Q is for....

Whilst working on potions, a thought just occured to me.

Press Q to (q)uaff a potion.

But....

Press Q to (q)uaff from a fountain.

What happens if you're standing on a fountain square and want to (q) uaff a potion instead?

7DRL: Bane of the Living

This looks interesting. I especially like the clean interface:


Kharne's current interface is still much too cluttered. :-(

Should the minimal view (below) be the default one?

Kh

A Lazarus Question

Eventually, I'd like to make kharne multi-platform. Whilst I wouldn't consider myself a Linux fetishist to any great extent (I only have Windows XP machines at home, by choice), I do think that by-and-large multi-platform compability is overall a Good Thing (tm). I've been browsing the website of The Lazarus Project, the multi-platform alternative to Delphi, and pondering what it would take to swap over development to said toolkit.

But it appears that at the moment, Lazarus isn't in a state that will allow me to do so. According to the Lazarus for Delphi Users wiki, support for dragging-and-dropping is either non-existant or extremely cripped. I'm somewhat surprised at this, since dragging and dropping is a fundamental part of a windowing interface. But the relevant part of the wiki that states this hasn't been updated since December 2007. Does anyone know if drag-and-drop is still a problem in Lazarus?

If it is, and since the primary Inventory functionality in Kharne is drag-and-drop based (and will stay that way), until such time as drag-and-drop is fully implemented in Lazarus, there will be no Lazarus port and Kharne will remain Windows only.

Which is disappointing. Deeply disappointing.

Progress Report #6

Well, its been quite a while since the last one of these posts, hasn't it? (June last year in fact.) Although I've been busy doing other things for the last week, I've managed to get a few bug fixes into the code, and did some behind the scene coding on the targeting system.

But now I have a decision to make. Here is the current inventory screen:

My question is this: What is the best way of implementing "Drop Item" functionality? Currently, items can be picked from the main game window by pressing 'g'. Items are then worn/wielded etc by dragging and dropping (via the mouse) on the inventory screen (which itself is accessed via the 'i' key. But dropping items? Many Roguelikes have a separate interface for dropping items, but I'm not sure I want to go down that route. I do want however to keep the interface as simple as possible. Thoughts?