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erkyrath / quixe

A Glulx VM interpreter written in Javascript
http://eblong.com/zarf/glulx/
MIT License
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Flexible Windows extension, background color ignored on one of two created windows #24

Closed BroadcastGames closed 7 years ago

BroadcastGames commented 7 years ago

On this generated gblorb, the command 'side window' should open two additional windows, of which the right-most should have a peach background color. This works correctly in Gargoyle, but not on Quixe 2.1.5. The other window (border window) does get correctly colored.

http://eblong.com/zarf/glulx/quixe/quixe/play-remote.html?story=https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.google.com%2Fuc%3Fexport%3Ddownload%26id%3D0B452Xi1yb0BTc0xXYzQtcFllOTQ&enter=Play+it%21

The Inform source code is here:

http://www.intfiction.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=20651&p=114090#p114040

Also of note, if you go "west" in the same demo - there is text that should have different foreground and background colors. This works in Gargyle but in Quixe the style changes are ignored.

curiousdannii commented 7 years ago

Background colours of text windows are implemented by setting background colour style hints, none of which aren't supported by Quixe. So this is essentially a duplicate of https://github.com/erkyrath/glkote/issues/5.

Using style hints to set the background colour of the whole window has always felt like a hack to me. Theoretically glk_window_set_background_color() could be extended to support setting the background colour of all windows, but that's a call for Zarf to make. The hack works currently, except for the Gnome IDE.