AUTOTYPE performs scripted keyboard entry into the running
DOS program.
It can be used to reliably skip intros, answer Q&A style questions
that some games ask on startup, or conduct a simple demo.
It allows for delaying input by any number of fractional seconds,
as well defining the pacing between keystrokes. It uses the
comma character "," to insert additional delays similar to modern
phone numbers.
It uses key_* names as defined by the mapper to avoid using SDL
scancodes[1], which are unstable across platforms. This approach
also allows the triggering of custom key bindings the use has
defined.
[1] https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_GetScancodeName
"Warning: The returned name is by design not stable across
platforms, e.g. the name for SDL_SCANCODE_LGUI is "Left GUI" under
Linux but "Left Windows" under Microsoft Windows, and some
scancodes like SDL_SCANCODE_NONUSBACKSLASH don't have any name at
all. There are even scancodes that share names, e.g.
SDL_SCANCODE_RETURN and SDL_SCANCODE_RETURN2 (both called
"Return"). This function is therefore unsuitable for creating a
stable cross-platform two-way mapping between strings and
scancodes."
This allows us to show a warning to the user if the .conf file includes
a property that is no longer supported, or a property that is completely
unknown. Actual handling of the property can still be implemented
(e.g. to use as a fallback for modern replacement), but doesn't need
to be.
In an earlier change, I removed appending newline outside of batch mode
in DOS shell code - that made DOSBox behave less like MS-DOS and more
like modern shells, that do not try to compensate for buggy
applications.
However, we should recognize that DOSBox (unlike e.g. FreeDOS) is designed
to run legacy applications, which might make assumptions about DOS
implementation. Some examples:
- PC Player Benchmark assumes, that help commands are displayed exactly
at 80x25 terminal and formats the output to fill the whole screen
(scrolling past DOS4GW messages).
- Quake and other ID games print shareware information on exit, but do
it via a direct memory dump (not interrupts to print DOS text), and
follow up with setting cursor exactly at line 22 (which is partly
written already), expecting shell to inject newline.
- PCC Compiler prints status message on exit without newline, depending
on MS-DOS shell behaviour.
- TEXTUTIL set of external commands do not print nothing to standard
output, and are designed to clear the screen, therefore writing a
newline after .COM commands would be a mistake.
Therefore we want to inject this newline, but not in every case.
New implementation reuses a static variable used by Program base class
(for purpose of translating UNIX newlines to DOS newlines) for detection
if it's appropriate to inject an additional newline or not.
Injecting the newline happens in function displaying the DOS prompt (so
we don't need to write additonal logic for separately handling batch
mode). When starting a non-COM, non-internal command the static variable
is set to the state indicating that next DOS prompt should inject the
newline.
Fixes: #208
First parameter to function 'strchr' is marked a nonnull. If null is
passed as args there's no point in looking for flags. This function is
always used in the beginning of all internal macros through HELP macro
to detect /? flag.
Crash happened due to mismatch between internationalization string and
parameters passed to WriteOut.
Also, print newline after output if no error occured.
There's no point in hardcoding these values - they can be different to
every user (it depends on hardware, OS, SDL version, etc).
Also, future versions of SDL might introduce more renderers, so this way
the code is more future-proof.
Otherwise users might easily miss, that this option is supposed to work
only for 'texture' output.
Also, do slight adjustments to formatting in generated .conf file.
Cleanup before replacing SDL1.2 with SDL2.
OS/2 support was introduced in DOSBox in March 2006. OS/2 reached EOL
in December 2006.
As of 2019, OS/2 is being continued by proprietary 32-bit only ArcaOS,
although there is no official SDL2 support, despite pledges from SDL2
maintainers.
Issue reported by Dagar and Pr3tty F1y, and confirmed as a bug by ripsaw8080.
Thank you!
This fixes the GoG release of Betrayal at Krondor which (either due to CD mastering
issues or a faulty rip), requests playback of a given track at the tail end
of the prior track.
In debugging and performing this fix, many debug messages were improved as well
as making some small small code adjustments, such as using iterators to point to
individual tracks (track->attribute) instead of using the tracks array
(tracks[track -1].attribute).
Use this to add an optional parameter to sensitivity which controls the y axis. When optional parameter is missing, x and y axis have the same value.
Change limits on sensitivity to allow for negative values so the Mouse Y-axis can be inversed. Similar to patch #276.
Imported-from: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/dosbox/code-0/dosbox/trunk@4197
