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List:       kde-announce
Subject:    ANNOUNCE: Kmahjongg-0.5
From:       Martin Konold <konold () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1999-11-16 18:20:11
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From: Stark Osvaldo <starko@dnet.it>

Hi

Preview of the new  Kmahjongg version 0.5  (    beta    ) sources

http://freeweb.dnet.it/kmj/index.html  ( Attention  !!!! is only a beta  .......) 


Regards

 
 
 
 
PS .  This is the change log for kmahjongg.
 
Personel
 David Black: Fold, spindle and mutilate 0.4.1 to 0.5.0 
 Osvaldo Stark: Tileset creator, doc guinepig and tester 0.5.0
 Robert Williams: Bug fixes 0.4.0 to 0.4.1
 Mathias Muller: Implementor of the original kmahjongg.
 

Version 0.4.1 to 0.5.0 (beta)
 
+ Took over sources from Mathias Muller.
+ Changed tileset highlighting which previousely used a swap of two
  fixed pallete colours, to a new tileset format where the designer 
  supplies the selected and unselected tile backgrounds.
+ Changed the main game engine to a 24 bit colour system. This removed
  the old problem where the tileset and background combined could
  only use a maximum of 128 colours. No limitations now exist. For
  low color depths the game screen is dithered.
+ converted the rendering method to use pixmaps and blitting.
+ added a tool bar for commonly used features.
+ Added a tileset load feature (Yeah!!).
+ Added preferences dialog
+ Added preference to disable shadow generation (after complaints
  about 3D visualisation.
+ Configuration and preferences now persist across sessions.
+ Tidied up transparency for tilesets. Now the top left colour of
  the background tile determines the transparency colour, not a
  fixed value of 0.
+ Added a hiscore system based on time taken, tiles removed and
  penalties for using _cheats_
+ Added a game timer to the tool bar.
+ added a hiscore dialog.
+ Added a pause mode for hiscore play (blanks the screen because lets face it
  people cheat).
+ Background images may be tiled or scalled. Saved as a preference
+ The main rendering functions are now independant of the tileset
  metric. In future this will allow for variable size tiles.
+ Added preview dialogs for load background, tileset and game board,
  now you can see what you will get.
+ Added a redo to compliment the undo.
+ Fixed up the menu system and added more accelerators.
+ Added a play with mini-tiles option. Not necessarily for everyone,
  but some people (well at least one, and thats me, so there) use
  kmahjongg on an 800x600 lcd laptop display. So this helps!
+ Added a show removed tiles option. This allows you to determine if
  it is safe to remove a pair etc. Nice aid to game play.
+ Moved the file selectors over to the kde style. This should
  allow urls to be supplied for tilesets, backgrounds and boards etc. In
  future I hope to maintain a web page with new tilesets and layout etc.
  Ultimately it would be nice to have a per-boardlayout internet hiscore
  table (mayhaps in version 0.6)
+ Started documenting how to design tilesets etc.
+ Fixed a few bugs and introduced many (probably)
+ Added an embryonic board editor this will require changes to the
  game generation code before it works.
 
Version original to 0.4.1
* [Robert Williams] New games now start at 10
* [Robert Williams] Added kapp->getHelpMenu()
* [Robert Williams] Added -caption "%c" to kmahjongg.kdelnk

 



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