Implement a very basic attempt at message condensation: Store the most

recent message in prev_message and only output it when another non-matching 
message rolls in or the player gets a turn. Matching messages (must be
identical and issued in direct succession, like is the case with the
message history condensation) increase the counter, so you end up with 
messages like:

You feel sick.
The killer bee misses you. (x3)
The killer bee stings you.
The killer bee stings you but doesn't do any damage.
The killer bee misses you. (x5)

...instead of the 11 lines it would have been in total.

This behaviour is controlled by the same option as the condensation in the 
message history, msg_condense_repeats.

There's definitely room for improvement. At the moment the bracketed
information is written into the message itself, which will prevent
further merging in the message history, or, probably worse, cause ugly 
double-merging like "The killer bee misses you. (x3) (x2)".


git-svn-id: https://crawl-ref.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/crawl-ref/trunk@9262 c06c8d41-db1a-0410-9941-cceddc491573

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/view.cc b/crawl-ref/source/view.cc
index adf8159188..37886423ce 100644
--- a/crawl-ref/source/view.cc
+++ b/crawl-ref/source/view.cc
@@ -5085,6 +5085,8 @@ static void _debug_pane_bounds()
 //---------------------------------------------------------------
 void viewwindow(bool draw_it, bool do_updates)
 {
+    flush_prev_message();
+
 #ifdef USE_TILE
     std::vector<unsigned int> tileb(
         crawl_view.viewsz.y * crawl_view.viewsz.x * 2);