Windows Glulxe and Windows Git updated

David Kinder

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Aug 23, 2010, 3:50:31 AM8/23/10

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I've made new releases of the Windows Glulxe and Windows Git interpreters,
available from here
http://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXprogrammingXglulxXinterpretersXglulxe.html
http://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXprogrammingXglulxXinterpretersXgit.html
http://www.davidkinder.co.uk/glulxe.html

Changes are:

Updated the core interpreters to the latest versions, which are Glulxe
0.4.6 and Git 1.2.7. Both these support the new floating point logic Zarf
added to the Glulx 3.1.2 specification.

The window can be made to fill the entire screen; press Alt+Enter to toggle
this full screen mode on and off.

A new configuration file option, "FullScreen", also makes the window fill
the entire screen.

During line input, Ctrl+Left moves the cursor to the start of the current
word, and Ctrl+Right moves to the end.

The logic when scaling alpha-blended images has been improved, so there
should no longer be artifacts round the edges of such images. (Thanks to
Erik Temple for pointing this one out.)

Data being written to files is now flushed whenever input is requested from
the user. This allows, for example, transcript files to update as a game is
being played, and not only when the interpreter closes the file. (Thanks to
Peter Pears for pointing this one out.)

There's also a new release of the underlying Glk library, Windows Glk,
which is here:
http://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXprogrammingXglkXimplementations.html

S. John Ross

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Aug 23, 2010, 4:15:03 AM8/23/10

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> The window can be made to fill the entire screen; press Alt+Enter to toggle
> this full screen mode on and off.

Woo; yes :)

Many many thanks, as always.

Ron Newcomb

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Aug 23, 2010, 12:51:15 PM8/23/10

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On Aug 23, 12:50 am, David Kinder <da...@david.david> wrote:
> I've made new releases of the Windows Glulxe and Windows Git interpreters,

> available from herehttp://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXprogrammingXglulxXinterpreter...http://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXprogrammingXglulxXinterpreter...http://www.davidkinder.co.uk/glulxe.html

>
> Changes are:
>
> Updated the core interpreters to the latest versions, which are Glulxe
> 0.4.6 and Git 1.2.7. Both these support the new floating point logic Zarf
> added to the Glulx 3.1.2 specification.
>
> The window can be made to fill the entire screen; press Alt+Enter to toggle
> this full screen mode on and off.
>
> A new configuration file option, "FullScreen", also makes the window fill
> the entire screen.
>
> During line input, Ctrl+Left moves the cursor to the start of the current
> word, and Ctrl+Right moves to the end.
>
> The logic when scaling alpha-blended images has been improved, so there
> should no longer be artifacts round the edges of such images. (Thanks to
> Erik Temple for pointing this one out.)
>
> Data being written to files is now flushed whenever input is requested from
> the user. This allows, for example, transcript files to update as a game is
> being played, and not only when the interpreter closes the file. (Thanks to
> Peter Pears for pointing this one out.)
>
> There's also a new release of the underlying Glk library, Windows Glk,

> which is here:http://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXprogrammingXglkXimplementatio...

Aren't one or both of these in the Inform 7 IDE? Meaning, we'd be
able to use the full-screen mode from the IDE? (In a slightly larger
font? That would be groovy. I have reams of debugging output
sometimes.)

David Kinder

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Aug 23, 2010, 5:22:44 PM8/23/10

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On 23/08/2010 17:51, Ron Newcomb wrote:
> Aren't one or both of these in the Inform 7 IDE? Meaning, we'd be
> able to use the full-screen mode from the IDE? (In a slightly larger
> font? That would be groovy. I have reams of debugging output
> sometimes.)

No: the front-end includes the core Glulxe and Git interpreters, but it's
not the same user interface as used in Windows Glulxe and Windows Git.

David

Peter Pears

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Aug 24, 2010, 2:39:37 PM8/24/10

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> Data being written to files is now flushed whenever input is requested from
> the user. This allows, for example, transcript files to update as a game is
> being played, and not only when the interpreter closes the file. (Thanks to
> Peter Pears for pointing this one out.)

Beautiful! Thanks!

>During line input, Ctrl+Left moves the cursor to the start of the current
>word, and Ctrl+Right moves to the end.

Just gorgeous. :)

Paolo Lucchesi

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Aug 25, 2010, 9:16:53 AM8/25/10

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On 23/08/2010 9.50, David Kinder wrote:
> I've made new releases of the Windows Glulxe and Windows Git interpreters,

Great as usual. Many thanks, David.

By the way, it's probably my fault but I'm experiencing some trouble
with WinGlulxe and images in main windows (warning: I'm talking about an
Inform6 project): the text printed later (I suppose after an input)
spans over the image or, if the text is left/right justified, is
compressed (a whole line of text if fitted in the space left by the image).
Any hints?

Thanks in advance

bye
--
Paolo Lucchesi - p...@NOSPAMpaololucchesi.it

David Kinder

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Aug 25, 2010, 11:36:44 AM8/25/10

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On 25/08/2010 14:16, Paolo Lucchesi wrote:
> By the way, it's probably my fault but I'm experiencing some trouble with
> WinGlulxe and images in main windows (warning: I'm talking about an Inform6
> project): the text printed later (I suppose after an input) spans over the
> image or, if the text is left/right justified, is compressed (a whole line
> of text if fitted in the space left by the image).
> Any hints?

That doesn't sound good. Can you send me an example (preferably small) that
demonstrates the problem?

David

Paolo Lucchesi

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Aug 25, 2010, 1:19:49 PM8/25/10

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David Kinder wrote:
> That doesn't sound good. Can you send me an example (preferably small)
> that demonstrates the problem?

Yes, I already have it. Can you email me your address?

Thanks
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Paolo Lucchesi

email: plucchesiNOSPAM(at)NOSPAMtin(dot)NOSPAMit
homepage: http://www.paololucchesi.it

David Kinder

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Aug 25, 2010, 3:30:49 PM8/25/10

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On 25/08/2010 18:19, Paolo Lucchesi wrote:
> Yes, I already have it. Can you email me your address?

It's in the first page of the Windows Glulxe help file, which you can bring
up with the Glulxe / Help menu item.

David

Carlos Sánchez

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Sep 2, 2010, 10:19:33 AM9/2/10

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> The window can be made to fill the entire screen; press Alt+Enter to toggle
> this full screen mode on and off.
>
> A new configuration file option, "FullScreen", also makes the window fill
> the entire screen.

Great news David, many thanks! :)

David Kinder

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Sep 26, 2010, 4:11:25 PM9/26/10

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Another new release of the Windows Glulxe and Windows Git

interpreters, available from here
http://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXprogrammingXglulxXinterpretersXglulxe.html
http://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXprogrammingXglulxXinterpretersXgit.html
http://www.davidkinder.co.uk/glulxe.html

This is just a bug fix release:

* Corrected problems with formatting and line input when
margin images are present. Thanks to Paolo Lucchesi for
reporting this and helping with testing.
* Corrected a stupid mistake in the handling of alpha-blended
images. Thanks to Erik Temple for pointing this problem out.

There's also a new release of the underlying Glk library, Windows Glk, which is here:
http://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXprogrammingXglkXimplementations.html

David