Ticket #232 (reopened bug)

Opened 10 months ago

Last modified 2 weeks ago

Solid block characters are invisible under Windows Vista

Reported by: ctate Assigned to:
Milestone: 3.1.0 Version:
Keywords: Cc:

Description

The solid block character generally referred to with character code 127 displays as a black space under Vista. This makes Angband unplayable as supplied in the standard .zip Windows distribution, since that invisible character is configured as the wall character.

Ideally the code should be fixed to use an appropriate display mechanism for graphics characters under Vista. A workaround might be to use the default '#' character for walls in the standard distribution.

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07/09/07 06:04:43 changed by takkaria

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to wontfix.

See the FAQ. You just have to delete the block character lines.

We'll move to the SDL port eventually, I imagine, and this problem will go then.

07/30/07 23:02:31 changed by anonymous

Thanks for nothing.

07/31/07 07:54:24 changed by takkaria

I'm sorry, but either we remove all the pseudographics and get lots of complaints about needing them, and everyone who wants them has to fiddle with pref files to put them in, or Vista users, of whom there aren't currently that many, have to take out the lines. Given that the latter inconveniences fewer people than the former, that's the only reasonable decision to make.

04/12/08 04:56:43 changed by jasonite10@aol.com

I'm a Vista user (as well as an XP user) and I finally installed a few Angband variants on my machine.... what a surprise this was.

I hope a solution can be found soon, it's too difficult to play without 'em! :)

04/29/08 20:09:50 changed by takkaria

  • status changed from closed to reopened.
  • resolution deleted.
  • milestone changed from 3.2.0 to 3.1.0.

Reopening this since it's something we want to fix. The very least we could do would be to detect whether Vista is being used or XP and switch to a different set of pref files if so.

(Though I'd still rather like to switch to SDL long-term.)

Add/Change #232 (Solid block characters are invisible under Windows Vista)