bugs specific to Mac OS X Qt/tiles

Archived from groups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack (More info?)

I submitted these bugs against the Mac OS X Qt/tiles version 3.4.3.
As I suspected, and as the development team confirmed, these bugs
do not appear in other versions.

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Synopsis:

The spell-reordering dialog can spontaneously close.

Steps to reproduce (in any mode, not just wizard):

1) Start a character with at least two spells (e.g., a priest).
2) Press + to bring up the known-spells dialog.
3) Click spell 'a'.
4) Click spell 'b'.
5) The dialog closes.

Suggested behavior:

The dialog should work the same regardless of the order in which
you click spell pairs.

Notes:

If you click 'b' first, then 'a', the spells reorder and the
dialog stays open.

Testing with a larger number of spells, I find that if I
click an arbitrary spell, then click any spell listed lower
in the dialog, the dialog will close.

The behavior is identical if I select the spells with keys
instead of the mouse.

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Several of the key commands appear not to work, although their menu
equivalents do. In addition, the same key combination is assigned to
two different menu items. Here are the specifics:

Option-I is aliased to menu item 'Magic => Invoke'. But the key
combination does nothing.

Option-E is aliased to menu item 'Info => Qualifications'. But again,
the key combination does nothing.

Option-N is aliased to both 'Info => Name object' and
'Info => Name object type'. Option-N should be aliased to at most
one menu item. Regardless, the key combination does nothing.

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Synopsis:

When you press a non-existent Command-key combination, NetHack
suggests you pressed a Control-key combination instead.

Steps to reproduce:

1) Run NetHack, in any mode.
2) Press Command-M (a.k.a. Apple-M).
3) In the message window NetHack says "Unknown command '^M'."
even though you didn't press a Control-key combination.

Suggested fix:

The message should read either

Unknown command '%M'.

where % is the four-leaf-clover-looking symbol on the Mac's
command key, or

Unknown command 'Cmd-M'.

As the Mac keyboard does have a control key, you could also
rebind the Cmd- commands to be genuine Ctrl- commands -- then
the messages would be correct.

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Bobby Schmidt