There are rectangle areas dividing screen in parts and update each of them when their flag is set. At least with software mode of SDL this is a good idea, because it certainly does speed up the game compared to full screen update. Besides not only updates, the background graphics are also re-drawn when something happens in that area.
I've been refactoring those areas, because I needed to change message output to 5 lines and scrolling mode. The ancient nature of GUI was revealed when I noticed that almost all actual output to those areas were hard wired with another set of coordinates. So.. this is how it looks now:
Those purple dotted lines show the areas as debug method to actually see where they are. I already fixed the small map, but as you can see the gameview is in wrong place and stats also (and some areas itself), displaying only the last line: Water. This is a minor fix however. From now on the content coordinates are retrieved from the area data only and in future I can easily change the locations of areas if needed. One possible option I can think of already is switching the places of location (bottom line) and messages.
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