_conditionally_ able to format the current puzzle as text to be sent
to the clipboard. For instance, if a game were to support playing on
a square grid and on other kinds of grid such as hexagonal, then it
might reasonably feel that only the former could be sensibly
rendered in ASCII art; so it can now arrange for the "Copy" menu
item to be greyed out depending on the game_params.
To do this I've introduced a new backend function
(can_format_as_text_now()), and renamed the existing static backend
field "can_format_as_text" to "can_format_as_text_ever". The latter
will cause compile errors for anyone maintaining a third-party front
end; if any such person is reading this, I apologise to them for the
inconvenience, but I did do it deliberately so that they'd know to
update their front end.
As yet, no checked-in game actually uses this feature; all current
games can still either copy always or copy never.
[originally from svn r8161]
is mostly done with ifdefs in windows.c; so mkfiles.pl generates a
new makefile (Makefile.wce) and Recipe enables it, but it's hardly
any different from Makefile.vc apart from a few definitions at the
top of the files.
Currently the PocketPC build is not enabled in the build script, but
with any luck I'll be able to do so reasonably soon.
[originally from svn r7337]
laser-indistinguishable from the right solution _but_ has a number
of balls outside the acceptable range does not report an error. His
example was the game ID w8h8m5M5:1e3e6e80fa3e16265ccef7ca , omitting
the rightmost ball in the second row.
[originally from svn r6542]
function, since it took no parameters by which to vary its decision,
and in any case it's hard to imagine a game which only
_conditionally_ wants a status bar. Changed it into a boolean data
field in the backend structure.
[originally from svn r6417]
was actually using it, and also it wasn't being called again for
different game states or different game parameters, so it would have
been a mistake to depend on anything in that game state. Games are
now expected to commit in advance to a single fixed list of all the
colours they will ever need, which was the case in practice already
and simplifies any later port to a colour-poor platform. Also this
change has removed a lot of unnecessary faff from midend_colours().
[originally from svn r6416]
as seen by the back ends from the one implemented by the front end,
and shoved a piece of middleware (drawing.c) in between to permit
interchange of multiple kinds of the latter. I've also added a
number of functions to the drawing API to permit printing as well as
on-screen drawing, and retired print.py in favour of integrated
printing done by means of that API.
The immediate visible change is that print.py is dead, and each
puzzle now does its own printing: where you would previously have
typed `print.py solo 2x3', you now type `solo --print 2x3' and it
should work in much the same way.
Advantages of the new mechanism available right now:
- Map is now printable, because the new print function can make use
of the output from the existing game ID decoder rather than me
having to replicate all those fiddly algorithms in Python.
- the new print functions can cope with non-initial game states,
which means each puzzle supporting --print also supports
--with-solutions.
- there's also a --scale option permitting users to adjust the size
of the printed puzzles.
Advantages which will be available at some point:
- the new API should permit me to implement native printing
mechanisms on Windows and OS X.
[originally from svn r6190]
redraw the whole window _every_ time game_redraw() was called during
a flash. Now they only redraw the whole window every time the
background colour actually changes. Thanks to James H for much of
the work.
[originally from svn r6166]
or two, a debugging fix, a couple of explicit initialisations of
variables that were previously read uninitialised, and a fix for a
whopping great big memory leak in Slant owing to me having
completely forgotten to write free_game().
[originally from svn r6159]
positions immediately when you make an error, the game now reveals
as little information as is necessary to prove you wrong (including
none - if an existing laser path you know about is inconsistent with
your guesses, the game will just point it out and tell you nothing
new!) and you can try again. Errors are counted in much the same way
as deaths in Mines.
[originally from svn r6152]
selection in the redraw function, so that locked squares are no
longer displayed once the game is at an end. (It looked untidy and
disorienting for lighter-coloured locked squares to suddenly become
darker when the box was opened. You can still flip back and forth to
your previous game state using undo/redo if you want to compare the
results against your lock pattern.)
[originally from svn r6150]
- clarified wording of messages in validate_params(), including in
particular a correction from `< 255' to `<= 255'
- fixed random_upto() in game generation which caused the maximum
number of balls never to be used when there was uncertainty
- fixed widespread miscalculation of rectangular-array indices
(multiplication by h instead of w, which would have broken
non-square grids rather profoundly)
- corrected an ANSI namespace violation
- removed real functionality from the inside of assert()
statements, so that the game should still work when compiled
-DNDEBUG
- couple of unnecessary linear-time loops removed.
[originally from svn r6149]
