Console improvements

• Unused console backgrounds no longer take up memory
• Input cursor can now move left and right
• Support for selections (Shift-arrow keys, CTRL-A, etc)
• Clipboard support (CTRL-C to copy, CTRL-V to paste, CTRL-X to cut)
• Fixed handling of simultaneous modifier key presses

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3518218/21/console.gif

None of this affects chat yet, that's not part of the console. I'll look at it later.

Hold on, does this mean you have to use Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End for the oldest/newest text in buffer now, instead of just Home/End?

EDIT: wait nevermind, I take it that was to do with the changes LJSonic made that were merged in master/next.

Added 1 new commit:

• 55400a26 - go fuck yourself stupid compiler

This is the only thing I'm particularily confused about. Why $? Usually I've seen that used for environment variables, not a beckoning command prompt. Or is this just an obvious way to convey that future versions of the game have an improved console?

It's mainly meant to show that there is a difference, yes.

I'm guessing you haven't seen a command prompt on a Unix system? (Or anything running the BASH shell.) '$' is the default prompt character there, so it's not exactly a character I picked wildly out of the aether, either.

Ah, I LITERALLY just watched a lecture on Bash for university. All is understood.

Tested this out for myself, all works fine

tested, very nice, not sure why you put cyan AFTER blue instead of before (considering the ordering of the colours - cyan is between green and blue) but not really much of an issue and this'll probably need to be fiddled with for internal so that there can be a royal purple console which i'll probably use all the time jsyk

mentioned in commit 2569a1ed

Status changed to merged

OpenGL incorrectly assumes it's rendering at 320x200 all the time, despite the game knowing the resolution it's actually set to, resulting in the selection highlight being offset more and more at higher resolutions, especially if con_height is set to something really high.

As you can imagine, this can be a big annoyance for people who play in OpenGL mode at resolutions larger than 320x200. Image example, although only with a small con_height: http://imgur.com/DmbKcvw

But other than that, these console upgrades are pretty amazing, especially if you make a typo halfway through a command name. Nice work.