3 May 2005 07:11:52 UTCPosted on: comp.os.os2.apps
Mr. Message for OS/2 is an instant messenger client which is capable of communicating over AOL's Instant Messenger network using the OSCAR protocol (used in the Win32 AIM clients, jBuddy, gAIM, Kopete, ICQ, and
a variety of other clients).
It has been updated with the following changes:
* Changed the way messages are sent so that they are wrapped in HTML. This should fix messaging with some braindead clients that won't display plain text.
* Added some fundamental building blocks of file transfer and group chat support. Nothing functional yet, but it's a start.
* Added a command line option: "-showrawincoming". This will allow me to see in the debug log file if a given received packet was misinterpretted to cause a problem.
* Fixed the way certain user information packets are interpretted, cleaning up the log and eliminating the slim possibility of a crash.
* Fixed the migration process completely. Any server-initiated disconnect should now be handled correctly.
* Fixed a few double and bad frees when a connection has been cut and re-initiated automatically.
* Fixed a deadlock in the receiver thread causing Mr. Message to stop responding to messages from the server on your first sent message. This condition occurred only if you had told Mr. Message to add a buddy to your local buddy list, and this same buddy had already been added to your server-stored buddy list by another program.
* Fixed some settings being "forgotten" because of a change in capitalization or spacing of your screen name (initiated by the user or the server).
* Added a routine to patch the MrMessage.INI file to recover these "forgotten" settings and remove garbage entries created by bugs in previous releases.
* Fixed highlighting as "in use" the wrong entry when an entry is automatically started but the Session Manager had a different item cursored on startup.
* Fixed a crash when using the -nosound option and REXX script events occur.
* Fixed a crash when receiving an empty instant message.
* Fixed a crash when receiving rendevous messages (file transfer, group chat, advanced text messages, etc.)
To download, please visit the new official Mr. Message web page:
http://mamodeo.dyndns.org/MrMessage
If anyone has any new suggestions for the REXX interface or has written some REXX scripts that they think can be generally useful, I'd love to hear about them.
I will continue to post updates to USENET as well as updating the web page.
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