259 Release Notes

• Fixed: a bug in the CGI shutdown process was causing CGI programs to hang on exit in some cases.

• Fixed: Dream Seeker was behaving inconsistently when there were objects with names differing only in case (Zilal's stone vs. Stone example). Since the command line is entirely case insensetive, it still does not distinguish between stone and Stone. If one of them is closer to you, that one will respond to either name (and whatever you type will now automatically convert to the case of that default stone). To access the other one, you need to use stone.1. (Zilal)

• Fixed: tab expansion in Dream Seeker was not doing a full expansion as advertised. It is now equivalent to hitting space-bar until no more auto-expansions can be made. (Zilal)

• Fixed: Macros involving the " symbol now work properly. (Zilal)

• Fixed: Some of the internal graphics calls weren't cleaning up properly, possibly causing some persistent corruption. This may be the reason that icon states weren't displaying properly in NT; if you have experienced such problems in the past, please re-test.

• Fixed: Dream Seeker was not always detecting a closed connection.

• Fixed: File upload cancelations weren't working. (Zilal)

• Fixed: changing the icon (or any other visible attribute of an object) was causing the name (and suffix) of the object to flash in the stat panels. (AbyssDragon)

• Fixed: files (mainly byond.rsc) were occassionally getting corrupted due to two processes writing to them simultaneously. This should be handled more gracefully now.

• Fixed: the compiler was crashing on empty embedded expressions such as: "The [] does not like [usr]." (Gabriel)

• Dream Daemon now automatically converts the case of .rsc files that do not match that of the .dmb file. This will only happen in UNIX where the case of files is significant. Files originating on a windows machine were sometimes getting uploaded to the UNIX server with mismatched case (such as world.dmb and World.rsc).

• Dream Seeker now automatically truncates byond.rsc if it becomes corrupted. (The compiler also obliterates corrupted cache files.) In general, the detection of corrupted cache files is now reported in a more informative manner so you at least know what file is causing the trouble. (Deadron)

• If you do not set world.view and client.lazy_eye, these are now automatically adjusted to match the size of the map when the map is small enough to fit on one screen. The x and y dimensions are controlled independently to avoid wasting screen space when the map is not square.

  Note that in order for this to work, you must make your map x and y dimensions 21 or less. (Zilal)

• Dream Maker now locks your environment file while you are editing it, so that two processes don't accidentally edit the same project.

• Added a connection pinger to the server for the purpose of detecting dead connections. That means zombies should last for no more than 10 minutes. (This goes out to you Gazoot!)

• There is now an option to log sessions in Dream Seeker. It's under the "Options" menu. You can save the data in either html or plain text. (Spuzzum, Zilal)

• Graphics (especially large bitmaps) should load considerably more quickly now. 24-bit bitmaps should also display much better, thanks to a new color reduction algorithm.

• Arbitrarily sized bitmaps are now supported with the <img> tag. Example: usr << "Big picture: <img src=\ref['mypic.bmp']>" The width and height tags also work properly now: usr << "Shrunken picture: <img src=\ref['mypic.bmp'] width=100 height=100>" So the \icon tag is, by default, an image shrunken to width=16 height=16.