Re: [TuxKart-users] Thanks

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Mads Bondo Dydensborg wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Carl & Paula Zeilon wrote:
> 
> > I assumed that running configure & make multiple times was OK.  They would
> > just overwrite any files they created previously.   This must be
> > wrong.

It's certainly OK to run 'configure' and 'make' multiple times - however, if you
changed the system configuration between 'configure' runs, you sometimes need to
remove the file 'config.cache' because the configure script caches' certain things
when it runs so it doesn't have to recompute them next time around.  That's a pain,
but it's not unique to TuxKart.

> > Steve, is there any way to keep the help screens open longer?  They "time
> > out" after 2 seconds.  (I really want to study those credits ;)  Also, can
> > I make "disable mousetrap" the default?  It seems to revert to "mousetrap"
> > when you close the game.
> 
> Steve will probably say that he accept patches against the cvs ;-)

I will accept patches against the cvs ;-)

Hmmm - the help timers seem to be in fixed numbers of frames - yuk...I
thought I'd got rid of all frame rate dependancies in TuxKart.

Anyway, if you look in src/status.cxx on line 388 (inside the function
"drawGameIntroText") and line 428 (inside "drawGameRunningText"), you can
change the numbers in the 'if' statements to increase the time that the
help/intro/credits/about/versions messages stay up.

FYI: The HELP message says:

   Press SPACE to toggle the menu.
   Press ESCAPE to exit the game.
   Joystick: A - Accellerate.  B - Brake.
             C - Use an item.  D - Ask to be rescued.
             L - Pop a wheelie R - Jump.
   Keyboard: ARROWS - Steer, accellerate and brake
             A - Pop a Wheelie S - Jump
             F - Use an item.  D - Ask to be rescued
             R - Restart race. P - Pause.

The problem with changing the default for 'mousetrap' is that for
systems that *NEED* mousetrap (Voodoo-1, Voodoo-2, Voodoo-RUSH, etc),
it's very important that mousetrap is on to start with otherwise there
is a serious risk that you can *appear* to have locked up the machine.

(In fact, it's not locked up - but it looks that way).

Probably, there should be either a config file or a shell variable to
set up which is the default.

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