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  • Black doors in 3.6.6 Windows tty

    From Patrick Clot@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 27 17:47:52 2021
    I got the official Windows binary from
    nethack.org and am running the game
    in tty (non-curses) mode. But closed
    doors are black and can not be seen
    with a black background. Any way to
    change this? I have tried all of the
    settings for a Windows command prompt,
    but I still get the black doors.

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  • From Patrick Clot@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 28 13:36:57 2021
    For some reason NetHack.exe remembers old color
    choices that I made in the properties menu of cmd.exe.
    At one point I changed the foreground color to red and
    have since changed it back to white. When in the command
    prompt the text I enter and read is white, but when I
    run NetHack.exe the text is red and the doors are
    colored purple. So there is some setting somewhere
    that is remembering old color values. I keep changing
    the terminal colors but can not get it to stick. NetHack.exe
    just remembers one set of colors and I do not know how
    to over-ride it.

    Any help?

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  • From Pat Rankin@21:1/5 to Patrick Clot on Mon Jun 28 17:10:32 2021
    On Monday, June 28, 2021 at 1:36:59 PM UTC-7, Patrick Clot wrote:
    For some reason NetHack.exe remembers old color
    choices that I made in the properties menu of cmd.exe.

    If you're using a desktop shortcut to start nethack, it has
    it's own set of properties. NetHack won't know or care
    about them but the window it's running in will.

    Have you tried toggling the 'use_darkgray' option on or
    off (opposite of whatever it is now)? I'm not sure how it
    is supposed to work but I'm fairly sure that it offers some
    control for rendering of black on the map.

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  • From Patrick Clot@21:1/5 to Pat Rankin on Mon Jun 28 17:36:43 2021
    On Monday, June 28, 2021 at 7:10:33 PM UTC-5, Pat Rankin wrote:
    On Monday, June 28, 2021 at 1:36:59 PM UTC-7, Patrick Clot wrote:
    For some reason NetHack.exe remembers old color
    choices that I made in the properties menu of cmd.exe.
    If you're using a desktop shortcut to start nethack, it has
    it's own set of properties. NetHack won't know or care
    about them but the window it's running in will.
    I changed the colors to be white on black in the window
    that is created by running NetHack.exe from the Windows
    Explorer (not the command prompt). Now the game
    text is white on black and the doors are the correct
    brown color, but all white objects are dark blue.
    If I run Nethack.exe from the command line and
    not through windows explorer, the text is red
    on black and the doors are purple.

    Have you tried toggling the 'use_darkgray' option on or
    off (opposite of whatever it is now)? I'm not sure how it
    is supposed to work but I'm fairly sure that it offers some
    control for rendering of black on the map.
    I tried use_darkgray but without noticeable effect since
    doors are now purple.

    It is like there is some cached information living
    somewhere that is not being updated. I tried searching
    for "Command Processor" in the registry but I did not
    see a color key/value.

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  • From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to Patrick Clot on Tue Jun 29 09:21:25 2021
    On 29.06.2021 02:36, Patrick Clot wrote:
    On Monday, June 28, 2021 at 7:10:33 PM UTC-5, Pat Rankin wrote:
    On Monday, June 28, 2021 at 1:36:59 PM UTC-7, Patrick Clot wrote:
    For some reason NetHack.exe remembers old color
    choices that I made in the properties menu of cmd.exe.

    It is like there is some cached information living
    somewhere that is not being updated. I tried searching
    for "Command Processor" in the registry but I did not
    see a color key/value.

    Have you considered running it from a Unix environment? Cygwin is
    a lot of stuff to be installed but maybe it's easier to run it as
    configured from that sub-system context.

    Janis

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  • From Patrick Clot@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 29 09:47:34 2021
    Have you considered running it from a Unix environment? Cygwin is
    a lot of stuff to be installed but maybe it's easier to run it as
    configured from that sub-system context.

    That is a reasonable idea. In the meantime, I have just been
    running NetHackW.exe (rather than NetHack.exe) and pressing
    F5 to get my beloved ASCII Graphics map.

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  • From Patrick Clot@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 29 16:30:29 2021
    I found a fix for this. There is a program
    called colortool that has color schemes
    that you can install from cmd.exe. Here
    is a link on how to configure and run
    colortool: (I used the campbell.ini scheme
    to restore the correct colors):

    https://www.howtogeek.com/322432/how-to-customize-your-command-prompts-color-scheme-with-microsofts-colortool/

    Just google for the github location where colortool lives.

    Cheers,
    pmc

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