256 Release Notes

• Fixed: Sounds were carrying over from one world to the next. (Guy T.)

• Fixed: Certain font sizes weren't being set appropriately in Dream Seeker.

• Fixed: text2file() was not creating the path to the file when necessary.

• Fixed: references to objects from lists were not being correctly purged when the object was deleted. (Deadron)

• Fixed: #define macros that took arguments were broken.

• Fixed: Worlds with only hidden verbs were still displaying an empty "info" panel.'

• Fixed: if two running processes (like two Dream Seekers) were writing to the same .rsc file, there was a possibility of them overwriting each other and maybe even corrupting the end of the file, making it impossible to download any new resources until byond.rsc file was removed.

• Fixed: auto-detected URLs in text output were getting truncated prematurely on certain special characters (like ~ ; & or ? ).

• Fixed: image() was not always accurately reflecting the direction of the source object. Same goes for addition to the overlay list. (Deadron)

• Fixed: Dream Seeker should handle failed connections and hangups much more gracefully now. When online, the connection status will be output to the status bar.

• Fixed: In the past, network messages on Dream Seeker could queue up, occassionally producing temporary freezes on the client (where even the menus & buttons were inaccessible). Hopefully this won't happen anymore.

• Fixed: Unrecognized keys in the friends list are now automatically removed. (Guy T., Gazoot, Zilal)

• Fixed: Dream Seeker wasn't always outputting and scrolling text output properly after the 300 line text buffer was full. (Zilal)

• There is now a user cfg/hosts.txt file that is used to speed up nameserver lookups.

• The pager has been moved from a popup dialog to a panel on the GUI. It comes up when the dantom server is reached. How convenient! We got rid of the server list, since it is somewhat obsoleted by the new hub, which we will start promoting this week. You can still register server names, although that's hardly important.

• Dream Seeker now allows you to save screenshots of your map as uncompressed BMP files. Please convert them to GIFs if you are going to upload them to the web! (Deadron .. a pox on you for sneaking this feature into the List)

• Hosted worlds now support a different URL syntax. The old method still works, but the new method is better. We now use a URL path (just like on the web) rather than a URL topic.

  Example:

  byond://dantom/dan/impy (now use this) byond://dantom#dan/impy (rather than this)

  The reason the new syntax is better is a little obscure. Basically, it allows server aliases that contain partial path information. For example, the alias "Dan" could be registered as "byond://dantom/dan" and URLs could be built from this such as "byond://Dan/Impy". This could be done with the old syntax, but then it would not have been possible to continue forwarding topic references to hosted world. (And it just happens that Impy makes use of that feature.)

  In case anybody is wondering, the URL path information is passed to client.Topic() just as if it were after a '#' in the URL. The only difference between the two is how they combine when partial addresses are added together. You don't really care about any of this. All you need to know is to use a '/' instead of a '#' when writing URLs to hosted worlds from now on. Enough said.