Windows puzzle binaries. This checkin involves several distinct
changes:
- mkfiles.pl now has an extra feature: if an object file is listed
in Recipe with a trailing question mark, it will be considered
optional, and silently dropped from the makefile if its primary
source file isn't present at the time mkfiles.pl runs. This means
people who check out the puzzles from Subversion and just run
mkfiles.pl shouldn't get build failures; they just won't get the
icons.
- all the .R files now use this feature to include an optional
Windows resource file.
- the .rc resource source files are built by icons/Makefile.
- windows.c finds the icon if present and uses it in place of the
standard Windows application icon.
[originally from svn r7020]
midend_rewrite_statusbar() and check the result against the last
string returned. This is now done centrally in drawing.c, and the
front end status bar function need only do what it says on the tin.
While I'm modifying the prototype of drawing_init(), I've also
renamed it drawing_new() for the same reason as random_new() (it
_allocates_ a drawing object, rather than just initialising one
passed in).
[originally from svn r6420]
size of the puzzle window. This has involved some _completely
stupid_ window manipulation: in order to figure out in advance how
big I want my main window to be, I first have to _create_ the status
bar so I know how tall it is; but since I can't reparent it into my
main window after I've created it, I then have to throw that status
bar away and create a new one. *sigh*
[originally from svn r6276]
place in r6190. I'm quite pleased that I didn't have to modify the
printing infrastructure _at all_ to make this work; the only source
change required outside windows.c was the addition of a trivial
utility function midend_get_params(), and that was for the benefit
of bulk puzzle generation rather than anything to do with actual
printing.
As far as I can tell, all printable puzzles now print almost
indistinguishably from the way they print under Unix. If you look
closely the font is slightly different, and the Windows standard
hatching doesn't seem to be quite as nice as the kind I did by hand
in ps.c (and, particularly annoyingly, hatched areas don't show up
at all for me when I print to a file and use gv, though they come
out fine on the printer itself); but it's all there, and it all
works.
[originally from svn r6193]
[r6190 == af59dcf6858264103bbc621761feee3aed5aaf2a]
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]
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]
constraint: because some front ends interpret `draw filled shape' to
mean `including its boundary' while others interpret it to mean `not
including its boundary' (and X seems to vacillate between the two
opinions as it moves around the shape!), you MUST NOT draw a filled
shape only. You can fill in one colour and outline in another, you
can fill or outline in the same colour, or you can just outline, but
just filling is a no-no.
This leads to a _lot_ of double calls to these functions, so I've
changed the interface. draw_circle() and draw_polygon() now each
take two colour arguments, a fill colour (which can be -1 for none)
and an outline colour (which must be valid). This should simplify
code in the game back ends, while also reducing the possibility for
coding error.
[originally from svn r6047]
bitmap. Can be used to implement sprite-like animations: for
example, useful for games that wish to implement a user interface
which involves dragging an object around the playing area.
[originally from svn r5987]
Windows for puzzles with status bars, because the initial call to
check_window_size is given the window size _without_ the status bar
and assumes that that has to be big enough for the whole thing
_with_ the status bar, so it shrinks everything by a little bit. So
now we resize the window to take account of the status bar before
calling check_window_size(), and the problem seems to have gone away.
[originally from svn r5975]
in terms of a constant TILE_SIZE (or equivalent). Here's a
surprisingly small patch which switches this constant into a
run-time variable.
The only observable behaviour change should be on Windows, which
physically does not permit the creation of windows larger than the
screen; if you try to create a puzzle (Net makes this plausible)
large enough to encounter this restriction, the Windows front end
should automatically re-adjust the puzzle's tile size so that it
does fit within the available space.
On GTK, I haven't done this, on the grounds that X _does_ permit
windows larger than the screen, and many X window managers already
provide the means to navigate around such a window. Gareth said he'd
rather navigate around a huge Net window than have it shrunk to fit
on one screen. I'm uncertain that this makes sense for all puzzles -
Pattern in particular strikes me as something that might be better
off shrunk to fit - so I may have to change policy later or make it
configurable.
On OS X, I also haven't done automatic shrinkage to fit on one
screen, largely because I didn't have the courage to address the
question of multiple monitors and what that means for the entire
concept :-)
[originally from svn r5913]
usefully be equivalent to right-clicking on platforms other than OS
X; in particular, it's useful if you're running Linux on Apple
hardware such as PowerBook which inherently has only one button. So
here's the fix for GTK, and Windows as well (the latter for
completeness and consistency, not because I can actually think of
any reason somebody might be running Windows on one-button
hardware).
[originally from svn r5907]
- fixed numerous memory leaks (not Palm-specific)
- corrected a couple of 32-bit-int assumptions (vital for Palm but
generally a good thing anyway)
- lifted a few function pointer types into explicit typedefs
(neutral for me but convenient for the source-munging Perl
scripts he uses to deal with Palm code segment rules)
- lifted a few function-level static arrays into global static
arrays (neutral for me but apparently works round a Palm tools
bug)
- a couple more presets in Rectangles (so that Palm, or any other
slow platform which can't handle the larger sizes easily, can
still have some variety available)
- in Solo, arranged a means of sharing scratch space between calls
to nsolve to prevent a lot of redundant malloc/frees (gives a 10%
speed increase even on existing platforms)
[originally from svn r5897]
indicates whether a particular game state should have the timer
going (for Mines the initial indeterminate state does not have this
property, and neither does a dead or won state); a midend function
that optionally (on request from the game) prepends a timer to the
front of the status bar text; some complicated midend timing code.
It's not great. It's ugly; it's probably slightly inaccurate; it's
got no provision for anyone but the game author decreeing whether a
game is timed or not. But Mines can't be taken seriously without a
timer, so it's a start.
[originally from svn r5866]
(Adding modifier+cursors handling has had minor knock-on effects on the other
puzzles, so that they can continue to ignore modifiers.)
(An unfortunate side effect of this is some artifacts in exterior barrier
drawing; notably, a disconnected corner can now appear at the corner of the
grid under some circumstances. I haven't found a satisfactory way round
this yet.)
[originally from svn r5844]
particularly useful keypress, particularly given how easy it is to
confuse it with `Redo'. So both r and ^R are now Redo, and Restart
is relegated to being a menu-only option.
[originally from svn r5796]
rather than literal grid descriptions, which has always faintly
annoyed me because it makes it impossible to type in a grid from
another source. However, Gareth pointed out that short random-seed
game descriptions are useful, because you can read one out to
someone else without having to master the technology of cross-
machine cut and paste, or you can have two people enter the same
random seed simultaneously in order to race against each other to
complete the same puzzle. So both types of game ID seem to have
their uses.
Therefore, here's a reorganisation of the whole game ID concept.
There are now two types of game ID: one has a parameter string then
a hash then a piece of arbitrary random seed text, and the other has
a parameter string then a colon then a literal game description. For
most games, the latter is identical to the game IDs that were
previously valid; for Net and Netslide, old game IDs must be
translated into new ones by turning the colon into a hash, and
there's a new descriptive game ID format.
Random seed IDs are not guaranteed to be portable between software
versions (this is a major reason why I added version reporting
yesterday). Descriptive game IDs have a longer lifespan.
As an added bonus, I've removed the sections of documentation
dealing with game parameter encodings not shown in the game ID
(Rectangles expansion factor, Solo symmetry and difficulty settings
etc), because _all_ parameters must be specified in a random seed ID
and therefore users can easily find out the appropriate parameter
string for any settings they have configured.
[originally from svn r5788]
ends. Versioning will be done solely by Subversion revision number,
since development on these puzzles is very incremental and gradual
and there don't tend to be obvious points to place numbered
releases.
[originally from svn r5781]
keypad. The reason it doesn't is because front ends were carefully
translating the numeric keypad into 8-way directional keys for the
benefit of Cube. Therefore, a policy change:
- front ends process the numeric keypad by sending MOD_NUM_KEYPAD |
'3' and similar
- front ends running on a platform with Num Lock SHOULD do this
_irrespective_ of the state of Num Lock
- back ends do whatever they see fit with numeric keypad keys.
Result: the numeric keypad now works in Solo, and also works in OS X
Cube (which it previously didn't because I forgot to implement that
bit of the front end!).
[originally from svn r5774]
various things:
- if you haven't fully understood what a game is about, it gives
you an immediate example of a puzzle plus its solution so you can
understand it
- in some games it's useful to compare your solution with the real
one and see where you made a mistake
- in the rearrangement games (Fifteen, Sixteen, Twiddle) it's handy
to be able to get your hands on a pristine grid quickly so you
can practise or experiment with manoeuvres on it
- it provides a good way of debugging the games if you think you've
encountered an unsolvable grid!
[originally from svn r5731]
clipping policy work properly. I haven't proved why it didn't work
the previous way, but I have a good guess: I think that clip regions
are handled by reference. So I saved the old clip region out of the
DC, then did an IntersectClipRect, and then selected the old clip
region back in again - but the old clip region had never been
_de_-selected, because IntersectClipRect didn't change which object
was selected but rather it modified-in-place the one that already
was selected. So my attempt to restore the old clip region did
nothing whatsoever, and thus clipping to two different rectangles
during the same draw sequence failed. Now I'm completely destroying
the clip region during unclip(), which seems to work better.
[originally from svn r5662]
functions and a couple of variables, now each one exports a single
structure containing a load of function pointers and said variables.
This should make it easy to support platforms on which it's sensible
to compile all the puzzles into a single monolithic application. The
two existing platforms are still one-binary-per-game.
[originally from svn r5126]
tiles randomly. (Rachel asked for this; it's been being tested for a good few
months now, and Simon didn't care either way, so in it goes :)
As part of this, the front end can now be asked to provide a random random
seed (IYSWIM).
[originally from svn r5019]
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]
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]
