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All,
I have released an *English Only* version of Fire.app 0.29.a for testing.
It is available at
http://www.epicware.com/Downloads/Fire.app.0.29.a.EnglishOnly.dmg.gz
If you are running some other localization of Fire - you *MUST* delete
the old version of Fire before installing this one. Otherwise bad
things will happen.
Here are the current release notes ...
0.29.a
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Highlights
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- Full fledged ICQ Support again - stolen directly from ICY Juice.
Thanks :-)
- New configurable toolbar support
- UI cleanup
- Automatic translation of instant messages. Send in English - they can
recieve in Spanish, etc. and vice versa
- Integrated help File
- Completely new preference panels
Source Code
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NOTE: Before you can build Fire from this source, you will need to copy
bastring.h from the ICQ directory to the
/usr/include/gcc/darwin/2.95.2/g++ directory.
Services
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AIM
- Fire now uses ISOLatin1 encoding for strings sent in AIM (and ICQ if
so desired). This should enable non-English text characters (��, etc.)
in AIM.
- Newlines are stripped from the end of incoming messsages. This should
improve the multi-line spacing when you're talking with the OS X AOL AIM
client.
irc
- Supports limited text markup.
- Channel ops are red instead of bold.
- Fire now notices +/- voice.
- People changing nicks shouldn't cause random windows to pop up anymore.
- Context menus for user icons.
ICQ
- Completely new ICQ stack based off of libicq2000. I am blatantly
stealing the code from Icy Juice and modifying it for my own purposes.
Ahh the beauty of the GPL.
- Buddy info works again.
- Messages work again.
- Authorization works again.
- Offline messages work again.
Application
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- The chat windows now use an NSToolbar (configurable) for all the
buttons, thereby making the windows a lot smaller.
- The preferences have been completely redone
- URLs are now hyperlinks in the chat window
- Automatic, inline foreign language translation. Be aware of the
following issues:
- The translation is not perfect.
- The translation is not perfect. (This is not an accidentally
repeated line.)
- The translation is not perfect, but it should be close enough to get
the point across.
- If you have return set up as a "send" key, Sh-Return will not send the
IM and instead will insert a carriage-return.
- If you press "Esc" while you are typing an IM, the IM will clear
itself out.
(Thanks to Jason Townsend for these)
- Improved sizing of the online buddies dot.
- The dot can now be hidden if no buddies are online.
- New notification windows
(Thanks to Jonathan McGuire for these)
- Smiley placement popup menu for the toolbar.
- In the Buddy Editor, the Groups popup is now sorted. This should
make "** Default Group **" the default group. (Or if you're editing a
current buddy, whatever group they're in.
- Raphael Ho added in the service icon as part of the user's title bar.
- Fire's application support files are now located in
~/Library/Application Support/Fire
- The first time Fire launches, it will check for ~/Library/Fire. If
it is found,
Fire will try to move that folder to ~/Library/Application
Support/Fire. If
the move is successful, you won't see anything. Fire will only
notify you if
the move fails. If it fails, check for the before and after
locations and let
me know what you have -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This also means that you will NOT be able to go back to an older
version of Fire once you upgrade without
moving the files back by hand.
- Fire will use the IM account name instead of your OS X account name in
chat windows
- You can IM any user, not just those on your buddy list (Services->IM
to Other)
- Mail alerts can now take you to the mail site for that service.
- Strange behavior, let me know -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- You can now do private conversations with chat users by double
clicking on their chat windows.
- Fire now has an integrated help file (English only)
- Fixed the no-sound-by-default bug.
- Completely new preference panels
- Group chats have user icons
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