[Oangband 1.1.0u] Big screen modus

[dcztmband]

Hello,

I'm just wondering: It seems, that there is no bis screen modus (option -- -b) in Oangband 1.1.0u available. There is no effect on my debian system, instead of it four sub windows are displayed.

Is this right and how can I switch to big screen mode?

Thanks in advance!

[Nick]

What you're getting is the x11 front end - in that case you can just resize the main window. If you want to run in a terminal, use option -mgcu, and in that case you can resize the terminal to whatever size you want first. I use the SDL port (option -msdl); for that you need to have at least the SDL, SDL_ttf and SDL_image packages installed (and maybe one or two others - I don't exactly recall).

Hope that helps.

[dcztmband]

What you're getting is the x11 front end - in that case you can just resize the main window. If you want to run in a terminal, use option -mgcu, and in that case you can resize the terminal to whatever size you want first. I use the SDL port (option -msdl); for that you need to have at least the SDL, SDL_ttf and SDL_image packages installed (and maybe one or two others - I don't exactly recall).

Hope that helps.

Hm, I complied Oangband without x11 and sdl:

./configure --enable-curses --disable-x11

and I run oangand using the command line (console), not switching to x11.

Do you think, "oangband -mgcu -- -b -a" will work for big screen mode using the console (vga=795, 1280 x 1024)?

All the best!

[Nick]

"oangband -mgcu -- -x" should work. It is just possible that, if your screen is too large, it may give you a "main window is too small" error; if that's the case, we should be able to hack main-gcu.c to make it work.

Good luck!

[dcztmband]

"oangband -mgcu -- -x" should work.

This works like a charm, thank you very much!

[...]we should be able to hack to make it work.

By the way, I want to split the screen into three windows, not four as the default is.

I managed this by hacking the main-gcu.c:

	/*** Now prepare the term(s) ***/

	if (!split_window) num_term=1;

	/* Create one or several terms */
	for (i = 0; i < num_term; i++)
	{
		int rows, cols, y, x;

		if (split_window)
		{
		        /* Hack - the main window is huge */
		        /* Sub windows require a width of at least 25 and a height
			 * if at least 6.  Furth excess height is split between the
			 * main window and the others.
			 */
		        if (COLS > MIN_COLS_SPLIT) cols = 80 + (COLS - MIN_COLS_SPLIT) / 2;
			else cols = COLS;
			if (LINES > MIN_ROWS_SPLIT) rows = 24 + (LINES - MIN_ROWS_SPLIT) / 2;
			else rows = LINES;
		}
		else
		{
		        cols=COLS;
			rows=LINES;
		}

		/* Decide on size and position */
		switch (i)
		{
			/* Upper center */
			case 0:
				y = x = 0;
				break;

			/* Lower left */
			case 1:				
				y = rows + 1;
				x = 0;
				rows = LINES - (rows + 1);
				break;

			/* Lower right */
			case 2:				
				y = rows + 1;
				x = cols + 1;
				rows = LINES - (rows + 1);
				cols = COLS - (cols + 1);				
				break;

			/* XXX */
			default:
				rows = cols = y = x = 0;
				break;
		}

		/* Skip non-existant windows */
		if (rows <= 0 || cols <= 0) continue;

		/* Create a term */
		term_data_init_gcu(&data[next_win], rows, cols, y, x, i);

		/* Remember the term */
		angband_term[next_win] = &data[next_win].t;

		/* One more window */
		next_win++;
	}

But how can I expand the upper center window to 160 x 48 and the two lower windows to 80 x 16 chars? The final result should look like this:

 _______________
|               |
|   160 x 48    |
|_______________| 
|_______|_______|
 80 x 16 80 x 16

Any idea?

Slight problem number two: The [ESC] key takes a little bit long (~ 1 second) to respond, can this be changed?

Thank you!

[Nick]

While you're hacking, I think just adding

[CODE]
{
cols=COLS;
rows=LINES;
}

ROWS = 48;
COLS = 80;

/* Decide on size and position */
switch (i)

 _______________
|               |
|   160 x 48    |
|_______________| 
|_______|_______|
 80 x 16 80 x 16

should do it.

Slight problem number two: The [ESC] key takes a little bit long (~ 1 second) to respond, can this be changed?

IIRC using the backquote (`) instead of ESC works for the gcu port; if that fails try ESC twice. Someone else may correct me here.

[dcztmband]

Hi Nick,

adding this

{
		        cols=COLS;
			rows=LINES;
		}

			rows = 48;
			cols = 80;

		/* Decide on size and position */
		switch (i)
		{
			/* Upper center */
                        case 0:
				y = x = 0;
				break;

to main-gcu.c results in one upper window with a size of 80x48 and two lower windows with size 80x16.

Adding this

{
		        cols=COLS;
			rows=LINES;
		}

			rows = 48;
			cols = 80;

		/* Decide on size and position */
		switch (i)
		{
			/* Upper center */
			case 0:
			rows = 48;
			cols = 160;
				y = x = 0;
				break;

does the trick: One top 160x48 window, two 80x16 windows, but starting in big screen mode using "oangband -- -x" results in one window with 160x48 instead of 160x64 size.

How can this be fixed?

Yes, using the backquote (`) instead of ESC works fine!

Thank you very much!