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From: Hans Ronne <hronne@comhem.se>
To: Elijah Meeks <elijahmeeks@yahoo.com>
Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Curses and SDL apps for Windows and MacOS
Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 10:16:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <l03130303bcd4d5b0f6a4@[212.181.162.155]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040522022743.37494.qmail@web13123.mail.yahoo.com>

>This is my first experience with the SDL interface.
>It seems more smooth than the TCL/TK, is this because
>it only opens the default game or is it just better?
>It looks great.  Yes, I know it's barely there, but it
>looks more like a game interface than TCL/TK, which
>I've hated ever since I played Xconq on a Mac...
>Would it be capable of allowing designers to customize
>the graphics of the interface (The borders,
>backgrounds, etc.) so that the different games will
>have different feels?

The SDL interface is much faster than the TCL interface, which is one
reason why it gives a smoother player experience.  As for customizing the
interface, anything is possible. But there is a lot of work to do just to
get it into a playable shape.

>On a serious note, is it possible to load up other .g
>files besides the basic game?

Under Unix or MacOS you can load any game by using the command line, e.g.
"-g advances", when you launch XconqSDL. This is true also for the Curses
application. I haven't had time to check if the command line code works
under Windows, but it should not be too hard to fix if it doesn't.

Hans


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-22 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-22  0:21 Hans Ronne
2004-05-22  2:27 ` Elijah Meeks
2004-05-22  2:43   ` Eric McDonald
2004-05-22 10:16   ` Hans Ronne [this message]
2004-05-22 14:05     ` Hans Ronne
2004-05-22 17:14     ` Elijah Meeks
     [not found]       ` <1085247112.1485.405.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2004-05-22 17:39         ` Eric McDonald
2004-05-22 19:02           ` Wrecking Revisited Elijah Meeks
2004-05-22 19:13             ` Hans Ronne
2004-06-06  6:11               ` Eric McDonald
2004-05-23 20:23   ` Curses and SDL apps for Windows and MacOS Stan Shebs
2004-05-23 20:37     ` Eric McDonald
2004-05-23 20:45       ` Stan Shebs
2004-05-23 21:02         ` Eric McDonald
2004-05-23 21:28     ` Hans Ronne
2004-05-23 22:42       ` Elijah Meeks
2004-05-23 22:56         ` Hans Ronne

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