232 Release Notes

• Fixed: The "\t" tab character now prints four spaces instead of one. If you were hoping for multi-column tables to line up by using tab stops, this won't help. However, if we add support for HTML tables, that would be a better alternative anyway. (Zilal)

• Fixed: Dream Maker icon files initially created with a ".bmp" extension were being saved as ".dmi" types.

• Fixed: The bottom line of the output window was always scrolling before use. (Zilal wanted more space, so credit goes there)

• Fixed: Escaped characters (newline, backslash, quote, tab) now display properly in the message dialog. (Deadron)

• Fixed: The stat panels now display the panel name as written, rather than with a capitalized first letter. (Deadron)

• Fixed: When the "popup arguments on <return>" configuration is set the default behavior now), null arguments on the command line are no longer prompted.

• Added the "\icon" text macro. This is an embedded expression modifier, causing the following expression to be rendered as an icon rather than as text. You use it like this:

  usr << "You look like this: \icon[usr]!"

  In case you are curious, that's short for:

  usr << "You look like this: <IMG CLASS=icon SRC=\ref[usr.icon] ICONSTATE=[usr.icon_state]>!"

  (The "\ref" macro prints out an internal id number corresponding to a data object, but hopefully you won't ever have to use it.)

  What can this be used for? How about an illustrated chat world that shows icons of players next to their outputted text? And since icons can be links (embedded between two \link() tags, you can even make clickable "characters"! The possibilities are numerous.

• Added style sheet "height" and "width" attributes for images. The default size for displaying icons in the text terminal is 16x16, which is accomplished by the following rule in the default style sheet:

  IMG.icon {width: 16px; height: 16px}

  You could get 32x32 icons by overriding this rule, replacing 16 by 32.

• Added world.view. This controls the size of the client map viewport. It also serves as the default value for the depth argument in view() and oview(). The default value is 5 and the maximum value is 10. The size of the viewport is (world.view*2 + 1), so the default is 11x11 and the maximum is 21x21. Dream Seeker may scale icons down in order to conveniently fit the map viewport on the screen. Currently, there is no way for the designer to control this behavior.

• Dream Seeker now supports three modes of icons: big (32x32), small (16x16), and text (16x16). The world makes the initial decision as to which format to use based on the view() size and icon availability. Views 0 to 5 will default to big icons, while those 6 to 10 will default to small icons, with both types using text icons when icons are not defined in the world.