When statically linked, this makes about 8000 variants.
This change takes only engines and games present in a domain into
account. This speeds up loading time on slower backends quite
noticeably.
We don't support running the game directly from it, since doing
so would bypass the need for the original game. But at least
this way, it will be recognised, and users will be given an
informative message of why the game won't run.
[Based on Director in a Nutshell, page 15]
The following properties of a sprite are auto-puppeted whenever
the property is set: backColor, blend, editable, foreColor, height,
ink, loc, locH, locV, member, moveable, rect and width. Auto-puppeting
of individual properties has no effect on the puppet of sprite property
['Lingo Dictionary' 601 Fixes]
Sprites now have a duration as specified in the (new) score view.
When lingo modifies any of the sprite properties that property
will be auto-puppeted, i.e. the value set will stick for the
duration of that sprite despite any values recorded in the score.
This can cause existing lingo which relied on setting the property
of a sprite without the use of 'puppet' to behave differently.
Calling 'puppetSprite spriteNumber, FALSE' will also clear any
currently auto-puppeted properties.
In original engine it is possible to set non-puppted sprite properties
like position, backcolor etc and then call updatestage to update the
screen according to property. This is undocumented behaviour
which is not present depicted in any books however with rigorous testing
it is found to be true. This change only persist for the current frame
and once the playback head is moving the change is lost.
`ATD\HD\bdDREAMA.DXR` of 'totaldistortion' used some of this quirk to
display moving bullets.
In 6e47994fc793f122768565185b1d6c6052aca2d9, openResFile was changed
to use the new `openArchive` method. However, that method tries to
treat the file as a Director archive and it may not be. This broke,
for example, loading external cursors via `openResFile`. This reverts
to the previous behaviour.
This gives an option for creating a project where the event
handling is centralized in a single processing loop, and is
then dispatched to 'views' that contain the game logic.
Like the original skeleton engine, the created events-based
engine contains a single default view showing a palette cycle.
This figure is supposed to be the highest member ID for a cast member in
the current movie, not the actual count of cast members.
In addition, Lingo only throws an error when querying cast member IDs that
are higher than this figure. If the member ID is lower and the cast
member doesn't exist, "the" queries return a VOID.
Fixes the verify cast table check in Star Trek TNG Episode Guide.
Make DirectorEngine::_allOpenResFiles the de-facto owner of Archive *
objects, move all of the various loadEXE/loadMac methods off Window and
onto DirectorEngine, and replace inline Archive loading with
openArchive().
