200b8

Version 2.0.0b8

Released March 31st 2011

• A new Help window, with lots of new and updated helpfiles.
• MUSH passwords are now obfusticated on save.
• Added Prefixes/Auto-Says, which can be accessed via the Edit menu, or the /setprefix command. Use /send <text> to send text without the prefix. Requested by Nathan Corbier.
• Added a window (accessed via the File menu) for viewing MSSP info from the MUSH.
• The Debug Packets window now uses the normal world colours.
• You can now use 'Disconnect' to cancel auto-reconnect again.
• You can now configure which Telnet options are negotiated. (Note that these options only take after the next reconnect.)
• It's now possible to have multiple logfiles open per-connection at the same time.
• Added the /at command, to send input at some point in the future. Syntax: /at <time>=<input>. <input> can be a /command.
• Added /cancelat to cancel a previously entered /at.
• Added support for Macros. Define macros via the Options menu, and run with /run <macro>.
• Disabling/re-enabling Timers didn't work correctly. Reported by Paige.
• You can now define multiple characters for each world, choose which to connect to, and set a default to connect to.
• When Echo Input was enabled, connection strings were echoed with passwords visible. Now they're elided.
• The ANSI parsing routine has been rewritten, for better parsing of XTerm/FANSI color codes. Reported by Paige.
• Added the /silent command, which runs another /command but suppresses its success/error messages. Example: /silent /at 1s=/print foo.
• The customizable 'F2' command didn't work due to a typo. Reported by Brev@ElendorMUSH.
• Due to an encoding issue, Potato would mistake all y-umlaut characters for telnet IACs, even if they weren't. Much thanks to Brazil for finding this.
• As a side effect of the encoding fix, the "Auto" option for MU* Type is no longer available.
• You can now use %0-%9 subs for matched subexpressions in the "Spawn To" field for events. This means that, for instance, an Event pattern of <*> * and a "Spawn To" of %0 would spawn anything said on the Public channel to the "Public" spawn, on Softcode to the "Softcode" spawn, etc. Suggested by Merin.
• Bugs in /limit fixed. Found by Paige and Cheetah.
• Shift-Return saves the current text to the Input History without sending it to the MUSH. (Keybinding cannot currently be customised, hopefully later.) Suggested by BlackRookSix.
• Bug in spellchecking when all words are spelled correctly fixed. Reported by Paige.
• Events which recoloured text to "ANSI Highlight" failed. Reported by Javelin.
• Removed all BG Highlight options for events, since BG highlighting is (correctly) no longer possible.
• Potato now remembers the last window position, and attempts to reopen at the same size/position. The "Start Maximized?" config option overrides this. From a suggestion by Javelin.
• Added /tinyurl, which turns URLs into shorter URLs using a website like TinyURL.com (you can pick from a few similar sites). From a suggestion by Paige.
• Bugfix in the Mail Window when using Multi-Command +Mail format. Also, added a new format for posting to Myrddin's BB system. And fields (CC, BCC, etc) which are not used by the current mail format are now greyed out. Suggested by Paige.
• The /grab command is now added automatically for any new world created, instead of existing as a Global Custom /command. Also, we now create a matching event for it (which works for MUSHes) automatically, too, so that /grab works out of the box.
• Added an option to disable all auto-connects, without having to delete them all.
• Added an Error Log Window, accessed from the Help menu, which shows various errors/failures which were previously ignored silently. (Packages which could not be found/loaded, failure to launch browser windows, etc.)
• The character name is now shown in the World Bar buttons, to make distinguishing between multi-connects to a world easier. Also, added a new /rename command which allows you to set a custom name for a connection. Suggested by Paige and ChandraMagic.
• A new Auto-Send sends a string only the first time you connect, and not when you reconnect. Useful for running macros which should only run once. Patch by Ryan Dowell.
• The connect and disconnect messages now include a timestamp.
• If you paste certain Unicode characters into the input window for iso8859-1 (latin1) games -- such as the so-called "smart quotes" which are much-loved by MS Word -- Potato will convert them into sane latin1 equivilents, instead of simply converting them to "?"s. Suggested by Brazil, and using the character mapping he provided.