#8238 closed patch
Help Dialog
| Reported by: | SF/itsr0y | Owned by: | fingolfin |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | GUI |
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| Cc: | Game: |
Description
I saw that adding a help dialog was in the todo list, so I made one for scumm games. I don't know if I have every single key in there, but all of the main ones are (except for puttdemo - I don't have that game). The dialog appears when you press the "Help" button in the save/load dialog.
Few things that I can't check / do: 1. The tilde (~) does not appear when you try to print it. 2. The window is kind of big - I don't know how it will look on handheld devices. 3. I have no idea what the bindings are on other systems, so all that are in there now are for Windows and English language games. 4. It checks to see what game is being run by the scumm->gameId. If this is not a good idea (multiple games with different keys using the same gameId), then it will have to be changed. 5. The diaog isn't bound to any key (it's in the Save/Load dialog). It may be a good idea to bind it to something (although I don't know to what bind it to. F1 is used in COMI and possibly other games. Maybe 'h' or 'alt-h'?)
I've attached a diff to modify scumm/dialogs.h & .cpp, and I will also upload the required files scumm/help.h & .cpp. You'll have to add them to the project.
Ticket imported from: #745843. Ticket imported from: patches/343.
Attachments (8)
Change History (22)
by , 21 years ago
| Attachment: | helpDialog.diff added |
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comment:1 by , 21 years ago
Oops, I forgot to mention - this is patched against the CVS at the time of post (2003-05-29 19:35).
comment:2 by , 21 years ago
OK, it's a nice patch, but there are some things I would do other. 1. I would let it print Ctrl Alt 0-9 insstead of Ctrl Alt # for the graphical scalers like you do with the save/load function. 2. I don't know why, but it doesn't compile. (Makefile?) 3. Try to use ASCII to print the Tilde (I don't know if that works with ADD_BIND, but if it doesn't right know it should in the future for this reason)
comment:3 by , 21 years ago
1. The only reason I used "#" instead of "0-9" is because it fits, and "0-9" doesn't. To put "0-9", I'd have to either increase the space that key bindings take up (which would make all of the other slots look worse), or take out the space between "Ctrl" and "Alt", so it basically reads like this: CtrlAlt 0-9 Set graphics filter I'd prefer not to make the key binding space any bigger. Do you think it looks OK without the space?
2. What error are you getting? I'm using MSVC so I don't use a makefile.
3. Still doesn't work with the ASCII.
One other thing I was thinking, OpenGL mode has a few different bindings (CTRL ALT 1-3). How do I make a macro to check for this (such as #if defined(OPENGL))?
comment:4 by , 21 years ago
"No rule to make >scumm/help.cpp< required by >scumm/dialogs.o<" is the ERROR (free translation from the german one). I don't know anything about makefiles so I don't even know if thats the problem. Anyone else should look at this. Perhaps I can help you with the Tilde if you would tell me what is displayed instead. Did you use %c instead of the word Tilde and added 126 as parameter?
comment:5 by , 21 years ago
Hmm. I don't know for sure, but I think if you edit scumm/modules.mk and add the line scumm/help.o \ under "SCUMM_OBJS = \" it may work. Maybe someone else can help with this.
For the Tilde thing, nothing appears at all. I'm just using a StaticTextWidget, so it's not like printf with the %c.
comment:6 by , 21 years ago
I updated the patch and help.cpp: - Added the tilde (~) character to newgui.cpp so now it prints. - Added the relevent help.* files to the appropriate build files (should solve problem you were having) - Some cleanups in help.cpp (CtrlAlt that we discusses, as well as using the ~)
comment:7 by , 21 years ago
Now it works quite fine, but isn't there a possibility to make the space between the bindings and the descriptions bigger. there is enough space at the right side of the descriptions I think.
comment:8 by , 21 years ago
Ok, I uploaded a new patch & help.cpp. - Made window a little wider, allowing a space in between 'Ctrl' and 'Alt' and also allowed me to put Alt x and Ctrl q on the same line. - Added COMI F1 button - Few other cleanups
comment:9 by , 21 years ago
Seems as if it could be added to CVS now, if no PDA user says something against it.
comment:10 by , 21 years ago
Ok, well, I added a compile flag, DISABLE_HELP, which, if enabled for scumm, gets rid of the help stuff I did, so hopefully that should be fine for PDA users. I also fixed I mistake I made (I originally put *_helpDialog in Dialog instead of SaveLoadDialog).
comment:11 by , 21 years ago
Souns great but perhaps this is not needet. we really should find a PDA user with a PDA with low resolution and let it test him.
comment:13 by , 21 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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| Status: | new → closed |
comment:14 by , 5 years ago
| Component: | → GUI |
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Patch for scumm/dialogs.h &.cpp