ICC Dasher 1.1.x Release Notes

Release 1.1.7 - 10/24/07 (Changes since Release 1.1.6)

- Shows the console when certain "first-time login" scenarios occur
- Made it possible to close the console window [735]

Release 1.1.6 - 10/17/07 (Changes since Release 1.1.5)

- Added Online Help button to login dialog now
- Register button in login dialog and "Register New Account" log in as guest to register
- Show descriptive game type instead of "wild-x" in game windows
- Dasher language added to user interface variable [1443]
- Web and Help windows behaviour during logout and login changed
- Many changes to improve translations and support French

Release 1.1.5 - 9/10/07 (Changes since Release 1.1.4)

- Immediately update pgn file icon if Dasher is associated with pgn files [1274]
- Illegal move can cause movelist inconsistency / frozen game [1412]
- People were not removed from (titled) players tab [1427]
- Initial examined positions with black to move did not show the correct position [1437]
- Seek minutes was set to 0 when seeking using manual and formula [1438]
- Crash when receiving rating adjustment for adjourned game [1440]
- Many changes to support translations

Release 1.1.4 - 7/14/07 (Changes since Release 1.1.3)

- Fixed crash on some machines (especially running old OSes) when leaving the splash screen
- Fixed garbled status field & crash that occurred when viewing a tournament with 200+ players
- Fixed crash when disconnecting from ICC server while playing an offline computer opponent
- Window title should always be consistent with connected server

Release 1.1.3 - 7/8/07 (Changes since Release 1.1.2)

- Fixed problem running with Win98/Me/2000

Release 1.1.2 - 7/7/07 (Changes since Release 1.0.1)

- Added "Titled Games" tab [862]

- Added Welcome screen for new Dasher users, option in General tab of settings dialog [1267]

- Added right-click menu for Unfinished Games: Request Adjudication, Offer Draw, Offer Abort, Resign Game, etc. [726]

- Added toolbar buttons for 1-minute, 5-minute, and 15-minute pools

and Play Again buttons after a game:

- Added blindfold chess set
- When opponent makes a move, Dasher is brought to front of other apps and the board is put on top [1312]
- View Final Position and sposition now show player names, moves, clocks, move times [1335]
- If you are observing or playing a game, you will see the clock times for the selected move
- Wrap list of groups in the Profile window [660]
- Search results and webcast.chessclub.com videos now open in an internal window
- Don't show unfinished games heading in profile window if no games
- Added Copy to right-click menu for handles [1396]
- Refreshes the tournament tab automatically. [1405].
- When giving a simul, automatically switch to the next board if maximized [1201]
- Games played anonymously are now saved in real handle's game file [1329]
- Changed "stickiness" of backup server option in Login dialog
- Improvements to toolbar icons
- Clientweb window house now says "Home" instead of "Contents"
- Allow aliases for event list commands [1417]

Engine
- Added support for UCI chess engines [1009]
     
- Improved compatibility with WinBoard engines
- Engine selection in settings dialog has been improved for long file paths. [1304]
- Fixed "Illegal move: e1g1" when try to castle after moving king while playing engine [1211]
- Allow draws due to insufficient mating material when playing Computer Opponents. [1025]
- Identify insufficient mating material when time runs out [1395]
- Fixed: The Nodes indicator would show negative after about two billion nodes searched [1349]
- Added support for future computer opponent engines
- Fixed crash when analyzing with Zappa when there is a checkmate on the board
- Fixed unreliable threading code for engines

Foreign Language Support
- Added translatability system for foreign language support [771]
- Added command-line switch /language=<foo> for specifying a translation file for a different language
- Added support for reading foreign languages from the server (when server language is not English)
- Options to set the server language variable based on language used by Dasher [1300]
     

PGN
- Added support for opening up PGN files on launch
- Added drag-and-drop support of PGN files: drag to either Dasher icon or onto the Dasher window
- Added command-line option for opening up PGN files, e.g. "dasher.exe /pgn my_games.pgn"
- Added option to allow Dasher to be the default handler of PGN files in Windows [1101, 1274]
- Fixed crash occurring when a PGN with annotations was read [1268]

Moves List
- Now you can click forward and backward in the move list as fast as you like [1096]
- Enabled mouse wheel support for scrolling through moves in the moves list [1115]
- Observing a game in progress now makes the movelist scroll to the bottom [1099]

Sorting
- My Games can now reverse order each column by clicking an already selected column [1205]
- History games lists newest first, as on server and in BlitzIn [691]

Vista
- User data now stored in <user>\Application Data\Internet Chess Club\Dasher\data, not under Program Files [1257]
- Engine data, such as Crafty generated files stored inside AppData, not under Program Files. [1263]

Examine Mode
- Fixed: When observing, game board not updated correctly after examiner does "copygame" [1269]
- Fixed: Lecture marks were not erased when issuing the loadfen command. [1331]
- Fixed: loadfen could cause extra or missing pieces [1278]
- Fixed: loadfen could cause "No such command (bsetup)" response [1217]
- Uploading a game to an examine board with an edited position did not work correctly. [1313]
- In examine mode clicking on movelist now updates clock [1131]
- Fixed: Move time is only displayed where forward 1 has been used to fetch that move
- Fixed undoing of flashing rectangle lecture marks with control-shift-left-click. [1315]

Wilds (Chess Variants)
- Renamed Fischer-Random to Chess960
- Castling in Chess960 (wild 22) can now be done by dragging King onto a Rook
- Castling in Chess960 can now also be done by moving king 2+ squares left or right.
- Castling in Chess960 is now possible when examining a game
- Added [Variant "chess 960"] PGN tag for saved Chess960 games [1248]
- Corrected FEN PGN tag for Chess960 games.
- Removed unsupported wild variants from seek and challenge dialogs [1393]
- Made all wilds have proper names in seek and challenge dialogs
- Fixed crash with Two Kings (wild 9) chess variant [1410]

Quick Commands
- Improved initial Quick Command list for new installs [1219]
- Added quick command syntaxes:
  [X:SettingsDlg] (open specific settings page)
  [X:HelpWnd] (open url in help window)
  [X:NewsWnd] (open url in news/clientweb window)
- Increased maximum number of QuickCmds to 30

Sounds
- Added suggestion sound "Admin Suggestion.wav"
- "Connection closed" sound is no longer played when login dialog closes [1258]

Other Services
- Added color schemes from World Chess Network
- Installer offers to import board color from World Chess Network if it exists [1368]
- Installer can import data from Chess Live installations [1223]
- Added support for World Chess Live users (separate install)

Seek
- Seek and challenge dialogs now show challenger's requested color, if any [1200]
- Fixed: Seek Ads left unpopulated after a game is aborted. [1053]
- The seek graph is no longer cleared when starting or examining a game.
- Fixed: Left-clicking seek at right edge of seek graph was not possible.

Channel Window
- Channel window title now shows current login handle [1319]
- Fixed: Missing ? and right-menu for channel chat when chat tabs are off [1190]
- Fixed display of channel names using &

Window Sizes
- Default chat box enlarged [754]
- Increased offset between successive chat windows
- Improved board size based on monitor resolution
- Restrictions on expanding the height of the game board lifted [696]
- Fixed: The board window was incorrectly sized if a new one was created while Dasher was minimized. [1271]

Titled Players
- Titled Players window is now automatically refreshed
- Fixed: Clicking Titled Players put "Profile for Tb" in Window:Other. Typing who had similar bugs. [1305]
- Fixed: The highlighted player doesn't switch when clicking [1413]
- Fixed bug showing Titled Players who don't have ICC ratings yet

Messages
- Anonymous message files are no longer used. [1328]
- Fixed crash that could occur when sending message
- Fixed crash when clicking "My Messages" before login dialog has been shown [1288, 1340]
- Fixed: Message dialog allows empty message [1204]
- Fixed: Problem with split messages, especially when wrap set to 1. [1374]

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes
- Observers buttons weren't showing entire first line [1189]
- Fixed: After observing a game, the board window would be completely cleared
- Fixed crash in the tournament window [1218]
- Fixed crash if you closed Dasher rather than replying to a message window
- Fixed: Clicking on email links fail if the name before @ has 8+ chars [1203]
- Fixed: "away" messages with commas in them weren't being displayed in the chat window [1381]
- Fixed: "Not sent -- * is just a robot..." messages weren't being displayed in the chat window.
- Set the clocks to the correct values immediately after a moretime command [1404]
- Fixed: Buttons in Ask a Question dialog weren't skinned
- Updated ICC Webcast/Chess.FM menu items [915, 1150]
- Fixed memory leaks and other internal problems
- Fixed problem with version number

Release Notes for Previous Versions

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