AtarICQ 0.167 is released (important update!)

[GokMasE]

Hi all,

Have you been experiencing problems with ICQ last few days? Then keep
on reading!

Recently there have been some serious problems with a couple of ICQ
clients, aICQ being one of them. The problem has been that incoming
messages have not been received properly. It would have seemed like all
your friends were silent all the time. Thanks to some fast research by
Dan, there is now an update which should take care of this issue. If
you use AtarICQ, make sure to grab this update ASAP!

Other noticeable changes in the new release:

* Cleaned up the keyboard evaluation code

* Masked out all messages about oncoming contacts during the first
10s. (Some ppl reported server was lagging this data a bit, hence this
delay was added in order to avoid unnecessary console text)

* Some ICQ (spam) bots are trying to trick ppl to add them to
contact list by sending out signal that "user is online". That would
indicate that we have already added them to your contact list,
something that is not necessarily true. Since aICQ now supports the
server side list directly, some of these attempts will now be detected
and blocked.

* If contact list was empty, the option to "hide separators" would
crash aICQ. Solved by temporarily cancelling the hiding, until contacts
are added.

* In dialog for adding more contacts, the number of allowed chars
for UIN/ screenname has been increased from 10 to 16.

* In MagiC, setting both SELECTEABLE and TOUCHEXIT for an object
will make form_button() wait for the mouse button to be released. This
is now worked around, allowing the setting of auto-away time in
preferences to work smoother under MagiC.


Get the new AtarICQ release here:

http://www.ataricq.org



Regards,

/Joakim


http://www.ataricq.org
http://xaaes.atariforge.net
http://topp.atari-users.net

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