How-to select and copy textmsg in SDL-version of game?

vivat · 2017-09-28T05:37:57.000Z

Hi!
when i run FAR cammander - i can select part of the screen by the edit-select(and after select) but in the CDDA i can not - there’s no such option in the menu in the head of the screen. maybe there is third-side program which CAN do copy of the text screen in the SDL text programs?

thanks.

PlasmaChroma · 2017-09-28T11:45:05.000Z

Simple answer, you likely can’t do this easily.

In SDL version what you are getting on screen is image content, the glyphs are cached and later output to SDL_Rect.

To be able to copy from the window you’d have to do some kind of raw capture + OCR to get it back to pure text.

_k1 · 2017-09-28T13:51:39.000Z

Is it possible when you select ascii in tiles build?

vivat · 2017-09-28T15:59:13.000Z

http://dev.narc.ro/cataclysm/jenkins-latest/Windows_x64/Tiles/ - it is a SDL version?
curses version can get me option to copy from the screen?

i2amroy · 2017-09-28T17:24:16.000Z

I believe so yeah. Tiles == SDL, ASCII == Curses.