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- Short: v1.25 Personal Communicator like ICQ (MUI)
- Uploader: hparting@hem.passagen.se (Håkan Parting)
- Author: hparting@hem.passagen.se (Håkan Parting)
- Type: comm/net
- Version: 1.25
- Requires: dev/mui/MCC_NList0.87.lha
-
- This version is for MC68020/Kickstart 3.0 and higher. A MC68000/kickstart 2.0
- version may be found at http://surf.to/AmiComSys/
-
- AmiComSys is a program that you use to communicate with other people on
- a tcp/ip-net - e.g Internet. At the same time it make it easier to find
- people's IP-addresses, for use with Internet games, and home pages.
-
- It uses AMarquee.library by Jeremy Friesner & Håkan Parting for most of
- it's network handling.
-
- Now you can say "Hello!" to your friends on the net, or just see if they are
- online.
-
- You can:
- * send text messages
- * send chat requests
- * send WEB-requests.
- * transfer files.
- * have a public realtime chat
- * have a private realtime chat, with photos.
- * check your Pagoo message box.
- * advertise your homepage, ftp-site, IRC-server, ICQ id and own-made programs.
-
- Future updates will include more.
-
- Please put it in your WBStartup drawer and enjoy ...
- Then it will automatically connect to the server when you connect to the Internet.
-
- AmiComSys requires:
-
- * amarquee.library v.49+ in LIBS:. It's included in the archive and will
- be installed together with AmiComSys.
-
- and Magic User Interface (MUI) version 3.8 or higher
-
- (The third party packages below is most certainly already installed on your
- Amiga. They are used by many other Internet programs, like for example YAM 2.)
-
- * and NList.mcc by Gilles Masson, available at Aminet:dev/mui/MCC_NList0_87.lha
-
- * and BetterString.mcc by Allan Odgaard. Included in the archive
- (MUI/libs/BetterString.mcc). Does only work with Kickstart 3.0+. Normal
- MUI-string-gadget is used under Kickstart 2.0
-
- * and Toolbar.mcc by Benny Kjær Nielsen. Included in the archive
- (MUI/libs/Toolbar.mcc). Does only work with Kickstart 3.0+/68020+. This is not
- used in the Kickstart 2.0/68000 version.
-
- * optionally you may also use NewString.mcc by Rüdiger Sopp. (found in
- the Ibrowse-archive)
-
- * or Textinput.mcc by Oliver Wagner (found at ftp://ftp.vapor.com/misc/textinput_13.xx.lzx)
- (kickstart 3.0+)
-
- Note that the above only apply if your friends is using AmiComSys,
- and have an Amiga. AMarquee.library is ported to JAVA(tm) but AmiComSys is not.
-
- Features:
-
- * Send text messages.
- * Includes a client list, which shows people which have logged in.
- * Send WEB- or Chat-requests.
- * Uses Magic User Interface (MUI).
- * A message history buffer, which saves all the received messages.
- * Logging
- * Arexx interface
- * File transmission.
- * Public chat (HotLine)
- * Private chat (PChat)
- * Friendsbook.
- * TAB- and ':'-nickname-expansion in chat-fields.
- * Every window is iconifiable separately from the MUI-application.
- * Send WWW, FTP, IRC -addresses to your WEB-browser, FTP-client respective
- AmIRC.
- * Optional string-gadget class. Choose from Betterstring.mcc, Newstring.cc
- and Textinput.mcc
- * Show all/Show only friends/Highlight friends.
- * Check you Pagoo message box.
- * See a photo of the one you are chating with.
- * Hide you IP-address from others.
- * Ignore users in HotLine, Client-List, PChat, SendFile & Messaging.
- * May be put in the WBStartup drawer, and will then automatically
- connect to the server when you are online.
- * Fully configurable GUI with toolbars.
-
- History changes:
-
- 1.25 (27.04.1999)
- -----------------
- NEW:
- New default server is acs.hostile.cx
-
- The message requesters now uses MUI instead of Gadtools. This means
- that all AmiComSys's windows now have a similar layout. Those of you who like
- the GadTools variant, that have been of use in AmiComSys since version 1.12 and
- there fore is well tested, don't need to worry. You can switch between the
- two variants by changing the option "Use MUI requester" on the Windows-page-Message
- Requester-tab in the general settings.
-
- SendFile will now ask if it shall overwrite an existing file or resume
- transmission.
- Suggested by Frederik Thiesen.
- The SendFile now has two CPS-counters(kbytes/sec.).
-
- Added Sound settings page. AmiComSys will now play sounds on several occasions.
-
- Relayouted the main window. The toolbars are inside scrollers, that
- disappear when they are not needed. The message text field is in a popup
- window, which will open if you click the 'New' button.
-
- The HideIP feature is now available for anyone, both registered and
- unregistered users. I changed this to prevent people to find ip-addresses,
- to flood, with AmiComSys. This feature is enabled by default. To turn it off go
- to the network settings page.
-
- Implemented Multi-Select in ClientList (so now it's possible to send normal
- messages to a multiple number of clients).
-
- Reworked Message History. Now the text is saved in the directory PROGDIR:mhistory
- and pages is loaded dynamicly.
- The result is much faster startup and exit of AmiComSys, offline, and closing of MH Window.
- Thanks to David Hamilton for notifying me about the slow Message History.
-
- The images were modified, so please reinstall them. The installer will do
- it automatically for you.
-
- The client list is cleared when the program goes offline.
-
- The hotkey now only iconify the main window if it is in activated state.
- The window will appear at the front if it's not already activated. Just press
- the hot key again, while the window is activated to iconify it.
-
- Added "Send Now!" to the requester that appear if the time interval between
- message sending to the same user hasn't exceeded yet.
-
- Removed 'Load as' menuitem from Message History.
-
- The PChat chat lines are now also inserted to the Message History. You may
- turn this off and on in the Windows-settings-Chat/PChat-tab.
-
- When the two toolbar parts are merged into one they will be inserted in the
- upper part of the group (if moved to the lower GUI area).
-
- Changed the toolbar texts to smaller strings, to make the buttons smaller.
-
- Added the "Super Ignore List"-button on the network-security-page in
- the settings.
-
- Messages over 500 character do no longer show up in the Message History in full.
- You need to double click the text to get the full.
- It seems like NList break messages after a new line character in the Message
- History. For now, double click it to show all.
-
- No need to set the Daylight Savings Time flag anymore in the settings. It's
- now automatically updated according to the current time.
-
- Added a list with addresses to AmiComSys servers in the network settings.
-
- Removed beep on new message setting in Message Requester settings.
-
- Changed 'chat' in the message type cycle button to 'IRC', which should
- be more appropriate.
-
- Added menu item "View/Toolbars". It hides or shows the toolbar(s).
-
- Updated the Rexx/SendEmail.amicomsys script. AmiComSys now supports the
- following mailers:
- YAM 1.3.x, YAM2, AirMailPro v.3.2+, Eucalyptus, Iris and MicroDot2.
-
- 'Snapshotable requesters' added to the Windows->Message requesters settings
- page. Normally AmiComSys would decide the size and position of the message
- requesters. But if you aren't satisfied with message requester sizes that
- AmiComSys decides maybe you should check this one. Then you are able to
- snapshot the windows like any other MUI-window.
-
-
-
- BUGFIXES:
- Freed memory that were not allocated or NULL pointer while adding a user
- to the Ignore List.
-
- When the entire application was iconified and then opened with the
- commodities Exchange Show-command, the window opened, but the icon did
- not disappear from the Workbench.
-
- The refreshing trouble, caused by a MUI-bug with MUIA_ShowMe,FALSE,
- which exists only in simple refresh windows have now been worked around.
- In the AmiComSys FAQ you were told to switch to smart refresh and redraw
- with clear, when you had problems with overwritten window borders at the right
- and bottom of the main window and the PChat window.
- You could now switch them back to 'Simple refresh' and
- 'redraw without clear' without any trouble.
-
- The window spacing will now directly get its user preferred default
- size after a change in the MUI-prefs. This is the four areas of the main
- window that show a rubber band if you drag a toolbar or another part of
- the GUI on them. If you drag & drop a GUI-object into one of these areas
- that object will move to the new position.
-
- SendFile SavePath in the misc-settings was not saved.
-
- It was not possible to turn off "send confirmation" for the return key in the
- message requester. (This should only be possible for registered users.)
- Thanks to Frederik Thiesen for reporting this bug!
-
- The events requesters, "User connected" and "User disconnected" showed host name
- 'Privacy' even though the user was not hiding his or her host name.
-
- Removed garbage characters from the message inserted to the compose window,
- when you press the email button in a Message Center message requester.
-
- Pagoo message checking is now working again.
-
- This program is ShareWare.
- Version 1.25-MUI (27.04.99)
- Copyright 1997-1999 Håkan Parting
-