Problem Starting New Game

[karmatic]

Whenever I open Angband and click "New" to start a new game I get nothing more than a small square... here is a screenshot:

[karmatic]

Fixed it by switching the font from default to one of the other options.

[d_m]

Man these Windows font problems are just killing us. Ugh!

[takkaria]

Man these Windows font problems are just killing us. Ugh!

I vote to switch to the SDL port, I think...

[Magnate]

I vote to switch to the SDL port, I think...

Sorry to ask a stupid question, but does Windows support SDL natively, or do you have to install something extra? If it has native support (in XP / Vista / 7), then I vote for removing the Windows port.

[takkaria]

Sorry to ask a stupid question, but does Windows support SDL natively, or do you have to install something extra? If it has native support (in XP / Vista / 7), then I vote for removing the Windows port.

You just ship the game with the relevant DLLs and it works, more-or-less.

[Magnate]

You just ship the game with the relevant DLLs and it works, more-or-less.

Hmmm. IMO that's almost as much hassle as maintaining the Windows port - someone, somewhere will complain that the shipped DLLs break something. Remember all the hassle with VB runtime DLLs back in Win98?

[Derakon]

The DLLs don't get installed in any central location. They just exist near the executable file, which can then refer to them using a relative path.

At least, that's what I remember from my (very limited) Windows app development work.

[Nick]

Man these Windows font problems are just killing us. Ugh!

Simple solution is to change the default font to a size where windows doesn't try to use one of its own - I use 8x12 for FA. IIRC this works (although starting up new V in Win7 for me it works anyway, so make of that what you will).

[karmatic]

Simple solution is to change the default font to a size where windows doesn't try to use one of its own - I use 8x12 for FA. IIRC this works (although starting up new V in Win7 for me it works anyway, so make of that what you will).

This. Works perfect on two Win7 machines that I've tested it on once I switch the font size