Stigma - The Game: Client change log
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Project started: December, 2005. Rewritten in 2008.
This file contains changes made to project since: 2008/02/20
Key:
* changes in end-user functionality, may be interesting for everybody
- changes in code, important for developers
All #numbers refers to tickets numbers on http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/stigma/
Client 0.5.0 - 2011/03/30
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Features:
* Chat added
* Various updates to components' styles. New synth painter: GlossyPainter.
* Client will check every 2s if logger configuration has changed.
* (#231) Added 'gender' attribute to actor.
* (#225) Added XP bar (static).
* (#232) Gender of a player's actor affects background image in equipment window.
* (#242) Disabled dragging columns in tables.
* (#243) Clicking a table header causes the contents to be sorted by clicked column.
* (#208) Table headers visually respond to mouse events.
* (#272) Added 'recent' column to item tables; used for default sorting order.
* (#246) Using 'weight' icon instead of a label where appropriate.
* (#247) Gold display in inventory window.
* (#256) Resistances displayed in character/statistics window.
* Created popup menus from item tables and actor list.
- (#266) Client now does not perform precise cooldown down-counting. PlayerController pauses for required time; ui classes calculate current value as needed.
- (#231) Actors have 'gender' attribute.
- Log4j updated to 1.2.16 version.
- MySQL connector updated to 5.1.13 version.
- (#236) Removed name and description attributes from tile type.
- (#219) Added MechanicInternals with XP leveling requirement formula.
- (#177) Using 'idle' command to allow player requests not to end when target is reached (used in 'follow').
- (#178) Added 'interruptible' attribute to player requests; made some request not interruptible.
Fixes:
* (#267) Dropped support for running client with 'Default LAF' (without synth).
* (#245) Client receives gold amount of player's actors.
* (#242) Disabled column moving in actors and items tables.
* (#256) Added resistances to player statistic panel (removed 'Proficiencies')
* (#70) Actor movement animation more smooth.
- UiEvent structures simplified - less code to maintain, yet a little harder component development.
- (#206) No more separate versions of XML files - just application version will be used.
- (#213) Fixed inconsistency in protocol - item weight synchronization.
- (#266) Rebuilt PlayerController, removed cooldownThread.
- (#269) Exception when mouse pointer leaves client window after hovering over actor table.
- (#245) Fixed gold not being sent in player's actors list.
Client 0.4.3 - 2010/10/24
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Features:
* (#224) Refactored 'Choose actor' panel.
* (#23) Added tooltip describing other actors.
* Default client font changed to Sans; Dialog font is also used in some contexts.
* (#223) Added buttons to show statistics and items windows next to equipment window.
* Client closes when disconnected and auto-login is enabled.
- Reworked client state management and auto-login functionality.
Fixes:
* (#211) Critical chance added to weapon attack
* (#234) Changed layout of 'Statistics' window.
- Fixed a bug that caused an assertion fail when a multiple-item stack left field of view.
- Updated i18n4j version to 0.4.2
Client 0.4.2 - 2010/10/11
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Fixes:
* Item tooltips refactored (many icons added).
* (#24) Added 'Statistics' window.
* (#181) Fixed item types for armors sometimes not loading.
* (#216) Added new component for displaying currency values.
* (#148) Added 'overloaded' indicator.
* (#197) Automatic 'goto' will move player into 'proximity' of target, not to it's exact location.
* (#211) Removed 'drop indicator' from item table.
* (#210) Hidden gaps between cells in item table.
- (#181) Fixed problem with loading items types on client.
- (#205) More 'state consistency' checks in authorization module, fixes some thread-race errors
Client 0.4.1 - 2010/08/15
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Features:
* (#188) Item icons used in tooltips.
* (#189) Item icons used in equipment window.
* (#190) Item icons used in item tables.
* (#193) New damage and attack icons (fire icon by Yusuke Kamiyamane).
- (#187) Created ImageProxyComponent for displaying ImageProxy.
- (#186) ImageDB now can return icons for items.
Fixes:
* (#195) Problems with refreshing visible actors list fixed.
* (#196) Not fully loaded item (stub type) cannot be unequipped (caused client crash).
* (#194) Re-positioned actor list table on main game window.
* (#199) Item tool tip displays proper amount of seconds of cooldown (was displaying turns number).
* (#198) Added vertical gap between components in "Ground" frame.
* (#204) Inventory, Equipment etc windows will update properly after some changes on server side or when item type is loaded.
* (#203) Actors list refreshed properly when moving.
Client 0.4.0 - 2010/07/20
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Features:
* Support for picking up, dropping and equipping items.
* Inventory, Character sheet (including equipment) and Ground windows added.
* (#182) Changed login procedure - other actors/clients of same player will be disconnected just after acceptance of password (was: after choosing new actor)
* (#74) Added default user name and password on client login screen and disabled password clearing after login on client.
* (#95) Added "About" button to login dialog that window containing license.
* I18n utility moved to separate project (i18n4j) and re-attached to Stigma as external library.
* (#52) 'Connection timed out' detection added.
* Player actor choosing screen reworked.
* (#124) Client sends "pings" to server to sustain connection. Those can be used to measure "lag".
* (#33) Path-finding is used every move if player actor is not following the MapType-derived shortest path.
* Issuing an invalid move order halts player actor instead of being ignored.
* Added command line arguments to ReadMe.txt.
- Removed widgets, GUI is now done using 'sprite engine' and standard Swing components.
- GUI is using customized Synth Look&Feel.
- Renamed packages to pl.minions.org.* - now they match existing domain.
- (#118) 'Time-stamp' protocol implemented for items (items data synchronization client-server).
- AllClassesLoader added to i18n tool - no more "static registering" of classes needed.
- Single Commands wrapping class split to many packages.
- Single Deltas wrapping class split to many packages. Separate package delta created.
- Single NetworkMessage wrapping class split to many packages.
- Great re-factoring - Deltas split to Events and WorldData. Changed interpretation of Events - more descriptive, less general.
- 'Time-stamp' protocol refactored to be more generic.
- ArchetypeAsyncDB will always return some Archetype, user is responsible for checking whether or not it is "accumulated".
- (#115) ArchetypeAsyncDB will accumulated archetypes in XmlReader thread instead of user thread.
- (#123) Renamed "resistance deflection" to "relative resistance"
- (#67) Moved MapInstance completion from GUI classes to Client (CommandThread)
- Created SystemMessage class for transporting different events to player.
- Added possibility for monitoring progress of processing XML files.
Fixes:
* (#76) Fixed phantom player actor after logging out on safe map and logging in again.
* (#99) When missing translated string i18n utility will no longer crash application.
* (#107) Newly logged player's actor didn't have actual stamina level restored.
- (#75) Introduced thread safety to ActorAnimator and SpriteLayer classes.
* (#110) Player receive archetypes of his actors when logging in.
Client 0.3.0 - 2009/07/01
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Features:
* (#37) Created some stubs for calculating actor dynamic characteristics (ActorCalculator class) - less data is sent to client.
* (#38) Added logout button.
* (#38) Player's actors disabled (for example due to recent logout) are listed, but cannot be chosen.
* (#53) Added a button for refreshing enabled/disabled states of player actors while logging in.
* Modified terrain rendering.
* (#64) Added "Stigma Client <version>" text visible when not in game.
* Modified client frame caption.
* Changed actor ellipses from a graphic primitive to a colored image.
* Actors and viewport movement 'almost' smooth.
* Clipped rendered map to seven tiles in each direction around player actor (15x15 tiles viewport).
- (#25) 'Time-stamp' protocol implemented (actor data synchronization client-server).
- (#40) Entrance/Exit renamed to EntryZone/ExitZone.
- Game rendering moved to SpriteCanvas.
- Map renamed to MapInstance.
- TileSet renamed to TerrainSet.
- LoginState enum values changed to UPPER_CASE.
- Added BufferedImageFiltering class.
Fixes:
- (#45) Fixed cleanup of game widgets on disconnect.
- (#32) Fixed cleanup of path finder on disconnect.
- (#28) Fixes in path finding algorithm.
- (#12) There's now a single background panel widget instead of every widget having it's own background.
- Cooldown thread now checks time after entering a critical section, not before.
Translations:
* Stub for future Polish translation added.
Client 0.2.4 - 2009/04/12
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Fixes:
* (#8) Client now remembers whether it sent an authentication response to server for current login state (no more "double messages in row" problem).
- (#9) ThreadSafeMap - added reference counter, less possibility of ConcurentModificationException
- (#10) BufferOverflowException error while encoding some commands fixed,
changed fixed sizes of commands/deltas.
Features:
* Displayed Actors have tips displaying their names.
* (#4) Added "Click & go" to client, preserving ability to move using directional keys.
* Added an icon representing player's movement destination.
- (#13) Server sends information about failed commands (does NOT change protocol, just interpretation).
- (#3) Path-finding algorithm implementation (based on A*).
- Added auto-size feature to Text widget (sacrificing displaying the Text widget during single paintHierarchy call).
- Simplified Tip class. Now auto-sizes by default.
- Frequently occurring log messages moved form debug level to trace for efficiency.
- Much more informational "toString()" method of Commands and Deltas.
- Added PlayerController class for handling high-level user input.
- Client swallowed commands when they were two frequent. This feature became obsolete and has been removed.
Client 0.2.3 - 2008/12/17
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Fixes:
* Sending bad password and then trying to type in login window no longer crashes client (reported by sacher).
* Client will not try to send login message with empty login/password (reported by sacher).
Client 0.2.2 - 2008/12/14
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Features:
* Selecting text in edit fields in now fully supported in our widgets engine and therefore in login screen.
- Mouse dragging updates mouse position in WidgetsUI.
* Clipboard operations in edit fields are now fully supported in our graphics engine and therefore in login screen.
* 'Tabbing' through login/password edits - much more functional login window.
- LineEdit has "next line edit" property.
* Pressing 'ENTER' on login screen will have the same effect as pressing the OK button.
- LineEdit has "enter pressed action" property.
* Main color theme changed.
- Palette class is now easier to use - utility class with static final fields.
- BBCodeParser gets now the default font and color in constructor instead of depending on Palette class.
- Moved Palette class to ...widgets package.
* Rearranged in-game widgets.
- Separated Login and PlayerActorChooser widgets for easier separate customization.
Fixes:
* Password is no longer remembered by UI after hitting "OK" on log-in screen.
- Fixed LayoutAssistant bug that would throw an exception upon receiving a null Alignment (now just leaves unaligned).
Client 0.2.1 - 2008/12/05
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Fixes:
* All resources (XML, images) are now loaded using hexadecimal numbers.
* Major performance boost with new mechanism for loading and caching images.
- New ImageDB with ImageProxy, which, for example, can report an error. This way it is possible to know, after a certain amount of time, if the image is unreachable.
- TileWidget checks if tile image exists and when told it does not exist, the widget ceases trying to retrieve it
* Moved some client threads around.
* Added additional 100 ms command cooldown on client (less possibility for server to reject client).
Client 0.2.0 - 2008/11/23
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Features:
* Client can use uncompressed resources, configured by server parameter.
* Added support for tile images. They are used if present and loaded. Otherwise tile color and a black border for non-passable tiles are used.
* Replaced FPS bar with estimated FPS counter (debug mode).
Resources:
* Added default actor image (local image).
Fixes:
* Fixed bugs that made it impossible to use maps with more than one segment.
* Fixed problem with phantom actor on new map after 'seeing' actor entering from that map.
* Client run as an applet can load images from it's JAR file.
* Improved performance by disabling composition buffers in segment widgets.
Client 0.1.0 - 2008/11/16
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Features:
* Establishing and reestablishing connection to server.
* Security keys exchange with the server.
* Logging to the server using any registered account.
* Choosing an 'actor' from available to logged in user.
* Error detection and handling during login (bad client version, bad user name/password etc.)
* First practical use of the 'minions widgets'. They seem to actually work.
* Map loading and rendering.
* Navigation on map using keyboard (to be removed in future versions).
* Map changing when player 'actor' changes map.
* Rendering moves of other 'actors'.
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=== switched to new development plan - new version numbers ===
=== below are 'deprecated' versions ===
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Client 0.1 Beta - 2008/03/20
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Features:
* (Re)Establishing connection to the server
* Security keys exchange with the server
* Logging to the server using any registered account
* Choosing an 'actor' from available for logged account account
* Error detection and handling during logging in (like bad client version, bad username/password etc.)
* First practical use of the 'stigma widgets'. They seem to actually work.
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