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Author Topic: mircryption / xchat - new features upcoming in version 0.3.0  (Read 10073 times)

gjehle

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hey to all you xchat using mircryptors!

after someone (bt) joined #mircryption on efnet, pointing out a little bug (or two, or three, ...)
i sat down and invested a couple of hours into (re)writing some of mircryption/xchat's code

now just wait for mouser to upload the latest version so you can grab it from your trusted source @ donationcoder

you can look forward to
- key migration. if someone with a encryption key set changes his/her nick, the key will stick to the new nick (the mirc version had this since the beginning)
- more flexible theme settings (still hardcoded, but more choice and hopefully easier to understand)
- we are now catching the incoming text while it's still in RAW, thus preventing xchat from accidentally hilighting your nick within the base64 string (thanks bt for pointing that one out)
- nick hilighting! yes! finally you can get nick hilighting even if the text was encrypted

quite some work went into the message-re-issue code that enables us to use xchat's native nick-hilighting facilities even if the incoming text is (was) encrypted.
thanks to zed (xchat's coder) for giving me some very helpful pointers as to what's possible and safe to do.
since it's kinda weird if you just look at the code i spent some time to document it properly using a perverted version of a sequence diagram:

(click for full size)
http://mein-bowl.de/mircryption_callgraph.png
mircryption / xchat - new features upcoming in version 0.3.0
« Last Edit: April 06, 2007, 09:43 PM by gjehle »

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Re: mircryption / xchat - new features upcoming in version 0.3.0
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2007, 07:13 PM »
beautiful..  :up: :up: :up: :up:

new version of mircryption with these changes has been uploaded.
announcement here: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=8021.0
« Last Edit: April 09, 2007, 01:46 AM by mouser »

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Re: mircryption / xchat - new features upcoming in version 0.3.0
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2007, 01:45 AM »
ps. anyone is using mircryption for xchat should consider sending gjehle a couple of credits in appreciation for his work on it.  Without him there would be no mircryption-for-xchat updates.