267 Release Notes

• Fixed: Users clicking on their own mobs on the map were getting the 'location' value in Click(mob,location) returned as null, rather than the map turf. (Spuzzum)

• Fixed: Long floating-point values in the stat panels were causing Dream Seeker to crash.

• Fixed: The mapper wasn't allowing the existing object selection to be reselected after compiles. (Guy T.)

• Fixed: The mapper's instance editor was duplicating file paths. (Deadron)

• Fixed: Dream Daemon was failing to run in -trusted mode when directed to do so by the CGI library. This is now the default mode of operation for CGI programs, allowing them to access shared resources anywhere in your site.

• Fixed: values of world.status created at runtime (like input from user or anything else not compiled in) were getting clobbered by the garbage collector. (Zilal)

• Fixed: partially transmitted resource files in byond.rsc were not getting handled correctly until the client was rebooted. This could happen by logging out in the middle of a transfer or if a file was being transfered during world.Reboot(). (Spuzzum)

• The server was not correctly updating the client when the client switched from text to graphical mode (which was happening automatically when jumping from the host server to a hosted world). This is why certain tiles didn't always appear instantly for certain worlds (SidewalkSantas, DrummondCribbage). (Guy T.)

• Fixed: suffixes were not getting refreshed properly in the stat panels. (AbysDragon)

• The client was passing the focus onto random programs upon shutdown. Now it shouldn't do this, but it might take a bit longer to close. (Zilal)

• You can now move the cursor on Dream Seeker's command prompt by using the SHIFT+left-arrow and SHIFT+right-arrow combinations. (Zilal)

• Furthermore, you can scroll the text-pane up and down by using SHIFT+up-arrow and SHIFT+down-arrow. (Guy T.)

• And you can move through your command history by using CTRL+up-arrow and CTRL+down-arrow. You'll probably have to try it to see what we mean. (Zilal)

• You may now include an optional README info file with your EXE distributions generated in Dream Maker.

• Added "layer" to the list of atomic object properties. The standard layer for each of the basic types are defined in stddef.dm:

  FLOAT_LAYER = -1
  AREA_LAYER = 1
  TURF_LAYER = 2
  OBJ_LAYER = 3
  MOB_LAYER = 4
  FLY_LAYER = 5 (currently, missiles and images go here)

  It is _much_ more efficient to use this for objects with an overhead projection (like an archway) than to use image(). Enjoy!

  Overlays and underlays can have their own layer settings if you generate them from objects rather than from pure icons. If you just want the overlay to be in the same layer as the base object, the safest thing to do is to set the overlay object's layer to the special FLOAT_LAYER (happens to be layer -1). That will cause it to be in the same layer as the base object. This works nicely if you are going to be dynamically changing the layer of the base object, because the overlays will stick to it rather than stay in their own layer. When pure icons are made into overlays, they always use FLOAT_LAYER.

  Eventually there may be another parameter to image() and missile() so the drawing layer can be controlled. Currently, they always uses layer 5.

• CGI mode now supports file uploads. Previously, the form.dm library only supported file input fields in BYOND mode, but now it automatically generates the appropriate html for either BYOND or CGI mode. Basically, when a CGI form contains file uploads, the form library switches to "multipart/form-data" encoding, which DreamDaemon can now comprehend.

  All you have to do is set the variable's "interface" to PROMPT_FOR_FILE and it will work:

  Form/Upload var upload upload_interface = PROMPT_FOR_FILE Just like in BYOND mode, the uploaded file lands in your .rsc and can be dumped to a separate file using fcopy().