SabreMSN 0.57 - 2009-08-18

Gearing up for a v1.0 release.. nearly fixed the major bugs. Just the switchboards one left to go I think. And then add a multiple accounts + encrypted passwords login thing. Hopefully I didnt add too many more bugs here! Once v1.0 is out the door, I could focus on the important things, like file transfers.. etc. Seems a long way in the future, but I found time to code yesterday and today. :)

Question: Should I remove the "Chat: name (email)" stuff from the window titlebar?

http://wookiechat.amigarevolution.com/wip3/offlineinfo.png
(I have many many MSN accounts. well, 4. One for each computer just about!)

Changes:
2009-08-18: Alpha 57
- Fixed "challenge string" calcuation issue with certain sized challenge codes.. no
more disconnections after a minute of being online. Thanks to MickJT on amigaworld.net
Send him a donation to say thanks! The initial disconnection still happens sometimes,
but when it reconnects, it stays connected now. Well, for me at least. :)
- Added automatic reconnection when disconnected. Configurable values.
- Commented out file transfer stuff, because it was too buggy to use and was causing
confusion I think. The GUI looks more handsome now.
- Bugfixed Group Chats a little.
- Changed the layout of the top of the chat window. Let me know if you guys like it.
Text labels at the top showing: display name, email address, and personal messages if
one is being displayed. Also, you can copy to the clipboard from it.
- Away status is shown next to the display name at the top of the chat window, and it
tells you when the person went offline if they go..
- Made the tab buttons so they dont have to occupy as much space as the text inside them
i.e. the text can be cut off inside now if the window is too small for the tabs, and
it isnt forced to be a large size anymore. (did that make sense?)
- Oops, renaming contact button doesnt work anymore.. the setting isnt remembered when
you reconnect. I think that particular rename command only works for the current session.
I think the MSN client is supposed to keep a local copy on the hard drive, then rename
the contact when it connects and retrieves the contacts list. Hmmmmmmm.
- Weird error: For some reason I had commented out a Contact List display name copy, and
I cant remember why. I've only noticed recently that some names were email addresses or
just blank. So I've re-enabled it.
- Changed "Add a contact" string gadget to use BetterString.mcc so that OS3 users can
paste contact addresses into it


Grab it from the usual place:
http://wookiechat.amigarevolution.com/

@jahc

Thanks mate. This version is really nice specially that i can now copy/paste email and personal message. Often people use links to their music pages, downloadable music etc.

Thanks for continue updating this great program ! hope to have file transfer ASAP

I'm still prefer the actual 0.x version number to identify the various release, maybe reaching 0.99 and then release version 1.0

Aniway they are just a number

@samo79

Amen

@jahc

thanks a lot for finding time during your vacancy to improve SabreMSN Thats verry great !!

edit: interesting toilets grabs also