[Announce] Cthangband 5.0.0 Released

**HugoVirtuoso** · April 4, 2015, 01:32

This is neat! This announcement warrants an upcoming compo, for sure!

**getter77** · April 4, 2015, 12:57

YES! Congrats and thanks aplenty for making this release---keep at the fine work going forward! 2015 continues to shape up to be a fine year indeed for all things *BAND.

Definitely throw the release news and such up here when time avails so players new and lapsed can have even better odds of spotting it and because this is definitely a Big Deal in the Roguelike spectrum:

RogueBasin

http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

**vstat** · April 5, 2015, 04:43

Excited to start exploring this. I have noticed the knowledge features don't work, and I can't seem to bring up multiple windows to show inventory etc. Are there plans for these in the future?

**Dean Anderson** · April 5, 2015, 18:09

Originally posted by vstat

Excited to start exploring this. I have noticed the knowledge features don't work, and I can't seem to bring up multiple windows to show inventory etc. Are there plans for these in the future?

The knowledge features are working for me as far as I can tell. In what way don't they work for you?

As for multiple windows, the pre-compiled version is the windows Console version. Therefore it runs as a console app - which means there's only one window and there's no graphics.

I haven't done anything to take graphics or multiple windows out, so if someone compiles a version for a different system they'll work normally.

**vstat** · April 5, 2015, 20:42

Originally posted by Dean Anderson

The knowledge features are working for me as far as I can tell. In what way don't they work for you?

As for multiple windows, the pre-compiled version is the windows Console version. Therefore it runs as a console app - which means there's only one window and there's no graphics.

I haven't done anything to take graphics or multiple windows out, so if someone compiles a version for a different system they'll work normally.

I can get the knowledge menu up fine. When I select option 1, 2, or 5 I get an error that says "cannot open '\s6po.' Multiple attempts will add increments of 1/10 behind that period. I can close the game and reopen and it cannot find open a different file name. Some examples I've had are s474, s5v0, s1bg and s2j4.

When trying to open options 3,4, or 6 I get a windows message saying the cthangband main executable has stopped working.

For reference I'm on a 64 bit version of Windows 7.

**Dean Anderson** · April 5, 2015, 21:24

Originally posted by vstat

I can get the knowledge menu up fine. When I select option 1, 2, or 5 I get an error that says "cannot open '\s6po.' Multiple attempts will add increments of 1/10 behind that period. I can close the game and reopen and it cannot find open a different file name. Some examples I've had are s474, s5v0, s1bg and s2j4.

When trying to open options 3,4, or 6 I get a windows message saying the cthangband main executable has stopped working.

For reference I'm on a 64 bit version of Windows 7.

Hmmm...

The knowledge functions write temporary files and then display those files. It looks like for some reason it doesn't have permission to write those files on your machine.

This is probably a Windows thing - Windows sometimes locks down your Program Files folder and stops files from being created there.

Try either:

1) Uninstalling the program and re-installing it somewhere other than your C:\Program Files\ folder. Preferably on another drive than your C drive.

-or-

2) Running the program "as Administrator".

If the problem is what I think it is, then hopefully doing either of those should fix it.

I should probably re-do the install script to make sure that it defaults to somewhere outside of your C:\Program Files folder, to be on the safe side.

**vstat** · April 5, 2015, 21:33

Originally posted by Dean Anderson

Hmmm...

The knowledge functions write temporary files and then display those files. It looks like for some reason it doesn't have permission to write those files on your machine.

This is probably a Windows thing - Windows sometimes locks down your Program Files folder and stops files from being created there.

Try either:

1) Uninstalling the program and re-installing it somewhere other than your C:\Program Files\ folder. Preferably on another drive than your C drive.

-or-

2) Running the program "as Administrator".

If the problem is what I think it is, then hopefully doing either of those should fix it.

I should probably re-do the install script to make sure that it defaults to somewhere outside of your C:\Program Files folder, to be on the safe side.

Run as admin works. Thanks! I did install in a different directory as well, did not run as admin, and got the same errors. The admin piece is the solution.

**Avenger** · April 6, 2015, 04:52

Haven't played this one in years - nice to see it's still under development.

I've noticed a few minor things, and perhaps it's just because I'm accustomed to other variants, but... shift + direction doesn't seem to allow running, regardless of the Number Lock, and Function keys don't appear to be selectable in the macro creation process.

Again, maybe I'm missing something, but as running and macros are staples of my gameplay in other variants, playing without them feels rather odd.

**Dean Anderson** · April 6, 2015, 14:50

Originally posted by Avenger

Haven't played this one in years - nice to see it's still under development.

I've noticed a few minor things, and perhaps it's just because I'm accustomed to other variants, but... shift + direction doesn't seem to allow running, regardless of the Number Lock, and Function keys don't appear to be selectable in the macro creation process.

Again, maybe I'm missing something, but as running and macros are staples of my gameplay in other variants, playing without them feels rather odd.

I think these are both issues with the Windows Console code. The function to pick up keypresses isn't handling the non-alphanumeric key codes.

You can still run by using '.' and following it by a direction. Since that's the way I always do running, I didn't notice that using shift wasn't working (in fact I'd forgotten that you even could use shift to run!)

**Avenger** · April 7, 2015, 01:33

Ah, alright. It will be challenging to overcome the muscle memory of using shift, but at least I have a solution.

I wonder if ctrl or alt + numbers will work as macros. Have to give it a try.

It's also interesting to learn about the limitations of the console. As someone who's trying to get back into coding(and I never got very far with it in the first place) with C#, I expect I'll have the pleasure of learning to deal with those in my own programs.

Thanks for the feedback.

**debo** · April 7, 2015, 15:50

Have you tried building on anything except windows? I tried building GCU-only with makefile.org using clang (OS X) and I'm getting curses crankiness in main-gcu.c.

I can figure this out on my own, but if you've done this already once and just haven't migrated the changes to main-gcu.c or something, I'd rather not reinvent this wheel

Specifically, the error is this:

Code:

gcc -Wall -O1 -pipe -g -D"USE_GCU"   -c -o main-gcu.o main-gcu.c
main-gcu.c:443:15: error: incomplete definition of type 'struct _win_st'
                mvcur(curscr->_cury, curscr->_curx, LINES - 1, 0);
                      ~~~~~~^
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.10.sdk/usr/include/curses.h:322:16: note: forward declaration of
      'struct _win_st'
typedef struct _win_st WINDOW;
               ^
main-gcu.c:514:14: error: incomplete definition of type 'struct _win_st'
        mvcur(curscr->_cury, curscr->_curx, LINES - 1, 0);
              ~~~~~~^
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.10.sdk/usr/include/curses.h:322:16: note: forward declaration of
      'struct _win_st'
typedef struct _win_st WINDOW;
               ^
2 errors generated.

I know I've worked around this in other ancient variants before, I just didn't have a chance to dig too much yet. (I tried building against both curses and ncurses, with USE_NCURSES set as required.)

I'm hoping to get something up and running so we can run it for a comp. I can always try WINEing if I run out of patience here.

**Dean Anderson** · April 7, 2015, 16:28

Sorry, I've no experience at all compiling Angband on any system other than Windows or DOS.

To be honest, without looking in the source code I couldn't even tell you what type of computer or operating system uses "main-GCU"...

My "main-WCN" console code shouldn't have broken any other port. It's pretty self-contained and the only places where I needed to modify other code for it I made sure I wrapped my modifications in "#ifdef WCN" preprocessor commands, so it shouldn't affect any other compilation.

The only thing that might trip you up is that I added a new flag to config.h that you can set if you are on a system that only allows a single Term - and if it is set then it removes the "Window Options" from the options screen because they don't make sense on a single-term port.

**debo** · April 7, 2015, 16:29

Originally posted by Dean Anderson

Sorry, I've no experience at all compiling Angband on any system other than Windows or DOS.

To be honest, without looking in the source code I couldn't even tell you what type of computer or operating system uses "main-GCU"...

My "main-WCN" console code shouldn't have broken any other port. It's pretty self-contained and the only places where I needed to modify other code for it I made sure I wrapped my modifications in "#ifdef WCN" preprocessor commands, so it shouldn't affect any other compilation.

The only thing that might trip you up is that I added a new flag to config.h that you can set if you are on a system that only allows a single Term - and if it is set then it removes the "Window Options" from the options screen because they don't make sense on a single-term port.

It's cool, once I figure it out I'll post the patch here or something.

**wobbly** · April 7, 2015, 18:52

Stupid question time. Is the Cth- Cthulu band or something else? Will probably download & try out when the comp starts.

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