Opened 22 years ago
Closed 21 years ago
#462 closed defect (fixed)
LOOMCD: Note letters vanish on save/load
| Reported by: | SF/dfabulich | Owned by: | Kirben |
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| Priority: | low | Component: | Engine: SCUMM |
| Version: | Keywords: | ||
| Cc: | Game: | Loom |
Description
Play in standard mode, then save your game. The note letters will disappear from the distaff (if you have it). They will reappear if you have a conversation. Load your game. The note letters will disappear again.
ScummVM 0.2.2 CVS Built on Sep 15 2002 22:58:14
(downloaded Win32 snapshot)
Ticket imported from: #609723. Ticket imported from: bugs/462.
Change History (9)
comment:1 by , 22 years ago
| Priority: | normal → low |
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comment:2 by , 22 years ago
comment:3 by , 22 years ago
AFAIK that the distaff works at all in Loom is only thanks to a lot hacking... so there are quite some issues open there.
comment:4 by , 22 years ago
yes the verbs (notes in this case) are manually offset to be in the right position, but thats about the only hack I can remember
comment:5 by , 22 years ago
So, how are the note letter drawn exactly? Maybe we can fix it by correcting the _completeScreenRedraw code in scummvm.cpp (which is only used after a load took place.
comment:6 by , 22 years ago
As far as I can tell, it's script 18 that's responsible for drawing the distaff, and it uses the print opcode to draw the note names like this:
[00D1] (14) print(254,[Pos(27,169),Color(Local[1]),Text("^16")]);
(The note names use character codes 16 through 23.)
So I guess the note names aren't really part of the verbs, they're just drawn in the same area.
I haven't checked which script is responsible for drawing the box of note names in practice mode, but I assume it's handled in a similar fashion.
comment:7 by , 22 years ago
Hm, I just thought about this... at least the original Loom, and also Indy3 etc. had a script driven save/load dialog, I think... so if that was really though (I am sure about Indy, but not Loom), then *maybe* that took care of invoking script-18 (or whatever) to redraw the distaff...
If that is the case, we could implement a fix by checking after a load whether this is Loom, then run a suitable script to cause the redraw of the distaff.
But then it might be all different :-)
comment:8 by , 21 years ago
| Summary: | LOOM: Note letters vanish on save/load → LOOMCD: Note letters vanish on save/load |
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comment:9 by , 21 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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| Resolution: | → fixed |
| Status: | new → closed |
From what I remember - I can't test at the moment - it's enough just to bring up the save/load dialog. You don't actually have to save or restore a game.
I think the problem is that ScummVM tries to do a full redraw of the screen, but text messages (such as the note letters) aren't redrawn.