I am pleased to release version 4.51 of MUSHclient. See the release notes for more details.
Improvements
- Various minor changes and improvements, mainly for scripting and telnet negotiation.
- Added mapper.lua - Nick's MUSHclient mapper module
- Added ATCP_NJG.xml - Nick's ATCP module
- Added command-line option "/nodirectsound"
Download
You can view the release notes for version 4.51
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You are strongly advised to backup (make a copy of) your existing MUSHclient world files before upgrading. Just in case.
If there are any problems, please post messages to the Bug Reports, Suggestions, or General parts of this forum.
MD5 sum for the installer
If you do an md5sum on mushclient451.exe you should get this result:
70330907af47e334c5f694050a64d4b2
The forum post a small script to sumcheck the MUSHclient download shows how you can write a small script in MUSHclient to do the sumcheck. It also lists some places you can download md5sum.exe to do the sumcheck (if this is the first time you have downloaded MUSHclient).
One way of doing an md5sum is to download the Installer_sumcheck plugin from the Plugins page (RH click that link and "save link as" to get the plugin). Then install the plugin (see the File menu -> Plugins) and type "md5sum" which lets you browse to the installer file, load it, and display the sumcheck.
Message about "Failed to load resources file"
Some users are reporting getting a message like "
Failed to load resources file: C:\Programme\MUSHclient\locale\DE.dll - trying English file" when starting MUSHclient (the DE.dll part might be another language like FR.dll).
This will be because you have customized the "locale" of MUSHclient to other than EN (English).
See the How to localize MUSHclient messages into other languages forum posting for more details about localization.
To fix this, find the directory you installed MUSHclient into (eg. "C:\Program Files\MUSHclient\") and then locate the subdirectory "locale". In that you will find a file en.dll. Copy or rename that file to match the missing file in the message (eg. copy en.dll to de.dll).
Alternative suggestion: Go into the File menu -> Global Preferences -> General, and change the field "Locale code" back to "EN" (English) and then it should look for EN.DLL next time.
Warning about Lua 5.1 upgrade
MUSHclient version 3.80 upgraded the Lua script engine from Lua 5.0.2 to 5.1.1. If you are upgrading to this version from an earlier version than 3.80, you should read Version 3.80 released - with Lua 5.1 script engine - this post has recommendations about what is required if you use Lua scripting or Lua plugins. Note: Since version 3.80 was released, the version of Lua has been upgraded. It is currently 5.1.4.
Warning about upgrading from versions prior to 3.21
MUSHclient version 3.85 (onwards) no longer reads the old "binary" world files produced by versions prior to 3.21. For more information about this please read the forum post Versions 3.85 onwards no longer support world files created prior to version 3.21 - this post has recommendations about how to upgrade your world files if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 3.21.
Note that version 3.21 was released about 5 years ago, so people who have recently installed MUSHclient should not have any problems.
Source code
The source code for this version is available from GitHub:
http://github.com/nickgammon/mushclient/tree/v4.51
You can directly download the source from the Downloads page (http://github.com/nickgammon/mushclient/downloads), or preferably install Git and use the appropriate commands to clone or pull the source. For some suggestions about getting the source from Git see MUSHclient source being made available on GitHub forum posting.
If you install Git, subsequent downloads (of new versions) will be much faster as it only needs to download the changes, not the whole source. Also by using Git you can find out exactly what has changed from version to the next.
Summary of changes in this version
$ git diff v4.50..v4.51 --stat
MUSHclient.cpp | 33 +-
MUSHclient.rc | 8 +-
doc.h | 4 +-
install/mushclient.nsi | 4 +
install/readme.txt | 4 +-
lua/checkplugin.lua | 40 ++-
lua/gauge.lua | 26 +-
lua/mapper.lua | 1329 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
mushview.cpp | 2 +-
plugins/ATCP_NJG.xml | 203 +++++++
scripting/lua_utils.cpp | 2 +
11 files changed, 1627 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
Commit log (date order)
$ git log --pretty=oneline --reverse --abbrev-commit v4.50..v4.51
eac15c8 Increased version number to 4.51
7b6e000 Fixed bug where utils.fontpicker would ignore supplied colour
982b987 Extra stuff for mapper
34fdb22 Auto-load in do_plugin_check_now
1aa8c1f Allow periods in function names used in Hyperlink
c0c4fdd Added ability to disable DirectSound
7aab1d6 Nick's mapper module - initial commit
abff1a6 Tidied up a bit
6f21133 Some bug fixes
d08592a Added LH-click callback
426c49e Fixed bugs in search
7f0ed11 Some improvements, and things made optional
bd6972a Better speedwalk messsages
751895e Added check if we are connected when clicking on hyperlinks
25a1bd0 Plugin to handle ATCP messages
e5162ab Added ATCP_NJG and mapper.lua to install
4a3ffe3 Final commits for release
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