Changeset 161

Timestamp:

06/06/07 17:51:14 (3 years ago)

Author:

takkaria

Message:

Spend the best part of the evening compiling a fairly comprehensive changelog for 3.0.8.

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• trunk/changes.txt (modified) (3 diffs)

trunk/changes.txt

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-- Added echo to macro trigger entry.
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-Bug fixes.
-- OSX font selection problem fixed.
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-Angband 3.0.7s3
-Suggestions and (more) patches welcomed.
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-Another, probably mildly annoying, release of Angband "3.0.7s".  This is really
-almost entirely other people's work; thanks go to Hugo Kornelis, Pete Mack,
-Marco K and Frank Palazzolo.  The main gameplay difference is that wands and
-staves now have sensible starting charges again.
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-Changes:
-- Browsing books now displays information about the spells therein, if
-  requested.  As part of this, move spell names/descriptions/locations
-  out into a new file, spell.txt.  (Hugo Kornelis)
+- Arrow keys are now distinct from the numeric movement keys, and because
+  of this you can now edit text at prompts in game properly.  Supported
+  on Windows, Mac (untested), and curses.  If you get it working for
+  anything else, please send the patch!
+- Resizing the game window automatically updates its contents, on
+  platforms which support this.
+- Inscribing an item with '!t' will now confirm if you try to take it
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-- If a stack of rods is recharging, you'll get a message when the first 
-  rod is recharged and another message when they are all recharged.
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-  option to be disturbed when boring things happen (disturb_minor) to 
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-- Added support for improved pluralization of object names.  Allow
-  custom plurals for words which need them (e.g. "Kni|fe|ves" and
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-  Since DEX is reported before CON in all other situations, this is now
-  reversed.  (Hugo Kornelis)
+- Set wrapping width to 72 for character dumps' item information, to
+  avoid well-behaved newsreaders messing them up.
+- Move back to pre-3.0.6 panel changing behaviour.
+- Semi-rewrite of the store code; now uses a scrolling menu with a
+  slightly more streamlined interface.  Bigscreen support in stores.
+  Ammo is treated in more aesthetically pleasing quantities.
+  General Store always stocks what it stocks now.
+- Remove double-rate spellcasting with the smart_monsters option.
+  (imported from V CVS; Julian Lighton).
+- '[' command displays a monster list in the main terminal window.
+- "Enter" key brings up a little window in the middle of the screen,
+  from which you can select what command you would like to use.  This
+  is inspired by (but not derived from) Hengband.
+- Prompt for overwriting savefiles.
+- Restore some pre-Ben flavour text.
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+Major code cleanup
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+Most of the cleanup has been related to removing ancient or
+non-functional cruft.
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+- A powerful generic menu interface has been added and used throughout
+  the code.  It reduces code duplication and makes it much much easier
+  to create menus in various styles; e.g. scrolling or multicolumn.
+  See ui.c.
+- Event handler added. (Menus can listen to each other, etc.)
+- Lots and lots of code duplication removed:
+  - pref file dumping now has much less boilerplate
+  - the status line, sidebar, and term window update code is much more
+    streamlined.
+- Nuked a lot of old ports: cap, lsl, sla, xpj, ibm, dos, vcs, lfb, ami,
+  emx, vme.
+- Added a new SDL port by Iain McFall, based on the ToME and Sang ports.
+- As a result of the above, makefiles considerably simplified.  As many
+  makefiles as possible use a common list of source files in
+  "Makefile.src", which simplifies maintainance.  Makefile.std has also
+  been rewritten and contains much less cruft.
+- Timed player modifiers (blind, confused, etc.) are now kept in an
+  array, rather than being seperate variables in p_ptr.  This simplifies
+  a *lot* of code, and makes it trivial to add new effects.  The majority
+  of the work was done using sed scripts.
+- Use a new autoconf/automake system, called OMK.
-- Removed Lua.
-- Arrow keys are now distinct from the numeric movement keys, and because
-  of this you can now edit text at prompts in game properly.  Supported
-  on Windows, Mac (untested), and main-gcu.c.  If you get it working for
-  anything else, please tell me so I can update the patch.
-- Charges for wands/staves are customisable in the lib/edit/ files.
-- Autosquelch support.  (Taken originally from NPP, but heavily
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-- Considerably simplify and speed up main-gcu.c.  (Thanks to Christer
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-- main-x11 now reads window placement from x11-settings.prf.
-- Fixed Windows bug where you can't move one of the font files after
-  having played a game this reboot.  (Thanks to Leon Marrick.)
-- Resizing the game window automatically updates its contents, on
-  platforms which support this.
-- 'next_xp' option to show experience needed for the next level,
-  rather than how much you have now (fixed in s2).
-- Inscribing an item with '!t' will now confirm if you try to take it
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-- Set wrapping width to 72 for character dumps' item information, to
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