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Jacob wasn't able to find a satisfactory fix: the whole area was a horrid mess. Fortunately, the reason it was a horrid mess was because the Net drawing routines predated the introduction of clip() in the frontend interface, and it turns out that clip() makes it possible to do all this more easily and better. So, a complete rearchitecting of barrier corners: the corner flags in the `barriers' array are now gone (and good riddance), and corner information is computed on the fly so as to take into account the moving grid edges. In the process I've also updated the corner mechanism so that a barrier `corner' (really endpoint) is drawn at the end of _every_ barrier, not just where two meet. This has changed the appearance of a single isolated barrier, to what I would have wanted it to look like in the first place but achieving it without clip() was just too fiddly. [originally from svn r5846] [r5844 == 865e8ad6ca3d83ad2a585ceeb1809e9f68c18a20]
This is the README accompanying the source code to Simon Tatham's puzzle collection. The collection's web site is at <http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/>. You should find several Makefiles in the source code: - `Makefile' should work under GNU make on Linux, provided you have GTK installed to compile and link against. It builds GTK binaries of the puzzle games. - `Makefile.vc' should work under MS Visual C++ on Windows. - `Makefile.cyg' should work under Cygwin / MinGW. With appropriate tweaks and setting of TOOLPATH, it should work for both compiling on Windows and cross-compiling on Unix. - `Makefile.osx' should work under Mac OS X, provided the Xcode tools are installed. It builds a single monolithic OS X application capable of running any of the puzzles, or even more than one of them at a time. Many of these Makefiles build a program called `nullgame' in addition to the actual game binaries. This program doesn't do anything; it's just a template for people to start from when adding a new game to the collection, and it's compiled every time to ensure that it _does_ compile and link successfully (because otherwise it wouldn't be much use as a template). Once it's built, you can run it if you really want to (but it's very boring), and then you should ignore it. DO NOT EDIT THE MAKEFILES DIRECTLY, if you plan to send any changes back to the maintainer. The makefiles are generated automatically by the Perl script `mkfiles.pl' from the file `Recipe'. If you need to change the makefiles as part of a patch, you should change Recipe and/or mkfiles.pl. The manual is provided in Windows Help format for the Windows build; in text format for anyone who needs it; and in HTML for the Mac OS X application and for the web site. It is generated from a Halibut source file (puzzles.but), which is the preferred form for modification. To generate the manual in other formats, rebuild it, or learn about Halibut, visit the Halibut website at <http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/halibut/>.