Following the recent progress in XaAES, aICQ is now available in a new release where some things have been adjusted to work and look smoother together with XaAES. For example, aICQ is now rendered okay also when the AES draws textures as background on 3d-objects. In addition to this, the tabs has been equipped with a discrete 3d-look that should kick in if you run AtarICQ in >=256 colour mode.
Users with scrollwheel mice might be interested in knowing that aICQ now responds to WM_ARROWED, and also supports XaAES WHL_AROWWHEEL mode causing in which the AES sends extended WM_ARROWED messages to further optimise the scrolling.
In addition to the above, a couple of bugs has also been found and fixed. (For more details, see below)
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----- New in AtarICQ 0.168 ---
* aICQ's message window is now tweaked to look at its best when the dialog background is using a bitmap texture. As a result of this, the feature to configure the background fill colour from within the preferences has been removed. If you wish to tweak the background colour to a solid fill colour, you should however be able to do so using your favourite RSC-editor.
* Small adjustment made to popups, fixing appearance under
latest XaAES.
* Scrolling behaviour changed slightly: When the slider is not located at its bottom position, the text will not scroll to bottom when new messages are coming in. If located at bottom => follow bottom.
* In addition to the above, aICQ will now need the slider to be located at its bottom position in order to consider messages to be read.
* The TABs in the message window are now equipped with a discrete 3D-look when your setup can use >=256 colours. The active tab will also be enlarged slightly to further allow you to distinguish it from the unselected ones.
* AtarICQ will now redirect WM_ARROWED messages to the vertical sliders in both contact list and message window. When a mouse scrollwheel is rotated XaAES sends WM_ARROWED messages even to windows that don't have a native slider. This means that at least under XaAES you can now use your scrollwheel to scroll inside aICQ windows. AtarICQ also supports XaAES extended scrollwheel messages, using the WHL_AROWWHEEL mode.
* A bug that would cause display problems in the text input field in the message window has been fixed. It would only hit if the user had installed a custom system font, which had different char width/height than the original Atari font. Should be fixed now.
* Discovered a nasty bug that would cause very bad memory corruption upon certain incoming messages. The reason was that certain clients are using a single ascii-13 to indicate a rowbreak. Should be fixed now.
Have fun!
Regards,
/Joakim
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