https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/f7154ef1336296e8ec07c643
Modified Files:
src/doors/syncconquer/PROVENANCE.md src/doors/syncconquer/door/door_io.c src/doors/syncconquer/vanilla/redalert/egos.cpp init.cpp menus.cpp options.cpp scroll.cpp sounddlg.cpp startup.cpp
Log Message:
syncalert: live-test fixes -- UI polish, portable INI, volume persistence

A batch of fixes from SyncTERM live testing, spanning the door's own code
and small tracked patches to the vendored engine (PROVENANCE #15-20).

UI polish:
- Stats overlay (Ctrl-S) now erases to end of line before its SGR reset, so
a shorter readout can't leave the previous longer line's tail on screen;
the bottom row renders as a clean full-width bar (door_io.c).
- Mouse edge-scroll: widened RA's literal 1-pixel scroll border to a small
band (scroll.cpp). Over a terminal the pointer is cell-quantized and can't
land on the exact edge pixel -- especially the top/left, which the door
can't snap to 0 without breaking menu-button clicks -- so edge-scroll was
nearly unusable. No click coordinate moves, so menus are unaffected.
- Sound Controls music slider now tracks changes made from outside the
dialog (the +/- hotkeys) without fighting the mouse: it re-syncs only when
ScoreVolume itself changes, never overriding the gauge from its own value
(sounddlg.cpp).

Portable per-user INI (door_io.c):
- The per-user REDALERT.INI is shared across hosts, so it must not carry
host-specific absolute paths. UserPath is now dropped entirely (the argv[0]
rewrite already makes the engine derive it), and DataPath is written
relative to the per-user home via a new door_relpath() helper. Stale
absolute keys a previous build wrote are actively removed.

Music-volume persistence and behavior:
- Root cause of "settings never persist": on exit RA re-saved the config from
the INIClass it loaded at startup, and INIClass::Load() merges rather than
replaces, so the reload kept the startup snapshot and clobbered whatever the
game wrote during play. Fixed by using a fresh INIClass for the exit save
(startup.cpp).
- Save_Settings now always writes ScoreVolume (was gated to GAME_NORMAL under
FIXIT_VERSION_3), and the +/- hotkey persists via Save_Settings, guarded at
the rails (options.cpp).
- Muting is respected everywhere: removed the force-to-0.4-when-muted override
on the title screen and credits scroll (menus.cpp, egos.cpp), and stopped a
Skirmish/MP game from overwriting the user's volume with the separate
MultiScoreVolume -- the single music-volume setting is now authoritative
(init.cpp).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/fc45ba2c317afdcd90e159db
Modified Files:
src/doors/syncconquer/PROVENANCE.md src/doors/syncconquer/door/door_io.c src/doors/syncconquer/vanilla/redalert/conquer.cpp src/doors/syncconquer/vanilla/tiberiandawn/conquer.cpp xtrn/syncalert/syncalert.example.ini xtrn/syncdawn/syncdawn.example.ini
Log Message:
syncconquer: auto-skip FMV cutscenes when the client has no audio

With "[game] movies" left at its default, a cutscene now plays only when
the client can actually play audio (termgfx_audio_tier == 1, i.e. SyncTERM
with a working decoder); on a terminal with no usable audio it is skipped.
A silent FMV is a poor experience and one of the heaviest things the door
sends over a terminal, so playing it there is a bad trade.

The setting is now tri-state:
movies = true -> always play
movies = false -> never play
absent (default)-> auto: play only if the client has audio

The decision is made at play time, from each engine's Play_Movie(), via a
new extern "C" door_movies_suppressed() in door_io.c -- not at startup
where -NOMOVIES is set. The audio capability only resolves a few client round-trips into the session (async), but a cutscene doesn't play until
after asset loading, well after the tier is known.

Side effect: a latent bug fixed. Tiberian Dawn never read bNoMovies (an
RA-only global), so "[game] movies = false" was a no-op for syncdawn; the shared play-time gate now honors it for both titles.

Plumbing: the <door>.ini path resolution is factored into door_ini_path(),
and door_config_tristate() distinguishes an absent key from an explicit true/false (validated against xpdev iniReadBool). Documented in the sample syncalert.example.ini / syncdawn.example.ini; engine seam is PROVENANCE #36.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/463b95ce485c232db95835b1
Modified Files:
src/doors/syncconquer/PROVENANCE.md src/doors/syncconquer/door/door_io.c src/doors/syncconquer/vanilla/tiberiandawn/audio.cpp xtrn/syncdawn/syncdawn.example.ini
Log Message:
syncdawn: caption the EVA voice announcements on-screen (accessibility)

The spoken EVA callouts -- "construction complete", "unit ready", "our base
is under attack", "insufficient funds", and so on -- are audio-only in stock C&C, so a deaf player or anyone on a no-audio terminal gets nothing. They all funnel through a single Speak(VoxType, ...), and the game already has an on-screen message list, so captioning them is self-contained: a VoxCaption[VOX_COUNT] table (aligned to the existing Speech[] table) plus a Messages.Add_Message() in Speak(), deduped by voice.

Gated by <door>.ini "[game] captions" (new door_captions_enabled() in door_io.c): true = always, false = never, absent/auto = on only when the
client has no usable audio -- the accessibility complement to the movie audio-gate. Documented in syncdawn.example.ini; engine seam is PROVENANCE #39.

TD only for now; RA's VoxType list is larger/different and gets its own table as a follow-up.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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