Last Change : 14 Nov 1997

Changes in 1.18.71

1) Fix typo in code for closing server connections.

2) Fix bug with /RAW and /QUOTE

3) Fixed a problem when netscapes had spaces in there names. (And
   generally improved some of the code in that area)

Changes in 1.18.70

1) Fix bug in saving Server port numbers

Changes in 1.18.69

1) Fix problem with /TOPIC command

2) Fix bug in config when reverting.

3) Change COPYRIGHT notice slightly

Changes in 1.18.68

1) Add new configurables for colours:

	net setcolour red

   defines the colour used in buttons that indicate when they are set.

	net foreground xxxxx

   defines the colour used *in some places* for the foreground! It
   defaults to the foreground colour defined for zircon. Its use will
   become more ubiquitous as time goes on....

2) Add new Channel option "mytag". This allow syou to configure the
   string that is put out before your messages to channels. The
   default for channels and messages is > and for Chats =. Currently
   the only interesting thing you can do with the prompt is to include
   the magic string %n in it and this will have your current nick
   substituted:

   Channel *default* -mytag "%n >"

   Setting the tag for the default channel (or Chat) will change it
   for all other channels. You can of course set it on a channel by
   channel basis as well.

Changes in 1.18.67

1) Fix bug when switching user buttons on and off in Chats and
   Messages.

2) Add quitwait option for Netspaces. this allows you to set the time
   that zircon will wait for the ERROR reply sent back by a server
   when it sends a QUIT. The default value is 10 seconds.

Changes in 1.18.66

1) Fix problem with timed window closure.

2) Fix for menu modes when chanop status changes. (This may not be a
   fix yet - I think the problme is fixed, but I am not certain...)

3) Handle ^Gov flag on JOIN when it is the current user doing the joining.

Changes in 1.18.65

1) Fix the horrible balls I made of the operator/speaker flagging
   code....

2) A gash file called &1 was being created when exec was used. This
   has been fixed, but there is a residual problem here which I am
   working on.

Changes in 1.18.64

1) Various internal fiddling about

2) Fixed a problem when timed out DCC offers were accepted.

3) Changed the reference count handling in the DCC code. If this
   doesn't work, at least it should fail safe, i.e. there will be more
   refs than derefs.

Changes in 1.18.63

1) Remove : in tag on server Notices.

2) Change QUIT handling so that it copes iwth bad coding in servers.
   I think it is ridiculous that clients hould have to code round
   lousy coding in the servers, but, hey, that's only my opinion.

Changes in 1.18.62

1) Fix typo in a tracing message

2) Fix frame reference error introduced in .57 - showed up as buttons
   not greying out on splits.

3) Fix really stupid errors in configuration (trying to be too clever....)

Changes in 1.18.61

1) Fixed inverted condition on timestamping unsolicited messages.

2) Make Channel config window smaller so that it fits on a 600 height screen.

Changes in 1.18.60

1) Add support for client hosts with multiple addresses :

	net myaddr host1.domain
   or
	net myaddr 42.42.42.42

   will specify your outgoing host for socket connectiosn to servers.
   The option

	net myport 5555

   allows you to set the port number for outgoing server calls as
   well. (This is here for completeness as it is probably not much
   use!!)

2) Fix nasty bug in configuration - options were not changing for each
   channel.

Changes in 1.18.59

1) Once again fixing typos.

Changes in 1.18.58

1) Fix typos in .57 (as usual!!)

Changes in 1.56.57

1) Dont put out date when creating an unsolicited message window that
   has timestamps true.

2) Remove extra leading space being sent with /msg

3) Add (user@host) to signoff notification information when known.

4) Add new -alwayslog value to netspaces. This takes the same values
   as the -toInfo option and will always send the message to the Info
   window as well as displaying a window with the message. This also
   involved rewriting a lot of the information message code.

5) Added Kill and Close to the values allowable for toInfo (for kills
   and line closures)

6) Fixed a gridding problme with +a mode windows. This required a huge
   rewrite of the way windows are organised and revealed a nasty bug
   in tk which had to be worked round....

Changes in 1.18.56

1) Fix display problem when anonymous & channels stop being
   anonymous. (2.9 IRCnet only)

2) Fix nasty typo introduced in .55

Changes in 1.18.55

1) Nickname menus were broken by a change in tk8.0 menu
   interface. Also there appears to be a bug in tk8.0 menu.tcl's
   implementation of tk_popup. If you hit this let me know and I'll
   tell you how to fix it.

2) Catch an ordering problem when DCC related windows are deleted in
   an unusual order.

3) Message button was not appearing on notifies when there wasa
   user@host specified for the user.

4) Move global ircIImode button to control panel.

Changes in 1.18.54

1) Change startup handling *again* - it works for some systems and not
   for others.... (i.e. mine but not yours)

Changes in 1.18.53

1) Fix bug in configuring Info

2) Fix startup display problem.

Changes in 1.18.52

There is no 1.18.52

Changes in 1.18.51

1) Moral: Don't fix things late at night, over dialup from home....
   Fixed the casue not the symptoms of the 1.18.49/50 problem.

   We try harder.....

2) Try to fix support for netspaces with . in their names. (Not fully
   tested yet though)

Changes in 1.18.50

1) *SIGH* fix a problem with a speed up in initialisation... (Which I
   cant reproduce here for some reason)

Changes in 1.18.49

1) There was no history in Chat windows....now there is.

2) Change handling of raw lines in info window so that lines starting
   with / are always taken as IRC II style commands (ugh)

Changes in 1.18.48

1) Fix yet another horrible typo in the debugging version of the
   code.....

Changes in 1.18.47

1) Fix another typo in the tracing code....

2) Fix a bug in Channel configuration (couldn't get *new*!!!)

Changes in 1.18.46

1) Make handling of a "cant happen" condition more robust.

2) Fix typo in the tracing version of the code.

Changes in 1.18.45

1) Fix missing QUIT when no quit message given.

2) Trap and warn on DCC WBOARD calls. I might even support this if I
   can find out what the protocol is!

3) Bug fix in config when saving

4) SOUND seems to have been broken. Should be fixed now. (Sound
   doesn't work on my machine so I cant test it properly, but it
   executes a player program OK....)

5) Fixed scrolling bug!!!

Changes in 1.18.44

1) Fix another DCC display problem

Changes in 1.18.43

1) Add &SERVICES channel for IRCnet 2.9.3 servers.

2) Added Reason parameter to SQUIT command

3) Fixed display problems in DCC listing windows and other buglets
   that had crept in during the changes.

4) Fixes to / command stuff bugs introduced in the latest round of
   changes.

5) Fix to history bug

Changes in 1.18.42

1) Fixed the stupid bug in deleteing Users when garbage collecting.....

Changes in 1.18.41

1) You can configure the max number of beeps using

	net beeplimit 4

   The default value is 4. 0 will allow all beeps through.

2) The maximum number of outstanding DCC requests can be configured.

	net dcclimit 10

   The default value is 10, and 0 allows all DCC requests through.
   Any over the max will be silently ignored.

3) Redid the history mechanism. It is now separate from the scrolling
   buffer of the window. There are now two configurable options for
   channels etc. :

	-history 10
	-scrollback 50

   history controls the history of what you type, scrollback controls
   how much is displayed in the window.

4) Redid all the DCC listing windows and how you interact with
   them. (There are some minor display problems that I haven't fixed yet)

Changes in 1.18.40

1) Fix ButtonMenu to handle -direction query from tk internals.

2) Anyone CTCPing you with a bell in the CTCP name gets ignored for
   CTCPs automatically.

3) Zircon will now only insert 3 bells into any chunk of text displayed in
   the buffer.

Changes in 1.18.39

1) Handle rogue ACCEPT messages properly.

2) Various fixes to configuration

Changes in 1.18.38

1) Fix horrible typo in start up.....

Changes in 1.18.37

1) Give an error when an invalid/unsupported / command is used. Old
   behaviour was to send line to channel.

2) Add ircIImode toggle buttons. ircIImode is also on a per channel
   basis

3) Allow key and speaker flags to be moved around using the look
   command.

4) Added jump toggle button under scrollbar and removed the menu item.

5) Make the Chat creation code more robust - this *should* fix the
   problem of chats being associated with the wrong network (but I
   dont guarantee it as I cant reproduce the problem myself.)

6) You can dicker with the position of the jump toggle button and the
   put the scrollbar over on the left if you want.


7) Added the start of a readme for the look command.

Changes in 1.18.36

1) Fix horrible bug in 1.18.35 which stopped it working.....

2) Started to add OSF1 and BSDI to the installer

3) Started to add permission changing to installer.

Changes in 1.18.35

1) Fix title on incoming dcc request window to include net name.

2) (Hopefully) fix error on JOIN. I think this is an Undernet only
   problem and may only occur after Netsplits. WHo knows what the
   Undernet changes to the protocol are??

Changes in 1.18.34

1) Fix missing \ in Message.tcl

2) Catch package indexing errors in the installer

Changes in 1.18.33

1) Fixed bad call to channel rejoin

Changes in 1.18.32

1) Restricted Connection message was not being cleared.

2) Fixed bug in killing of DCC processes

Changes in 1.18.31

1) Fix problem with PageUp and Down keys

2) Some fiddling with appearances.

3) Fiddle with Open button and its status - dont know if this has
   actually changed anything!!

4) Fix typo in code for finger

Changes in 1.18.30

1) Fixed an error in handling of DCC RESUME.

2) Fix problem in Log file handling.

3) Fixed a couple of gridding related things.

4) Fixed gridding bug when opeing draw window.

Changes in 1.18.29

1) Add the -joinat command for channels so that you can schedule a
   join for a specific time. (The value is anything that the tcl/tk
   clock scan command can parse, the value is checked and you'll get
   an error if it appears to be in the past.)

Changes in 1.18.28

1) Fixed lots of gridding errors introduced in the 27 sweep

2) Fixed error in RESUME code.

3) Gridded some things that hadn't been gridded...

4) Fixed a potential problem with auto-oping when the connection goes down.

Changes in 1.18.27

1) Changed to using the grid manager everywhere. This will undoubtedly
   cause all kinds of problems....

2) Changed the handling of auto opping which was going wrong in
   certain cases. Also fixed a typo which in some very unlikely cases
   would have caused data to be left around.

3) Fixed the looping problems - it was related to gridder/packer
   conflicts.

4) Removed the Help service option from the configuration window as
   I dont think there any IRC help systems out there anymore.... I
   will probably remove it from the whole system at th enext major
   release point.

5) Fixed two "sleepers" that nobody had hit but which I found when
   trying out the tclparse package

3) Fixed problem with WHO command.

Changes in 1.18.26

1) Fix List command which was still broken...

Changes in 1.18.25

1) Fix a missing parameter in error message handling - only affects 
   people running tcl 7.5 ....

2) Fixed an ancient bug when users try to draw polygons with too few
   points.

3) Some minor changes in the installer to forstall possible future
   portability problems.

Changes in 1.18.24

1) Fix List bug introduced in a recent release whilst making Lists
   safe for multiple netspaces....

2) Added a couple of grouchy things to the FAQ

3) Fix bug in File dialog boxes introduced when changing to
   gridding. (Hey, it didnt work, but it looked much better!)

Changes in 1.18.23

1) Fixed some bugs in saving preferences. Add some things that should
   have been saved.

Changes in 1.18.22

1) Support automation of installZircon process (basically for Debian
   creators)

2) Fixed bug in Friends config

3) Changed oper messages a bit more.

4) Add the option -ban for channels. This consists of a list of pairs:

	{{regexp ban} {regexp1 ban1} ....}

   When someone joins a channel the nick!userhost prefix is compared
   against the regular expressions and if one matches the user is
   banned from the channel using the string the pattern in teh second
   element of each pair. The user is also kicked after the BAN has
   been sent.

5) Dialogs now pop up centred on the screen

6) Colouring of warnings, ctcp replies etc. now works (at least a
   little)

7) Fixed a history problem

Changes in 1.18.21

1) Add new meta option that allows you to specify which of the Mod1-n
   keys works ad the Meta key inside zircon:

	net meta Mod3

   You can also do this assignment on a permanent basis using the
   xmodmap command (q.v. (that's Latin for RTFM))

Changes in 1.18.20

1) Fix the typo in 1.18.19 *SIGH*

Changes in 1.18.19

1) Fixed a typo

2) Fixed bug in ignore (clearing all the flags didn't work properly)

3) Changed some messages for operator password getting and made
   password entry secret.

4) Add new feature enabled by

	net cleargone 1

   This will periodically test to see if the users who you have
   Message and Notice windows open to are still on IRC. If they are
   not, then they will be removed.

5) Recognise difference between local and global irc operators.

Changes in 1.18.18

1) Fix auto-opping bug.

2) Added -closeleave option for Channels etc. When set this leaves the
   Channel (or Message) rather than just popping down the window.

Changes in 1.18.17

1) Fixed bugs in new logging code

2) Some internal cleanups in tcl usage - probably added more bugs....

Changes in 1.18.16

1) Fix a bad call on Server :: make

Changes in 1.18.15

1) Add the file that I missed out of 1.18.14.....

2) Fix bug in handling of Operator passwords.

Changes in 1.18.14

1) Fixed a bug in notify introduced in 12a and a key clearing problem.

2) Added Alt-1 click to Leave buttons which will leave without asking
   for confirmation.

3) Items in toInfo and noconfirm fields are now always translated into
   upper case. (The README file was wrong - this has now been fixed as
   well)

Changes in 1.18.12a

1) Change menu handling for Meta-tab.

2) Change Meta-tab to expand using only the channels list of users
   rather than all those known for the net. (The info window will
   search all the users zircon knows for the net)

3) Add new formatting charcters to log file names - %n expands to the
   network name and %c expands to the channel name (or nickname for
   messages). This allows automatic opening for logfiles for arbitrary
   channels.

4) Fixed a couple of small bugs.

Changes in 1.18.12

1) Fix bugs introduced in 1.18.11....

Changes in 1.18.11

1) When Meta-Tab picks up multiple hits, a menu pops up. You can pick
   the items using the mouse or using the function keys.

2) Add ISON on condition which fires when a user is detected as
   joining IRC. The matching condition ISOFF is there too.

3) Bugs in history handling fixed. (Specifically, actions work better,
   timestamps are removed and the Down key now works as well as Control-n.

Changes in 1.18.10

1) Fix friends problem when -id is given.

2) Changed -id matching to regular expression rather than exact.

3) Added Meta-Tab to expand nicks. (Currently you get the first hit
   as I am only experimenting....)

Changes in 1.18.9

1) Fix the bug introduced in 1.18.8 *sigh*

2) Fix bug with Kick ing users with weird nicks.....

Chanegs in 1.18.8

1) Fix the problem introduced in 1.18.7 for people runnign with out
   netspaces.....

Changes in 1.18.5 - 1.18.7

1) Various bug fixes

2) Support for plugin modules is now availabel but completely
   undocumented. There is an example plugin called MsgOps which
   sends a message to all the opreators on a channel. It is callable
   from the Channel menu in a channel window. Note that Dcc and Sed
   whilst living with the plugins are rather more integrated into
   the whole system than other plugins will be.

3) Some internal changes which should be invisible, but knowing my
   luck probably aren't....

Changes in 1.18.4

1) on conditions were all failing silently - they now work.

2) The handling of some new 2.9 server features was not complete

3) There was something amiss with colour handling - I think it is now
   fixed.

Changes in 1.18.3

1) Fix a bug with 401 error returns from the server.

Changes in 1.18.2

1) Fixed problem with some systems that did not recognise KP_
   bindings. These may have been X11R5 or may not have had Keypads, I
   dont know which.

2) Added some code to do with setting Auto Accept directories, but you
   cant get at it yet....

Changes in 1.18.1

1) Bug fixes of course

2) Added support for Page up and Page down scrolling.

3) Added back in support for FINGER ctcp outgoing. Will only respond
   to incoming FINGER if fingerinfo is not empty. USERINFO will only
   reply if userinfo is not empty now. These commands are flood bate...

Changes in 1.18 released version

1) Yet more little bug fixes.

2) Some extra material in the documentation (Hurray!!) I also delted a
   bunch of stuff that was wrong but haven't had a chance to write any
   more yet.... (Boo!!)

3) Time stamp formatting is now supported. (The support for time
   stamping may well change in the next version BTW)

Changes in 1.18b41

1) Added README.prefs which describes all the configurable parameters
   for user configurable items

2) Added autogetdir so that automatic acceptance of DCC sends can
   have somewhere to put the file. This value can be a single
   directory, or else it can be a list of pairs:

	{{dir1 ptn1} {dir2 ptn2} {dir3}}

   dir1 will be selected if the incoming file name matches the regular
   expression ptn1, etc. If you do not give a pattern then it defaults
   to .* and will match any file. If no patterns match then you will
   be prompted for a directory. N.B. matching is case sensitive!!

3) Added a configuration option for the autoget list onto the
   Users->DCC menu on the control panel. Currently you cant configure
   autogetdir except by hand in your prefs files.

Changes in 1.18b39

1) All Users menu items now remember the last user name you typed in.

2) CTCP replies are now handled differently for display purposes.

3) Auto-op expressions were being saved incorrectly. Currently there 
   is some code that tries to get round this, but there are some
   cases where it goes wrong. If you have trouble with auto-ops get in
   touch.

Changes in 1.18b36

1) Fix problems introduced in b35 :-)

2) Support stacked and embedded ctcps

3) Changes to saving of prefs files - should be smaller now.

4) Other stuff as well.

Changes in 1.18b31

1) Palette redesigned - now has colour and formatting on it. Background
   colour setting is not yet supported.

2) Add Button 3 pulldown menu which is like the Palette

3) Added nosort flag to turn off sorting of names in channels.

4) Unaccepted DCCs (incoming and outgoing) are ditched after 5
   minutes. Configurable in preferences using

	net dccTime <seconds>

Changes in 1.18b29

1) Lots of CTCPs removed - some are never used and others are flood
   bate. The whole area of CTCP is under discussion in a forum of
   client writers at the moment.

Changes in 1.18b27

1) Added support for Unixware (not fully tested)

2) Add "Reconnected" message to open windows on reconnect

3) Fixed a nick in use problem I found.

4) Button-2 click on Away button clears the away.

Changes in b16-b20

1) Lots of bug fixes in new installation process

2) Bug fix for Mode/PopUp in Channel windows

3) Bug fix for tcl7.5 users in file selection boxes

4) Start of Colour protocol support. This supports the protocol as used
   by mIRC which is the one that I was asked to support.

Changes in 1.18b15

1) Completely new installation system

Changes in 1.18b10

1) Moved DCC and SED to plugin directory. Integrated DCC more into tcl

2) SED can now be done using a loadable C module.

3) Moved everything over to using the package system

4) Fixed the moderated channels bug and added an icon to show current state.

Changes in 1.18b5

1) Add a startup screen and change control panel a bit.

2) Multi network support is now added. You need a directory called
   netspaces in your .zircon directory to start with. If you dont have
   this zircon should be much the same.

3) You can set the responses to USERINFO, VERSION and FINGER CTCPs, use:
	net userinfo {msg}
	net fingerinfo {msg}
	net versioninfo {msg}
   in your preferences or netspace files.

4) Redid the button images - now enabled by default

5) Added maxQueue option for network so that you can control the
   number of CTCP replies that get queued. Set it to {} for no max,
   >=0 t0 control the queue.

6) Allowed entries in netspaces directory to be directories
   themselves. If they are then zircon looks for a file called
   preferences inside that directory - this route allows me some
   future expansion for per network configuration.

7) Made configuration change detection work on a per network basis.

8) If you type Meta-/ or Meta-? in a channel you will get up a Search
   dialog that will let you search the channel text.

9) The blue up/down buttons change colour when the network is active.

10) Add the autoAway feature

11) Add NOTICE to toInfo feature

12) Added channel timestamping

13) Added netspace unloading

14) Added look and share facilities for window configuration. These
    are completely undocumented....and are really Release 2 features.

15) Added -noshare option so that you can mark channels as not sharing
    windows ever - useful for special messages.

16) Mouse down button 2 on a list window gives popup with full channel
    name in it. this sort of conflicts with the button 2 drag - I
    don't know if anyone actually uses that!

17) Processing of List speeded up by inclusion of dynmaically created
    item matching procedure.

18) Added SQUERY and SERVLIST for 2.9 servers and p,q and s stats
    options.

Changes in 1.17 p4

1) DCC Fixes

2) DCC progress monitor changes

3) Support for DCC actions

4) Last directory used for Send, Get and Sound playing remembered

5) Last directory used for drawing saving and Channel logging remebered
   on a per channel basis. New channel options -logdir and -drawdir allow
   you to set where this points to in your preferences file.

6) Support incoming PART strings

7) Support for server passwords in configuration

8) Support for 2.9 features

9) Support for Undernet MAP, SIlence and LIST commands

10) Completely new debugging interface

11) Add automatic acceptance of DCC gets and chats

12) Added -D and -T flags to control debugging and tracing

13) Changes to preferences file format

14) Changes to look and handling of invisble/wallops/srvmsg flags

15) Added antiflood protection - "et zircon(antiflood) <milliseconds>"
    in your preferences file causes ctcp replies to be queued and
    fired off at intervals of the time given. Setting the value to 0
    turns off flood protection. 

16) Handle 2.9 anonymous channels better

17) Handle moderated channels better

18) Adding support for tcl7.6 features.

19) A GAzillion changes...

20) Away interface redone.

Changes in 1.17 p1 - p3

1) Bug fixes

2) Security fixes

Changes in 1.17

1) Fix bug in startup code

2) Fix problem when fonts etc. are missing

3) Add Server/Trace window

4) Add Missing Stats option and parameter window

5) Fix some dialog box problems

6) Add dump function

7) Changes to DCC internal comms

8) Fix some File dialog errors

9) Fix Channel closetime configuration error

10) Button 2 used on the Quit button and on Leave buttons makes them
    popup a menu. Some features work now and some are reserved for use
    with ircd 2.9 features.

11) Start to fix various memory leakages

12) Add WHowas an fix WHOIS for ISON prompt boxes.

13) Fix whowas + count problem

14) Fix pasting into Info window entry line

15) Fix pasting into Chat window

16) New narrower name buttons

17) Catch flush errors on channel logging.

18) (some) \ in nick bugs fixed

19) Add -r flag. -r filename will cause the named file to be read instead
    of any other rc files.

20) Speed up processing of channel Lists. New variable zircon(tmp)
    contains the name of a directory suitable for temporary files.
    defaults to /tmp.

22) Start of major internal rearrangement - one further step towards V2.....

23) Added zircon(sepColor) flag to control color of the lines on the
    command window.

24) More [nick] bugs...

25) Tons and tons of internal changes

26) Added "set zircon(ping) <time in seconds>" as an rc file option.
    If you set this to a non-zer time, zircon will ping the server at
    this interval. If no PONG has returned by the next PING then it
    will close the connection.

27) Added partial support for tcl7.5/tk4.1. DCC will probably not work
    at the moment. Also you *MUST* have applied the patch for empty frames
    sent by John O. to the tcl newsgroup. The version of tk4.1 on catless has
    (or will have when I put it there) the patch applied.

28) tcl7.5/tk4.1 is supported and in fact recommended

29) Fixed problem to do with nick changing.

30) Enhanced internal object structure and new debugging stuff (as if you
    cared!!)

31) Fixed invite/kick conflict problem.

32) Introduced start of multi-language support.

33) Introduce start of look support

34) Add reconnect button when closes connection.

35) Add zircon(reconnect) variable - automatically reconnects on disconnect.

36) ADD ZI|RCONPREFDIR environment varible - contains path to zircon
    personal directory. Defaults to ~/.zircon

37) Fix tclX bug for DCC

38) Add HOSTIPADDR environment variable and test for 0.0.0.0 as address.

39) Add -d option to set prefdir from the command line rather using environment.

40) Add some text to the Help area

41) Sort the menu in the Names button. Leave your nick at the
    top. Sorting the buttons is somewhat harder and I haven't worked
    out how best to do it yet.

42) New handling of nick in use on startup

43) Added -C flag - no auto connect (configuration mode) 

44) Use the tcl7.5 asynchronous connect feature

45) Add -nocase flag for channels so that names sorting will be case
    independent.

46) Added facility for menubuttons in dialog/entry boxes - used this to
    improve handling of nick in use when starting up.

47) Introduced new Friend object to help with some of the nick
    changing horrors.....(though there are still some....)

48) Added -messages facility for channels

49) Added new installation procedure

50) Added support for long nicks

51) Added support for mIRC SOUND ctcp.

52) Added support for some non-standard numerics in channels

53) Added Save Layout option

54) Removed Register as it is too network dependent and bot is not running

55) Added Ban button to user menus

Changes in 1.16

1) Support tcl7.4/tk4.0 and tclX7.4

2) Lots of internal changes to take advantage of new features in tk4.0

3) Some rearrangement of the Control panel

4) Disable registration for the moment (bot is not running!)

5) Add some use of colour

6) Experiment with images on buttons. Images are optional and
   currently off.

7) Make some scrollbars appear only when necessary.

8) Uses tclX or tcl-dp. tclX has definite advantages.

9) Add a couple of new ONs, and some (not very useful) documentation for
   on conditions in general. Add zircon(multion) variable.

10) Add zircon(busymsg) variable

11) History handling changed

12) Internal tag handling changed

13) *INCOMPATIBLE* To do a msg/who/finger for the person who sent a
    line to channel, you now need tu se clicks with button 2 rather
    than button 1 - button 1 handling now gives you all the possible
    tcl/tk selection modes.

14) Added Double button 3 click on a line to pick out a url and send
    it to your browser using the mechanism that is already in place.

15) Add Several Makefiles because people are too lazy to check!!

16) Add Exec and Script menu items. Exec will run a command and send
    the result either to the current channel or to the info window.
    The Script commands is not yet implemented.

Changes in 1.15 T pl 11

1) Add clear button to Info window.

2) Change format of KILL message again.

3) Send channel CTCP messages to the channel window.

4) Fix argument problem with new whois button on ison window.

5) AIX fixes for Makefile

6) Fix whois & notice buttons on Message window (error when nick changes)

7) Always display signoff message in Message windows even when they
   have been diverted to info.

8) Add WM_DELETE_WINDOW handling.

9) In a message window, away messages will only appear once. If the
   message changes the new message will be displayed once.

10) Maintain filename in display across directory changes in a file box.

11) Fix typo in ctcp.tcl

12) Fix problems in monitor code.

13) Fix problem with Links when there are none....

14) Change whois handling internally

15) Remove NickServ and NoteServ

16) Fix problem in DCC List display handler

17) Add SQUIT command.

18) Disable register button until ZirconBot can be brought back on line

19) Fix problem in server list proc.

Changes in 1.15 T PL 10

1) Changes to netsplit code.

2) Shift-clicking the Clear button in sketch pad windows when chanop
   will clear the whole thing.

3) Some more weird name handling fixes

4) Fixes to raw mode

5) Fixes to parsing of KILL messages

6) Fixes to handling of ircII special characters.

7) Add Meta-n command which sends the current selection to Mosaic using
   the cci interface, assuming that it is a URL.

8) Fix some channel handling problems

9) Handle WALLOPS

10) Add WHOIS button to ison window

Changes in 1.15 T PL 9

1) Fix problem with grab when connection is made.

Changes in 1.15 T PL 8

1) Fix problem when nick is used on first connection.

Changes in 1.15.T PL 7

1) Fix PING bug introduced in P6 !!!!

Changes in 1.15.T PL 6

1) Add morse code

2) Add configurable action key

3) Add configurable beep string

4) Fixed bug in notification code.

5) Focus no longer shifts to unsolicited windows when they pop up

6) Fix problem with drawing in message windows

7) Patches for Solaris (Thanks to Blair Zajac)

8) Add Ignore menu for Message windows (under User menubutton)

Changes in 1.15.T PL 5

1) Bug fix in saving server info

2) Stopped using window . so now control window can have a proper icon

3) Added on POPUP and on CLOSE conditions

4) Can send text reversed

5) When you are kicked you now have the option of rejoining.

6) Phantom users caused by people leaving between server changes or
   kicks and rejoins ought to be fixed.

7) Add ircIImode flag

Changes in 1.15.T PL 4

1) Bug fixes

2) Change to way input from server is handled.

3) Fixed Sketchpad problems

4) Added CLOSE condition - called when server closes connection to you.

5) Probably some other stuff too, but I cant remember.

Changes in 1.15.T PL *

1) many minor bug fixes.

2) Added Favourites window - this is like friends but for Channels.

3) Added Message button to WHOIS window.

4) Added configurable bellcmd

5) Added configurable sound playing - bell is the only option at the moment.

Changes in 1.15.T

N.B. YOU MUST USE tcl 7.1 and tk 3.4 for releases after 1.15.4. There
are bug fixes that are needed by Zircon. It is advisable to use Tcl-DP
3.1 as well.

1) Fixed loss of scroll bar on resizing info window.

2) Fixed Colour button problem in sketch pad.

3) Fixed Ban+Kick bug

4) Ban mode now lists bans when youa re not channel op.

5) Added Names menu button. This duplicates the user buttons as a
menu. The user buttons can be shown or removed using the Buttons menu
item.

6) Changed incoming message parsing - should now be faster

7) Added variable friendsStyle - if this is set to menu then Friends
appears as a pulldown menu. If set to window it has the original
format.

8) Fixed configure bug for noDraw

9) Changed handling of text in windows (should be invisible except for
performance improvement)

10) Improved listbox handling internally - no visible changes

11) Added showFriends variable - set it to 1 and the Friends window
appears when zircon starts up.

12) Too many internal changes to mention!

13) Added -o option to switch of Ons

14) Added bindings for Up Down Left and Right

15) Added the ability to do /horrible type commands.

16) Added CTCP Other interface

17) and have a zillion other things.

Changes in 1.14

1) Fixed problem with auto searching servers list

2) Fixed problem with finger and Trace

3) Changed Shift-double-click on line of text to do the equivalent of
/whois nick nick. Stefke wanted to see the idle time for people.......

4) Fixed the DCC send problems

5) Added the Channel Sketch Pad feature (Channel->Draw to get it) No
Draw disables this feature. Please do not use this in channels where
there are non-zircon users. Communication is via "extra" ctcp commands
and this will drive them nuts!!

6) Added some special keyboard shortcuts in the channel entry field :
nick msg<Meta-q> will send msg to nick
nick<Meta-w> does a WHOIS nick
nick<Shift-Meta-W> does a WHO nick
(Obviously you dont type the <>s......)

7) Added some special ZIRCON ctcp commands. These are to help with
debugging the system and are not for general use.

8) Fixed file dialog when directory was empty

9) Fixed DCC window menus

Changes in 1.12A

1) Some people are supertitious.....

Changes in 1.12

1) DCC Chat interface should now be same as for other channels.

2) By setting the port number in the servers data structure explicitly
to {}, you ought to be able to access UNIX domain sockets rather than
TCP sockets. I dont have a UNIX domain server to test this with.......

3) You can now match input to channels on a line by line basis. You
set this up in the field of the channelInfo structure after the
channel bindings (this the tenth field counting from 1 I think). The
format is thus

{ {{{prefix pattern} {message pattern}} {cmd}} ....}

Prefix Pattern matches the sender - .* matches everyone.

4) The auto op feature of channels now works. You set up field 3 of
the channelInfo to contain a list of nick!user@host patterns. If you
are op Zircon will automatically op these people if they are not
already ops. It does this after a random period time up (i.e.  it does
it at the next time Zircon sends an ISON command......}

5) Bug in ban+kick fixed - couldnt ban people with uppercase letters
in their nicks.......

6) Added Trace command to Users menu

Changes in 1.11

1) Control-click on the leave button will add the channel to the
monitor list again after you leave.

2) Fixed a problem when saving with no existing .zirconrc - another
7.0 incompatibility with 6.7 *sigh*

3) You can set the monitor variable to a list of channels you wish to
monitor from startup and the monitorTime variable to the time between
monitor updates. (Monitoring uses the NAMES IRC call and this can look
like flooding if the interval is too short between calls)

Changes in 1.10

1) Channel windows will only iconify themselves when first opened if
they are auto-join and pop-up.

2) You can now monitor the membership of channels you are not on. Type
the name in the channel entry box of the control window and select
Channel/Monitor. The cancel button on the window that appears stops
the monitoring, join joins the channel.

3) Clicking the busy button will cause unsolicited Notices and
Messages to be sent to the info window. Messages will be acknowledged
with a Notice the content of which can be defined in the variable
busyMessage.

4) LIST now works again for people running tcl 7.0 - compatibility
problem.

5) Palette handling is different - clicking on a button inserts that
charcater into where the focus is. This is not an unalloyed joy ether,
but is probably more useful. This whole area will be improved in the
future. I promise.

6) The ignores variable has been withdrawn and a new ignore command
introduced. If you have any ignires in your file resave your
configuration.


Changes in 1.09

1) You can Finger users now. Meta-F wioll finger the selection and
Control-Double-1 will finger the person who sent the line.

2) Tcl-dp V2.0 is now out and can be found on catless amongst other
places.

3) Added recognition of ^O as terminator for bold, inverese and
underline in text. Bound this to Meta-O as well.

Changes in 1.08

1) Bug fixes for tk 3.3 window handling

2) Added character palette. Type escape in the entry in a channel and
you will get a palette of all the characters in your font. Click on
the character and it will be inserted into the entry.

3) Dialog handling is a little different in places. There is a new
file selection dialog as well.

4) tcl-dp 2.0 withdrawn as it was not released officially

5) A DCC problem was fixed, but I dont know if this even made it out
to the world......

Changes in 1.07

1) bug fixes..... You need my patched version of tcl-dp2.0 to run with 7.0.

Changes in 1.06

1) ctcp PID call now returns correct value.

2) The window resizing problem in 1.05 has been fixed.

3) Some changes due to the shift to tcl 7.0 semantics have been made.

4) Added second parameter to Whois command

Changes in 1.05

1) Support for tcl 7.0b3, tk 3.3b3 and tcl-dp 2.0

Changes in 1.04

1) Added server and port number as parameters to STARTUP

2) DCC send and get are now supported by programs that are execed by
zircon. You can Close outstanding DCC offers and connections from the
DCC sub-menu on the Users menu. The entries List and Close both give
access to the same facility.

3) Fixed bug in Services menu.

4) Shift-click on leave button will quit zircon

5) Shift-click on clear button will clear window and history.

6) Fixed Vesa's menu bar problem

7) Meta-b, Meta-v and Meta-u now insert the characters for bold,
inverse and underline. Control-b now has its usual Emacs meaning.

8) Altered the way on information is held internally. This is the
start of a more global change to the way information is entered in the
rc file.

Changes in 1.03

1) Added on STARTUP

2) Fixed problem with case in on conditions

3) Changed the format of the output from configure into the rc file.
Also added key bindings to output.

4) Added test for errors in rc files

5) Improved error handling on server KILL

Changes in 1.02

1) Fix typo in split handling code

2) Add error checking on send to server.

Changes on 1.01

1) Read the application default file from the zircon lib.

2) Makefile fix

3) Added lots more on condition possibilities

Changes in 1.0

1) The version number got changed.

2) You can now set keyboard bindings on a per-channel or global basis.
This is not much use to you unless you understand how zircon works!!
It is undocumented at the moment till a better programming interface
is provided for users.

3) The manual is better

4) The Makefile is better too.

Changes in 0.54

1) The Topics menu now hangs off the Label on the Topic. When it is
greyed out you cant set the topic. You have to add topics in the rc
file by hand.

2) Icons can be set for each channel

3) The Channel List will not appear until you ask for it

4) Resizing of Friends is different - maybe not better but different

5) Handling of netsplits ought to be cleaner

6) New variable killPath which if set will cause the Path to be
removed from kill messages.

7) Channel logging to files is in. (Under Channel menu and in configuration)

8) Incoming message and notices are timestamped when they are created.

9) You can set default behaviour for popUp popDown noJump and quiet

10) You can send Notices to users now

11) Finger should now return an idle time.

12) Control-Return in a msg/channel sends the string as a notice to
the channel.

13) You can set patterns for channel names and topics in the Channel
List window.

Changes in 0.53

1) Escape to send an action is now deprecated please use Shift-Return
instead

2) A topic menu is included on the Channels menu on each channel now.
Though currently it does nothing!!

3) It is possible to set the font and colour of output from particular
users in particular channels using X resources. Set the resources :

<nick>Font <nick>Foreground <nick>Background <nick>ActionForeground
<nick>ActionBackground 

thusly:

	zircon*£gb*fisForeground: black

4) It is possible to ignore users, though certain things are hard to
do as Zircon maintains such things as topics and modes. Thus it cannot
ignore topic changes and maintain consistency Ideas welcome on this.
The best way to set and clear ignores is through the Configuration
panel People panel (formerly friends), however it is possible to
toggle flags from users' menu buttons. This will work fine so long as
you aren't trying to work with anything fancier than "nick!*@*", which
is what the user button ignore uses.

5) I have reproduced the resizing bug and it is *WEIRD*. It seems to
happen when you have resized a window and the first line to it
contains a *. Work that one out if you can!!

6) DCC chat works a little better in this release, but the root of the
problems lies in tcl-dp and its poor error handling. Remember to set
hostIPAddress to your local ip address (though it will now prompt you
for the value if you have not provided it).

7) A Services menu has been added. This allows access to nickserv and
noteserv as well as to a user configurable list of other services - a
pullright menu of commands allows pre-defined messages to be sent.
Currently there is a popup to let you enter any parameters you wish to
send with the command.  Once the command has been sent, the reply will
come back in a notice window and you can type further commands just
like any other window. The format of the services variable is :

	{ {nick server {Cmd1 Cmd2}} {nick2 server2 {cmd1 cmd2}} }

The server field can be null but must be present. It is there to
ensure that spoofing is harder. Thus the entry for nickserv (which is
*BUILT IN*!!!)  would be :

	{{nickserv service.de {HELP INFO....} }

8) Bug fixes of course.

9) Typing Meta-s in a window will insert the contents of the variable
"smiley"....... default value is :-) Meta-j will take the current
selection as a channel name and try to join it. Meta-m will take the
current selection as a user name and open a message window to them.

10) If you have altered the configuration other than through the
Configuration panel, (by adding actions, aways etc.) then you will be
prompted when you quit to see if you wish to save these changes.

11) You can toggle between sednign everything Actions or as normal
text by using the Actions button on the channel Mode menu.

12) The resizing problem has been fixed, or at least worked round as
it does seem to be a tk problem. This does mean however that you can
get an insertion cursor in the text windows. The vanishing scrollbar
is also fixed.

13) If you have any on JOIN conditions (the only one supported at the
moment) you will need to change any nicknames you have in them to be
in the format nick!user@host (or nick!.*@.*) N.B. The pattern matching
is *NOT* glob style but full tcl regexp so you have to have the .*
rather than *! This does mean that you can do some rather powerful
things though. Pattern matching is not case sensitive.

Changes in 0.52

1) Bug fixes

2) Topics now show bold etc.

3) Netsplits are detected and Users lost will have their buttons
greyed out. I havent worked out a clean way of checking if they never
come back though.....Suggestions? (I dont like timeouts...)

4) There is a makefile and you have to create a zircon directory
somewhere so that autloading can be used - it was all getting too big
to work with.....

5) Zircon tries to source a file called rc in the zircon directory so
you can have a system wide rc file - useful for setting servers etc.

6) Incoming DCC Chat calls will work but dont put too much faith in it
just yet!!

7) ^N (the inverse of ^P) has been added for windows.

8) ^U now works in topics

9) Setting the variable noPopup will cause the icon name for windows
with activity to be changed from channel to *channel* rather than
popping them up.

8) Set variable friendsOn to 1 (default is 1 at the moment actually)
and only those friends that are logged in will appear in your friends
panel.

9) Stats and Links replies are handled but are by no mean perfect yet!

10) To delete something from one of the lists in the Configuration
panels you now select the item and then hit delete, backspace or ^h.
Multiple selections work in the IRC panel. Double click lets you edit
the entry and there is also a delete button on there.

11) There is an intermittent window resizing problem, but I cannot
reproduce it so any pointers as to its source would be useful!!

Changes in Version 0.51

1) Bug fixes of course!!

2) Friends menu will pop up when a notified friend signs on or off

3) There is an OK button to dismiss the friends window rather than
using the close.

4) ON conditions are supported, but you have to know how to use them
and I havent thought about what interface should be made available to
people yet!

5) The Jump item on the user menu controls whether or not windows
scroll to the end whenever input is received.

6) The Topic entry is different now as I am tryin gto get it so that
it will display bolds etc. However this is not easy so it isnt all
there yet.

7) Bells will appear in the window as the underlined text BEEP.
Marking the channel as quiet will turn off the actual beep.

Changes in Version 0.50

1) Pop up and Action keeps are working again..... (sorry)

2) USERHOST has been added to the Users menu

3) The Friends button will bring up a window with a scrolling list of
buttons of users that are in the list userInfo set up in your rc file.
You can do the usual usery things to these buttons. This list is
configurable from the Configure panel.

4) There is a new Configure button. Save does work and it renames your
previous file to .zirconrc.bak. Using this is probably the best way to
upgrade your .zirconrc.

5) The Ban+Kick option on user menus allows you to ban and then kick a
pestilential user in one go. Thanks to fis for inspiring the
implementation of this one.

6) Odd typos etc. corrected

7) VERY IMPORTANT!!!!!! Some of the variables settable in .zirconrc
have changed - in particular nickname, ircname, server and ircport no
longer exist as user variables. The lists associated with channels
have also gone and are replaced by a single list channelInfo which has
entries of the form :
	{channel {auto actions} {messages off} {auto Op} history checkTime ...}

where
	auto actions	are join open close menu
	messages off	are JOIN KICK KILL LEAVE MODE QUIT TOPIC
	auto OP		is a list of nicks (not yet supported)
	.....		is anything else we need later

Also gone are the friends and notify menu, replaced by a userInfo list
with entries formatted thusly :
entries of the form :
	{nick {action} {auto ops} {reserved} {reserved}  ...}

where
	action		is notify
	auto OP		is a list of channels
	.....		is anything else we need later

8) You now cannot try to set the topic when the channel is +t and you
are not chanop.

9) Notifies are in. See the format of the userInfo menu above. There
is a notify button for each user. If you want notifies not to pop up
but to go to the info window add ISON to the toInfo list. *NB* Marking
notify on a user will *NOT* add them to the userInfo structure as in
some previous releases!!

10) New resources (isonFont, isonForeground, isonBackground
isonActiveForeground and isonActiveBackground) that will alter the
appearance of buttons on the friends menu when notify is set for that
user and they are logged on. Also added are resources (xxxBackground,
xxxActiveBackground and xxxAvtiveForeground) to complete the
configuration of other user buttons (where xxx is either opertaor or
speaker)

11) There is now clear button on each channel window. This simply
clears the window but does nothing to the history.

12) Focus follows the mouse - s0 characters go the window in which you
have the mouse. This probably ought to be configurable in some
way.....

13) There are various command lin eoptions :

-j will not do auto-joins
-z will not read the rc file
-n nick
-s server
-p port

Changes in versions 0.45 - 0.49

So many that I called it 0.50.....

Changes in Version 0.44

1) Lots of minor bug fixes and improvements.

2) Slightly changed the look and handling of the user buttons. This
seems to have fixed the scrolling problems.....

3) There is a variable called history which controls the amount of
text kept in windows. The default value is 50 lines. Yes, I know it
ought to be on a per channel basis. It will be in the future when I
reorganise the way that per channel info is handled.

4) There is a new variable "ircnames" which is a list of ircnames you
like to use. Just like nicks and servers. Ircnames are now editable
but will not take effect until a server change.

5) Server changes work better.

6) ^V does *NOT* paste but inserts itself so that you can do inverse
video.

7) Typing return in the Channel entry no longer deletes the channel
name.

8) Time has been added to the User menus.

9) brb and back will not cause deiconified windows to pop-up.

10) A new variable operServer controls the automatic sending of irc
operator logins. This will only happen if the server you connect to is
the one set in operServer. This will change in the future and become
more configurable on a per server basis.

Changes in Version 0.43

1) Added LUSERS to Servers menu

2) Lots of bug fixes

3) Code is getting cleaner.

4) set autoIcon {#ch1 #ch2} will cause the channels to be iconified
when they start up. There seems to be a slight tk redraw problem here
that may need the use of tkwait, but tkwait breaks some people's
systems...

5) You can paste multiple lines into the entry buffer. ^v and Button 2
click paste.

6) set checkTime <number of milliseconds> will cause windows that are
in the autoIcon list and have been inactive for that length of time to
be iconified.  Inactive is defined as having had no text sent to them.
This is purely experimental and may not perform as you require. You
almost certainly need to combine it with the use of Pop Up. set
checkTime 0 switches this feature off and is the default.  There ought
to be a button on the mode menu to control this feature, but it is
10PM and I am on holiday for two weeks from tomorrow.......  When I
get back, OK?

7) adding ERROR to the toInfo list will cause som eErrors to go to the
info window.

8) I'm sure there is other stuff but I've forgotten.

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Changes in Version 0.42

1) Notices and messages should now show up correctly.

2) Hitting escape at the end of the server name in the Server entry
field will prompt you for a port number.

3) You can add port numbers in the servers list thus:

	set servers {sv1 {sv2 3456} sv3}

4) The toInfo variable gives you control over where some of the pop up
windows appear:

	set toInfo {CTCP}

will cause CTCP replies to go to the INFO window rather than as a Pop
Up. SIGNOFF will cause signoff messages to be sent only yo the info
window not to all relevant channels. WHO, WHOIS and WHOWAS are also
recognised.


5) MODE parsing should be correct.

6) Resizing of windows is in terms of characters.