What's new in Visual IRC 2.0pre10?

Additions

• Visible controls now have the Parent property available. This could be
  used to move built-in controls into a group box or tab sheet.
• TListBox, TComboBox, and TListView now have an ItemText property. For
  TListBox and TComboBox it's equivalent to the ItemIndex'th element of
  the Items list; for TListView it's equivalent to the Caption property
  of the Selected item.
• Server tab buttons now show "connecting" while waiting to connect.
• A gratuitous credits display is hidden in the about box.
• DCC entries now stay in the list after an error occurs.
• $GetDCCInfo() has two new fields: errnum and errmsg. 'state' can also
  return 'error'.
• New '@e' command to set one-line event handlers. For example:
  @e $form.OnMouseDown = MessageBox $Button
  Now when you click the form, you will see a message saying "mbLeft" or
  "mbRight" depending on which button you used. Note that the $Button is
  evaluated when the event handler runs, not when it's set (as with @p).
  This is equivalent to:
  @p $form.OnMouseDown = Eval MessageBox $$Button
  ... but it makes more sense.
• New <default> event for server lines that aren't handled by anything
  else. New "show unrecognized server numerics" script setting, to show
  the entire unrecognized line.
• New associative array syntax:
  @ $foo[key1] = value1
  @ $foo[key2] = value2
  @ $foo[key3] = value3
  MessageBox $foo[key2]
  -@ $foo[key1]
  // when the key contains brackets, $, etc...
  @l $temp = ]special characters[
  @ $foo[$temp] = value4
  foreach ($key, $value; $foo)
  MessageBox key: $key, value: $value
  endforeach
  // stored array
  @s $stored[key] = value
  -@s $stored[key]
  // local array
  @l $local[key] = value
• New functions for arrays: $ArrayKeys($array), $ArrayValues($array),
  $ArrayLength($array). These only work with arrays created with the new
  syntax as shown above.
• ViRC now automatically checks for updates 5 minutes after you start it.
  You can disable update checking or change settings in client setup, and
  you can force it to check immediately with /checkforupdates or the
  file menu item.
• New functions: $URLEncode(text), $URLDecode(text). URL encoding replaces
  space with '+' and all other non-alphanumerics with '%xx', where xx is
  the hex code. Decoding is the opposite.
• New function $MD5(text) to return an MD5 digest. The digest is a 128-bit
  fingerprint of the input text, given as 32 hex digits. The chances of
  two separate texts having the same MD5 digest are one in 2^128.
• New function $ParseColor(string [type]) to get a color's RGB value.
  <string> can be an mIRC color number (0-15), a hex color in the form
  $BBGGRR, a decimal color (as returned by $prop($obj.Color)), an
  event color name like ecJOIN, or a color name like clGreen.
  <type> can be 'dec' to return it as a decimal color (for use with
  @p $obj.Color or with TextOut) or 'hex' to return it as a hex color in
  the form RRGGBB (for use with \d). 'hex' is the default.
• ViRC will try to reconnect to the server if the connection is lost. You
  can adjust the delay between attempts (and other settings) in client
  setup. ViRC can also try other servers on the same network if enabled.
  Note that disconnecting with '/raw quit' will make ViRC think the server
  disconnected you, and it will try to reconnect.
• New "don't hop away" server list option. If reconnection fails on a
  server with the option enabled, ViRC won't try other servers from the
  same network. However, if ViRC was trying the "don't hop away" server
  because reconnection failed on a different server, it will still hop
  away.
• ViRC's tray icon now has a customizable popup menu (MT_TRAYPOPUP).

Bug fixes

• Fixed hexadecimal values in expressions.
• No more errors when using /exit with queries or channels open.
• Major DCC bugs fixed.
• Menu definitions can now have spaces before the bitmap filename.
• DCC requests are always sent correctly with reverse DCC enabled. You can
  also send DCC when SOCKS is enabled, as long as reverse DCC is also
  enabled.
• Errors in ActiveScript language blocks are handled better.
• GetVar() in ActiveScript code now works correctly for numbered parameter
  variables.
• $getwindowid() now works in <OnCreateWindow> for all window types.
• Timers are now disabled correctly when the timer command takes longer
  to run than the timer interval.
• Importing ViRC 1.x settings now works correctly when there was no server
  list defined.
• Ending color codes now correctly clears the background color.
• Leaving the personal script filename blank is now acceptable.

Changed features

• <OnStart> events are now run after the toolbars are set up and the
  splash form is hidden.
• The script editor no longer saves menu items that have no code. This
  means you can add items in local.lib without having to copy all the
  code from virc.lib.
• The server debug log now contains all text that is sent or received.
  'recv' marks a received line, 'send' is a sent line, 'send_brk' is a
  sent line that is broken to avoid DCC proxies, and 'send_idle' is a
  sent line that doesn't reset $idletime(). If you use debug logging, make
  sure you edit any passwords out of your logs before you send them to
  anyone.
• Channel, query, and DCC chat window positions are now stored with an MD5
  digest of the network and channel/nickname instead of the actual plain
  text. This prevents others from looking in your registry to see who
  you've talked to, and also lets you have separate positions for the same
  channel on different networks.
• The 'News and updates' link has been removed from the about box.

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