SabreMSN 0.51 - 2009-06-23

More "software" from me. It's another baby step, but we're still not quite there yet. I wouldnt bother with the AROS version at the moment (too crashy). I got it to run under Icaros VE 1.1.0, but it wants to die with the latest AROS components. I need to investigate further.

2009-06-23 : Alpha 51
- Fixed non-english characters throughout the program. (or so I hope!)
- The irrelevant field's from incoming message headers aren't displayed
in the chat window anymore. It used to display "Client name" fields,etc
from some people, etc.
- "Chat: Name (email@address.com)" is displayed in Window titlebar now
- The text object used to display the Connection status and when a "New
personal message" is set, is now clipped when the text is too wide
for the window. This will prevent the window from resizing by itself
when you set a new long personal message.
- Bugfix: When a user would add you, and Sabre would prompt you to ask if
you want to "Add them to your own list", the new updated MSNP11 adding
command wasnt properly formatted in Sabre 0.50, and it would just
disconnect you without adding the person.
- Personal messages are remembered when you quit, and set again the next
time you connect
- New option: Display only online contacts in your Contacts List
- New option: "Do not rename contacts locally when they change their names"
I added this because users can often rename themselves, and I often have
no idea who anyone is!
- codesets.library stuff isnt commented out for AROS anymore. And it seems
to work!
- AROS version is still very unstable. Crashes on exit and chat windows
opening sometimes. To be safe, I turned off tabs, and tabswindow, disabled
all the smileys, and set the stack value to a good size in the icon. Seems
better than before, but still not perfect. Isn't alpha software fun!!
Make sure you these icon tooltypes with AROS:
TABS=FALSE
TABSWINDOW=FALSE
stack size = 250,000

http://wookiechat.amigarevolution.com/

@jahc

Nice, looking forward to try it.

There is a strange problem I've been having with SabreMSN ever since tabs were introduced. Sometimes when I leave it for a while in the background and go back to type something to a user, I can type one thing and press Enter, but for the next message after it it no longer submits what I type when I press enter, even though the user in question is still online. If I close that particular chat tab (only that user) and re-open it, then I can submit messages to that person again. So it's as if some flag is set for some reason which makes SabreMSN think that it's not possible to send messages to that user? What could cause this? Did anyone else see this problem occur?

@COBRA

Double clicking on the persons name in the contacts list will setup the switchboard again.. I'll try and fix that bug sometime. with the older protocol, if you had a switchboard session close, and you tried to re-open it or invite the person back more than once, it would disconnect you from MSN.. it was very very tricky. I'll have another look at it sometime, because its quite an annoying bug. I need to get my program up to version 1.0 !

@jahc

Cool, it's good to know that you know about the bug and I'm not the only one getting it, so there's a good chance that it'll be fixed :)

@Jahc:

- The irrelevant field's from incoming message headers aren't displayed
in the chat window anymore. It used to display "Client name" fields,etc
from some people, etc.

It still does it for me, when chatting with someone that uses aMSN.

Otherwise great work!

I couldn't get the ARexx command personalmessage to work, neither from the commandline or actual script. Changestatus worked so it shouldn't be that fameous "something else". What happens is just that GUI says "New Personal Message", but it doesn't change.