Path: news.cs.au.dk!news.net.uni-c.dk!uninett.no!news-feed.ifi.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Alf-Ivar Holm Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: tron - X11 multi-player game (Long) Date: 06 Apr 2000 16:07:14 +0200 Organization: The Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <20000406130241.16591.qmail@noatun.mjolner.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: naglfar.ifi.uio.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 955030037 6794 129.240.64.54 (6 Apr 2000 14:07:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Apr 2000 14:07:17 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.6 Xref: news.cs.au.dk comp.lang.beta:12291 Erik Corry writes: > Hi Alf-Ivar Holm, > > > > There was a problem in that if you held the turn keys down, the autorepeat > > > would make you go around in circles and crash into yourself. > > > > Yes, I knew about that one, but considered it a feature. :-) > > (If you drive your bike and then violently steer left for some time, > > some things are bound to go - boom.) > > OK, but the feature of being able to fly by holding down space > isn't that realistic :-) But then, you also turn invisible, so: Two unrealistic makes one realistic? :-) > > So, the patch will only work on X11R6. Right? > > Yes. I think that is what most people are using now. Yes. (I just try to figure out whether I was trying to fix it back then.) > [...] Then autorepeat would be left off, and the user has to work > out how to reactivate it. I agree, don't do that! BTW, is there some way to skip the xbm-file now by calling XCreateBitmapFromData() or something similar that returns a (grey) bitmap/pixmap from the arguments given? I didn't manage to do that directly from BETA back then, but that may be suported now? This would make the whole thing reduced to a single file, and all in BETA. Affi