Software News : SabreMSN 0.68 released with personal avatar support
posted by MickJT on 28-Mar-2010 15:09:13 (6436 reads)
A new version of SabreMSN has been released. 0.68 alpha brings the ability to select your own avatar, fixes various bugs and has a slight UI change.
At the time of posting, only an OS4 package is available.
OS4Depot link Please read the .readme for more information than just the changelog.
2010-03-28: Alpha 68
- Users can choose their own Avatar now. - Windows/tabs will not open when a switchboard connects. Instead, they will open when someone types to you. This way, the switchboards that are opened to download your avatar will not bother people. - Default graphics is shown when the user has no avatar to download. I dont know how to do graphics. Any volunteers to make me a better one? - The "Close Tab" text button has been replaced with graphics, but it looks very ugly. Any volunteers to make me a better one? - Avatar cache bugfixed a bit. It was downloading a new avatar for each new switchboard session. It didnt use the "downoad/dont download" variable properly. No point in a cache then eh! - "Dont use direct connection" messages were sent over and over before. It's now only sent once. - Temporary/currently downloading avatars are stored in progdir:cache/trash/ and cleaned on startup, and avatars are renamed into the cache/trash/ dir if they cant be deleted, to get around issues of locked files in some circumstances. - The toolbar automatically hides the borders and text, to make it look more handsome.
sorry for the confusion. It's the pervious 3.x version we're discussing.
I just posted here in a hope to reach the programmer as I had emailed him without reaching him.
But I located the problem to the PNG datatype (SabreMSN loads pngs for its graphics), I'm now in contact with Oliver as he's confirmed a problem with the latest version of WarpPNG.
So jahc doesn't need to worry, his software is flawless :)
And to repeat. It was the classic version, I just tried reaching jahc here. Nothing to see, move on :)
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Re: SabreMSN 0.68 released with personal avatar support Posted on 1-Apr-2010 8:26:11
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0.69 is currently in the OS4Depot uploads list
2010-04-01: Alpha 69 - Avatars wont disappear from the display anymore after the tabbed windows are hidden and then shown again. - Added a sanity check for when updating the GUI when removing a file transfer, so that it doesnt try to update parts of the GUI if its not yet created. (which is sometimes the case when receiving/sending avatars). - Undid a change to make the GUI more handsome by default. TheBar.mcc can now be freely configured once again. And look ugly by default again. :) - Played around with the imagery a bit, borrowed some images from AISS
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Re: SabreMSN 0.68 released with personal avatar support Posted on 2-Apr-2010 11:59:37
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