AtarICQ 0.171 is released

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AtarICQ 0.171 is released

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Hi all,

Following the 0.170 release in June earlier this year, there is now a new aICQ release ready for download.
A good deal of small issues have been sorted out but there are a couple of additions made this time too.



You can download the new release here:

http://www.ataricq.org

Compared to the previous official release:

* A number of minor bugs sorted

* In some popup menus it was not possible to select an entry in case
either contact list or msg window was also open. Fixed now.

* Fetching of contacts from the server side list had accidently been
disabled in 0.170. It works now, but this needs to be reimplemented
in the future.

* Found and fixed a small bug that would result in form_wbutton() not being
used under MagiC for handling of mouse clicks in background.

* AtarICQ now use AV_STARTPROG instead of VA_START when:
1. Asking AV-SERVER to launch the Colour Selector (In Prefs./Contact list)
2. Asking AV-SERVER to replay sound sample files
3. Asking AV-SERVER to display history file (CTRL+H)
4. Asking AV-SERVER to display the help file (HELP)<br>
(This should be good news to people who use other desktops than Thing)

* A right click on an empty place in contact list will open up the popup menu
with a listing of contacts, allowing you to "Create TAB for <nick>".
(Also available through CTRL+T)

* All popup menus that have window titles will now also have a CLOSER widget.
Also, these popups can now also be moved like any other GEM window.

* Using TAB or UP/DOWN-ARROW to jump to next text edit field in a dialog now
works better under MagiC. SHIFT+TAB will now move focus backwards. Also,
when we hit the last (or first, depending on TAB-direction) editable object
of the dialog, focus will not wrap back to the first (or last) editable
object. (This is in fact a workaround for MagiC's limited implementation of
FORM_KEYBD)

* Last AtarICQ release had a bug in the keyboard evaluation code that
prevented user to type chars that required ALT-combinations.
Should be OK now.

* Adapted aICQ to some server changes on the ICQ-servers, making the logging in
process a tad faster, and the updating of the contact list a lot smoother during it.


Have fun, and please don't hesitate to send feedback!
I hope there are a bunch of people out there still using the program, is that so? :)

Regards,

/Joakim
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I want that desktop, it looks great :) What machine is it?
At some point, I'll pick up a more powerful Atari than this STE and give it a shot!
tá'n poc ar buile!
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Post by GokMasE »

Hiya Desty!
Desty wrote:I want that desktop, it looks great :) What machine is it?
At some point, I'll pick up a more powerful Atari than this STE and give it a shot!
My machine is an Atari Falcon, equipped with a CT60 at 100mhz and the board/bus accelerated to 25mhz. The operating system is a (rather slimmed) installation of FreeMiNT/XaAES, on which I use Thing as replacement desktop.

On this page you'll find some more XaAES screenshots:

http://xaaes.atariforge.net/screenshots.php

Regards,

/Joakim

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