268 Release Notes

• Fixed: popup prompts for verb arguments were not always working with possible value lists that had to be generated dynamically by the server. (Guy T.)

• Fixed: Dream Seeker should now appear to close instantaneously and not mess with the window focus like it was doing before. The actual closure occurs within a maximum of 20 seconds, depending on how long it takes to contact the pager (if you are online).

• Fixed: Masks were not always being correctly preserved for icons imported into the icon-editor. Masks also now work for 24-bit bmps that use less than 256 colors. The mask color is still rgb(192,192,192). (Deadron)

• Fixed: Friends with spaces in their name were sometimes sticking around in your friends' list (clique?) even after you explicitely deleted them. Some "friends" are just like that. (Zilal)

• Fixed: Sometimes the client "froze up" -- not sending or receiving network messages-- when the network connection got temporarily cut. A clean restart was then required. This shouldn't happen anymore, but if it does sneak through please report it. (Zilal)

• Fixed: Now the file upload functionality should be a lot faster, comparable to WinFTP. (Deadron)

• Fixed: The annoying download of a file that you just uploaded should no longer happen, because the file is automatically added to your local cache. (Deadron, Guy T.)

• In a related note, client.preload_rsc now has three possible settings: 0, 1, and 2. These correspond to no preloading of resource files, preloading of compiled-in resource files only, and preloading of all resource files including those uploaded by users. The default is 1, which nicely handles ftp functions without broadcasting the uploaded files to everyone who connects. We'll update the docs to reflect this and a whole bunch of other things soon.

• Fixed: When there was only one stat panel, you couldn't delete it. (Guy T.)

• Fixed: findtext() was failing when the text to find was preceded by an incomplete beginning of that same text. (Zilal)

• Fixed: formlib was not processing CGI forms containing only a submit button. It was always redisplaying the form rather than calling ProcessForm().

• The hub should now do a better job of distinguishing between different instances of the same world. Previously, it just did a string comparison of each user's connection address, but since different looking addresses could connect to the same world, that was sometimes failing to group people together who were in the same world. That would result in a spurious invitation to see the other live games at the hub, even when you were connected to the only one in existence.

• Furthermore, the hub (and pager) should now correctly report the status of players who did not gracefully log out. No more of people logging out the moment you log in! It may take up to 15 minutes of the time of abrupt disconnect for the system to notice.

• The client now handles password updates better. Your can change your password through the central account site (https://secure.dantom.com/account/account.cgi?qd=myPasswords) and Dream Seeker will synchronize relatively gracefully.

• overlays can now be assigned to a pure icon state. You might have some sort of special overlay (like clothing) that is specific to each different icon. This would allow you to put that overlay inside the object's .dmi icon and display the overlay by simply doing, for instance, overlays += "armor" (where "armor" is an icon-state of the current object's icon). The limitation of this method over using a separate .dmi file is that the overlay cannot have its own set of icon states, but when you don't need that level of complexity, this is a nice compact way of packaging things and is consistent with the ability to use icon states in flick().

  This same technique also applies to image().