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  • [slashem extended] 2.70 curses interfaces

    From nathan.dodd.esp@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 15 11:54:51 2021
    Hello, does someone know how to set options for curses interfaces well?


    I have been logging into hardfought.net and I saw that there was a new release of slashem extended. Though I had configured my settings for curses interface and I received an error message. Does anyone know how to set the options to curses interface? I'm
    looking for ways for it to be an easier interface in someways. Here is what is in my settings file.

    OPTIONS=showexp,showscore,time,color,!autopickup,nonumpadmessage OPTIONS=autodig,fruit:papaya,boulder:0

    # curses interface
    OPTIONS=windowtype:curses
    OPTIONS=cursesgraphics
    OPTIONS=symset:curses
    OPTIONS=align_message:bottom
    OPTIONS=popup_dialog
    OPTIONS=windowborders:2
    OPTIONS=splash_screen
    OPTIONS=guicolor
    OPTIONS=mouse_support

    # Set terminal window for same dimensions

    OPTIONS=term_cols:110
    OPTIONS=term_rows:32

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  • From Pat Rankin@21:1/5 to nathan....@gmail.com on Thu Mar 18 16:36:56 2021
    On Monday, March 15, 2021 at 11:54:53 AM UTC-7, nathan....@gmail.com wrote:
    Hello, does someone know how to set options for curses interfaces well?

    The SLEX developer/maintainer hangs out at
    https://reddit.com/r/nethack
    and posts fairly regularly. The hardfought admin does too.

    [...] and I received an error message. Does anyone know [...]

    You've decided to keep the text of that error message secret?

    OPTIONS=cursesgraphics
    OPTIONS=symset:curses

    'cursesgraphics' is a deprecated way to specify 'symset:curses'.
    You don't need to have both. (I'd be astonished if that was the
    problem you're encountering, just thought I'd try to speed the
    demise of 'cursesgraphics'.)

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  • From nathan.dodd.esp@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 21 07:08:30 2021
    [...] and I received an error message. Does anyone know [...]

    You've decided to keep the text of that error message secret?

    The error says

    Bad Syntax in OPTIONS in /dgldir/userdata/q/quark/quark.slexrc: windowtype:curses

    and

    Bad Syntax in OPTIONS in /dgldir/userdata/q/quark/quark.slexrc: symset:curses



    OPTIONS=cursesgraphics
    OPTIONS=symset:curses

    'cursesgraphics' is a deprecated way to specify 'symset:curses'.
    You don't need to have both. (I'd be astonished if that was the
    problem you're encountering, just thought I'd try to speed the
    demise of 'cursesgraphics'.)

    This possibly will fix the error message. I will see, thanks.

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  • From Pat Rankin@21:1/5 to nathan....@gmail.com on Sun Mar 21 16:39:42 2021
    On Sunday, March 21, 2021 at 7:08:32 AM UTC-7, nathan....@gmail.com wrote:
    Bad Syntax in OPTIONS in /dgldir/userdata/q/quark/quark.slexrc: windowtype:curses

    This means that the copy of the program you're running does not
    have any support for nethack's curses interface. (Also that SLEX's
    config file error reporting is from nethack 3.4.3 rather than 3.6.x.)

    The output from the #version command (that's the command
    name for it in nethack; I'm not sure what SLEX uses) lists which
    interfaces are included in that copy of the program. 'curses' is
    not going to be there for you....

    SLEX is based on slash'em which was based on nethack 3.4.3.
    NetHack 3.4.3 didn't support curses (that was added in 3.6.2),
    so variants derived from it would need to put in a lot of effort
    toward incorporating 3.6.x features.

    Or, there is a patch to 3.4.3 and adds an older version of the
    curses interface. The current one started with with an update
    of that for use with 3.6.x, then has had with many fixes and
    enhancements since. It is conceivable that SLEX has that
    patch but that hardfought didn't enable curses when building
    the program.

    'cursesgraphics' is a deprecated way to specify 'symset:curses'.
    You don't need to have both. [...]

    This possibly will fix the error message. I will see, thanks.

    Zero chance of that. Failure to accept windowtype:curses is the
    problem.

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  • From nathan.dodd.esp@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 31 19:00:34 2021
    When I typed #version,

    its says

    Supported windowing systems

    traditional tty-based graphics, curses, with a default of tty

    Are you sure that there isn't curses interface integrated?

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  • From Pat Rankin@21:1/5 to nathan....@gmail.com on Thu Apr 1 17:49:11 2021
    On Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 7:00:36 PM UTC-7, nathan....@gmail.com wrote:
    When I typed #version, its says

    Supported windowing systems
    traditional tty-based graphics, curses, with a default of tty

    Are you sure that there isn't curses interface integrated?

    According to that, curses is present. But your earlier
    post shows that SLEX is explicitly complaining about the
    'windowtype' option, not about other stuff. Looking at
    the options processing for nethack 3.4.3 for comparison,
    it is behaving as if it doesn't recognize that option rather
    than that curses is not a valid choice.

    (It is probably using that old patch for 3.4.3 I mentioned
    previously so needs 'cursesgraphics' instead of the
    newer 'symset:curses', but that won't matter until the
    windowtype:curses part starts working.)

    Your config file settings appear correct and the error
    message also shows what looks like a valid value. I don't
    what the problem is. I suggest contacting hardfought
    about it.

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  • From RecRanger@21:1/5 to nathan....@gmail.com on Thu Apr 1 21:14:48 2021
    On Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 10:00:36 PM UTC-4, nathan....@gmail.com wrote:
    When I typed #version,

    its says

    Supported windowing systems

    traditional tty-based graphics, curses, with a default of tty

    Are you sure that there isn't curses interface integrated?


    Not that I _want_ to move traffic away from here, but if you post
    this on the NetHack Reddit, the programmer of this variant always
    responds and is eager to help fans of their variant!

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