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[OpenVerse] OpenVerse Visual Chat 0.6-4
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I have just uploaded to incoming.redhat.com the following...
OpenVerse-0.6-4.noarch.rpm
OpenVerse-0.6-4.src.rpm
Here is the information on this package and the changelog.
Name : OpenVerse Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version : 0.6 Vendor: (none)
Release : 4 Build Date: Sun Oct 24 10:05:46 1999
Install date: (not installed) Build Host: 2492160hfc92.tampabay.rr.com
Group : Applications/Communications Source RPM: OpenVerse-0.6-4.src.rpm
Size : 820328 License: GPL
Summary : Visual Chat program which runs on multiple platforms.
Description :
The OpenVerse is similiar to other Visual Chat programs such as
The Pallace or Microsoft Chat with the main exception that it is a
completely OPEN and FREE piece of software. The OpenVerse runs on many
platforms including Linux/UNIX, Macintosh and Micro$oft Windows.
* Now using the TKOpenHelp system by Juan J. Martinez Siguenza
<reidrac@rocketmail.com>
* Now using help baloons by Steve Foster.
* Hopefully fixed the problems with nametags being left behind.
* created a /avatar command. Just enter the name of the .av file
which you are switching to.
* created a /effect command. this allows you to apply an effect to
your avatar. Credit for this goes to toasT who had me rolling
with his shivering avatar. I've also created a jump effect.
* Made the refuse button remove the icon from the screen.
* Fixed two problems with the RPM install. It had the wrong owner
for many files and the default.gif was missing from the icons
dir making it hard to run.
* Changed the URL loading code so it will work better for windows
users. URL loading will not be available in Mac Clients because
they do not have an exec call in their tcl emulators.
Wed Oct 20 17:09:49 EDT 1999 Beta 0.7 in progress
* Added server and client code to push users.. This should be
interesting.
Sun Oct 17 20:10:00 EDT 1999 Beta 0.7 in progress
* Fixed a problem where if you had names shut off and a person
entered, it would end up leaving a name tag behind.
* Fixed a problem with the IP address getting set to zeros when
changing rooms.
Sat Oct 16 11:18:55 EDT 1999 Beta 0.7 in progress.
* changed the button coloring to be optional based on the value of
MV(use_windowmanager_colors). this change effects the main
window buttons.
* Added a help button. It does not do anything yet.
* Started a plugins web directory. This can be found at
http://www.openverse.org/plugins/
* Private message will now look differently in the text chat
window. They will be surrounded by <!>
* Colors on the names button will now optionally be filled out
using window manager defaults.
* Colors on the Avatars button will now optionally be filled out
using window manager defaults.
* Will now use the new download code for downloading room images.
* Server will now send a TOOBIG notice to a user when his avatar
exceeds the maximum allowed size. When received by the client,
he will change to the default avatar locally.
* Added support for http, ftp and mailto url types through a
standard browser. To be sure it's secure and nothing is passed
on the command line, a local web page is created with a meta
refresh to the url.
* Added a setup option to set the time url offers will stay on the
screen for.
Tue Oct 12 16:19:03 EDT 1999 Beta 0.6 RELEASED
* CHANGED THE NAME. DUE TO A TRADEMARK ISSUE, I'VE BEEN ASKED TO
CHANGE THE NAME OF THE PROGRAM. FROM NOW ON, WE ARE OpenVerse.
* Fixed a problem with the server's checkgif function.
Mon Oct 4 15:04:21 EDT 1999 Beta 0.6 work
* Added code to read in a gif file header and make sure that it is
a valid gif image. It will also check it's height and width to
make sure it is within the pre-defined server restrictions on
height and width Credit for me doing this goes to echo who
forced me into it.
* fixed a problem with spaced dirnames and downloads.
* Fixed some output that should have been going only when
debugging was turned on.
* RPM distro will now install some more files in the DOC directory
including a new COMMANDS file which lists all of the /commands
in Metaverse.
* fixed up the startup script to check for all required icons on
startup and copy them from the lib dircotry if not present.
* Enabled url type metaverse:// to send someone a link to a
Metaverse server you would use the /url command. the syntax
is... /url UserName metaverse://example.com:1234 where UserName
is the person you are sending it to example.com is the hostname
of the server and 1234 is the port of the server.
Mon Oct 4 00:49:06 EDT 1999 Beta 0.6 work
* The text chat window is now fully resizeable! (sorry it took so
long)
* TextChat window now has a scroll lock button. The pause key will
also lock/unlock this window (tried to bind scroll lock but
could not)
* I'm having problems when binding items on the screen so many
clickable things that were previously bound are now handled by 1
general click binding.
* fixed a problem with the server. It will now deny names with
the following.
name of "*" not allowed.
name of "." not allowed!
begins with "-" not allowed.
* fixed problems where it was downloading the defautl image. Not
needed.
* Made it display the old image till the new one downloads.
* fixed a bug in the new download code. This is both a server and
a client fix.
* Added a missing carriagereturn to some connect/disconnect
messages. Also added the server port.
* Changed the way the server handles the default avatar. It will
now load a specific file which cannot be overwritten by users.
* Change the way the client handles loading of images, if there is
an error, it loads the default one.
Sat Oct 2 08:51:37 EDT 1999 Beta 0.5 work.
* Colored the buttons and things in the url offer info window.
As always, these are listed/configurable from Globals.cfg
* Colored the buttons and things in the download information
window.
* Added a /sub command for access to the sub channel. This is
mostly just for testing (plugins?).
Fri Oct 1 15:47:24 EDT 1999 Beta 0.5 work
* fixed some division by zero errors in the new download code.
Thu Sep 30 22:05:40 EDT 1999 Beta 0.5 work (0.4-3 release)
* Added cancel button for dcc transfers. Right click on the
transfer in progress to cancel it.
* Setup DCC offers as a url on the screen which the user can click
on and get or not get.
* Changed the default send blocksize to 4096.
* Added a timeout loop for serging and getting files. The default
timeout is 3 minutes.
* Made it force creation of rimages and download dirs on ALL
platforms.
Thu Sep 30 18:01:29 EDT 1999 Beta 0.5 work
* Fixed a problem with DCC send. It will now use the ip address of
the connection to the server when reporting an IP address to
remote users for DCC transfers.
* Will now put a message in the TextChat window when you are
disconnected or when you are connecting to a server.
* Will no longer query the server list when starting the program.
This must be done manually with the Refresh Serverlist option
from the passageways button.
Wed Sep 29 21:46:33 EDT 1999 Beta 0.5 work (0.4-2 release!)
* DCC send and receive and passive send all seem to be working
well there may be a bit more tweaking which needs to be done but
for the most part, it's working great. Users with an old client
will not be able to upload their avatars to the server, they
will be able to download other people's avatars though cause the
old code has been left in the server for somewhat backwards
compatability.
* DCC Transfers between users work now!!! Current code will
autoget files to the download directory in
~/.Metaverse/download. This will change for 0.5 release to
display a clickable icon on the screen to accept, reject, open,
etc the file.
Wed Sep 29 15:16:32 EDT 1999 Beta 0.5 work
* Completely re-did the download code over the last few days. It
now is compatable with ircII DCC transfers. Why? Why not! :)
* Made a change to the way that passageways are checked which
should aleviate problems with the client locking up when this
was done.
Sat Sep 25 20:30:56 EDT 1999 Beta 0.5 work
* Tried a kludge fix on the server for sockes which are
mysteriously being left open.
Fri Sep 24 17:18:04 EDT 1999 Beta 0.5 work
* Fixed a bug where if people had chat qued up to be displayed and
you left the room, it would cause an error. This bug was found
by Darrell
Thu Sep 23 19:55:34 EDT 1999 Beta 0.4 RELEASE
* Added a new function ChangeNick. Mostly for plugins to tie into
so they know when the user changes their nick.
* Added two new server commands. The client does not do anything
with these yet but I wanted them to be available for changes I'm
planning in the future and didn't want to have servers which
didn't support the command while I was doing testing for client
support.
SUB - this is a subchannel inteded to be used to send
client only messages (not displayed to the user)
without having to parse them out of CHAT
commands. There is a 256 character limit on
strings used with this command. You can address
it to a specific user (Case Sensitive) or to ALL
users by placing a * inplace of the username.
URL - Send a URL to the channel. protocol types can then
be parsed out by the client and calls made to
external programs which handle that program.
Client to Client File Transfers will be handled
in this way. A
DCC://my.host.name:myport/filename:size format
is intended (URL will be formed by some happy gui
in the client)
Tue Sep 21 20:50:31 EDT 1999 Beta 0.4 work
* Fixed a bug with the server where it was not reporting the
correct baloon position when you connected to the server for the
first time.
Mon Sep 20 21:22:12 EDT 1999 Beta 0.4 work
* Began work on Metaverse's first plugin! See the Plugin.tcl
file in the lib dir for information on how to create your
own plugin. Email me for access to functions which currently
do not support plugins.
Sun Sep 19 14:23:30 EDT 1999 Beta 0.4 work
* Added colors and a set of config variables for the passageways
listing. Also added colors to the avatars and names buttons.
* Moved all the library file names to new names which fit in
Window's 8.3 format. Windows 98 seems to be a lot more broken
than any other windows. It really hates zip files with longer
than 8.3 names.
Sun Sep 12 18:36:51 EDT 1999 Beta 0.4 work
* Fixed a problem with querying passageways while an existing
query was underway. (thanks drub!)
Sun Sep 12 16:43:20 EDT 1999 Beta 0.4 work
* Made the colors of the buttons on the main screen configurable.
this is done with a whole bunch of variables in InitGlobals
which set the colors to default values. When plugin support is
enabled later, a plugin could change these values. A user could
load these values into his MetaV.cfg file as well.
* The TextChat window is now resizeable without ill affects. (You
can only resize on the vertical.)
Sun Sep 12 12:02:58 EDT 1999 Beta 0.4 work (0.3-4 release)
* Took out the popup download windows. It will now display on the
screen when you are downloading or uploading something. I find
this much less offensive than pop up windows.
Sun Sep 12 03:35:30 EDT 1999 Beta 0.4 work
* melle found a bug! :) Fixed a problem with windows users and
room downloads. Should be more "pleasant" now.
Sun Sep 12 02:54:21 EDT 1999 Beta 0.4 work
* PRIVMSG will now display locally so you know it went. If you
mispell a nick, or the person is not in the room.. you will not
get a baloon (it did not get sent)
* added servers for daytona beach and many more servers in my
Tampa "zoo" collection. (still more to come!)
* Added an /AvEd command which brings up the Avatar Editor.
Sat Sep 11 20:34:17 EDT 1999 Beta 0.4 work (0.3-3 release)
* Fixed some more problems with clients and servers and
information passed. (security fix)
* Enabled Messages. A private message will come in a blue colored
baloon.
* Added a /msg command which works from the chat input lines.
Syntax is /msg user stuff.
* Changed the way the whois command works so that usernames are
no longer case sensitive.
* Changed WHOIS information to a light green colored baloon.
Fri Sep 10 21:49:25 EDT 1999 Beta 0.4 in progress.
* Fixed problems with the movement of users causing the program to
block. It is still blocking click events on the canvas...
perhaps a tcl bug?
* added color and some refinement to the passageways server
checker.
* Fixed a security related bug UPGRADE TO 0.3-2 !!!!!!
Thu Sep 9 17:57:34 EDT 1999 Beta 0.3 release
* Added a new server/client command. USERS will return the number
of users connected to a server. This command will work without
an "authenticated" connection.
* The passageways list will now query the servers listed in there
and show the number of users and ping time to the server in the
list.
* making a RPM/tar.gz/zip file for distribution with new features.
* remote_images dir has been renamed to rimages.
default_avatar.gif has been renamed to default.gif and
default_avatar.av renamed to default.av This was done because
the windows users were having a problem unzipping the stuff with
long filenames. The server code has also been modified to
accomidate this change.
Thu Sep 9 00:55:00 EDT 1999 Beta 0.3 work
* Changed the way the names check button works. It will now list
people in the room and will allow you to perform actions on them
such as WHOIS, private messages, kicks bans. kicks bans and
private messages are not currently available.
* fixed some problems that breaking the code up into modules
caused.
Wed Sep 8 23:54:19 EDT 1999 Beta 0.3 work
* Finished breaking the program into modules. Now to clean things
up within those modules.
* Looking into some sort of operator system. (god cmds, access
levels to the server, kicks, bans, etc)
* added some amusing graphics to the web page.
* Made it so that when you change rooms, it will ignore EXIT
messages from the server until after the room image has
downloaded. This will prevent a bug where the wrong window was
being shown if the user left the room before the download of the
image finished.
* Changed the way some forms of updating was being done from the
downloads section and the avatar movement sections. Should be
less laggy for windows users now?
Sun Sep 5 23:24:24 EDT 1999 Beta 0.3 work
* Began breaking up the program into modules.
* Made the unix install check for all required files and replace
any missing files from the system library install location.
* set up the beginings of a module page which lists maintainers
and defect/feature issues. will be linked from the main page
when I'm done.
Wed Sep 1 17:42:05 EDT 1999 Bugfixes. (0.2)
* fixed a problem with the person's name being left behind when
they exted.
* Fixed a problem with someone's own name being doubled when they
changed names via the setup window.
* fixed a bug in the server code which was not resending images.
Thu Aug 19 18:20:55 EDT 1999 Final stages of version 0.1
* Started Changelog :)
* Fixed the problem with the nameplate being left on the screen
when you changed nicks.
* Added a /connect command
* Setup a system so that error messages can appear as chat baloons
on the user's screen and in red to get their attention.
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