Make a database to store hints mode messages.

This commit adds only a few, transferring the text will be a lot of work.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/database.cc b/crawl-ref/source/database.cc
index ad0e2c6ea6..0b7451f806 100644
--- a/crawl-ref/source/database.cc
+++ b/crawl-ref/source/database.cc
@@ -132,6 +132,10 @@ static TextDB AllDBs[] =
     TextDB("FAQ", "database/",
             "FAQ.txt",      // database for Frequently Asked Questions
             NULL),
+
+    TextDB("hints", "descript/",
+            "hints.txt",    // hints mode
+            NULL),
 };
 
 static TextDB& DescriptionDB = AllDBs[0];
@@ -143,6 +147,7 @@ static TextDB& MiscDB        = AllDBs[5];
 static TextDB& QuotesDB      = AllDBs[6];
 static TextDB& HelpDB        = AllDBs[7];
 static TextDB& FAQDB         = AllDBs[8];
+static TextDB& HintsDB       = AllDBs[9];
 
 static std::string _db_cache_path(std::string db, const char *lang)
 {
@@ -896,3 +901,11 @@ std::string getMiscString(const std::string &misc,
 
     return txt;
 }
+
+/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+// Hints DB specific functions.
+
+std::string getHintString(const std::string &key)
+{
+    return unwrap_desc(_query_database(HintsDB, key, true, true));
+}