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Front end: the miniconsole menu -- interactive race setup (Workstream B)

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The in-game menu that replaces the operator console.  A GDI-painted
green-on-black terminal (RP412 RPL4FE pattern) in its own top-level
window, shown in front-end mode (no -egg/-net) before the mission:

- Catalogs as clickable columns: MAP (8), MECH (8), COLOR (8), TIME,
  WEATHER, LENGTH, plus a PILOT NAME edit box and a LAUNCH button.
  Selected item highlighted; click cycles selections.
- LAUNCH fills a BTFeMission from the selections, writes the egg
  (BTFeMission_WriteEgg -- the existing builder), and points the
  standard -egg load path at it.  Closing the menu quits the process.
- btl4main.cpp: front-end mode runs the menu; menu-close exits.

Verified end to end: no-args launch shows the menu; clicking LAUNCH
builds frontend.egg from the chosen map/mech/color/time/length and the
mission loads and runs (map=grass mech=bhk1 color=White time=day
length=300 from the default selections).

Remaining in Phase 5: the LocalConsole marshal (timed stop + results +
single-binary menu<->mission loop).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Cyd
2026-07-16 22:07:41 -05:00
co-authored by Claude Fable 5
parent 59c454ba6c
commit 4556187b5c
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@@ -393,10 +393,11 @@ int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine
//
// FRONT-END MODE (BT412 Phase 5): no egg and no network address on the
// command line means there is no operator console to hand us a mission.
// Build one locally -- the in-game front end assembles a mission egg from
// the default loadout and points the standard -egg load path at it. The
// interactive on-screen menu and the in-process marshal layer on top of
// this (docs/BT412-ROADMAP.md Phase 5). `-egg`/`-net` runs are untouched.
// Run the in-game miniconsole menu -- the player configures the race
// (map / mech / color / time / weather / length / pilot name) and clicks
// LAUNCH, which builds the mission egg locally and points the standard
// -egg load path at it. Closing the menu quits. `-egg`/`-net` runs skip
// the menu. (docs/BT412-ROADMAP.md Phase 5.)
//
{
const char *cmdline_egg = L4Application::GetEggNotationFileName();
@@ -404,13 +405,15 @@ int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine
const int no_net = (L4Application::GetNetworkCommonFlatAddress() == 0);
if (no_egg && no_net)
{
extern int BTFrontEnd_Run();
if (BTFrontEnd_Run())
std::cout << "[frontend] built frontend.egg from the default loadout"
<< std::endl << std::flush;
else
std::cout << "[frontend] egg build FAILED -- falling through"
<< std::endl << std::flush;
extern int BTFrontEnd_Run();
if (BTFrontEnd_Run())
std::cout << "[frontend] menu LAUNCH -> frontend.egg built"
<< std::endl << std::flush;
else
{
std::cout << "[frontend] menu closed -- exiting" << std::endl << std::flush;
return 0; // player quit from the setup menu
}
}
}