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NB: This is a beta release (snapshot of current work) which will ONLY
run with a keyfile.

Olli

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1.Introduction
---------------

AmIRC is a client for the IRC Internet Relay Chat protocol written by
Oliver Wagner <[e-mail]> and Jamie van den Berge <[e-mail]>.
It is a part of the VaporWare suite of Internet applications.  For more
information on AmIRC or any other VaporWare products, please see our
website - http://www.vapor.com/.

AmIRC is *SHAREWARE*.  You can register it easily with the included
registration utility, or online.

To use your Credit Card to register online, just point your browser at
http://www.vapor.com/ and follow the "Order" link.  This is a secure
site.  All online Credit Card orders are processed by Silicon Circus
Ltd. (http://www.siliconcircus.com/)

This update is free for AmIRC 3.x users. AmIRC 1.x or AmIRC 2.x
can upgrade their version at reduced rates; please see the included
registration utility or http://www.vapor.com/updates/ for more
information.

The executable comes in two versions:  One for 68020 (and up) CPUs and OS
3.0 or OS 3.1 systems, one for 68000 and/or systems running OS 2.0.
Starting with AmIRC 3.2, the 68000/OS2.0 version of AmIRC is no longer
included in the main archive.  It's individually available from all the
Vapor download sites.

AmIRC is (C) 1995-2000 by Oliver Wagner <[e-mail]>, All Rights
Reserved.  Additional coding done by Jamie van den Berge
<[e-mail]>, Marcin Orlowski <[e-mail]> and Jerome Fisher
<[e-mail]>.  Documentation by Frank Mosch.

Special thanks to all ATO members who provided translations for AmIRC.
See http://ato.vapor.com/ for more information on the Amiga
Translators Organization.


2.Features
----------

AmIRC v3's features include

- Works with Genesis, Miami, AmiTCP and as225/inet225, no additional
  libraries.

- Built-in highly optimised DCC drivers for SEND, TSEND and MOVE, with
  asynchronous file I/O and threaded network handling. Supports drag &
  drop sending of files, and DCC RESUME.

- Tranparent DCC CHAT routes all /MSGs via DCC CHAT if possible. There
  is an option to automatically accept DCC CHAT connections.

- Supports secure encrypted DCC CHAT (SCHAT).

- Ultra fast text output and scrolling. Supports copy & paste for the
  list text, and allows the use of proportional fonts. Supports
  colored text and inline display of URLs

- Internal CTCP flood and DCC bomb protection, and clone warning.

- Full Undernet IRC extensions (reply codes and additional commands).

- Intuitive channel display, with userlist and channel mode overview.
  Channel modes can easily be changed and the banlist inspected via
  these gadgets. The configurable user action list allows you to
  perform whatever action you like on user(s) in channel by the press
  of a mousebutton..

- Uses query windows for private chat.

- Supports "smart" banning.

- Versatile AREXX port includes server message parsing (event trapping)
  and commandline/script interaction.

- Easy to use command line aliasing.

- Built-in IdentD, which is automatically disabled if another IdentD is
  already running.

- Nickname notification, highliting, ignoring and kickban.

- Versatile event handling, allows you to bind sound effects, auto-
  deiconify, or ARexx scripts to certain events.

- Server phonebook.

- Last nick history stores the nicknames of the last nicks you've sent
  MSGs to, received MSGs from or addressed publically with "nick:".
  Use the ":" placeholder in all commands which require nicknames,
  (e.g. /MSG, /OP, /DEOP), for automatic expansion.

- The TAB key automatically cycles through the list of last used nicks
  with a /MSG prefix.

- Nickname completion. Pressing TAB after typing a partial nickname will
  automagically match nicks in the current channel, just like in your
  favorite CON: handler.

- Auto rejoin channel on /KICK, and auto reconnect to server facility.

- Auto /AWAY after a user-specified idle timeout. Also, auto unaway after
  sending public and/or private msgs is possible.

- URL grabber for interfacing with the Voyager WWW browser (or via an
  ARexx script or OpenURL for other browsers)

- Single window mode. You can join several channels with opening
  just a single window.


3.Support
---------

The latest information about all VaporWare applications, including AmIRC,
can be found on

  http://www.vapor.com/

There is a support mailing list to discuss AmIRC specific issues.
To subscribe to the mailing list, send a mail to

  <[e-mail]>

and put "SUBSCRIBE" in the subject or body of the message.

More information about the mailing lists can be found on

  http://www.vapor.com/lists/

You can also access the mailing list archive from there.

There is also a special mailing list dedicated to AmIRC
plugin developers. See the aforementioned URL for
more information on that.

Frequently asked questions (with answers) about AmIRC (and the other
VaporWare applications) are available from our automated FAQ system
at

  http://faq.vapor.com/


4.Major changes since last release (3.4)
----------------------------------------

- Major reduce in general CPU consumption

- improved /query command

- Topic gadget now parses function keys and supports the style
  popup menu

- many minor improvements and bugfixes (see below for details)


Major changes since release 3.0
-------------------------------

- At long last: "Tab" mode: Show multiple channel or queries
  in a single "notebook"-style tabbed window, highliting pages
  with new messages, quickly switching between pages by clicking
  on the tab header.

- "Economy" channel modes: Shows channel modes as simple text button,
  to leave more visual space for topic.

- many other minor improvements and fixes. Refer to the detailed
  changes list below for details.

- Dynamic plugin loading

- Conference mode

- Support for +h and +l channel modes

- Improved highliting

- Bugfixes galore


Major changes since AmIRC 2.x
-----------------------------

- Support for colored text both in input (WYSIWYG) and output

- Support for "inline" clickable URLs

- Optional "Timestamping" of viewer lines

- many many additions to Plugin API, including
  plugin preference options

- many additions to ARexx port

- many minor GUI improvements, including a completely
  reworked prefs model, different background color
  when scrolled back, popup menu for favorite channels,
  more configurable text colors

- full support for ircu 2.10.x and new IrcNet
  "e" and "I" modes

- integrated clone warning and oper announcement

- several new user commands

- no more limits on /OP, /BAN etc. mode commands

- Log file names can now be configured using a template

- several security and usability improvements

(see below for detailed list of changes)


6.Complete revision history
---------------------------

[Changes before 2.2 have been removed from this file]

2.2.1alpha
----------
- net: now recognizes undernet 2.10.x servers and sends
  LIST and MODE changes properly

2.2.2alpha
----------
- net: PASS is now send before NICK/USER to comply with
  rfc1459

2.2.3alpha
----------
- GUI: will now clear channel limit/keyword strings when
  leaving a channel
- GUI: topic is now a text field as long as the channel is +t
  and user has no ops
- GUI: fixed clicking into topic gadget when AmIRC window
  is deactive to no longer move focus into the main string

2.2.4alpha
----------
- GUI: topic now has a short-help stating who set and when
  topic was set, together with the complete topic string

2.2.5alpha
----------
- GUI: fixed topic text background
- GUI: fixed window minimum width after iconification
- GUI: one of the info text lines in the general prefs was
  missing a MUIA_Text_SetMin, FALSE and thus limited window
  minimum width to a bogus amount. Fixed, and the window
  now also opens on a 640x200 screen with topaz/8 :)

2.2.6alpha
----------
[beta timeout fix, sorry :-]

2.2.7alpha
----------
- GUI: added support for CTRL^C color codes

2.2.8alpha
----------
- GUI: fixed restting of colors
- GUI: fixed marking of colored text
- GUI: now correctly filters control codes from the short help
  bubble topic
- Input: Aliased CTRL-K to CTRL-C for the sake of compatiblity :)
- GUI: should no longer quit when iconified and a dialog window
  autoopens
- GUI: added option to turn off colors

2.2.9alpha
----------
- Prefs: state of DO_COLORS wasn't properly saved to disk
- GUI: channel limit and keyword are now switched between text
  and string objects as well
- GUI: fixed handling of wordwrap/color codes
- GUI: limit and keyword entry fields are now hidden when
  channel mode isn't active

2.2.10alpha
-----------
- Net: fixed logging (was screwed with the color change)

2.2.11alpha
-----------
- Prefs: Will now read ENV:REALNAME on first start, and
  preset this as realname if available
- Prefs: Will now read ENV:USER on first start, and
  preset this as nick if available
- General: changed browser interface. Will now ask for
  a browser via file requester if it can't find any
  using OpenURL, sendbrowser.AMIRX or Voyager IPC
- GUI: changed initial demo nagging dialog to offer
  direct jump to Vapor online ordering
- GUI: URLs are now clickable inside the listview
- Key: changed key system to use new crytographic keys

2.2.12alpha
-----------
- Debug: added debug output to watch the rexx port cleanup
  procedure

2.2.13alpha
-----------
- Net: fixed version reply

2.2.14alpha
-----------
- GUI: channel limit wasn't displayed in the string gadget,
  only in the text one
- GUI: asl request hook for DCC send no longer produces
  duplicate ASLFR_InitialDrawer tags in the final tag list.
  This *may* be the reason why the "V42" ASL lib occassionally
  threw up (can't test that here)

2.2.15alpha
-----------
- Plugin: added amiplug_sendrxmsg() callback to allow plugins
  to send off REXX commands without bothering with their own
  message ports
- Plugin: added AMIPLUG_Query_Hook_FinalSetup and finalsetup
  function
- GUI: fixed several quirks in the URL recognition; also now
  also recognizes "ftp.host.do.main" and https:// URLs

2.2.16alpha
-----------
- General: Now uses vapor_toolkit.library
- GUI: about window now has a default object, to make stuntzi
  happy
- GUI: list now has time tagging (not switchable yet; this is
  planned)

2.2.17alpha
-----------
- GUI: now tries to gather channel join/parts before
  redrawing user list, to reduce CPU usage on netsplits/netjoins
  or clone floods

2.2.18alpha
-----------
- GUI: reimplemented timestamp rendering
- DCC: incoming DCC requests are now checked for
  MUI string formating codes, and rejected, to overcome
  a potential security hole
- GUI: raw log window now escapes all control codes
  with "\x[hexval]"
- GUI: fixed several instances of MUI ESC codes going
  unprocessed into objects
- DCC: will now check for AmigaGuide files and refuse
  to autoview them

2.2.19alpha
-----------
- DCC: fixed autoviewing screen name passing (was
  broken in 2.2.18)
- GUI: no-op topic gadget is now a Textinput NoInput
  object to allow mark©
- GUI: modified clip handling. Now Prefix and Timestamp
  columns can be individually selected
- GUI: list now uses vapor_toolkit.library to find URLs
- GUI: URL grabber window now also uses the VAT
  URL scanner to find URLs
- GUI: fixed clicking beyond line end to no longer
  activate a URL
- GUI: opening a query window will now send a hidden
  WHOIS if the userhost is unknown, to fill up the
  userhost cache and get the window info filled.
  This should also somewhat fix the problems of SOCKS users
  being unable to DCC to people before AmIRC knows the
  receiver's userhost.

2.2.20alpha
-----------
- Net: fixed URL grabber window. Now also will not insert
  URLs from messages from ignored people
- GUI: fixed marking with timestamp starts
- GUI: fixed minsize for list object, to fix potential
  overwriting
- GUI: dialog windows now have an "I"gnore button.
  This will (temporary) IGNORE the query window user.
  send a SILENCE +userhost and close the window
- GUI: dialog windows now have a DCC "M"ove button to
  inititate a DCC MOVE instead of a DCC SEND

2.2.21alpha
-----------
- GUI: fixed handling of URLs with color codes before
  them

2.2.22alpha
-----------
- General: recompiled with correct structure for URL
  passing

2.2.23alpha
-----------
- GUI: did some modifications for new TI version
- Net: taught mode parser to be case sensitive,
  and understand new ircnet "e" and "I" modes

2.2.24alpha
-----------
- Plugins: amiplug_out_*() functions would
  throw up when text with % formatting codes
  was passed in
- Rexx: added the following new commands:
   GetServerPort
   GetUserLimit WINNUM/N,CHANNEL/K
   GetKeyword WINNUM/N,CHANNEL/K
   GetModes WINNUM/N,CHANNEL/K
   GetTopic WINNUM/N,CHANNEL/K
   IsIconified WINNUM/N,CHANNEL/K,/NICK/K
  (done by [e-mail])
- Rexx: added "STRICT/S,N=NICK/K,CH=CHANNEL/K"
  arguments to "ECHO", which allow echoing to
  specific windows. "STRICT" is a option that
  doesn't output if the requested target window
  was not found.
  (done by [e-mail])
- GUI: will now support TI 17.x style editing
  where appropriate

2.2.25alpha
-----------
- GUI: node size calculation screwup caused pool
  trashing

2.2.26alpha
-----------
- GUI: user/op count is now a gauge, showing
  channel filling when +l is set. Also has
  more sensible labeling now.
- GUI: added "Disconnect" menu item
- Net: lowered the "don't wait for server response
  on quit" limit from 100s to 10s lag

2.2.27alpha
-----------
- GUI: main string has now a popup menu
  offering color/style insertions. Requires
  popupmenu.library (done by [e-mail])

2.2.28alpha
-----------
- GUI: fixed crash on missing popupmenu.library
  on quit
- GUI: added Cut/Copy/Paste to custom popup for
  string
- GUI: custom popup is now also shown when
  standard textinput popups are active
- GUI: fixed marking of colours past end of line
  (KingGuppy)

2.2.29alpha
-----------
(done by Jamie "Entity" van den Berge <[e-mail]>)
- GUI: user list counter is now only a gauge
  for channels with a user limit
- Plugin: added the following:
    amiplug_getchanattr() callback + tags,
    AMIPLUG_Query_Priority,
    AMIPLUG_Query_Hook_Input and input function,
    AMIPLUG_Query_CustomRexx, rexxcmd structure
    and dorexx function.
- Rexx: added GetTarget command.
- GUI: added 'automatic' IRCNet channelmode 'e' and 'I' modebuttons.
- GUI: topic no longer changes to editable string when you get voice.

2.2.30alpha
-----------
(done by Jamie "Entity" van den Berge <[e-mail]>)
- GUI: IRCNet channelmodebuttons really automatic now.
- GUI: fixed the userlist gauge.
- Plugin: added the following attributes for amiplug_getattr():
    AMIPLUGATTR_Target, _Channels, _ServerChannelModes,
    _ServerUserModes, _Version.
- GUI: keyword and limit now also no longer become
  editable when getting voice. limit gadget now only accepts
  numeric input.
- GUI: added context menu to channel button which allows
  joining the Favorite Channels, switching to an already
  joined channel and 'cycling' & leaving the current channel.
- Command: added "/CYCLE [channel]", which leaves and
  rejoins the channel (handles channel keyword)
- Command: added "/FINDHOST [channel|ALL] userhost", which
  lists all users in the channel (or all users known to
  AmIRC if the ALL keyword was used) with the userhost
  pattern (which must be nick!user@host style) specified.
- Rexx: added FindUserHost USERHOST/A,STEMVAR/A,WINNUM/N,CHANNEL/K
  command which fills the specified arexx stem-variable STEMVAR
  with the following:
    STEM.0  - number of users of which the host matched the pattern
    STEM.x  - a nick!user@host that matched the pattern, where x is
              a number from 1 to STEM.0
  When neither WINNUM nor CHANNEL is specified, AmIRC will scan
  all known users instead of just the channel.
- DCC: fixed cps calculation for DCC RESUME.
- Rexx: fixed cps calculation for DCC RESUME in GETDCC.
- Rexx: fixed PARSELINE bug that caused very long lines to be
  cut off.
- Command: rewritten /BAN and /BANDEL to allow specifying an
  unlimited number of userhosts.
- Command: added the following IRCNet support commands:
    /EXCADD [channel] userhost[,userhost...]   add ban exception(s)
    /EXCDEL [channel] userhost[,userhost...]   remove ban exceptions(s)
    /EXCLIST [channel]                         request ban exceptions list
    /INVADD [channel] userhost[,userhost...]   add autoinvite(s)
    /INVDEL [channel] userhost[,userhost...]   remove autoinvite(s)
    /INVLIST [channel]                         request autoinvites list
- Net: added Oper Detection. It displays the opers on a channel
  when you join it.
- Net: added Clone Detection. This will check for clones on
  joining a channel and on every new user join (clones from
  yourself are ignored)
- GUI: attempts to /QUERY channels will now fail silently.
- GUI: changed the Actions page in Setup window to a (drag-
  sortable) listview.

2.2.31alpha
===========
(done by Jamie "Entity" van den Berge <[e-mail]>)
- Command: fixed /OP, /BAN (etc) handling and made it more intelligent.
- GUI: fixed channelbutton context menu causing crash when selecting
  one odf the 'already joined' channels.
- GUI: ignored users now show up in the userlist in a user-definable
  color.
- GUI: made Query windows prefix use 11 instead of 9 characters.
- GUI: fixed a potential background pen setting of -1 (KingGuppy)
- GUI: fixed text length calculations messing up with three or more
  digit numbers after a colour code (KingGuppy)
- General: Hopefully fixed split words being saved with spaces during
  "Save Buffer" (KingGuppy)
- Command: Added /RECONNECT
- GUI: enabled IRC styles for all of the string gadgets in the
  'Messages' section of Setup.
- LOG: added logfilename template configuration options.

2.2.32alpha
===========
- GUI: fixed bug with some prefs string gadgets not having proper
  initial contents (Olli)
- GUI: fixed userlist sizing (Olli)

2.2.33alpha
===========
(done by Jamie "Entity" van den Berge <[e-mail]>)
- GUI: (temporarily?) reverted back to old style userlist due to a bit
  of problems with NList.
- GUI: altered Setup window to look like MUI's (idea: KingGuppy)
- Plugin: added AMIPLUG_Query_Hook_Prefs and related stuff.

2.2.34alpha
===========
(done by Jamie "Entity" van den Berge <[e-mail]>)
- GUI: set correct background for Setup window.
- GUI: removed NList title seperators in Setup->Actions.
- GUI: fixed tripple-clicking on URLs in double-click mode
- Input: fixed /lastlog hangup (Olli)
- GUI: userhosts in JOIN/PART/QUIT/NOTIFY are no longer
  turned into mailto: URLs anymore (Olli)

2.2.35alpha
===========
- GUI: fixed enforcer hits introduced with URL skipping (Olli)

2.2.36alpha
===========
(done by Jamie "Entity" van den Berge <[e-mail]>)
- Plugin: forgot to do the AMIPLUGPREFS_Use method when the user hits OK
  in Setup.
- GUI: AmIRC logo replaced with V3 logo by Morden.
- GUI: removed 'Lists...' and 'Function keys...' items from Setup menu.
- GUI: userhosts in WHOIS also no longer turned into URLs.
- GUI: setup->actions now only displays entries up to the last one
  defined.
- GUI: objects in the modes group now all have the same height (except
  for the channelbutton).
- Plugin: AMIPLUGPREFS_Dispose was not performed if the Setup window was
  open on quitting AmIRC.
- Command: fixed buffer overflow in /HELP due to too many commands.
- GUI: fixed listview images not being allocated in chipmem.
- GUI: fixed wrapped lines losing a space under some circumstances
  (KingGuppy)
- Plugin: hiding the VERSION response should now be harder to do.
- GUI: added CTCP flood control settings (in Setup->Misc).

2.2.37alpha
===========
(done by Jamie "Entity" van den Berge <[e-mail]>)
- Log: added URL logging option. It isn't very intelligent, just
  writes all URLs found to disk, even if the file already contains
  that URL.
- GUI: timestamps can now be disabled, hh:mm, or hh:mm:ss.
- GUI: selecting the events page in setup window caused the window
  to resize to the page's maximum size if the window was larger.
- Net: fixed enforcer hits caused by a previously known user joining
  again with a different userhost.

2.2.38alpha
===========
(done by Jamie "Entity" van den Berge <[e-mail]>)
- Rexx: added 'bytes done' attribute after the filename in the DCC.SEND
  and DCC.RECEIVE stem variables returned by GETDCC. (These variables
  may be extended with more attributes in the future, so scripts using
  them should handle this).
- Rexx: nickname passed to USERHOST function is now truncated to 32
  characters.
- GUI: now (optionally) an alternative background color is used in
  the IRC listviews to indicate that it is currently not showing the
  bottom line.
- GUI: added mouse wheel scrolling support (Olli & Entity)
- GUI: the action performed when doubleclicking a nick in the userlist is
  now configurable (see Setup->Actions->Special).
- GUI: the current nick is now a button which performs a user configurable
  action when clicked (see Setup->Actions->Special).
- Prefs: "Connect Thread" no longer saves the current settings to the
  startup configfile. Instead, a temporary file is used to pass the
  current settings to the new thread.
- GUI: DCC windows no longer show a redundant "from" in the host column.

2.2.39alpha
===========
(done by Jamie "Entity" van den Berge <[e-mail]>)
- Plugin: added amiplug_free() function to free memory allocated with
  the amiplug_malloc() function.
- GUI: all objects in channelwindow's top group are now really all the
  same height.
- Plugin: Fixed enforcer hitfest when plugin returns NULL in _Setup().
- GUI: made the window list a borderless window. no snapshotting of
  the window & stuff yet.
- GUI: buttons in windowlist can now either uniconify & iconify the
  window (default) or uniconify/pop to front (the 'old' way).
- GUI: fixed inability to jump to already joined channels using
  channelbutton context menu.
- Net: fixed ban/invite/exc list messup.
- Plugin: added amiplug_fakerawline() function.
- GUI: fixed oper/clone detection outputting to wrong window when
  joining multiple of channels at once.
- GUI: fonts used for channel and dialog windows are now configurable.
- GUI: added a number of new textcolor configuration options.

2.2.40alpha
===========
(done by Jamie "Entity" van den Berge <[e-mail]>)
- GUI: fixed dialog window font not being set/saved.
- GUI: all windows are not closed and reopened anymore if the colours,
  timestamp, and/or inline url mode were changed.
- GUI: added contextmenu to the window list to allow closing and
  (un)snapshotting the window.
- Imported source on CVS.

2.2.41alpha
===========
- Net: probably fixed never-ending auto-away warning loop (Wiz)
- GUI: it's possible to flush the outgoing queue by clicking on
  its level meter in the info window (Wiz)
- GUI: own text colour setting is now actually used (Entity)
- Net: when you close a channel window the parse command routine
  will be invoked with LEAVE, so that plugins can override the
  command and perform what they like (eg. a plugin of mine changes
  the part text randomly) (Wiz)
- GUI: Fixed a number of enforcerhits caused by some ban/exc/inv
  list operations (Entity)
- Net: Fixed broken 'eating' of except/invite list in case someone
  did a +I or +e (Entity)

2.2.42alpha
===========
- GUI: hotkeyed most gadgets in AmIRC windows (Carlos)
- GUI: added close button to plugin window (Carlos)
- GUI: localized some remaining hard-coded strings (Carlos)
- General: AmIRC now checks and warns before it overwrite
  any existing file (Carlos)
- GUI: Save/Load prefs related ASL requesters now pop ups on
  AmIRC screen (Carlos)
- GUI: AmIRC now tries to create log subdir before it starts
  complaining "Unable to open log file "%s" (error %ld)" (Carlos)
- GUI: AmIRC should no longer disappear into nothingness on closing
  the tray window if it was the last window open (Entity)
- GUI: the color popup menu RMB triggering is more reliable (Zapek)
- GUI: windows opened from the TrayWindow are activated (Zapek)
- GUI: finally hotkeyed the whole prefs window (even colors
  page ;) (Carlos)
- GUI: prefs window cannot be dismissed if there are still some
  asl requesters opened around (Carlos)
- GUI: added Sort button to Aliases page in Setup->Lists (Entity)
- GUI: now uses Popplaceholder.mcc class (Carlos)

2.2.43alpha
===========
- GUI: hotkeyed Kick&Ban window (Carlos)
- GUI: user list popup menu is now slightly configurable, featuring
  well-known Buttons-In-Menu scheme as well as a few predefined
  skeletons (Carlos)
- GUI: assigned 'f1'-'f4' keys to the ban mask scheme buttons in
  Kick&Ban window (Carlos)
- GUI: localized input string gadget popup menu (Carlos)
- GUI: input string popup menu now fallback to default one, if there's
  no popup.library available (Carlos)
- GUI: fixed bug causing input string's popup menu to be available over
  any object as default popup (Carlos)
- Net: fixed wrong reporting of channel mode changes (Entity, not Wiz ;)

3.0
===
- General: Updated keyfile systems to recognize both new ("AmIRC-3.KEY")
  and old ("AmIRC.KEY") keyfiles, and hint to the update system for
  old ones (Olli)
- General: updated About window (Olli)
- GUI: lame bug in "DCC Send" button in query windows sometimes
  caused the filerequester to madly activate itself when then
  window became active again (Olli)
- GUI: fixed underscore in labels with MUI V20+ (Olli)

3.0.1alpha
==========
- Rexx: DCC receive bytes done value was invalid (Entity)
- Net: empty CTCP SOUND requests are now not processed (Entity)
- GUI: fixed mixed up SEND/CHAT in 'Complex' userlist menu,
  added MOVE item, and fixed other bugs in it (Entity)
- Command: fixed /KickBan totally Nuking« AmIRC (Entity)
- Net: resume between AmIRC and mIRC now works in both
  ways (Wiz)
- GUI: added "Back" and "Front" context menu items for the
  traywindow (Zapek)
- GUI: fixed userlist buttons firing an action two times (Entity)
- Plugin: added amiplug_out_infowin() function (Entity)
- Plugin: added AMIPLUG_Query_Hook_Rawline2 and _NumericMsg2 tags
  and related stuffs (Entity)
- Net: fixed URL's in topic not being grabbed on joining the
  channel (Entity)
- Plugin: pushed rawlines (amiplug_fakerawline()) no longer wait
  until a line is received from the server.
- Rexx: fixed crash bug in USERHOST command

3.0.2alpha
==========
- GUI: the maximum number of query windows is now exactly as the
  user specified, rather than one more (KingGuppy)
- GUI: using /QUERY on a nick attached to an iconified dialogue
  window will now uniconify that window (KingGuppy)
- GUI: NoInput Textinput gadgets now replace Text gadgets where appropriate
  (KingGuppy)
- GUI: the "Favorite Channels" [sic] window now correctly uses a list
  background (KingGuppy)
- GUI: increased topic gadget max len and alias maxlen to 1024 (Entity)
- Plugin: added AMIPLUGCHANATTR_Topic (Entity)
- GUI: added "Append" and "Overwrite" option when saving a logfile over an
  existing one (Zapek)
- Rexx: added INPUT command, which does the same as SAY but also triggers
  any plugin's input hook (Entity)

3.0.3alpha
==========
- GUI: fixed plugin list, screwed up when changing to Textinput (KingGuppy)
- GUI: improved Textinput gadget usage in about window (KingGuppy)
- GUI: fixed control-f10 in Settings->Fkeys not having any PopPH items (Entity)
- Net: made usermode parsing casesensitive (Entity)
- CTCP: removed the BACKDOOR hoax (Olli)

3.1
===
- General: Updated release package
- Net: fixed potential buffer overflow when a netsplit happened
  and a lot of nicks left (Olli)

3.1.1alpha
==========
- GUI: topic string really accepts 1024 characters now (Entity)
- Plugin: fixed standard raw/numeric hook not working (Entity)
- Net: fixed new channel invites not being added to list (Entity)
- Net: taught mode parser to handle +h and +L channelmodes (Entity)
- GUI: e/I mode buttons no longer require both modes to be available
  on the server (Entity)
- GUI: popplaceholder string gadgets in Settings window now support
  color styles (Entity)
- General: fixed bug making (under some circumstances) the app to
  behave as unregistered even the valid keyfile was placed in valid
  key directory (Carlos)

3.1.2alpha
==========
- Command: added /LOAD, /RELOAD and /UNLOAD commands to dynamically
  remove/add plugins (Entity)

3.1.3alpha
==========
- GUI: prefs panel uses ASL mode for PopPH objects whereever
  necesary -> requires Popph 14.5 or better (Carlos)
- General: autoaway_reset wasn't saved properly (Entity)
- GUI: own text color is now used for actions as well (Entity)
- GUI: invite color wasn't used for invite messages (Entity)
- GUI: complex user list context menu does no longer pops up if
  the list is disabled (Carlos)
- GUI: improved the windowlist a lot (Entity)

3.1.4alpha
==========
- GUI: winlist action cycle in setup had no effect (Entity)
- GUI: changed Windows/DCC Chat-Window shortcut, as 'C' shall
  remain for "Copy". Added some other nifty shortcuts (Carlos)
- GUI: prefs related menu items (save/load) get disabled while
  settings window is opened (Carlos)
- GUI: fixed some bugs related to avoiding treating hostmasks as URLs
  (KingGuppy)
- GUI: started adding support for URLs spanning multiple lines
  (KingGuppy)
- GUI: some string gadgets in setup were still limited to 80
  characters (Entity)
- Rexx: GETUSERSTATE now also accepts a nick as argument for the
  USER parameter (Entity)

3.1.5alpha
==========
- GUI: added conference mode to channelbutton menu (surpresses
  JOIN/PART messages) (Entity)

3.1.6alpha
==========
- GUI: added a "Beep" entry to the popup menu (Olli)

3.2 (Release)
=============
- General: included updated Textinput classes,
  vapor_toolkit and vapor_registration library (Olli)
- GUI: own part message wasn't shown (Entity)

3.2.1alpha
==========
- GUI: about window shows serial number now (Entity)
- GUI: fixed multi-line URLs spanning too much of their last line (KingGuppy)
- Command: added /FAKE. This queues fake rawlines, to be processed as real
  ones (Entity)
- Net: held a 'who can write the best improved netsplit checker'
  contest with KingGuppy (Entity)
- Rexx: added FAKE command (Entity)
- GUI: added option to stop query windows from opening automatically when
  away (Entity)

3.2.2alpha
==========
- Command: fixed buffer overflow in /HELP when a plugin has a lot of
  custom commands defined (Entity)
- Net: small bug in netsplit checker involving leading asterisks
  squashed (Entity)
- General: got rid of the ancient 'No longer away' flood bug (Entity)
- Net: initial nick is taken from welcome message to work around
  weird IRCNet server behaviour (Entity)

3.2.3alpha
==========
- Net: really fixed asterisk bug in netsplit check now :^) (Entity)
= General: LARGE MAJOR BIG HUGE rewrite and restructuring of the
  window handling and loads and loads of other stuff (Entity)
- GUI: added the famous 'tabs' feature (Entity)
- General: fixed busyloop/crash on selecting "load|save settings..."
  menu items (Entity)

3.2.4alpha
==========
- GUI: fixed private messages ending up in wrong window (Entity)
- GUI: fixed DCC Chat button in query windows not being updated
  in some cases (Entity)
- GUI: fixed closing last query window closing the connection
  (Entity)
- GUI: added some list backgrounds where appropriate (KingGuppy)
- Net: added some extra checks to prevent problems when a channel is joined
  but not linked graphically, e.g. when out of chip mem. (KingGuppy)
- Rexx: fixed some potential crashes in userlist-related ARexx commands which
  were introduced in the rewrite (KingGuppy)
- GUI: fixed crash&burn of KickBan window (Entity)
- GUI: fixed hostname going into 'away:' when doing a WHOIS in query
  windows (Entity)
- Rexx: fixed SAY and INPUT opening a channel window for no reason (Entity)

3.2.5alpha
==========
- GUI: window titles properly updated on server change now (Entity)
- GUI: got rid of infinite loop on removal of a ban/except/invite (Entity)
- GUI: 'remove' button in ban/except/invite window works again (Entity)
- GUI: dragging files in query windows works again (Entity)
- GUI: tab handles can be dragged onto the screen to detach now (Entity)
- GUI: input gadget now properly activated on joining a channel (Entity)
- GUI: fixed tab nick completion not working in tabbed channels (Entity)
- GUI: fixed channelbutton contextmenu not working in some cases (Entity)
- GUI: changed tabs to button bar, with labels changing to indicate
  someone said something like in the window list (Entity)
- GUI: fixed some object dispose problems (Entity)
- GUI: fixed channel/dialog menu items (Entity)

3.2.6alpha
==========
- Net: TEXT ignore was broken (Entity)
- GUI: fixed window list buttons not being updated on window open (Entity)
- GUI: setup window rewritten, now opens MUCH quicker :^). some settings
  moved to more logical places as well (Entity)
- GUI: fixed several problems with the first msg(s) gotten in automatically
  opened query windows (Entity)
- GUI: hopefully really fixed /qkick window now (Entity)
- GUI: added option to hide the Lag-o-Meter (Entity)
- GUI: added option to disable the Balance object in channels (Entity)

3.2.7alpha
==========
- GUI: added 'economy' channelmodes button as option. it saves some horiz.
  space, acting as toggle to show/hide the normal channelmode buttons. it
  also displays ALL channelmodes set instead of just [tnsipmlk] (Entity)
- GUI: now requests channelmodes again on getting ops when +k is set but
  keyword isn't known (not-so-clever 'feature' of ircu) (Entity)
- Plugin: fixed passing incorrect userlist pointer (Entity)
- GUI: /qkick window fixed (hopefully for the last time) (Entity)
- Net: quit messages are hidden when Conference mode is on (Wiz)

3.2.8alpha
==========
- GUI: fixed buffer overflow that occurred when a string longer than 256
  characters was typed in a query window (Entity)
- GUI: fixed amirc vanishing into thin air after closing the tray window
  when all channels/queries are already iconified (Entity)
- GUI: fixed DCC info messages ending up in Query windows for users the
  message was not directed to in some cases (Entity)
- GUI: fixed nickbutton status led forgetting its status on changing
  nick (Entity)
- GUI: flush buffer works again, now also for the info window (Entity)
- GUI: fixed getting crap text behind the first message in an
  automatically opened query window (Entity)

3.3
===
- GUI: menu checkmarks didn't work with standard Intuition menus (Entity)
- General: added updated classes, Installer, docs and
  everything for release package.
- General: added updated Trans.AmIRX by Christian Birchinger
- General: added XRef.AmIRX by Jamie "Entity" van den Berge

3.3.1
=====
- Command: fixed away state not toggling on /AWAY without argument (Entity)
- GUI: fixed open-windows-on-startup options not doing so (Entity)
- GUI: "BorderRight" startup option (to use right windowborder as scroller)
  now works again (Entity)
- GUI: fixed trailing spaces being incorporated in the target nick of query
  windows, causing received privmsgs not to be displayed in it (Entity)
- GUI: fixed problems with seperate userlist mode (Entity)
- Net: fixed realname getting appended to hostname in internal database on
  receiving WHOIS information on a user (Entity)
- GUI: fixed complex userlist contextmenu actions like OP, VOICE, etc, never
  operating on multiple users at once (Entity)
- Command: fixed /FINDHOST not working without the ALL switch (Entity)
- Command: added /CLEAR [channel|nick], to flush the buffer of the current
  or the specified chat (Entity)
- Net: fixed getting stray [to #channel] message just after closing that
  channel (Entity)
- Rexx: added DIALOGS command, which returns all /QUERY'd nicknames (Entity)

3.3.2
=====
- GUI: fixed ban/except/invite lists getting cleared when someone sets a
  ban/except/invite (Entity)
- GUI: expanded highlighting feature. keywords enclosed in single (') instead
  of double (") quotes are now matched case sensitive (Entity)
- GUI: added option to make AmIRC remember the buffer position on iconifying
  the window (Entity)
- GUI: added page detach/close items to the contextmenu (Entity)
- GUI: added option to hide the page detach/close gadgets in the top left
  corner of chat windows (Entity)
- GUI: changed the way chat pages are managed internally. it should be a
  bit faster now (Entity)
- GUI: got rid of some excess redraws when pages were added/removed (Entity)
- GUI: fixed Total Nuke(TM) on a nick/status change when a window with
  multiple channel pages was open (Entity)

3.3.3
=====
- GUI: fixed hit when dragging out a user to open a query window (Entity)
- GUI: streamlined page system some more (Entity)
- GUI: the colors for the 'new message' and 'highlight' states of the page and
  iconify (winlist) buttons are now configurable (Entity)
- GUI: fixed logging detected URLs again on relayout (Entity)
- GUI: mIRC colors emulation now close to 100% (Entity)
- GUI: added inline channel links feature (Entity)
- GUI: made mailto-link detection slightly more intelligent (Entity)
- GUI: tray/page buttons for query windows no longer highlight if just the
  nick changed or the user left, etc (Entity)

3.3.4
=====
- GUI: last space of /command lines is now stripped (Entity)
- GUI: fixed big fat nuke on marking visually empty lines (Entity)
- Rexx: fixed IsIconified command returning incorrect values (Entity)
- GUI: fixed some problems with the About window (Entity)
- GUI: fixed some serious bugs in custom string class: a 3k memory leak, a
  possible crash and other nastyness, caused by incorrect implementation of
  the custom popup menu, and triggered by each operation that caused the
  string gadget to re-appear (page change, uniconify, etc) (Entity)
- Log: added immediate logging feature which, when enabled, will cause AmIRC
  to flush the output buffer (= write immediately) for every line written to
  the logfile (Entity)
- Net: fixed getting negative filelengths in DCC Receive window, making
  resume impossible (Entity)
- GUI: mIRC color emulation not as close to 100% as I thought :/ (Entity)
- GUI: fixed enforcer hit when ticking the TEXT/PRIV/CTCP checkmarks on the
  ignore page in setup window (Entity)
- GUI: list no longer wordwraps on hyphens, as this causes more harm than
  good in real world texts (Olli)
- Net: first lagprobe isn't sent until after 20 seconds of connection
  time, to avoid falsified lag reports due to the initial message exchange
  "flood" which takes place upon initial connect (autojoin channel NAMES,
  MOTD etc.) (Olli)
- GUI: fixed marking offset problem when styles are included (Entity)
- GUI: fixed getting artifacts at end of line prefix with some fonts (Entity)
- GUI: eliminated possible hit on joining a channel (Entity)
- GUI: fixed possible hit on closing a channel/dialog window (Entity)

3.4
===
- GUI: fixed about window alignments (Olli)
- GUI: fixed bar offset in non-timestamp-mode (Olli)
- GUI: bar offset now precalculated for newly opened channels, to avoid
  relayouting a couple of times (Entity)
- GUI: fixed possible crash on closing AmIRC while connecting (Entity)
- GUI: fixed character after control characters disappearing when saving
  the buffer to disk (Entity)
- Net: fixed CTCP ACTION (/ME) going through IRC instead of DCC if a DCC Chat
  connection was established with that user (Entity)
- GUI: fixed topic string not being cleared on joining a channel with no topic
  set (Entity)
- Command: /DCC SEND can now have a single directory as last argument (after
  nick), it then uses that directory for the filerequester instead of the
  default send path (Entity)
- GUI: if popupmenu.library v 9 or higher is installed, AmIRC will use
  horizontal layouts for its color selection menu (Zapek)
- GUI: updated default server list (Zapek)
- General: added updated Documentation, Classes, Libs and everything (Olli)

3.4.1
=====
- GUI: AmIRC no longer crashes when RMBing over the ircstring object and
  there's no popupmenu.library (Zapek)
- GUI: clicking on the AmIRC logo in the server selection window brings the
  About requester again (Zapek)
- GUI: autoaway line in query windows now parses IRC styles properly
  (Olli)
- GUI: fixed tab dragging to work with MUI4 (Olli)
- GUI: topic gadget now parses function keys and supports the
  color popup (Olli)
- GUI: drag object in dialog pages now has full text height (Olli)
- General: Fixed excessive idle CPU eating (Olli)

3.4.2
=====
- GUI: input string popup menu now no longer shows color codes
  when "Show Colors?" is deselected in menu (Olli)
- Rexx: "Connected" script is no longer run on manual /MOTDs (Olli)
- Net: fixed problem with JOIN not working properly if used too
  quickly after a LEAVE of the same channel in a script/alias (Entity)
- Command: extended /QUERY to take a '+' or '-' as last argument,
  forcing the query to open in a new (-) or the current (+) window.
  this overrides the 'Use pages by default' setting (Entity)
- GUI: added 'Query' button to notify window (Entity)
- GUI: added NICK and DCC shanghai options to Info window (Entity)
- GUI: 'I' button in query windows no longer sends a SILENCE command
  to the server when AmIRC is certain it's on an IRCNet server (Entity)
- GUI: logging option for channel/query windows is now a menu item in the
  channel/query button context menu instead of an 'L' button (Entity)
- GUI: fixed page manipulation gagets not being updated properly after
  they are switched on/off in Setup window.
- GUI: fixed query windows being resized when the GUI is reset (Entity)
- GUI: fixed Window List scrolling causing graphics corruption (Entity)

3.4.3
=====
- GUI: if a nick is selected in the userlist it'll be shown in the context
  menu's title (Zapek)
- GUI: background in the 'Info messages' window was wrong (Zapek)
- Net: fixed potential freeze-on-join behaviour on a certain type of non-
  standard IRC server (Entity)
- Net: CTCP replies weren't enqueued with proper low priority (Olli)

3.4.4
=====
- GUI: fixed a few object lifetime issues (involving crash-on-quit
  and closing last channel tab in a window) (Olli)

3.4.5
=====
- GUI: (hopefully) fixed possible problem with tray button refreshes
  (Olli)
- GUI: fixed clearing of topic when leaving channel -- really, this time
  (Olli)
- Net: the "/reconnect" command now behaves like as if the current
  connection was lost due to timeout (Olli)
- Net: unknown modes are again shown as raw text (Olli)
- GUI: channel URL recognition now doesn't stop on "." or "!" anymore
  unless it's the last char in channel name (for channel names like
  "#babefloors.uk") (Olli)
- Command: "/query nick msg" is now possible to open a query window
  and directly sent a message (Olli)
- GUI: fixed offset problems when scanning for URLs in QUIT-alike
  messages (Olli)

3.4.6
=====
- Command: "/query nick +/-" now works again as well (Olli)

3.5
===
- General: added updated Documentation by Frank Mosch
- General: added updated translations by ATO
- General: added updated vapor libraries, registration info and classes
- General: added updated MimePrefs
- General: added faster loader code

3.5.1
=====
- GUI: it was possible to trigger a MUI layout fallback by inviting
  people with excessivly long channel names (Olli)
- Plugin: AMIPLUGATTR_Channels wasn't working (Olli)
- Input: parameter substition fixed to only replace if a single char
  is given -- this makes stuff like "/whois *nick*" working again (Olli)
- GUI: adding new servers and groups in server selection now properly
  makes the new entry active and scrolls to the right position (Olli)

3.5.2
=====
- GUI. fixed floating user list window title being bogotised (Olli)
- GUI: fixed floating user list not updating at all (Olli)
- Input: /reconnect without a server connection would crash
  horribly (Olli)
- Net: (hopefully) fixed deadlock on +I modes without parameters (Olli)
= GUI: designed and written a brand new advanced textdisplay list class,
  giving the following improvements:
   - efficient internal storage causes a dramatic reduction in memory usage
   - advanced one-pass layout engine ensures ultra fast relayout, even with
     myriads of lines
   - silky smooth and improved textmarking, configurable marking colors
   - pointer position dependant scrolling speed while marking up/down
   - more responsive inline URL handling and correct handling of URLs split
     accross multiple lines
   - close-to-100% mIRC color code emulation
  (Entity)
- GUI: brought back the [L]ogging button as an option which is enabled by
  default (Entity)
- GUI: (hopefully) fixed the existing-bans-not-appearing-in-list-after-
  setting-one problem (Entity)
- Net: 'Deliberately hiding the VERSION response using a nifty plugin' is
  now allowed for registered users only (Entity)
- GUI: new input string history handling, if you (accidentally) hit cursor-up
  while editing a line it won't be lost anymore unless the line being edited
  is an old one (Entity)
- GUI: added option to remove the close gadget from chat windows (Entity)

3.5.3
=====
- GUI: fixed F-Keys not working in input string due to 3.5.2 changes (Entity)
- GUI: close gadget option didn't get saved (Entity)
- GUI: fixed joining a channel of 39 or more chars doing Bad Things (Entity)
- GUI: fixed possible crash/hits when scrollbuffer limit was reached (Entity)
- GUI: (hopefully) fixed the menus-not-appearing problem (Entity)
- GUI: fixed input string history not working with shift/capslock (Entity)
- GUI: fixed buffer overflow in invite handling (really, this time) (Olli)

3.5.4
=====
- GUI: fixed '~' not being stripped from username in the ban window (Entity)
- GUI: fixed Save Buffer from causing an infinite loop (Entity)
- Rexx: added a 'disconnect' command (Zapek)
- GUI: fixed colored multiline entries not having the lines after the first
  one colored if no further styles followed (Entity)