ICC Dasher 1.2.x Release Notes

Release 1.2.3 - May 10, 2008 (Changes since Release 1.2.2)

Tournament Window
- Added Help tab
- Information tab now shows bot info
- Don't update Tournament window tabs for finished tourneys
- Don't include finished / inactive tourneys in event list
- Added web navigation toolbar to Tournament window
- Tournament window would display garbled information late in large tournaments

Menus
- Changed Windows menu to have "My Boards", "My Chats" and "My Tournaments"
- Added "Join a Tournament" to Windows | My Tournaments menu, which opens the Tournaments tab in the Activities window

- Window | My Chats | New Chat: don't create window if user enters blank name [1310]
- Help menu has "Join / Renew" menu item which takes the user to the appropriate page for joining or renewing their membership

Miscellaneous
- Allow moving pieces on board when offline and in finished games
- Lock focus in board window when navigating movelist with arrow keys
- My Score / PStat info shown in user profile / finger window
- Activities window title now prefixed with "Activities:"
- Display Players, Need and Manager in Activities window Tournaments tab

- Move Lobby (channel 250) next to Main in channels window
- "Newbie Help" (channel 1) renamed to "Live Help"

- "Simul" (channel 3) renamed to "Events" on WCL
- Open chat window when receiving response to Live / Experienced Help questions
- "Always show web window on login" option in Settings | General selects whether to open the web window always or once per day

Release 1.2.2 - March 7, 2008 (Changes since Release 1.2.0)

Player Statistics
- Player Statistics (pstat) added to right-click menu
- New option in Settings:Playing 2 to show record vs. opponent on game start

Improved Channel Coloring
- Change a channel's color by right-clicking on its text in the main console
- Change a channel's color by right-clicking on it in the My Channels dialog
- Default channel colors updated

Computer Engine
- Translate coordinate algebraic (g1f3) to short algebraic (Nf3) for UCI engine analysis

- Fixed pondering in commercial UCI Play vs. Computer engines
- Implemented Hint button in commercial UCI Play vs. Computer engines
- "Failed to open engine" problem resolved [1471]
- Default engine protocol to auto-detect and save on exit
- Don't trigger engine analysis for each move during upload [1535]
- Corrected book setting for Jennifer personality

Games
- Saving PGN games:
  - Add ECO, Opening and Variation tags
  - Use result "*" if not already set
  - Suggest filenames without illegal characters
- Fixed bug in Two Kings (checkmate escape by king switching)
- Fixed wild 1 (shuffle both) castling bug [1545]
- "You must be playing a simul" bug attempted solved [575]
- Fixed: Shows incorrect result code in library listing [1502]
- Auto-thank after checkmate and stalemate
- Don't auto-rematch after playing pool games and giving simuls [1526]

Keyboard Improvements
- Allow keyboard in move list, game library [591]
- Use Ctrl with arrow/page/home/end to go back and forward in examine mode
- Improved board window mouse wheel functionality
- Use keyboard to navigate text windows
- Board wnd keys: TAB=kibtype, Ctrl-Shift-E=engine
- Chat and board windows no longer interrupt typing [1044]

Mouse Improvements
- Select user by double-clicking in a text window [1194]
- Right-click shows user context menu if a potential username is selected [938]
- Pick up context change on right-click [1496]
- Fixed: Text selection sometimes impossible [1500]

Miscellaneous
- Added Message to right-click menu
- Flash taskbar instead of automatically showing Dasher window when opponent moves

- Minimized chat window has only username as title
- Channel tabs are initialized when turning on/off and switching users [1497]
- Channel list updated. Also added channels 90, 120, and 345 to WCL.
- Replacement of the word "handle"
- Place latest match and seek parameters on top of recent list
- Disconnect sound no longer started when exiting Dasher [1347]
- View | My Performance and toolbar icon hidden when on WCL.
- Fixed: Sometimes can't resize channel window [1496]

Release 1.2.0 - Not released on the web (Changes since Release 1.1.7)

- Support Atomic Chess (w27) [969]
- Support Random Wild (w29)
- Support for commercial Junior and Deep Junior engines [1285, 1286, 1345, 1346]

- "Add a Friend..." item in Action menu for adding offline friend

- Added text coloring for chat when channel tabs are hidden [943]

- Save on bandwidth and load time by not preloading web windows' contents [1479, 1480]
- Added features for admins

Messages and Tells
- Fixed messages inbox problems for some Vista users
- Mark chats with unread messages in Window | Chats menu [1385]
- Fixed tells that showed up as "{0}{1}: {2}" in Chinese-enabled Windows [1420]

Examine Mode
- Clocks now run in relayed games [950]
- Sets White's first move correctly after "tomove black" [1482]
- Show initial time on clocks if examining games [1432]
- Only show examine clock for real games, not when examining from scratch.

Computer Engine
- Added support for time parameters in UCI protocol
- Handle "failed to open engine" error better and display more information. [1471]
- If the chess engine can't be started, the game is aborted gracefully
- Clock didn't stop after draw due to insufficient material vs. computer opponent [1442]

Two Kings (w9)
- Fixed incorrect mate detection in Two Kings [1409]
- Fixed: graphics confused in Two Kings [1491]
- Fixed: announces Checkmate before game over in Two Kings (w9) [1492]

Miscellaneous Fixes
- When channel tabs are turned on, previous chat will now show up in the tabbed windows.
- Various fixes when switching services..
- Fixed: White and Black clock placement sometimes switched [1149]
- Fixed bug regarding the web window after clicking the Register button [1475]
- Fixed: Random text could appear in console while selecting promotion piece [1348]
- Fixes for simuls [1324]
- Fixed: Most recent parameters in match/seek dialogs could show up more than once [1487]

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