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Faux United Kingdom (77 posts)

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Tue 26 Apr 2005 03:04 AM (UTC)

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I just thought I'd post my experiences of running MUSHclient on linux, under Wine.

Linux: Kubuntu 2.6.10-5-386.
Wine: 20050310.
MUSHclient: 3.65.

It works, pretty well.. go Wine people.

It works far better than in the screenshots in another thread, either Kubuntu provides, or wine is more intellegent at picking, sensible fonts. There are still a few visual corruptions, but in general, the interface looks a lot better.

The /wine switch appears to make absolutely no difference.

The only thing that's noticably (irritably) broken is scrolling. When incomming text moves stuff up the screen it's fine, but when Is croll with either the mouse wheel or the scroll-bar, the window becomes majorly garbled (outside of the lines that are been drawn). At a guess, wine isn't clearing the whole line as the new text is being drawn.
I know that making MUSH run under linux isn't your primary concern (as it shouldn't be), but would it be easy to make mush clear the entire line before it draws the text (if only with /wine.. I guess it doesn't because a) it's not necessary and b) it's not optimal, speed-wise)?
I can do some screenshots if that'd help my rubish explanation :)

As an aside, I'd recommend kubuntu for playing around with linux. Not sure what the live-cd is like, though.. if you have an old hard-disk, it's well worth playing with.

Faux.

Faux, from Discworld. Feel free to come talk to me =)

http://faux.servebeer.com/

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Posted by

Shadowfyr USA (1,786 posts)

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Reply #1 on Tue 26 Apr 2005 03:54 AM (UTC)

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The /wine switch was intended to only disable the script system. Since then.. It think WINE now does allow scripting to work right in many cases, where before it wouldn't. Leaving it off only matter if you a) don't have an ActiveScript version of something installed under WINE *and* b) you enable scripting and try to use it.

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Posted by

Nick Gammon Australia (22,975 posts)

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Reply #2 on Sat 20 Aug 2005 12:03 AM (UTC)

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Clearing the window before drawing would make it flicker horribly. It would drive most people mad. The way most GUI interfaces work is that the program "invalidates" the part of the screen that needs redrawing, and then redraws the entire window (possibly optimizing out lines it knows don't actually need drawing). However the actual drawing is clipped to the invalidated region. I haven't had a problem with scrolling and Wine, so I suspect that updating the Wine version may fix it for you.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

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