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This provides a way for the front end to ask how a particular key should be labelled right now (specifically, for a given game_state and game_ui). This is useful on feature phones where it's conventional to put a small caption above each soft key indicating what it currently does. The function currently provides labels only for CURSOR_SELECT and CURSOR_SELECT2. This is because these are the only keys that need labelling on KaiOS. The concept of labelling keys also turns up in the request_keys() call, but there are quite a few differences. The labels returned by current_key_label() are dynamic and likely to vary with each move, while the labels provided by request_keys() are constant for a given game_params. Also, the keys returned by request_keys() don't generally include CURSOR_SELECT and CURSOR_SELECT2, because those aren't necessary on platforms with pointing devices. It might be possible to provide a unified API covering both of this, but I think it would be quite difficult to work with. Where a key is to be unlabelled, current_key_label() is expected to return an empty string. This leaves open the possibility of NULL indicating a fallback to button2label or the label specified by request_keys() in the future. It's tempting to try to implement current_key_label() by calling interpret_move() and parsing its output. This doesn't work for two reasons. One is that interpret_move() is entitled to modify the game_ui, and there isn't really a practical way to back those changes out. The other is that the information returned by interpret_move() isn't sufficient to generate a label. For instance, in many puzzles it generates moves that toggle the state of a square, but we want the label to reflect which state the square will be toggled to. The result is that I've generally ended up pulling bits of code from interpret_move() and execute_move() together to implement current_key_label(). Alongside the back-end function, there's a midend_current_key_label() that's a thin wrapper around the back-end function. It just adds an assertion about which key's being requested and a default null implementation so that back-ends can avoid defining the function if it will do nothing useful.
This is the README accompanying the source code to Simon Tatham's puzzle collection. The collection's web site is at <https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/>. The puzzle collection is built using CMake <https://cmake.org/>. To compile in the simplest way (on any of Linux, Windows or Mac), run these commands in the source directory: cmake . cmake --build . 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 <https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/halibut/>.