Broken Apples

Post by **Paul Stevens** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 7:12 pm

Zyx wanted me to add flags to 'Miscellaneous' items
to indicate broken and/or poisoned so as to be like
weapons. Here is the format of the two object types:

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      Misc       Weapon      Clothing  Scroll
 --------------------------------------------
  
 0-6  Type       Type       Type        0=Open
 7    Important  Important  Important    -
 8    Cursed     Cursed     Cursed       -
 9      -        Poisoned   Charges      -
 10     -        Charges       "         -
 11     -           "          "         -
 12     -           "          "         -
 13     -           "       Broken       -
 14   Value      Broken        -         -
 15     "        Lit Torch     -         -

So we could use bit 9 of Misc to mean Poisoned and we
could use bit 10 to mean Broken. It would be easy to
display these things in the Inventory screen. But old games
may have garbage in these bits. So I will add a global
option to allow these bits to be set. If the option is not set then
the bits will be cleared when the game is loaded.

Before I do this I want to know whether we should do it
for Scrolls and Clothing. I don't want to have to invent
two global flags. The Potions have no unused bits so I
don't think we can do anything with them.

Post by **Zyx** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 2:07 pm

Well now with the feeding filter the designer can give a meaning to a poisonned misc.
If you ever make a party attacking filter, broken misc and weapons will be pertinent too!

Post by **Zyx** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 2:33 am

Could you add a search function for cursed/broken/poisonned items and unique/poisonned/invisible/size4 monsters in CSBuild?

Post by **Paul Stevens** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 3:58 am

I already had a card for this. I've added unique,
invisible, and size4.

Post by **Paul Stevens** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:58 pm

search function for cursed/broken/poisonned

CSBuild1.94

See Search/Advanced.
I solved this rather neatly, I think. It is quite open-ended
so I welcome additional filters that you might suggest.

Post by **Zyx** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:04 am

Oooh that's a nice tool! Very useful indeed and versatile.
You should put an hourglass mouseicon while it's building the list.

Maybe you could add an option: "search by ID".

Post by **Paul Stevens** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:53 pm

CSBuild194 does these things. I already used the 'search ID'
feature myself while debugging your crash!

Post by **Zyx** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:05 pm

CSBuild194 is the version released on april 26. I don't see how to search by ID.

Post by **Paul Stevens** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:05 pm

Well, I knew there was some confusion about version
numbers when I uploaded it. I don't know exactly
how it all happened. CSBuild195 seems OK.

I have updated CSBwin to do a better job with long
&SAY strings. You also anted to be able to put
newline characters into the text. Could we not do this
by putting in multiple text records? And modify &SAY to
print ALL the text records at a location?

Post by **Zyx** » Thu May 05, 2005 1:14 am

That would multiply the number of texts by 4 if you need the 4 lines, and you need something like 5 clicks to set a text.
I currently need to put something like 50 4-lines texts...
I can do it by hand anyway, as I did with hundreds of other repetitive tasks, but this "newline characters need" regularly appeared in my designing habbits.

Post by **Paul Stevens** » Thu May 05, 2005 2:55 pm

Ouch....that is a lot of work. I will add a newline sequence.

Post by **Paul Stevens** » Thu May 05, 2005 4:41 pm

CSBwin98v52test will recognize the linefeed characters
placed by CSBuild using the '/' character. The comment
in the text editing dialog in CSBuild is still wrong but it
works in spite of the comment to the contrary.

It turned out to be rather simple to do. A little bit
cludgey but functional, I think. Let me know if there
are problems and I will go back and do it right.

Doors at position F1R1 don't work......don't get too excited.
Any other things that don't work should be reported.

Post by **Zyx** » Sat May 07, 2005 10:05 pm

It works when stepping on the text, but not with &SAY!

Post by **Zyx** » Wed May 11, 2005 8:59 pm

In the search menu, there's an option about searching portraits: it doesn't work currently, but it would be nice if it allowed to search for external references (ie: portrait 153).

Post by **Paul Stevens** » Wed May 11, 2005 10:13 pm

search for external references

I have attempted to implement this in the "Search/Advanced"
in version 1.96. Just now posted.

Post by **Zyx** » Wed May 11, 2005 11:18 pm

Yes, very useful thank you. Could you add an hourglass icon when the button is hit?
Also, you could remove the searh portrait option in the menu, or is it for something else?

Post by **Paul Stevens** » Thu May 12, 2005 4:26 pm

remove the searh portrait option

That was for something entirely different. It may
be nice to have someday. It makes sure that
files exist for all the custom portraits in the dungeon.
(Now it would look into the CSBgraphics.dat).