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Re: Movement commands
- To: Bob Carragher <bob at fla dot fujitsu dot com>
- Subject: Re: Movement commands
- From: Stan Shebs <shebs at shebs dot cnchost dot com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 09:06:23 -0700
- CC: xconq7 at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <200006281816.LAA11142@prodigy.fujitsu.com>
- Reply-To: shebs at shebs dot cnchost dot com
Bob Carragher wrote:
>
> [De-lurking ... ]
>
> Hello!
>
> I recently downloaded and installed version 7.3. As this was
> the first version since 5.3 (!!) that I really playtested, I
> was surprised to see all the (positive) differences!
Released from our fallout shelter after 30 years, were we? :-)
> There
> was one point that caught me off guard, and I'm wondering if
> perhaps I'm doing something wrong. In that old, old version,
> when one went into "examine mode(?)" (by pressing "z"), one
> could examine sectors near the last focus point by using the
> movement keys (y, u, l, etc.) as well as the mouse. Now it
> appears that that is no longer the case. In particular, if
> a unit with non-zero ACP was the previous focus, then it
> actually moves!!! Am I missing something obvious?
Yes, this is all deliberate. The mouseover line displays all
the information that the old click-on-empty-cell behavior got
you, and the code had to have a bunch of weird special cases
to handle the possibility that a location was selected, but
that nothing was in it.
Stan