Prior to this, create_project always set USE_TEXT_CONSOLE_FOR_DEBUGGER on Xcode.
This was hard-coded behavior that I should have removed when I added configuring
this feature on the command line in 8c32927f39
Now it's disabled by default and can be enabled by --enable-text-console, just
like the other projects.
Apparently in some builds the gScummVMVersion still contains the revision number (contrary to the comment in base/version.h, actually). I normally don't notice that, since it doesn't happen in my own builds. The long strings will break text fields that can't have strings of that length.
I'll now just generate my own version from gScummVMVersion, so I do get the desired (short) layout.
This is similar to what we recently fixed for the saving. It does concern only the loading from the SCI menu and from the SCI death dialog (that's how it got my attention).
I have written a long comment in SciMusic::resetGlobalPauseCounter() which explains it.
I have decided to make this very obvious (you could say: more ugly), so it won't cause confusion in the future. Of course, it could be just hidden somewhere deep in SciMusic::saveLoadWithSerializer() and noone would ever notice. But the "ugly" way seemed the safer thing to do...
The lab cutscene where Purple Tentacle is bullying Sandy would hang
when Dr Fred is done talking, in the official French version.
This appears to be related to this VAR_CHARCOUNT check in script no. 155:
[0085] (14) print(9,"{{Dr Fred's reaction line, shorter in French}}");
[00DA] (80) breakHere();
[00DB] (44) unless (VAR_CHARCOUNT > 90) goto 00DA;
Usually, French sentences are a bit longer than English sentences, but
in this case, it's shorter, but yet the script didn't adjust the 90
value, so it would indefinitely loop, causing the scene to hang (until
the player presses the Esc key) and Sandy's reaction to be lost.
So we just pad this string with extra spaces if its length looks too
short for the default VAR_CHARCOUNT check. This should also remain
harmless if the string *is* long enough, or if a translation did fix
the VAR_CHARCOUNT check.
Still, we only restrict this workaround to the French version for now,
since we're not aware of a similar problem with other translations.
ScummVM-Translations
sluicebox
athrxx
Filippos Karapetis
neuromancer
AndywinXp
Donovan Watteau
Paul Gilbert
Eugene Sandulenko
VAN-Gluon
Stian Schultz
Purple T
Hubert Maier
Walter Agazzi