Button banks
The exploded diagnostic view was still display-only - it predates the
button work - so it now builds the same banks as the cockpit, with
the pod arrangement laid out from the panes measured sizes rather
than a hardcoded 640/480 grid (the banks make each window bigger than
its glass, and the bottom row hung off the work area otherwise).
The map side columns were spread height/6 from the top, but the maps
own legend grid is not sixths: measured off the bitmap it starts 13
rows down with six 102-tall cells on a 105 pitch. Every button sat
high of its label, worst at the bottom. Each buttons top and bottom
now come off that grid separately and are subtracted - scaling a
height directly would let rounding drift them back out of step on a
resized cockpit.
Depth 100 to 240: against the 480 glass the two banks meet in the
middle bar the strips, so practically the whole display is a press
target. This mattered most in the cockpit, where the panes are small
enough that the halfway clamp governs - at 100 the MFDs had a 110px
dead band straight through the middle of the glass.
-fit (also spelled -windowed-fullscreen)
Borderless over the whole monitor, with the render size chosen to
match. The cockpit presents the 3D into a viewscreen that fills its
canvas, so the right -res is that canvas at the scale the cockpit
will settle on; computing it with identical arithmetic makes the
stretch a copy. On the 3440x1440 panel that is 133% and -res 2553
1436, against 125% for the windowed path that pays for the taskbar.
The pick runs after the whole command line, so an explicit -res wins
from either side of -fit. Capped at 3840x2160. Cockpit mode only -
mode 0 has to stay playable on real pod hardware and mode 2 is a dev
view - so those get the resolution and keep their windows.
Display layout, in environ.ini
L4MFDSCALE sizes all five MFDs, L4MFDSCALE_UL and friends override
any one of them, L4RADARSCALE the radar, and L4RADARPOS puts the
radar bottom centre, in either bottom corner, or halfway up either
side. Scaling is applied in canvas units before the canvas is fitted
to the window, so a number means the same thing on every monitor.
Sizing each display separately let the clamps become exact rather
than one conservative rule for all five: what limits a display is its
actual neighbour. Which neighbour that is depends on the radar, so
the clamps follow it - on the bottom edge it clears the one MFD above
its column, but centred on a side it has one above AND below and
grows from the middle both ways, so it must clear the taller twice
over. Clamping shrinks uniformly; these are photographs of real
instruments and a one-axis clamp would squash them.
Verified on the ultrawide: all five radar positions, per-display and
group scaling with the clamps biting, -fit with and without an explicit
-res, and the button geometry measured back off the screen.
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Full input-surface audit of the PC keyboard channel. The arcade abort
was the typed ampersand character (0x26), but the Win32 port feeds
WM_KEYUP VIRTUAL-KEY codes into the same channel - and VK_UP is also
0x26. The hat look-up key aborted the mission: that was every mystery
abort across the multiplayer test rounds. Likewise the E key (0x45,
the right pedal!) dumped the event queue on every release.
Disarmed: plain 0x26 and E are swallowed at the L4 layer; the abort
answers only to the deliberate Alt+Q chord (translated to the legacy
engine code, so APP.cpp is untouched); the debug toggles (wireframe
Alt+W, predator vision Alt+V, frame dump Alt+F, perf stats, event
queue on Alt+E now) arm only with RP412DEVKEYS=1. The cheat-string
manager has no PC-keyboard strings and the trace-log keys are
compiled out of release - both inert.
Verified live: a volley of VK_UP releases mid-race leaves the mission
running; Alt+Q aborts on demand. Docs and the dist README updated.
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The Express editions of Visual C++ ship without ATL. The only ATL usage was
in MUNGA_L4/L4APP.cpp (atlbase.h/atlconv.h + USES_CONVERSION/W2A macros, all
in that one file) for wide-to-ANSI conversion of command-line arguments.
- Replace the ATL includes with a self-contained L4WideToAnsi helper (a
WideCharToMultiByte wrapper) and local USES_CONVERSION/W2A macros that
reproduce ATL's W2A semantics. All call sites consume the result immediately
(stricmp / CString assignment / atoi / atol), so behaviour is unchanged.
- Set UseOfATL="0" in Munga_L4.vcproj, RP_L4.vcproj and their VS2008 variants.
- Document the Express build path and the confirmed June 2010 DirectX SDK in
BUILD.md (new section 6) and docs/BUILD-NOTES.md.
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Imports the current Win32 source for the pod-racing game 'Red Planet',
built on the MUNGA engine and its L4 (Win32/DirectX) platform layer:
- MUNGA / MUNGA_L4: cross-platform engine core and Win32 backend
- RP / RP_L4: Red Planet game logic and Win32 application
- DivLoader, Setup1: asset loader and installer project
- lib, MUNGA_L4/openal, MUNGA_L4/sos: third-party audio dependencies
Removed stale Subversion metadata and added .gitignore/.gitattributes.
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