[CF-Devel] CF DX Snapshot

[Michael Toennies]

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      Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 3:56 AM
     
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      To: Michael Toennies
     
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      Subject: Re: [CF-Devel] CF DX Snapshot
     
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      > i will use direct input as keyboard interface, this will give a nice
     
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       the problem for the unix client isn't as much the direct
     
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      keyboard access, but
     
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      rather that the keysym/keycode for say the 6 on the numeric
     
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      keypad can differ.
     
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      so for usability, all those possible combinations need to get put
     
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      into a default
     
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      file.  Since you only really have to aim for the pc which all
     
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      have standard
     
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      keyboard definitions, life is much easier.
     
     
Ah, yes i see. Thats the nice part of apis like dinput, they do all
the stuff for you, and is there one exotic, it connect through his driver
to directx, so the coder don't worry about it and has no changes.

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      > Eh, no you misunderstod me. I use of course the tiles from the server,
     
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      > getting the pngs.
     
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      > The background pngs are the one of the dx client. Remember that he is a
     
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      > dx game, means there are no windows style elements drawn by windows.
     
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      > So, i must draw every slider or box by myself.
     
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       Ah - ok.  I understand now.
     
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      > >  I think his point is a ring of strength +2 has the same face as
     
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      > > fire/vuln cold, as well as most any other ring, and you probably
     
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      > > want a quick
     
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      > > way to know what ring is what.
     
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      > Well, i show the face/animation of the items and the name of
     
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      the selected
     
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      > below. So you can quick search the inventory. Also i will
     
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      include the mouse
     
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      > fast klick on the item and show what is exactly is.
     
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      > There is no other possible way, because showing all names of
     
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      all items at
     
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      > time will not work. Also, to much text is not usefull. The only
     
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      way is, to
     
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      > difference
     
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      > the items more by faces, like most potions in the xpms.
     
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       Yeah - I've played many games like that.  Probably a lot of it
     
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      is just what
     
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      people are used to for the other clients - they are used to
     
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      seeing the names and
     
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      so on.  the nice thing about showing items like you do is that
     
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      potentially more
     
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      are available at the same time.
     
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       I wonder if it may be worth having something like virtual
     
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      backpacks and people
     
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      can determine what backpack(s) items are displayed in.  So for
     
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      example, you may
     
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      have your 'cold' backup where you put all items that relate to
     
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      monsters that use
     
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      cold, so you don't need to worry as much about what the item
     
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      actually looks
     
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      like, you just quickly switch to your cold backup and equip stuff
     
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      as fast as
     
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      possible.
     
     
By the many of damage types and protection types we have in cf, you will run
in the
same trap... having 10 containers of items, you all must check and
control...

I think about 2-4 "hot keys". You wear an wield a set of your items and
press the 1. The program
safe which items you wear.  Then you wear a cold protection set and mark
them as 2.
Now you must simply press 2 and you auto unwear set number 1 and ready set
2.

MichToen