I am pleased to release version 4.96 of MUSHclient. See the release notes for more details.

Improvements

• Changed the 256-ANSI colour cube to follow the Xterm model (with brighter colours) rather than the Netscape model (with even colours).
• Added script function utils.colourcube. This lets you change back to the Netscape colour cube if you prefer.
• Added plugin callback OnPluginDrawOutputWindow. This lets you do things (like update a miniwindow) at the moment the output window is being redrawn.
• Modified graphical mapper to support mouse-over events for rooms.
• Added new function "tooltip" to module mw.lua. This lets you easily draw a tooltip window.
• Modified gauge.lua to add functions suggested by Fiendish, and also added a margin around the box drawn by draw_text_box, so that the text does not hit the edge of the box.
• Fixed bug in WindowResize function where the resized window would lose its existing contents. Also amended the documentation which gave an incorrect example.
• Fixed small bug in InfoBox.lua on advice of author, Willfa.
• Upgraded libpng (the PNG library) from 1.5.14 to 1.6.15.
• Upgraded SQLite from 3.8.7 to 3.8.7.2

Download

You can view the release notes for version 4.96

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.

If you do an md5sum on mushclient496.exe you should get this result:

f5a4e359b4a7686e99f8413d84777b4b

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.

Source code

The source code for this version is available from GitHub:

http://github.com/nickgammon/mushclient/tree/v4.96

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 --no-pager diff v4.95..v4.96 --stat

 .gitignore              |   6 +
 MUSHclient.cpp          |  31 +-
 MUSHclient.rc           |   8 +-
 doc.h                   |   4 +-
 install/readme.txt      |   4 +-
 lua/InfoBox.lua         |   3 +-
 lua/gauge.lua           |  64 ++--
 lua/mapper.lua          | 828 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
 lua/mw.lua              | 375 ++++++++++++++--------
 miniwindow.cpp          |  12 +-
 mushview.cpp            |   6 +-
 plugins.cpp             | 127 ++++----
 plugins.h               |   5 +-
 png/.gitignore          |   1 +
 png/pnglibconf.h        | 183 -----------
 png/readme.txt          |   7 +-
 scripting/lua_utils.cpp |  45 +++
 sqlite3/readme.txt      |   4 +-
 18 files changed, 879 insertions(+), 834 deletions(-)

   

Commit log (date order)

$ git --no-pager log --pretty=oneline --reverse --abbrev-commit v4.95..v4.96

f7ce827 Changed version number to 4.96
111784e Changed 256-colour ANSI to use Xterm colour cube
773b493 Added script function utils.colourcube
fb7fd5b Added another couple of files to .gitignore
470a155 Added OnPluginDrawOutputWindow plugin callback
90c3ce9 Added mouseover callback to mapper
9abbf88 Some bugfixes
a5b10dd Added functions, made draw_text_box have a slight margin
f2e1b6f Added tooltip function
9761712 Improvements, made tooltip have rounded corners
2981266 Improvements to tooltip, allowing for bold lines
fadf1b6 Bug fix regarding height of bold font
431942f Fixed bug with WindowResize
a526743 Bug fix as advised by WillFa
7b2a0a4 Upgraded libpng from 1.5.14 to 1.6.15
adf006f Removed accidentally added pnglibconf.h
398a23e Updated release date
b5a3a1e Upgraded SQLite from 3.8.7 to 3.8.7.2