DMDircthe intelligent IRC client

DMDirc 0.4 changelog

Features

• Added support for actions and plugins
• Rewrote textpane to improve speed and usability
• Added search capability to all windows
• Added update checker
• Added first run wizard
• Added /dcop and /nowplaying commands
• Added ignore list and /ignore command
• Added mode aliases for snircd
• Channel CTCPs are now displayed (and DMDirc responds appropriately)
• Added option to disable friendly server mode names
• Channel notifications are now longer hard-coded to red, and can be set using the new /notify command.
• Added preferences framework for plugin authors
• Added /set command
• Added logging plugin
• Added system tray plugin
• Added way to clear the error menu
• Added /allchannels and /allservers commands (for, e.g., "amsgs")
• Added /echo command
• Added visual away indicator (shown next to the input field)
• Added colour picker component (in prefs and optionally when using colour code)
• Added auto reconnect options
• Status bar components can now be dynamically added (by plugins)
• Added option to hide queries when initially opened so they don't steal focus
• Added lag display plugin
• Added plugin manager UI
• Reorganised preferences to make use of subcategories
• Nicknames can now be coloured individually (and separately for both the nicklist and text area)
• Added /setnickcolour command
• The nicklist can now display a different background colour on alternate names
• The treeview, input fields and nicklists can now have separate fore and background colours
• Added /msg and /query commands
• Added popup menu when right clicking on users in the nicklist
• Most dialogs remember their state when re-opened (e.g. preferences dialog reopens to the category you were last looking at)
• Added time plugin (provides a /timer command and time-related actions)
• DMDirc now automatically pings the IRC server and can be configured to reconnect if the server doesn't respond promptly
• Added /disconnect and /reconnect commands
• Added /mode command
• The client can now track away state of users in channels (with options to automatically send WHO requests to get this info)
• The username set to the server can now be configured, and defaults to the local account name, rather than "ircparser"
• Added handling for "nick in use" messages, added alternate nickname options to profiles
• Added nick colour plugin
• Added config option to hide mode prefixes in the text area
• Added a new class of commands ("global")
• Added /newserver and /server commands
• Added /reloadplugin command
• Added browser launcher delay options, to prevent double clicking opening multiple copies of a page
• Commands can now be silenced (/.command by default)
• Added window status plugin
• Added option to auto-rejoin open channels
• Added option to automatically style hyperlinks
• Raw windows are now hidden by default
• Added OSD (on screen display) plugin
• Config file is no longer saved in an XML format (but DMDirc can still load them)
• Added handling for user mode changes

Bug fixes

• Channel settings window now opens centered on the client
• Nicknames are removed from the tab completer when the user quits
• The client no longer sends 2-3 part messages when leaving a channel
• Profile manager layout and text ("blurb") issues have been resolved
• Parser error when receiving a CTCP reply from an eggdrop bot has been fixed
• Fixed issue with displaying errors
• Fixed exception when a connection is closed before a 001 line was received
• /help now sorts commands alphabetically, regardless of the order they were loaded
• Fixed logic bug affecting long actions in queries being erroneously sent and an erroneous error message being displayed locally
• The error menu no longer displays a small square if there are no errors
• Fixed error related to status bar timer
• Fixed error in paste line count checking
• Fixed bug whereby queries failed to work properly due to nickname case
• Fixed exception when closing the channel settings window without changing modes
• Fixed bug where channel events weren't displayed after rejoining a channel
• Fixed tab completers not being updated when commands were added/removed
• Connection errors are now handled sanely instead of being routed through DMDirc's error handler
• The client no longer throws a fatal error if it can't open a query for some reason
• Fixed exception when opening queries
• Fixed typo in plugin load failure message
• Fixed some display issues with the treeview under GTK
• Nicklists are now cleared when the client is disconnected
• Fixed new identities not being added to config managers (e.g. new channel settings not being registered until a channel was cycled)
• Fixed issues when reconnecting to a server
• Fixed exception when raw window is closed
• Fixed profiles list in new server dialog not being updated
• Fixed exception on certain mouse events
• Dialogs can no longer be opened multiple times at once, where appropriate
• Fixed potential memory leak when disconnecting from a server
• Fixed nicklists being sized incorrectly in certain circumstances
• Fixed exception when disconnecting in certain circumstances
• Commands are now case-insensitive
• Fixed nicklist not being updated on nickname change
• Fixed pasting removing text from the input field
• Error messages given by the browser launcher are now more descriptive
• Fixed error when receiving blank messages
• Invalid formats no longer cause an unhandled exception
• The new server dialog now defaults to opening a new window
• Fixed queries losing their callbacks (+ thus not displaying new messages) when reconnecting
• "0" is now treated as a valid channel name (for /join 0)
• Fixed issue with the parser losing state when parting all channels (/join 0)
• Fixed error when scrolling the treeview when it contains a single time
• Fixed error list displaying every error with the most recent icon
• Fixed issue with error reporter not reporting errors (d'oh)
• Fixed clicking on URLs at the end of the topic including the '. in the URL
• The "copy" menu item is no longer displayed if there is no text selected
• Fixed exception when the client tries to send a message before it's connected
• Fixed exception when closing server connections
• Servers no longer try to [re]connect if they're in the process of being closed