#8107 closed patch
M1VGA stump joke (unkMessage2) - FIX
| Reported by: | SF/doren | Owned by: | fingolfin |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | Engine: SCUMM |
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| Cc: | Game: | Monkey Island 1 |
Description
Hi,
Here's a diff file for an implementation of unkMessage2 (I assume that the message is to be displayed in a small one-line dialog).
I would have liked the dialog to match the width of the string to be displayed, but this would require including "newgui.h" from "strings.h", which seems like a bad idea. Pay attention to the comment there.
Use with patch -p 0
David Oren
Ticket imported from: #628574. Ticket imported from: patches/212.
Attachments (3)
Change History (21)
by , 22 years ago
| Attachment: | stump.patch added |
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comment:1 by , 22 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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comment:2 by , 22 years ago
by , 22 years ago
| Attachment: | stump2.patch added |
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comment:4 by , 22 years ago
| Status: | new → closed |
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comment:5 by , 22 years ago
Patch contained a syntax error. In th future please submit patches using the "-u" options that makes it a bit easier; also trying to follow the code layout rules ScummVM uses (e.g. no space after function calls, so not "sin ()" but rather "sin()" etc. makes it more likely for a patch to be accepted (since we then don't have to clean it up). But otherwise the patch looks nice and solid! Will put it in now
comment:6 by , 22 years ago
Oh, sorry. Yesterday was a long and difficult day...
You're right about the syntax error (no idea how it got there), and about the -u option (which I usually use, but forgot last night).
And next time I'll pay more attention to coding style.
comment:7 by , 22 years ago
Now it has to be hacked away in Loom and Dig....
(If not done already....)
by , 22 years ago
| Attachment: | stumpfix.patch added |
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comment:8 by , 22 years ago
| Status: | closed → new |
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| Summary: | M1VGA stump joke (unkMessage2) → M1VGA stump joke (unkMessage2) - FIX |
comment:9 by , 22 years ago
As you can see, there are complaints that this breaks something in Loom and Dig. I haven't got either of these games, so I can't verify it myself.
But to be on the safe side, here's a patch that checks whether we are running M1VGA or not (as far as I know, this jokes has been removed in the CD version, so there's no point checking for that as well).
David
comment:11 by , 22 years ago
| Status: | new → closed |
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comment:12 by , 22 years ago
What problem in The Dig? I removed the "Too little memory"
message some time ago...
There is no problem in Loom either, in fact unkMessage2 is -used- in Loom to display the informational 'subtitle' message. Theres no reason for us NOT to display this message, it's in the script and we should thus be as faithful to it as possible.
I'd recommend removing the MI1VGA check again.
comment:13 by , 22 years ago
As I've said, I've never seen either of these games, so I really don't know what the problem is -- andrej4000 will probably know what the problem was, since he was the one to mention it...
Just a thought: when Loom displays 'subtitle' messages, is the user expected to press a key for the game to continue? If not, the implementation of unkMessage2 in M1VGA and Loom should be different.
comment:14 by , 22 years ago
Yes, the user is.
As I said, there IS no problem with Loom and the mivga only
patch should (imho) be reversed.
andre, can you either clarify your problem.... or can fingolfin please reverse this patch... :)
comment:15 by , 22 years ago
the last time i started loomvga the message showed up "Press F9 to turn subtitles ..." But this was nonsence, since ScummVM didn't show or hide the text. This was only used in the original interpreter. In ScummVM (correct me if i'm wrong) these messages are withot function and should be hacked away, if not used.
comment:16 by , 22 years ago
Definatly not!
Unless the message is something totally insane, like the memory warnings, we should always prefer to implement the feature - never remove or hide original game functionality instead of it!
comment:17 by , 22 years ago
ok, then just go and implement it! :)
btw: i didn't mean to supress this comman in all of the games, but only in the beginning of loomvga and it's "F9"- message... anyway, you should implement this function into the game.
comment:18 by , 6 years ago
| Component: | → Engine: SCUMM |
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| Game: | → Monkey Island 1 |
Thanks David, this look fine. But for the string width, well, no worries: my suggestion would be that the InfoDialog computes its desired width.
I.e. it's no problem to change _w in the constructor. So, InfoDialog would only take the string, no x/y/w/h coords. Then it could use a fixed height (we just always assume 1 line), and calculate the x pos & width based on the string width. If you want try to do it this way, otherwise I'll look into it later today.