230 Release Notes

Fixed: On certain filesystems, double-click of a .dmb or .dme file was failing to open the approprate program. Please verify that this works now.
Fixed: F1 on an empty command line was crashing Dream Seeker.
Fixed: User-defined verbs (or aliases) beginning with "." were no longer being semi-hidden like they were supposed to be.
Fixed: The "\th" text macro was broken by the new "\t" tab macro.
Fixed: The <BIG> tag was behaving like <SMALL>.
Fixed: The stat panel was retaining its contents when entering telnet mode after connecting to a BYOND world.
Fixed: In telnet mode, terminal escape codes that control formatting were not being correctly handled when they happended to get split across the end of one packet and the beginning of the next. This would cause strange output like "1;31m" to show up at the trouble spot.
Fixed: The expression (locate("Tag") in List) was sometimes returning the wrong object if there was another object of the same type as the tagged object in the specified List.
Fixed: Arguments of the form (Arg as icon|anything in view()) should now generate calls to the prompting dialogues correctly. Previously, it was not prompting for a file if the user selected ' from the first menu.
Dream Seeker's layout now includes a splitter that can be used to divide the "map/info" and "output" regions of the screen.
The various "Show/Hide" panel options in Dream Seeker's layout manager are now initially set by the current world, and then overrideable by the player. For instance, when a player first logs in, only the main "output" panel is visible. Connection to a mapless world that makes use of the stat or verb panels toggles the "info" panel on. Subsequent connection to a map-based world makes the "map" pane visible. At any intermediate point the player may toggle these elements on or off.
Dream Seeker now supports a "text" map whose main use maybe for debugging purposes. This map displays objects by using text characters (set with the object.text var) rather than icons. If a world does not assign icons, it will be toggled on by default.
The icon editor now supports 1, 4, or 8 directions, which will be respected by the world.
Dream Seeker downloads resource files more intelligently now. Icons are prioritized above midi files, and those are above wav files. Also, icons which are initially visible have the highest priority of all. That should speed up the appearance of the map dramatically when players log in for the first time.
Dream Seeker now allows you to import a .rsc file into a current world, via the "Import resource" menuitem in the "Options" menu. Designers can thus distribute their .rsc file to testers beforehand, thus reducing load on the server when the world is hosted.
You may now include entire resource cache archives. This might be useful in library code that has its own resource files. Instead of distributing all the individual resource files (and having to worry about the directory where the user installs them), you can just compile your library and distribute the source code along with the .rsc file. The user can then simply include your .dm and .rsc files (or you could include the .rsc file yourself), eg:
```
  #include "mudlib.rsc"
  turf/icon = 'glob.dmi'   //this could be a file that exists in mudlib.rsc
```
Unknown configuration options are removed from config.txt.
The <A&rt; HTML element may now take a TITLE attribute. This is displayed when the mouse hovers over the hyperlink.
HTML color values can now be specified in 4 bits as well as 8 (ie 1 vs. 2 hex digits). The single-digits are repeated to make the final 8 bit value. For example: #000 becomes #000000, #fff becomes #ffffff, and #abc becomes #aabbcc.
Quote characters on the client command line (indicating a text or file argument) are now included in the expansion list along with other items. This only happens if you do something like (A as icon|anything in world). Previously, this was automatically expanding to a single quote, which you had to backspace over to enter an object name.
Aliases with the same name as another verb or built-in command now take precedence.
Aliases may now produce multiple commands by inserting "\n" in the return value.
The arrow keys will now call the directional dot commands in telnet mode. By default those do nothing, but in telnet.dms, I have defined them to output directional commands to the telnet server, which should work in the vast majority of muds out there.
Improved password echo suppression in telnet mode.
Added support for processing text attribute escape codes (including color) when in telnet mode.
Added a "vars" variable to all objects. It is a list of the variable names attached to that object. You can use it like a normal list or you can index it by name like this: O.vars["VarName"]. When you index it by name, you get, not the variable name, but its value. You can use this expression anywhere you would use the variable directly, including an assignment. This is intended primarily for low-level library code that automates tasks such as saving and loading object data.
Added an instruction initial(Variable) to get the initial value of a variable as set in the code. This might be useful when saving object data to a file to avoid writing variables which have not been modified. That way, the world could be recompiled and the new initial value would not get overwritten by a value from the save file. This instruction works with the "vars" list so you can do very generalized operations on the variables of an object. Currently, this only works when applied to regular object variables. Globals return the current value instead, and lists return null. The reason is that only object variables are limited to constant initial values.
"Cascading style sheets" (CSS) may now be used by both the server and client to configure world output elements. For instance, the server may set the default fonts and colors in the world by defining a style sheet through the client.script var (see below). Example: See the style sheet reference entry for more information.
DM client script (.dms) files can now contain html text, which is displayed when the script is executed. The primary purpose of this is not for generating visible output but for loading a style sheet, which controls the formatting of subsequent output to the terminal.
Added client.script. It can be a reference to a script file or it can be a text string directly containing the script. When players connect, this script is automatically executed by their client. This could be used to load command aliases, but will most often be for specifying the style sheet, which controls formatting of output in the terminal. See the client script reference entry for more info.
irc.dms and telnet.dms should be included in this patch in dung/lib.
The reference has been updated.