Recent changes to feature-requests

status and scan windows

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:01:49 -0000

personally, i'd find it useful in the extreme to have a
persistant status display of my mech, and a scan of my
current target. scan might be hard to implement since
one that updated frequently could spam the target, i
suppose. I don't see any reason why status could not
be impemented though

Port to Qt4

Darren Bane — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 23:55:40 -0000

Recently I was pleased to see that, contrary to some information on
the home page, xpertmud has a preliminary Mac OS X port. I
wanted to compile this, but could only find Qt4 on Trolltech's
download site.

I later found out I could have got Qt3 from somewhere like
Darwinports' repository, but by then I had started porting the code to
Qt4. I have a fair bit of it done, but it's not finished yet.

Hopefully I _will_ get it finished sometime, and then it should be
checked in. However, xpertmud seems to be a KDE project as well
as a portable Qt one, so the changes may need to go on a branch
until KDE upgrade to Qt4 as well.

Input Box Scrolling

Greg Taylor — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 05:27:02 -0000

If you copy/paste a large chunk of softcode (multiple
lines) and have it in your input box, move your cursor
to the middle line, and hit your up arrow, the input
box moves back in command history. This should only
happen if the cursor is at the beginning of the top line.

Suggested fix:
If I'm on a line that is adjacent to the top line,
hitting up will move the cursor directly up a line.
From here, if I hit up again, the cursor moves to the
beginning of the first line from the middle of the
first line. Now that the cursor is at the beginning of
the first line, hitting up again scrolls the input box
back in command history.

The bottom can work the same way except the cursor will
move to the end of the last line before scrolling.

In summation, scrolling should only happen when you're
not within the softcode.

Input Box Font

Greg Taylor — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 05:23:25 -0000

It'd be really nice if the Input Box used a monospaced
font like the output is. This would make it
exponentially easier to softcode with Xpertmud.

Remove mkmf From configure Script

Greg Taylor — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:35:04 -0000

This 'mkmf' is a utility that the vast majority of
players don't have nor know of and appears to be a
kludgey way of editing makefiles. There has to be a
better way to do this. I'm getting the following error
on config:

./configure: line 31316: -e: command not found
checking for ruby compile flags... ./configure: line
31328: -r: command not found
-I
checking for ruby link flags... ./configure: line
31334: -r: command not found

There is no Debian package for mkmf which surprised me.
Looking around, I couldn't find anything on freshmeat
about mkmf.

The dependency list for Xpertmud is already gigantic,
if we can get rid of the need for mkmf, that'd help.
This would also fix the problem where ruby and python
are being compiled even when users specifically
--disable them. Here's my config:

./configure --enable-perl --disable-python --disable-ruby

Yet I lack python/ruby and get errors and a failed
compile as a result.

Auto-Connect on Start

Greg Taylor — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:14:57 -0000

If there was a way to make Xpertmud auto-connect to a
certain bookmark on start, this would not only make it
easier for MU*s out there to distribute Xpertmud for
their games (making it easier on players to get playing
fast), it would also be a big creature comfort.

MUSHclient currenlty has this feature if you'd like to
see an example.

Xpertmud Version Checker

Greg Taylor — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:13:40 -0000

Implement an Xpertmud version checker of some sort.
This could be done one of several ways:

- Reference a file on an webserver that simply contains
a version string, do a comparison.
- Call a command such as 'xpertmud_version_check
<version>' on connect. Game must have the command
implemented.

It'd probably be cleaner to do the first one since
games outside of BTMux would be able to use the
functionality, but the second one would be easier if we
have now pretty much turned our focus to BTMux.

Help Menu

Greg Taylor — Tue, 31 May 2005 22:22:38 -0000

How about populating the Help Menu to point towards the
Wiki or some other documentation so it doesn't sit
there empty and un-used? :)

Map Display Jumping

Greg Taylor — Thu, 05 May 2005 01:05:53 -0000

Have a hot-key and/or right click menu entry on the map
display that lets you jump to a particular coordinate
on the map. This would let people quickly view
objectives when planning. It'd be good to hot-key
follow self also if possible as well as
left/right/up/down scrolling on the map display if it
isn't already there.

New script languages

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Dec 2003 03:57:57 -0000

It would be cool if you added a C-like scripting language.
There exists CINT, which is C++ implemented as a
scripting language. It's at
http://root.cern.ch/root/Cint.html.