Deliantra-Client

Revision history for Perl extension Deliantra::Client

TODO: add help to completer, add close tab to completer, do stuff to complete TODO: warn about sofwtare renderers
TODO: [num] indicator malfunctioning
TODO: cfplus_ext => 2 is sometimes not beign negotiated! (hack in place, need better protocol)

TODO: multi-line paragraphs get indented strangely (book: collection of strange glyphs). TODO: the ex command is always sent twice, as changing text causes a new descritpino to be querird.

TODO: crash on switching bg music off?
TODO: server restarts reorderign face numbers will disturb music faces played in client? caching?

TODO: ex will be sent multiple times (animation effect) TODO: attuned/repelled spells in different colours? TODO: grace/sp spells in different colour?

2.11 Sat Apr 24 10:08:34 CEST 2010

support overriding the audio driver at runtime, for folks who know what they are doing.
upgrade to libSDL 1.2.14/SDL_mixer 1.2.11 for the GNU/Linux and windows binaries, and also compile in multiple drivers (pulseaudio disabled currently because it's too sucky and crashes on probe).
replace level by minimum level, and damage by effective casting level (for servers > 2.93).
added some commandline arguments: <host> <user> <password>, for the developers mostly.
try a different method of avoiding music-related crashes.
cfplus editor support protocol fixes.
apply some common::sense 3.1 :)
implement bandwidth-usage debug option.
renamed env variable CFPLUS_DEBUG to DELIANTRA_DEBUG.
display audio driver name that is in use.
try to show splashscreen earlier.

2.10 Fri Jan 15 16:14:02 CET 2010

fix blending factors to avoid white-out when fow_intensity > 0.

2.09 Tue Dec 22 01:40:24 CET 2009

implement smooth fow/lighting transitions by blending.
make fow texture configurable and add stipple/transparent versions.
empty "Host" field will now default to gameserver.deliantra.net.
do not crash when the user enters an invalid value into "Host".
fix positional rounding on (pre-c99) windows.
use a pack/unpack alignment of 1 by default everywhere, drop alignment code in fow_texture.

2.06 Fri Dec 4 15:35:33 CET 2009

work around the Apple/NVIDIA font problem (a bug in glTexSubImage2D that apple has no intention to fix, so we do the slow read/update/write way).
work around various ATI/Mesa driver bugs in glTexImage2D by always providing initialisation data for textures. Do they ever test their drivers with, say, some newbie opengl code?
stat change messages did not differentiate between attuned, repelled etc.
work around a bug in the nvidia driver which mishandles alpha textures with env mode REPLACE, causing all magic maps to be white only.
do not use mipmapping for tiles - the trade-off was not worth it.
fix packaging the pango modules twice in the linux and windows binaries.

(2.05) Tue Sep 29 11:21:00 CEST 2009

intermediate os x binary release only.
linking against the opengl library works everywhere, except on Mac OS X 10.6, which some people even spent money on (this seems to break a great number of opengl apps actually).
(os x binary) update libsdl to 1.2.14.

2.05 Tue Sep 15 20:31:15 CEST 2009

changed completer algorithm, thanks go to marcmagus!
try to work around crashes in SDL_Mixer when reinitialising it.

2.04 Sun Apr 26 21:03:40 CEST 2009

work around incompatible ABI change between 1.22 and 1.24 by using a runtime check, this really is a bug that needs fixing inside pango.
include a japanese font (Mona, selected for license and size) with the distribution.
include our own fonts.conf file, to speed up startup and to be able to control font selection.
change confusing login successful message to "connect to server successful".
update BDB and EV in win32 builds to work around the event loop creation bug.
fall back to blocking dns resolve before using a hardcoded address.

2.03 Tue Jan 20 14:54:30 CET 2009

move experience label, progress bars and slot info to the menubar.
move toplevel menu into a menu popup.
use fontsize for chekcbox size requests to get a better layout.
autopickup spellbooks, skillscrolls and valuables by default.
automatically save config/layout on exit and add config options to Setup=>Client to control this.
fix positioning of popup windows.
move autopickup enable (formerly inhibit) to menubar.
correctly display face changes for inventory objects.
verify databases if we are the first process to register, to detect corruption as is common on windows (but not limited to windows, unfortunately).
fall back to backup config file if main config file cannot be parsed.
reduce shimmering during smooth scrolls.
rely on AnyEvent to work around totally broken windows vista tcp/ip subsystem once more (where getpeername returns fantasy ports).
use newer BDB version that works around windows vista tcp/ip breakage.
initialise the default resolver during startup, as windows vista forces us back to the desktop when doing this later(!).

2.02 Wed Dec 24 06:02:53 CET 2008

mark hidden mapspaces visually with a question mark.
make hidden spaces as light as the darkest normal spaces.
don't lie about the window size anymore in fear of crashing the server (as we are dealing with deliantra servers only these days).
correctly draw the speech bubbles and other overlays even when the topmost face isn't visible.
fix swirly tile draw offset.
fix a crash when the user clicks on the map during log-in.
incorporate tips of the day by botz (former madness).
handle failure to load a music face more gracefully (still log the error, but do not crash, instead, ignore the failure).
try to log, instead of crash, on the "cannot call update method" problem.

2.01 - (Mon Dec 15 00:41:33 CET 2008)

rewrote the client tutorial which can be found via the 'Help!' button.
fixed the mostly random switching of message window tabs when new tabs were added.
small typo fix in tooltip on the Skills page in the playerbook.
avoid accessing potentially undefined memory when drawing the map.
fixed speech bubbles which were drawn below some objects sometimes.

2.0 Fri Dec 5 15:42:51 CET 2008

the Log window can't be close anymore by alt+x
pressing return or alt+x directly after start won't crash the client anymore.
the Log window is displayed correctly now after start.
darken the invisible/cached parts of the map further.

0.9978 Sun Nov 9 14:35:41 CET 2008

correctly smooth-move the healthbar as well.
own text is emphasized in the NPC dialogues now.
fixed a crash bug in the macro dialogue.
fixed updating of tooltips of the tabs in the message window.
closing tabs with Alt-x won't let them disappear for every anymore.

0.9977 Tue Sep 30 09:27:29 CEST 2008

require newer BDB version to avoid possible database corruption or crashes on login.
fixed the often choppy smooth movement.
switch to proportional font in log view.
improve the paragraph indent hack to align characters better.
tweak server message output.
optimise visibility handing in multiplexers (only put the current tab into visible state).
reduce the number of unnecessary refreshes.
allow empty multiplexers.
fixed clearing issue in the inventory upon logout.
use the same workarounds for pango for gnu/linux binaries as we use for osx, but additionally patch the pango library because stupid braindead idiotic debian maintainers of course apply custom patches that completely break it.

0.9976 Fri Sep 5 17:28:30 CEST 2008

use keysym not unicode symbol, maybe that helps with some of those keyboard issues on OS X.
treat meta like alt for built-ins, for OS X.
fix tab tooltip listing key shortcut off by one.
disable texture compression with apple software renderer. if you want to get something that works, apple is for you. not.
fix text encoding for item description tooltips.
enlarge window borders considerably.
support lzf-compressed packets.
support fragmented packets.
send crash and opengl vendor information to server for better debugging.
fix crash when displaying the tutorial with the precompiled os x binary: libjpeg collided with libJPEG - long live case-insensitivity :/
cater for the incompatible changes in berkeley db 4.7.
enable highest-resolution video mode again.
add some preliminary theme support and two demo themes, "plain" and "blue".
avoid a crash when the minimap is reduced to zero size.
work around a bug in perl 5.8 perls (Bareword "Socket::AF_UNIX"...).

0.9975 Wed Aug 27 22:16:27 CEST 2008

use biggest video mode <= 1024x768 by default now (previous releases had a bug that caused them to select the smallest vdieo mode available).
ported to the rather horridly broken apple os x platform, using macports (the only non-broken part of the whole thing).
clarify/fix weight/value autopickup option with a tooltip and a server change.

0.9974 Fri Aug 1 15:45:59 CEST 2008

implement smooth scrolling for the player.
try a different workaround to maybe register Deliantra::Client.
support switching off of alpha framebuffers, to work around possible fallback-to-software-renderer problems.
allow video modes <800x600 to be selectable.
decode player from map1ax.
made libsdl1.2.10+ a requirement.
improve the slider widget.
use AnyEvent::Socket::parse_hostport.
upgrade to BDB 1.7.
properly clear mapcells in all cases, also try a heuristic to avoid player ghost images.

0.9973 Mon Jul 7 09:27:59 CEST 2008

added a dummy "package Deliantra::Client" to bin/deliantra, as cpan stupidly cannot install distributions by name.
convert to new non-blocking API.
support IPv6 server connections.
the chat tabs now have tooltips again.

0.9972 Thu May 22 22:45:01 CEST 2008

save all map changes in map cache, not just the current map (this fixes the problem of map border "black out" in the minimap).
use an even more compact format for minimap data.
use an uncompressed cache for minimap data, increases memory requirements (~1mb) but saves compression.
close container, clear inventory, floorbox etc. to avoid a crash when clicking on them after logging out.
support xml formatting in ex replies (item tooltips, requires server 2.54+).
try to ignore repeated keypress-events for movement, as these are usually keyrepeats.
added default (0) for the shift_fire_stop setting
write client.cf in pretty-printed-json.
avoid crashes if map cache is corrupted.

0.9971 Mon May 5 21:37:33 CEST 2008

reverse order of items in floorbox.
sort right side of inventory by floor order.
make messages window always visible.
fix stat tooltips by not lowercasing keywords in pod2wiki.
fix longstanding bug where the stats tab would be removed during chargen.
fix menu alignment.
change podwiki format to be slightly more generic.
ignore pseudo-items in floorbox, only show in inventory.

0.9970 Sun Mar 30 13:30:47 CEST 2008

fix a bug in tile id allocation, the effect of this bug was effectively disabling the tile cache, upgrade is highly recommended.
fix npc dialog.
upgrade the database schema (i.e. nuke it...).
only open the database before forking the bg server.
PRECOMPILED BINARY: use packaged libdb4.6 instead of libdb4.4.
use newer BDB module (might fix the filename encoding issue under win32).
use a real bdb sequence for the faceid, for better performance.

0.9968 Tue Mar 25 20:28:16 CET 2008

reduce documentation memory usage.
fix the stat gauge tooltips that have gone missing since 0.9966.

0.9967 Mon Mar 24 01:24:07 CET 2008

implement keyboard modifier display (mostly because of the numlock problems under windows).
work around a bug on windows where the layout font is being ignored.

0.9966 Sat Mar 22 14:26:05 CET 2008

when the message window is hidden and the input is activated, it will become visible again.
the max number of paragraphs in the chattabs were not limited, leading to a naughty memory leak
the highlighting of the chattabs were deep blue where they should have been deep red :-)
fixed a small inconvenience in the history handling of chat tab entries (hitting cursor-up or cursor-down won't erase what you typed by accident anymore).

0.9965 Sat Jan 19 05:51:39 CET 2008

work around a database race condition by using single-threaded database access.

0.9964 Fri Jan 18 06:30:13 CET 2008

fixed a bug where the message fontsize wasn't set correctly
do not call glTexSubimage2D on 0x0 bitmaps, as this crashes newer nvidia drivers.
fix chatbox label padding.
further rename database directory.
further "branding" of cfplus => deliantra.

0.9963 Sun Jan 6 18:27:02 CET 2008

rework of the messsage window to support 'undocked' windows.
ignore keyboard modifiers we are never interested in.
improve interactivity by using a prepare, not an idle watcher, for screen refreshes.
limit the time spent in database handling, so we refresh the screen even during ongoing heavy texture loading.
load tile map at startup, not at connect time.
tweak database accesses.
widget protocol version 2, supports ui templates.
increase horizontal padding for buttons a bit.
preallocate texture name when switching video modes and the texture can only be loaded in the background to avoid something else taking over.
increase padding for all text entries.
work around a bugfix in pango that no longer is necessary (but causes a bug with new pango versions, argh.)
use supposedly faster readonly pango functions wherever possible.
Canvas widget properly restores line and point widths.
fix padding calculation.
change semantics for align/valign in labels to behave like other alignment values.

0.9962 Thu Dec 27 14:29:02 CET 2007 (download.com only)

changed minimum required resolution to 800x640.
renamed perl module to Deliantra::Client.
fixed unneccessary repetition when firing in a direction when 'only shift-up stops fire' is off.
do not render some glyphs twice. doh.
fix two problems that would cause endless refreshes even when idle (up to 60Hz).
optimise refresh strategy to not refresh more often than 60hz, even if it means to delay updates up to 1/60th of a second.
updated the dejavu fonts to version 2.22.
switch from Crossfire to Deliantra module.
switch from ~/.crossfire to ~/.deliantra, move database from cf to deliantra at startup.
fix some opengl races that could freeze deliantra during shutdowns.
moved client-specific modules into a private subdirectory.
moved client-specific resources into a private subdirectory.

0.9961 Tue Dec 25 20:22:51 CET 2007

fix texture-reload problems when changing resolutions by forcing the reuse of the same texture name.
save and restore glyph cache textures when changing resolutions.

0.9960 Tue Dec 25 10:38:17 CET 2007

fixed item animation by taking advantage of ev_periodic.
document KP+ better.
update to EV 2.0.
do not crash when an invisible widget wants its global coordinate or vice versa.
further optimise face loading from database.

0.9959 Sat Dec 8 20:16:45 CET 2007

grr, really update for EV-1.72.

0.9958 Sat Dec 8 19:37:33 CET 2007

fix a longstanding bug where a jingle would be played repeatedly if no server-provided music was available.
update for EV-1.72 API.

0.9957 Wed Dec 5 20:06:05 CET 2007

switch to new JSON::XS 2.01 API.
add some debugging hooks.

0.9956 Tue Nov 27 10:45:35 CET 2007

convert to the high-performance EV event loop, expecting higher performance and compatibility under windows.
the serverlist feature has been disabled due to problems with activestate perl.

0.9955 Sat Nov 3 13:07:57 CET 2007

enable fullscreen by default.
use a minimum mode of 800x600.
enable the widget extension officially.

0.995 Sat Oct 20 23:48:20 CEST 2007

experimental widgets extension is now enabled in the release.
enable tabs by default now.

0.99 Sun Sep 2 10:48:08 CEST 2007

much better compatibility to gl drivers that claim opengl 2.0 but then providing some features in software.
better face caching.
background music and spatial sound effects.
more default keymappings.
item descriptions in tooltips.

0.98 Wed May 9 13:46:13 CEST 2007

64x64 faceset support.
better message support.
asynchonrous database accesses.

0.97 Thu Jan 25 06:16:08 CET 2007

rewritten keybinding system.
many, many bugfixes.

0.95

fix off-by-one-bug click and map ghosting.
many minor bugfixes.

0.53 Wed Oct 18 14:35:28 CEST 2006

add win32 splashscreen.
moved crossfire data directory to %APPDATA% on win32.

0.52 Wed Sep 20 18:00:39 CEST 2006

fix most map ghosting
include npc speech bubble indication
work around some crash

0.5 Tue Sep 12 22:29:28 CEST 2006

many fetaures and bugfixes.
improve portability by making sdl-1.2.10 features optional.

0.2 Mon Jul 31 13:15:40 CEST 2006

fix missing CFPlus/Pod.pm.

0.01 Thu Apr 6 16:30:28 CEST 2006

original version; cloned from PLIB::PUI