Re: [ANN] Star Hammer 0.0.3

"E E Thomson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> copx wrote:
>
> > Star Hammer  0.0.3 has been released.
> >
> > Get it here:
> > http://mitglied.lycos.de/goodfire/
> >
> > This is probably the most boring release ever from
> > a players point of view.
>
> Not boring for me - it now compiles on OS X again.
>
> It's really come along a lot since I last saw it.  I don't know which of
> the following problems are just because I'm using an unsupported OS, and
> which are more universal.  Well, here goes:
>
> - It segfaults if it can't find the data for a planet on startup.  I
> think it's trying to use curses to write an error message, before curses
> is initialised, but I'm not sure about this [gdb says the error happens
> in wrefresh]

This can't happen (tm) ;-)
The data for all the planets the program tries to load is there..
Did you delete it?
But yeah there's a bug. Thanks for reporting it but
I would really like to know why my program couldn't
find the planet data...

> - The cursor goes all over the place.  In shops, it is one line below
> the current item.  In the race/stats selection, it seemed to be heading
> for somewhere pretty random on the first column.  In normal play, it is
> in the top right corner, unless there is a message there [this last one
> makes me instinctively press space a lot during combat, which was not a
> good idea :-) ]

This issue was reported by someone else who
compiled Star Hammer for MacOS X before.
It's a bug in the MacOS X curses port IMO.
You shouldn't see the cursor at all.
It seems that OSX curses ignores/doesn't support
the curses command to turn off the cursor
(making it invisible)
But really you're out on your own.  I don't
have access to an OSX system.
If you find a way to fix it, tell me, though.

> - Wilderness travel is incredibly boring.

Universal problem. Wilderness will be
more interesting  - some day :)

> - There is no option to examine cybernetic enhancements in the shop
> selling them.

I guess you mean the lack of an "Info" command in
the cybernetic clinic. It's on the todo list already.

> - If I press something that is not a valid command, it still takes up a
> turn.

Will be fixed.

> That said, I am enjoying this thing.
> Keep up the good work

Thanks :)

copx