Re: [Bug-freedink] List of (mostly dmodding-related) grievances

[beuc]

Congratulations scratcher!!!

You won the privilege to be the first human on earth to
[beta]test the next version of GNU FreeDink :)
http://www.beuc.net/tmp/freedink-109.0.zip

It's based on SDL2 and this involves a completely new way to handle
keyboard inputs, so I'm quite interested in discovering how much we
improved.  Can you check?

Cheers!
Sylvain

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 12:03:48AM +0300, Eero wrote:
> Hi! Just a bunch of relatively small things, that can nonetheless make
> working on dmods way more annoying on Windows with FreeDink, than using
> regular v1.08. :)
> 
> Alt+F4: Doesn't work in FreeDink. On Windows, this instantly quits the
> currently active program, and I think it's something a lot of Windows users
> (myself included) have learned to live by. ;)
> 
> Alt+Tab: This key combo works, the problem is that DFArc3 is locked, so
> that you cannot access it while the game is running in the background. A
> lot of the time, I use Alt+Tab to switch between the editor and the game,
> or even to run multiple dmods at once. This becomes a lot more annoying
> when you have to start multiple instances of DFArc, rather than just
> launching everything from one window.
> 
> Console: In regular Dink, you can hold down backspace, and it will erase
> many characters. In FreeDink, this doesn't work, so you have to
> tap-tap-tap-tap-tap backspace in order to erase everything.
> 
> ---
> 
> This is a somewhat more serious problem: The keycodes are quite different
> between FreeDink and Dink Smallwood v1.08. For example, on my Finnish
> keyboard the § button that I use for console is key-220 on regular Dink,
> but key-96 on FreeDink. (I *think* that's the ~ (tilde) button on US
> keyboards, which still works very well for the same purpose, but I'm not
> 100% on that.)
> 
> Also, the F-buttons don't work on FreeDink, AT ALL. (key-112, key-113, etc.)
> 
> Cheerio,
> scratcher