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Re: Seeking testers for Mac OS X version of new Multimedia Tads interpreter

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Nikos Chantziaras

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Jun 4, 2010, 1:08:15 AM6/4/10
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The input focus bug on Mac OS X should be fixed now :) A few other bugs
were fixed as well (like being able to insert weird looking,
non-printable characters in the edit field, and a crash that occurred in
some rare cases when clicking on links.)

I've uploaded the new build (2010-06-04) for Linux and Mac to the
download page:

http://qtads.sourceforge.net/downloads.shtml

Please give this build a try. If you find any bugs or even just weird
behavior, please report it; I'm going to wrap this up for a 2.0 release
soon.

Rune

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Jun 4, 2010, 2:29:54 PM6/4/10
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Some immediate comments relative to version 1.6c, which I've long been
using for testing a WIP:

* I miss the menu items for quickly restarting the current game, and
starting recent games. These are very practical for game development.

* Game text prints quite slowly, one line at a time. I much prefer the
quicker, "block mode" way text was printed before.

* I can no longer select fonts of size 13, which is the size I
prefer :-)

- Rune

Nikos Chantziaras

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Jun 5, 2010, 12:16:59 AM6/5/10
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On 06/04/2010 09:29 PM, Rune wrote:
> On Jun 4, 7:08 am, Nikos Chantziaras<rea...@arcor.de> wrote:
>> [...]

>> I've uploaded the new build (2010-06-04) for Linux and Mac to the
>> download page:
>>
>> http://qtads.sourceforge.net/downloads.shtml
>>
>> Please give this build a try. If you find any bugs or even just weird
>> behavior, please report it; I'm going to wrap this up for a 2.0 release
>> soon.
>
> Some immediate comments relative to version 1.6c, which I've long been
> using for testing a WIP:

1.6c has a really outdated T3VM (3.0.8). If you intent to keep using
QTads 1.x for testing, I'd recommend version 1.9, which is up-to-date.


> * I miss the menu items for quickly restarting the current game, and
> starting recent games. These are very practical for game development.

Those will be back soon :)


> * Game text prints quite slowly, one line at a time. I much prefer the
> quicker, "block mode" way text was printed before.

There will be an option for this. It currently defaults to "soft"
scrolling with no way to change it because without MORE-prompts (which
will also be enabled soon) there's no way to tell how much new text
there was after a command.


> * I can no longer select fonts of size 13, which is the size I
> prefer :-)

Good point. Currently, the interpreter asks the OS which font sizes are
"common", but I guess that's too limiting, so I'll change that.

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