SabreMSN 0.55 - 2009-07-30 , minor tweaks

@samo79

Due to hardcoded bug, AmiMSN and SabreMSN will be fixed up.... pretty much probably by the time you read this message.

Edit: If not by the time you read this, then you can be assured we know what the issue is and how to fix it.

@MickJT

2009-07-27 : Alpha 54
- Fixed a bug in the Challenge response, that caused disconnection within a
minute of being connected to the server. Microsoft changed their replys from
a set size, to a variable size. My code wasnt equipped! Thank you to Mick
on www.amigaworld.net for single handedly figuring out my bug. Please direct
any SabreMSN donations to him for this release!
- Bugfix: Disconnection would occur when Sabre would connect and then attempt
to remove someone from a pending list, and onto other lists so you could
communicate. Unfortunately I had specified two different groups in the
remove command, which caused immediate disconnection. Thanks to Deniil for
reporting the issue, providing raw output, and then testing with me until
we fixed it.
- Your own Current Media information is now displayed in the personal message
space. Otherwise you'd play music and not know that your personal message
was currently showing the Current Media. Use the MUSIC ARexx command to tell
SabreMSN what music you're currently listening to. Hook this up to your music
players if possible.
- Option to play new message alerts only when the chat window is inactive

@jahc

ohh man you are fast :D

@VooDoo

Was that hes girlfriend saying ?

@jahc

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How setting personnal message after my name ???

for example, how you have made on Sabre MSN contact lits, the: an amiga programmer job is never done (after jahc).

hum, have seen PERSONNAL MESSAGE and MUSIC are command on the arexx part of the readme, no arexx script on the AOS3 archive.

hum2, Personnal message aren't a tooltype.

hum3 forgotten to thanks JAHC and MICKJT a lot for the last speedy fix about the hardcode part

@Mrodfr

click on the text that says (no personal message set)

I need to change this to (click here to set a personal message)... that would make more sense I think.

@jahc

Hum, OK. easy thanks for the explanation..

Not mentionned somewhere or again not a RTFM carefully from my side

@jahc

Choose somethings like "set personal message", strings is already too long as is for my window

@jahc

I have the same question about the music playing ????

There are a script somewhere for using on AOS3 and AOS4 about the music playing during the use of SabreMSN ??

@Jahc

Dont make the gui with more text. Put info in the readme instead.
I like em small thanks :)

2009-07-30 : Alpha 55
- Blank personal message has been changed to "(click to set message)" so that the user
knows to click there to change it, but still trying to keep it small..
- Included a basic Listening To: ARexx script. Configure SimplePlay 3.7 to use it,
and then when SabreMSN is running your status will be updated with the music you're
currently listening to.
- Personal message is automatically changed back 8 minutes after displaying the
current media (listening to..) message. This is so that music replayers dont need
to send a blank MUSIC "" command to reset the values.
- Tweaked setting the "nick - personal message" field, with initial personal messages,
and when changing the display name. Might be less buggy now.
- Removed some debug output from the ARexx commands

http://wookiechat.amigarevolution.com/

Moving to libpurple possibly soon. Investigating...

@jahc

Maybe a silly question but... everyone of your "Alpha xx" versions often contains (partly) important features, so why the heck aren't you just bumping the revision??

I mean, after all thats exactly what revisions were invented for Sure, you would be at something like 0.120 or so by now, but just take a look at the revision of rtg.library

It's all fine if you say your tool hasn't deserved a version of at least 1 and leave that at zero (though I'm personally no friend of that either ) but you should really get rid of this "Alpha", "Beta", "Blafasel" nonsense and just bump the fecking revision.. your SabreMSN would deserve it



BTW: Now that you plan to exchange your own core with libpurple, wouldn't it be time to think about a new name? After all, with libpurple you'll get a multi-protocol messenger and.. well .. I personally never liked the name "SabreMSN" anyway (yeah, those personal opinions are the hell )..

@Cyborg

Hmm, good point. SabreMSN is getting very usable. Ill work on the auto connect bug, and the group chats, and the bug with expired switchboards needing a double click on the contact list to restart them.. and then I'll bump it to v1.00 and release it everywhere. os4depot and aminet, etc.

Im not sure how serious I am about libpurple yet. It would definately be cool to have avatars and file transfers... but Im scared of porting the library, because i wouldnt really know how. I thought spotUp had done a port, but I couldnt find it on os4depot.net.

With a new engine, and new supported protocols, Id definitely have to change the name. I dont know what though. SabreMSN has a nice identity to it now I think. You're going to hate this.. but what about SabreIM? haha!

Actually, i'd like it if someone could magically make a MUI text field class that could support different fonts at once, graphics inside, with inserting and getting/setting text features, and a set position thing.. and also read only features for just displaying text.

Man I have very little time to code these days anyway. I feel bad neglecting certain people when Im going tappy tap tap on the computer for 3 hours.

@jahc

Quote:

Man relax on the Amiga coding, I know some might hate what I'll say, but hey even if you slow down or even stop coding for some time that's not a big deal : we rather prefer you happy with certain people and little time to code than depressed and alone with plenty of time coding but no real interest in it !! Real life is definitely more important than our hobby and after all it's summer time, so you have right to take some holidays too

Hmm, just realizing that I might not be summer time on your side of the world... but never mind you deserved to take a break

@jahc

Keep the name Sabre#?. It is a jahc production ;)

@jahc

Quote:

Sorry for the laate... reply... :P
last weekend I'm on vacation and maybe I miss your reply :P
The new play only if inactive option was really better than the play every message...
However maybe also a configurable elapsed time slider was nice to add if wasnt difficulty to implemet...

However GOOD WORK as usual :)

PS only one thing... any chance to solce the stuttering problem of SimplePlay? Maybe changing from SDL mixer to AHI?

@Tuxedo

SDL_Mixer isnt just the sound output thing, its the whole music replayer library.... and yes Im' intending to move away from it. I'm testing the last version of SimplePlay at the moment. It's just a bugfix version really. Once thats out the door, I will concentrate on moving to mpega.library, and making the player a little more like Rhythmbox on Ubuntu.. but it'll be geared towards mp3. Plugins might be possible, I dont know. For now I definitely want an improved way of displaying songs, using their ID tags, using seperate columns for track, title, genre, artist, album, time, etc. But I'm finding it hard to find time to code these days like I said! and I love coding! It's hard to test music players when my lady has the movie channel on 24 hours! (getting headphones today though hehe).

@jahc

nice to hear that :)
Good coding :)
btw if yuou need a beta-tester from monday(this week-end I'm on vacation another time(trip to sea)) I'm here :)

Good WORK!