Originally Posted by Dragonboneman

Wow, thanks for your help, guys. Reminiscing over a fictional robot that had less RAM than my laptop yet somehow achieved sentience really cleared that up!

But everyone knows lightning does wonders for electronic goods. Toss your lappy in the garden next time there's a storm if you don't believe me!

DISCLAIMER:- The author takes no responsibility for expensive equipment damaged due to proximity with harsh atmospheric conditions.

[Magnate]

Meanwhile, back on planet Earth (which film btw? I'm halfway in age between Andrew and Nick, but it totally escaped me ....)

That display glitch is common to all windowing systems, and is ancient (it's been there since I started playing V2.9.0 at least). If you make the window wide enough, does it sort itself out? I can't remember, because I always just put up with it. If not, it's presumably not impossible to add code to allow it to use up available space if the window is wide enough.

The only real consequence of it is that you can't see your inscriptions on long item names, which I guess makes a difference if you can't remember which was @A1 and which was @A2 etc. ....

CC

[Nick]

Originally Posted by Magnate

Meanwhile, back on planet Earth (which film btw? I'm halfway in age between Andrew and Nick, but it totally escaped me ....)

Film? What film? Let's just Short Circuit this discussion...

That display glitch is common to all windowing systems, and is ancient (it's been there since I started playing V2.9.0 at least). If you make the window wide enough, does it sort itself out? I can't remember, because I always just put up with it. If not, it's presumably not impossible to add code to allow it to use up available space if the window is wide enough.

The only real consequence of it is that you can't see your inscriptions on long item names, which I guess makes a difference if you can't remember which was @A1 and which was @A2 etc. ....

I think the point was the grey 5 appearing to the left of the arrow. It happens because the equipment display is done by putting in the object description, then overwriting it with the slot details, but with one gap where the description shows through. It can be easily fixed by making the string for the arrow "<-- " instead of "<--"

[Dragonboneman]

Originally Posted by Nick

I think the point was the grey 5 appearing to the left of the arrow. It happens because the equipment display is done by putting in the object description, then overwriting it with the slot details, but with one gap where the description shows through. It can be easily fixed by making the string for the arrow "<-- " instead of "<--"

Yeah, it's the rogue "5" that bothers me, albeit not much since it has no effect on gameplay. I wouldn't have a clue how to change the string, but that's what maintainers are for, right?

[zaimoni]

Originally Posted by Dragonboneman

Yeah, it's the rogue "5" that bothers me, albeit not much since it has no effect on gameplay. I wouldn't have a clue how to change the string, but that's what maintainers are for, right?

Well...it's a question of whether a space character is "something" or "nothing" (the 5 isn't being overwritten by a space).

I can see uses for not overwriting, but it's a design decision at the library level.

[arcum42]

It's mainly because the equipment displaying code (display_equip in object1.c) writes each line of the equipment display as a combination of 5 lines, including an entirely separate line for '<--'.

Part of the reason is because historically, if you want to write something in a different color, you have to do it in a separate line.

Hopefully, now that you can have color tags in the text, that section will get rewritten to only write to the screen once...