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[zkline]

Hi All,

So every so often I get the DF bug, try to play for a bit, and run into one access issue or another which gets in the way. To be fair, most of them are the fault of my screen reading software. It's getting to be that time again, but for now I'm focusing on adventure mode.

One fairly trivial change I'm wondering about is a way to position the Linux terminal cursor, not necessarily an in-game one as I understand the term, over the @ sign which represents my character. As it stands now, with Print_mode:Text, the cursor seems to hang out at a fairly arbitrary point. My screen reader unfortunately can't track the position of any given character as it changes, so I spend half the time chasing after my @, which isn't very fun.

This change would honestly make Adventure mode, at least, mostly tolerable, along with liberal use of the Look command. I'm not sure what could be done about Fortress Mode yet, but I'm sure I'll get back to asking about that kind of thing soon. Bonus points if the terminal cursor follows in-game cursors too, so the Look command can be tracked and so forth.

Thanks for any thoughts.

[lethosor]

I'm pretty sure this would be possible with DFHack, although figuring out where exactly the character is displayed on the screen could be a little trickier than actually moving the cursor.

[zkline]

I haven't tried messing with DFHack for a couple years, and was a bit lost even when I did. I'll have to download it and see if I can make anything of it.

Has anybody used it with Adventure mode before?

[lethosor]

I mean it would be possible to write a DFHack tool that moves the cursor around in PRINT_MODE:TEXT.
I've never actually tried playing with a screen reader myself, so I can't really offer much advice there. Unless you're asking if DFHack works in adventure mode, which it does (although there are fewer tools available for adventure mode).

[zkline]

Sorry for the confusion I was asking if DF Hack works in adventure mode. I'm glad to know it does. The screen reader issue is mostly separate, and I think I'll have to figure that part out one way or another.

[TheBiggerFish]

I'm going to swing by and PTW this while I'm here.