~b~12,4             kSirc Release Notes for 981220                             

Work over the past month or so has concentrated in 2 majour areas,
memory consumption and Puke. There's also been some minor features
etc.

~2Misc Features:

~4~b*~C If you bring up a menu, ctrl+letter generates an on the fly accelerator
~4~b*~C Scroll back size if setable through the Prefrences
~4~b*~C Setable background pixmap, it ~b~ureally~b~u sucks
~4~b*~C New icons for the server controller/docking.  Thanks mosfet

~2Memory:

~4~b*~C The last few release kSirc has had a gradual memory leak, fixed.
~4~b*~C Created KPlunger a generic memory debugger and leak tracker for C++.
~4~b*~C Fixed a bunch of bufffer problems which caused kSirc die on non-intel
~4~b*~C Reduced memory footprint, and effeciency.

~2Puke:
~4~b*~C Reduced endian dependance
~4~b*~C Lots to come soon

~b~12,4             kSirc Release Notes for 981107                             

This release is mostly a bug fix release.

Bugs Fixed:

~4~b*~C ~3Title Bar now works with not umode set, away, etc
~4~b*~C ~3Puke now works on most machines I can find.  This means you can stop whinning about dcc being broken.
~4~b*~C ~3Puke's now pretty much portable.
~4~b*~C ~3Lots of little bugs all over the place.

~b~12,4             kSirc Release Notes for 981025                             

~2New Features:

~4~b*~C ~3Mini Web Server
~4~b*~C ~3MDI Mode (very experimental)
~4~b*~C ~3Better Caption support with optional Topic
~4~b*~C ~3New Server Picker, thanks Atko
~4~b*~C ~3Selecting windows in SC brings them to foreground
~4~b*~C ~3Release notes are displayed to the screen on first run
~4~b*~C ~3Improved online help with /help


~b~12,4             Web Server Notes                                           

Credit: Thanks to Roberto for the PWS config dialog,
99.9% of the work is his.

The web server setup is a graphical configuration
for the freely available web server called
mathopd.  It's run/controlled via kSirc and
I've some fun running it.

Couple notes to remember, you cannot use ports
< 1024.  I'm not going to run anything as root,
since running a web server is dangerous enough,
much less giving potential root access away.

/url command will show you a valid url
for you sure.  Replace <port> with the port(s)
that the web server is running on.

~b~12,4                  MDI Mode                                              

Credit: Timothy Whitfield, ported the MDI interface
from kEirc into a generic MDI interface for KDE.

Now, if you want to use it, here's a bunch of
problems I've already seen:

1. Acelerator keys are all messed up.  pgup/dn
is a good example.  It just doesn't work.

2. If you minimize something, you have to
double click on the channel name in the server
controller to bring it back.

3. You cannot minimize the server controller.

4. You can drag windows off the screen in never
never land.

I'm personally not a big fan of the MDI interface
but I'll work on making it work right as time permits.

~b~12,4                  OTHER Stuff                                           

There's been a bunch of bug fixes everywhere.

Cut & paste now cleans up correctly most of the time now.

New release notes box, I think it's useful. What do
you think?

Caption should be more useful now.  I think this is the
best way to display the topic on the screen.

Server controller is in and needs some more work.  Basic
idea works well though.

/help now displayes all possible functions, instead of just 
built in ones.  Shows all kSirc commands as well.