I am pleased to release version 4.55 of MUSHclient. See the release notes for more details.
Improvements
- Added new Debug function option: "summary" - this summarizes various things about your world. See New "summary" feature
- Added plugin Summary.xml to the distribution - this lets you get the debug summary by installing it and typing "summary"
- Some loading warning messages are less wordy and therefore less confusing
- Improved the interface for CallPlugin when doing Lua-to-Lua calls. See Extended CallPlugin syntax
- You can now have more items in script-generated (and MXP) menus
- Fixed a couple of bugs
Download
You can view the release notes for version 4.55
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You can download MUSHclient 4.55 now from ...
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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 mushclient455.exe you should get this result:
17abdf5dc46f0bb0204762f5d013d598
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. Some versions (versions 4.49 to 4.52 of MUSHclient) may incorrectly report they are using Lua 5.1.1 when you open a world.
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 quite a few years ago (May 2002), 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/v4.55
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 v4.54..v4.55 --stat
MUSHclient.dsp | 30 +-
MUSHclient.rc | 8 +-
OtherTypes.h | 3 +
dialogs/plugins/PluginWizard.cpp | 4 -
dialogs/world_prefs/prefspropertypages.cpp | 2 -
doc.cpp | 9 -
doc.h | 10 +-
doc_construct.cpp | 8 +
globalregistryoptions.cpp | 13 +-
how_to_release.txt | 121 +++++++
install/mushclient.nsi | 3 +
install/readme.txt | 4 +-
miniwindow.cpp | 4 -
mushview.h | 2 +-
plugins/Summary.xml | 32 ++
resource.h | 2 +-
scripting/lua_methods.cpp | 274 ++++++++++++++++-
scripting/lua_scripting.cpp | 4 +-
scripting/lua_utils.cpp | 3 -
scripting/methods.cpp | 14 +-
scripting/scriptengine.cpp | 19 --
scripting/scripting.h | 10 -
stdafx.h | 8 +-
telnet_phases.cpp | 11 +
world_debug.cpp | 481 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
xml/xml_load_world.cpp | 10 +-
26 files changed, 990 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-)
Commit log (date order)
$ git --no-pager log --pretty=oneline --reverse --abbrev-commit v4.54..v4.55
315d27d Notes on releasing MUSHclient
67ac194 Updated version number to 4.55
889dabd Added Debug function option: summary
0a28c28 Improvements to Debug 'summary'
7990fdc Improvements to Debug 'summary'
949f460 Improvements to Debug 'summary'
1aecfa9 Neatened up Debug 'summary', adding subheadings
127940a Added summary.xml plugin to distribution
a463c1c Added Summary.xml to git
21d1ddb Made some warning messages less wordy
324e64f Changes to CallPlugin to allow multiple arguments
84fae24 Added selector 23 to GetPluginInfo (ID of calling plugin)
6750ba5 Removed USE_LUA definition as it is redundant now
cb9612c Increased maximum number of menu items from 30 to 100
2091f10 Removed a couple of redundant defines
887ed4b Code cleanups as suggested by Twisol
c9789b3 Added list of SQLite databases to debug summary
ad6fe50 Fixed crash if you did Debug 'option_info'
275bee6 Corrected CallPlugin to allow for bounced calls
4444073 Final changes before release
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