parameters as a string, and decode it again. This is used in
midend.c to prepend the game parameters to the game seed, so that
copying out of the Specific box is sufficient to completely specify
the game you were playing.
Throughout development of these games I have referred to `seed'
internally, and `game ID' externally. Now there's a measurable
difference between them! :-)
[originally from svn r4231]
to maintain the `visible' array accurately and hence actually switch
it on. This prevents us having to redraw the entire playing area on
any move, which means really big grids are now sensibly playable
without display lag.
[originally from svn r4221]
unless there's actual activity happening as a result of the move.
Net animations were tending to get rushed to conclusion by the mouse
button release now that it's being reported to the mid-end.
[originally from svn r4211]
feature to arrange a mechanism that allows you to draw a whole
rectangle at a time by dragging rather than having to click each
edge individually.
[originally from svn r4209]
addition to the `game_state'. The new structure is intended to
contain ephemeral data pertaining to the game's user interface
rather than the actual game: things stored in the UI structure are
not restored in an Undo, for example.
make_move() is passed the UI to modify as it wishes; it is now
allowed to return the _same_ game_state it was passed, to indicate
that although no move has been made there has been a UI operation
requiring a redraw.
[originally from svn r4207]
with last_movement_sense (which was necessary to fix the animation
when the grid was only 2 squares wide in either dimension). Movement
sense is now inverted if the move being animated is an undo.
[originally from svn r4191]
specifically, the elapsed time between calls varies much more with
GTK than it does under Windows. Therefore, I now take my own time
readings on every timer call, and this appears to have made the
animations run at closer to the same speed between platforms. Having
done that, I decided some of them were at the _wrong_ speed, and
fiddled with each game's timings as well.
[originally from svn r4189]
is (a) pretty feeble, and (b) means that although Net seeds transfer
between platforms and still generate the same game, there's a
suspicious discrepancy in the typical seed _generated_ by each
platform.
I have a better RNG kicking around in this code base already, so
I'll just use it. Each midend has its own random_state, which it
passes to new_game_seed() as required. A handy consequence of this
is that initial seed data is now passed to midend_new(), which means
that new platform implementors are unlikely to forget to seed the
RNG because failure to do so causes a compile error!
[originally from svn r4187]
mechanism I've just invented (the midend handles the standard game
selection configuration). Each game is now required to validate its
own seed data before attempting to base a game on it and potentially
confusing itself.
[originally from svn r4186]
right from scratch without the slightest reference to any dialog
templates (meaning that we get to figure out the layout and _then_
choose the window size). I'm rather pleased with that. Also
introduced free_cfg(), which is why this checkin touched gtk.c as
well.
[originally from svn r4184]
doesn't fit in it. This not only looked ugly, but caused unnecessary
calls to configure_area() and kept destroying the pixmap.
[originally from svn r4180]
rows, because the coordinates were crossing one or other axis at
that point and so the lower coordinate was being rounded up while
the upper one was rounded down. Judicious use of floor() fixes it.
[originally from svn r4179]
taking non-zero time, which is triggered by the making of a move and
is _not_ hurried to its conclusion by the start of the next move (so
the game redraw function is expected to be able to draw it in
parallel with continuing moves). The only thing that prematurely
terminates a flash is the start of a fresh flash. In particular,
this concept is used to display the completion flash in Net, because
at least _my_ playing instincts make me lock every piece I've
unambiguously placed, and hence the last turn move is instantly
followed by a lock move which was previously suppressing the
completion flash.
[originally from svn r4168]
Windows users who may not have a middle button at all, but I've
replicated it in GTK to maintain cross-platform consistency.
[originally from svn r4166]
