Re: Website correction - again and documentation comments

[Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>]

Hans Ronne wrote:

> > By the way, I hope to finish the actions.c docs during my holiday time
> > around Christmas, and I plan to work on supply.c next as I'm curious
> > about the current supply code.  I couldn't find a game that seemed to
> > use most of the new supply code GDL.  Is there one that demonstrates the
> > breakage, as well as all the features?
> Not to my knowledge. You are correct in noticing that none of the existing
> game modules use the supply.c GDL stuff, which is found near the end of
> table.def. There is a common misunderstanding (on this list) the in-length
> and out-length has something to do with the supply code, but they are not
> even used there. Instead, they are used in run_economy, which is called
> before run_supply.
>
> I think Stan once said that the supply code was problematic, but I don't
> know how he tested it. I have never used it myself in any of my games. So
> maybe its reputation as being broken is exaggerated. I suggest you modify
> one of the existing games by adding support for supply.c and see how it
> works.
The test game test/supply.g does run, but I once tried to use some of the
parameters in a real game, and it didn't go very well, although I've
forgotten exactly what happened.  Probably in an old list message.

> > Also, is there a way to display all the images and names available to
> > Xconq?  The image files only seem to be a subset of the available ones.
> Yes, there are images hardcoded into most of the .imf files as well. There
> is a small utility program that will load and display all available images.
> It's called IMFApp on the Mac, ximfapp under Unix and wimfapp for Windows.
> Not sure if wimfapp ever worked, though.
>
> Hans
wimfapp did work at one point, that's partly how I got the Windows port 
limping.
Image browser is a handy way for porters to see if all the different kinds
of images are being rendered correctly.

Stan

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