DaJAngband Issues

[Prismatic]

I had DaJAngband recommended to me so I thought I'd play it. I downloaded the newest version and tried to run it by double-clicking the .exe.

Absolutely nothing happened.

I went to the ctrl-alt-del list of processes and it was there, but it didn't create any windows and I couldn't play the game (I had to end the process manually). I went to the next version back in case it was a new bug but nope, that didn't work either.

Does anyone know what's up? I run Windows XP Pro and have been running /other/ Angband variants without much of an issue (although SAngband also does not cooperate very well).

[buzzkill]

Try rebooting, see if that helps.

[will_asher]

Yeah that happens to me occationally too. It has always worked after restarting or logging out of windows and then logging back in. I have no idea why it happens. Does it happen with vanilla or other variants?

[Nick]

Does it happen with vanilla or other variants?

Yes, it's been seen with Vanilla and some variants occasionally, and (no-one's quite sure why it happens)

make that "there's a well known detailed fix that I've applied to my own variant already".

Some days I wonder why I bother getting up.

[zaimoni]

Yeah that happens to me occationally too. It has always worked after restarting or logging out of windows and then logging back in. I have no idea why it happens. Does it happen with vanilla or other variants?

It can happen in any variant whose Windows backend uses SendMessage rather than PostMessage for registering the fonts. (V SVN is immune, as is Zaiband.) Even one hung/unresponsive Windows driver is enough to prevent *band launch then.

[Prismatic]

Sorry, I was out for a while. Holidays and that.

It doesn't seem to apply to other variants (I played XAngband for quite some time and it had no particular issues). It also persisted through three reboots.

-Prism

[takkaria]

Yeah that happens to me occationally too. It has always worked after restarting or logging out of windows and then logging back in. I have no idea why it happens. Does it happen with vanilla or other variants?

The fix is here:

http://trac.rephial.org/changeset/1099/trunk/src/main-win.c

[will_asher]

The fix is here:
http://trac.rephial.org/changeset/10...src/main-win.c

That's all I have to change and that will fix it? cool.
Will be in the next release (probably early January).

[buzzkill]

Not a big deal but trees sometimes appear in town. Not sure if it's WAD or not. Not a problem in and of itself, but they have a tendency to move around from one recall to the next. For some reason they always seem to appear in pairs (separated by a space).

[will_asher]

Trees are supposed to appear in town (and often in pairs). But since they're in the code as monsters, I don't know if I can make them stay in the same place each time you go back to town.
hmmm, maybe if I just put the placement of trees into the town_gen_hack() function they'll be generated in the same place every time because of that special RNG hack/setting. Maybe it doesn't matter that they're in the code as monsters. I'll try that..
EDIT: yep, it works so the trees will stay in the same place in the next version.

BTW, the next version will have certain dungeon monsters which sometimes appear in town (as a slightly weakened version worth no XP), though not at the very beginning of the game.

[buzzkill]

BTW, the next version will have certain dungeon monsters which sometimes appear in town (as a slightly weakened version worth no XP), though not at the very beginning of the game.

Sounds like fun. I was just lamenting the poor Angbandtownfolk, as I, without regard or remorse, strutted about acid balling everyone in sight.

[Zikke]

Sounds like fun. I was just lamenting the poor Angbandtownfolk, as I, without regard or remorse, strutted about acid balling everyone in sight.

I'd like to see some sporadic monsters spawn in the town (weak versions) and have the townsfolk rally and fight them.

[ekolis]

Heh, that would be fun... maybe a low-level or recurring "quest" might be to save the townsfolk - the more you save, the better the reward - or maybe the prices in shops go up or down depending on how successful you are at saving them!

Gives you something to do with townsfolk other than wholesale slaughter, and adds some atmosphere to the game... maybe the townsfolk could shout random quotes, too, every so often:

The hobbit goodwife screams, "Oh no! It's a white icky thing! Flee from the terrible beast!"
The singing happy drunk proclaims, "I'll save the town from this *hic* menace!", drops his dagger, and trips over it!
The mean-looking mercenary says, "Fight yer own battles, I'm outta here!"
The battle-scarred veteran says, "Hmph! Back in the day we fought *rock lizards* up here...", but reluctantly lifts his broken sword...