Re: [Xpilot-hacks] Max OS X SDL Version

[Juha <ju...@us...>]

On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 12:17 -0400, Jeff Zacharias wrote:
> 1) If I try to play on a older server (ex 4.5.4) none of the walls
> show up in the global radar.  (They do show up with the X11 version on
> the Mac).  Is this a normal bug in the SDL version ?  Any ideas on how
> to fix this ?

On Linux at least the radar works fine also with older servers. I don't
have any idea why it doesn't work on the Mac. Try to hack radar.c to see
if you can get something painted.

> 2) In all my years of playing with xpilot I have never heard sound.
> It looksl ike sound should work so I both compiles and started a
> server and client with sound enabled but I din't hear anything. Should
> sound work or am I wasting my time ?

Sound should (more or less) work if Mac supports OpenAL. On Linux the
sound sometimes pauses for a while but in my opinion the problem is with
the server not sending any sounds. Anyway even when the sound works you
usually want to just turn it off.

> Overall the SDL version looks better and plays better.  Although I
> like the X11 version better where items being carried are in color not
> just all blue like in the SDL version.  I also wish there was a better
> map editor for the new map format.  The Java tool is good but I never
> got drawing polygons or the grid to work.  Once I get global maps
> working for older servers and hopefully sound, I"m going to create an
> double clickable Mac application.

I can understand that it is difficult to use the map editor to draw
polygons if you only have one mouse button. When you draw a polygon you
end it by pressing the second (or third) mouse button. I guess I should
try to fix it somehow, but in my opinion it is not the editor that is
broken but the mouse :) The grid works if you click the grid icon. You
can select the grid density with the spinner control next to the grid
icon.

- Juha