Re: [Enigma-devel] Re[2]: Enigma 1.00 - request for level updates

[Ronald Lamprecht]

Hi,

capkoh wrote:
> > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/enigma-game/Enigma-w32-1.00-pre-alpha-cyrillic.zip
>
> I've tried it and it's seems to be ok. The stderr file does not remain after 
> game closing. And Filemon confirms that access to the files is ok. I've tested 
> it with paths from my previous message (they includes "-" and cyrillic chars).

O.k. - meanwhile the Xerces team commited a fix in form of a transcoder
switch for mingw to the main windows transcoder. I linked Enigma against 
this version updloaded the result for common testing:

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/enigma-game/Enigma-w32-1.00-pre-alpha2.zip

BTW is is normal that the stderr file does not remain if no error occured.

> Another bug is the cursor "slow motion" over menu buttons when Russian language 
> is chosen. Filemon talks that program reads font file many-many times (no less 
> than 10) at this moment. And it repeats on every button's caption update. Maybe 
> UTF-8 decoding have some influence... Maybe my PC is too slow, but I did not 
> find any slo-mo with any other language.

Hmm? I cannot detect a special "slow motion" effect on Russian buttons
with my computer. There is always a certain jumping of the cursor on
entering buttons. Do you see a difference between buttons with Russian
titles and buttons with pure number or icon titles?

I looked at the SDL_ttf sourcecode. Indeed they do cache only the first
256 coding point characters. Enlarging or better improving this cache 
algorithm should be easy. But I did not yet set up the necessary 
compiling environment. Nice task - but not my current priority.

> And just another one. It seems that edit fields do not support cyrillic chars.
> Is this ok? 

Yes - SDL is missing an international keyboard input library. Not only 
cyrillic chars, but Umlauts etc. will not be insertable on some systems, 
especially Linux, as well.

- Ronald