Entry 237

Escape asks before quitting

2026-09-27ui

Filescrates/piney-game/src/quit.rscrates/piney-game/src/main.rscrates/piney-game/src/mode.rscrates/piney-game/src/session.rscrates/piney-desktop/src/dtmenu.rs

Asked for from play: Escape closed the window at once. It should ask first, in the game's own confirmation window.

The window

The window is the desktop menu's own (ccDtMenu), which the port already has as piney_desktop::dtmenu::DtMenu. Its Reset (menu 6) is the game's "are you sure" dialog:

• the information window (xwindow's art, the ef12x20 font);
• an OK / Cancel list with the hand cursor, Cancel first;
• the menu's sounds.

DtMenu::open_quit opens that menu on its own with the port's lines instead of resetMenuInfo:

• "#YQuit#W and close the game."
• "#YData not saved will be lost.#W"

These are QUIT_INFO, marked as the port's text. OK sets quit_ok instead of going on to the game's second question, and closed() tells when the menu has shut. Nothing else in DtMenu changes; the desktop's own instance never opens it.

The app

piney_game::quit::QuitPrompt owns its own DtMenu. It is drawn from the archive's window texture and the console's fonts, so it works in every mode: title, desktop, top page, town, field, dungeon, streams.

• Escape. Escape opens the prompt; Escape again closes it. If there are no fonts to draw with, Escape quits as before.
• The game waits. The first frame steps the game once on a neutral pad, and that picture is kept, without its uploads. After that the game is not stepped. Each frame draws the kept picture with the window over it, and only the sound driver runs on.
• The pad. The window reads the live pad through the save's OK and Cancel buttons (Mode::save_copy: the mode's save, or on the title its demo's). Without a save it uses ccSaveData::Init's Cross and Circle. Enter (START on the keyboard) also counts as OK.
• The answer. OK ends the event loop after that frame. Cancel waits for the window to close, then the game goes on.

--quit N opens the prompt at frame N of a --shot, and prints its answer each frame. In Mac Anu:

• Up then Cross quits.
• Cross on Cancel goes back.
• START on Cancel goes back.

The window sits in the middle of the town, over the paused game.