[Jcrossclient-devel] jcrossclient 1.0 alpha4

[Brendan L. <bre...@gm...>]

I have just released jcrossclient 1.0 alpha 4, release notes follow.

These are the release notes for jcrossclient 1.0 alpha4:

JCrossclient is a java client for the Free Software RPG/MMORPG
crossfire (www.crossfire.real-time.com) and can be used to connect to
crossfire servers all over the world.

Please note that this is an alpha release, and therefore should not
be considered suitable for use as a main client (yet). Whilst most major
bugs
should now be fixed, there is no guarantee that this is the case.

Any bugs, comments, suggestions, queries, etc should be sent to the
jcrossclient mailing list: jcr...@li...

Noteworthy changes since the previous release:


Major Changes

* Significant Speedups to the map display code

* Simplified build process

* Support for dropping/picking up part of a stack

* Interface is now tabbed, to take up less space

* Magic Map support

* Metaserver support

* Actions menu

* Display the contents of containers in the Main Panel


Minor Changes

* Inventory and examine windows scroll faster.

* Resistances are displayed with the rest of the stats

* Many old menu options removed.

* Create a settings pane

* Parse item2 packets, and sort inventory by them.

* Item locking now works

* 't' key acts like the quote key to focus talkwindow

* Title is settable by clicking on character name


Known Bugs (please report any issues not on this list)

* Hitting enter in the talkwindow with an empty line doesn't return focus
   to the mapwindow

* Using comma to pickup items only picks up one at a time.

* Scrollbars for the inventory window sometimes need resized to be usable.


This latest version of jcrossclient can be obtained from the jcrossclient
sourceforge page http://sourceforge.net/projects/jcrossclient under the
'files' section.

This release is available both as a pre-compiled jar file, and a source
tarball, these files (and their corresponding MD5sums) are:

jcrossclient-1.0alpha4.jar     71b049aae55522e69ef3a5b3623b75ad
jcrossclient-1.0alpha4.tar.gz  1186a8483a302acaa1703cfa922250fb

Additionally, there is an experimental java webstart file for this release,
which can be found at:

http://cavetroll.uwcs.co.uk/jcrossclient/jcrossclient.jnlp

Please note, this is /experimental/ and is not guaranteed (nor even likely)
to be the permanent home for this.

Nonetheless, any reports of success/failure in using this would be most wel=
come.