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[Mike Mayday]

So for clarification, I'm creating my PNG graphics under Windows XP on a PC. I assume there are some compatibility problems between a Mac and a Windows PC regarding the PNG format?

[bombcar]

I doubt that's the problem, but it's possible.

If you run the PNG through something like a Linux PNG program or Preview.app does it change? I'll try experimenting with it.

[bombcar]

It seems to be working for me, though the background colors get left behind:



As a side note, the colors mentioned in the DIY DFG are no longer in init.txt but in colors.txt.

[illiterate]

This is strange...  Over puTTY from localhost, the formatting looks right, and I can resize the terminal and things are ok.

puTTY from my windows 7 box the lines end up being really askew.  I can't seem to set the right width to get reasonable display.  Is this a difference in the behavior of the clients? 

[bombcar]

Check your fonts. You must use a fixed width font, or it won't look good at all.

You may be able to adjust the inter-character spacing to make it look better.

[bombcar]

Mike; your tileset is working fine for me on 40d18 on 10.6.2 for over an hour; I pierced an aquifer and the only issue  I've seen is your decision to make the unmined dirt brown.

[bombcar]

For anyone who can't get it to work, I've uploaded a copy of DFG+Mac 18 here:

http://schnecke.bombcar.com/random/dfg_osx.tar.bz2

Anyone can rehost if they want.

[brainfire]

FYI, bombcar, 5/7 of the posts on this page are from you... (before my post)

I'm getting the same weird background thing in OS 10.5. It works fine with a png I made a couple versions ago. It seems to be a transparency thing- my PNG uses magic pink for transparent, and the DFG one has an actual transparent thing.

If I open mayday.png and tell the GIMP to "remove alpha channel" then it works fine.

[CobaltKobold]

So for clarification, I'm creating my PNG graphics under Windows XP on a PC. I assume there are some compatibility problems between a Mac and a Windows PC regarding the PNG format?

so long as you're not using something like MSPaint.

Judging by the prior post, you're using MSPaint. It's a piece of junk. Saves you an alpha channel if you save as PNG, causing the pink to be interpreted as FG color.

[brainfire]

There's no actual pink in the DFG PNG. It's correctly got a transparent background but DF isn't interpreting it right.

also, dfgpngdfgpngdfgpng

[CobaltKobold]

it's just completely ignoring the BGcolor then?

[bombcar]

I tried removing the alpha channel with Preview.app and Paintbrush.app and both made it worse if anything.

I've updated my download to incorporate a Dwarf Fortress.app folder and a pretty icon from here which uses art from Mike! The circle is complete.

If you want to, Baughn, you can use the details here to build the Mac OS X version; or I can write a "build" script for you that will package it up this way.

In theory, with a bit of work from Toady, the whole thing could be stuck in the Dwarf Fortress.app bundle, but that's probably not worth it.

Here's an example of weirdness from the movie:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[bombcar]

New minor issue. I created a Zoom location, F2, and hit n to change the name. I made a mistake typing the name, and hit backspace. Instead of deleting the previous character, it turned it into a little home plate symbol.

[quinnr]

Macs and Linux are far superiour to PC's though.

Ok, for the triple price. 

[/quote]

Agree'd. That's why I don't have a mac. Linux is still better

Back ontopic now, I promise.

[zkline]

Hi all,
I was very happy to read about the new text mode incorporated into 40D18.
Being blind, I've wanted to play DF for quite a while now.  The text mode makes it possible for my ordinary Linux screen reader to at least make an attempt at parsing things.
I'm pleased to report that for the most part, I can read what I need to.  Embarking is possible, and the skills screen reads quite well.
The area I run into trouble is the maps.  I share the problem reported by several others here: my screen is overrun with M's and other nonsensicle characters.  I have a locale set for UTF-8, so theoretically this shouldn't be happening.
I believe, and I could be barking up the wrong tree here, that DF in curses mode is emitting characters in CP437 encoding.  This isn't typically used on Linux systems, but I figured out that if I changed the locale and font maps, the display's content changes radically.  From what a sighted friend tells me, it's much closer to what the screen should look like in the traditional OpenGL version.
So I'm a bit confused.  I'd hope whatever the problem is could be corrected, as I'd dearly love to have a slight chance of actually being able to play this game.
I realize even with the new text mode the chances of my actually being able to get anything meaningful out of the game are minimal, but I can dream, can't I?
Any advice or information would be greatly appreciated.
All the best,
Zack.