July 20, 1993 Fixed bug in highlighting, anchoring a highlight would make the program crash. I also rewrote some of the highlight code to make it a little faster. Bug fixed in read command, file was never closed after opened (thanks Urquan) Recompiled without -g option, didn't know what that option did, but it was in the original makefile. It would include debugging information, making the program much bigger than needed. Should help speed a bit too Fixed a problem with wildcards in listings, etc. Null size strings at the end of a command would not be recognized, like #unaction *takk* would not unaction an action ending with takk, because there are no more characters after takk. This now works. July 25, 1993 Rewrote #math and added #if, based on C evaluation and precedence. I now use a tokenized linked list to evaluate the expression, much faster, and much more reliable. July 26, 1993 Added the ability to start a user input with a certain character to tell t++ to send the line 'as is' to the MUD, stripping off the first character. The default char can be changed in tintin.h, it currently defaults to the \ character. Example: \tell Tossa ;;;;;;;;; TESTING ;) will send the string tell Tossa ;;;; etc. to the mud, without splitting at semicolons, evaluating variables, or anything. Changed Version number to 1.1 beta July 27, 1993 (Grimmy's note) Added the -Wall flag to the makefile. -Wall will show all warnings during the compile stage. There were many warnings on my machine (SGI running IRIX v4.0.1). I changed tintin.h a little, moving the only two static declatations in the prototype section to the function they belong. Added a system define section, which will activate includes for the systems there. I have only added my machine for now. Other machines will be included as time goes on. Hopefully eliminating more of the warnings will help stabalize it even more (*Crossing Fingers*). Well, so far so good.. I actually also nailed the reason why you would get memory faults in a certain circumstance(Maybe more, I know of one). If you were to setup an alias to run the whodeamon for Grimne, sometimes you would get either a segmentation fault, or memory fault. The reason being, when tintin++ tries to clear a session, it frees up the memory used in the history list (history[#]). Defidently, if you had no sessions running, and ran the alias, you would get the fault. It seems like it tried to free a history list that didn't exist. What I did, and I might be wrong in doing this, is to initialize the list to nulls before freeing. I presume this is gonna cause some problems, but it won't crash the program at least. September 27, 1993 (Bill's note) Well it's been a busy couple of months, but version 1.2 is ready (i hope). AS OF VERSION 1.2, NON-ANSI C COMPILERS WILL COMPILE THE CODE people who previously could not get echo.c to work right and had to erase code will not be able to run this version. If you mail us with the error codes you get, and the system you're running on, we'll try our best to get it working for you. new commands: #split go into split screen on vt-100 or ANSI #unsplit get out of split mode #verbatim toggle verbatim mode #redraw redisplay the input line when mud or client text is printed #version show version number new features: split mode, setting up a seperate input and output window, compatible with vt-100 and ANSI emulators. history scrolling, you can type ^P to go to previous commands, and ^N to scroll forward after already scrolling back, this will work in either split or unsplit mode. tab completion, there is now a tab.txt file, lines of text that are in this file will be searched if a tab key is pressed. The first line that starts with the same letters that were typed just before the tab key was pressed will be tagged on to the end of your input. Helpful for long words, names, or words repeated often. This will work in both split and unsplit mode. snooping is rewritten, as well as many other parts of the code, to take care of problems, and to allow split mode. I'm hoping this fix will take care of problems people were having with snoop. I will be adding the option of having a seperate snoop window eventually if possible. loading the program is handled differently. it is now of the form tintin++ [-v] [file], if file is not specified, your home directory is checked for a .tintinrc file, which it will load as your coms file -----OS/2 history starts here-------------------------------------------------- December 11, 1993 All of the split screen from the Unix version has been yanked and rewritten and converted to OS/2 direct cursor positioning. This made necessary the addition of the intr.c module that handles all cursor positioning, color changes and screen output. The split screen should work fine now, but I have seen a problem with the text somehow getting below the status line and staying there. This should be fixed. Also, there seems to be a problem with a single line disappearing on the first time you scroll. This doesn't seem to be a continuing problem, so it's a low priority item. Highlite.c was modified to take advantage of all colors on the screen (16 fg, 8 bg and blinking). Also, the bold, faint, etc attributes are mapped to reasonable substitutes. The code to set the color back seems to be working correctly, but the code to set it originally, doesn't seem to work. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- December 12, 1993 Problem with an extra blank line the first time the screen scrolled has been fixed. I had set it to scroll on line 22 and that was incorrect. Highliting now works correctly if you only have one highlight on the line. Otherwise, it does the first one in the linked list. It also now excepts colors in decimal, hex, and octal. Need to rewrite some of the action code to ignore colors so that more than one highlite will work correctly. New command #statline. #statline {arg} will print arg on the statusline. The #echo command has been changed to replace the #showme command. It works as such #echo #Echo is now ON /* reports status */ #echo on #Echo is now ON #echo off #Echo is now OFF #echo on silent /* turns on the echo, no output */ #echo off silent #echo This is a test This is a test This means that repetive actions like #10 {buy bread;put bread bag} can become #echo off silent;#10 {buy bread;put bread bag}; #echo on silent. Unfortunately, the #echo command is currently assuming silent. Bad #echo, bad! Also, the wrtstr function in the intr module needs to be rewritten to take advantage of the VioWrtCellStr function -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 02/08/94 Decided this morning that I might as well release it and see if I get any response. Maybe if a few people out there drop me a note I'll finish it up for a real release. One final thing is that there seems to be a bug that causes it to drop line occasionally. Haven't been able to pinpoint this so it's hard to troubleshoot. Any ideas are appreciated.