coding questions

External Since: Jan 28, 2008 Posts: 1

Hi all,

I've been toying with the idea of doing a variant based on Heng/
Entroband. I am a very novice coder and had some questions that I was
wondering if someone could answer.

1) Does it matter which C compiler you use? I'm using Openwattcom, but
noticed it wasn't listed on Thangorodrim.

2) Is there a compiler with an automated search and replace function
that will go through the various source files and delete specified
lines of code? I'm trying to get rid of virtues (always hated them)
and am not looking forward to the task of manually deleting everything
line by line.

3) I know that in Gumband, you get 50% xp from monsters that your pets
kill. Where is this feature documented in the source code?

Thanks for all the help.

External Since: Oct 17, 2007 Posts: 80

griboax RemoveThis @gmail.com writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been toying with the idea of doing a variant based on Heng/
> Entroband. I am a very novice coder and had some questions that I was
> wondering if someone could answer.
>
> 1) Does it matter which C compiler you use? I'm using Openwattcom, but
> noticed it wasn't listed on Thangorodrim.

That seems unlikely to matter.

> 2) Is there a compiler with an automated search and replace function
> that will go through the various source files and delete specified
> lines of code? I'm trying to get rid of virtues (always hated them)
> and am not looking forward to the task of manually deleting everything
> line by line.

That is not a compiler function. You may want to learn a scripting language.
Perl used to be the rage. Now Python is in vogue.

Unfortunately it may not be as simple as simply removing any line containing
the word "virtue". For example, you may have a block

if (!virtue)
{
do some stuff;
}
else
{
do some other stuff;
}

You might be able to handle deleting that sort of thing with a perl script,
but I would be afraid of introducing strange errors.

>
> 3) I know that in Gumband, you get 50% xp from monsters that your pets
> kill. Where is this feature documented in the source code?

I know nothing of Gumband, but using the command

grep "p_ptr->exp" src/*c

only returns about 50 matches on Vanilla. You could do that sort of thing and
scan for things that look like they might be relevant. You will need to
figure out how to go about searching the source one way or another.

Eddie