bitchx/doc/README.OS2

The OS/2 portion of the BitchX client is no longer supported and will not
be maintained in BitchX2.  If you have troubles with this software you can
attempt to contact the former maintainer but be aware that he may no longer
have any interest in updating or fixing problems with the OS/2 portion of
the client.

sin@bitchx.org/EFnet@#BitchX

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This is a port of the latest BitchX to OS/2 Presentation Manager. (3-25-02)

Several environment variables should be set before running PMBitchX.

As of this version you can let the installation program set these, 
or you can do it yourself.

HOME = your home directory, where you will place scripts and other things.

USER = your username

IRCNAME = PMBX User's name

IRCNICK = PMBXUser

HOSTNAME = mycomputer

Scripts are located in the scripts/ directory. To install untar them into the
HOME directory and /load them.  Also try /load menu.bx for pull down 
menus. If it is a clean installation and you don't have the HOME environment
variable set... it should load automatically.

What's new in 1.0c19:

Fixed multiserver issues resulting from script calls from the
GUI thread with from_server set incorrectly.

Updated to the latest version of Dynamic Windows.

Memory leaks and buffer under/overrun fixes, should be very
stable now.

Probably alot more but I've been distracted with other projects
and this code has been developing for over a year.

What's new in 1.0c17:

Lots of bug fixes to the main BitchX source.

Fixed another multiserver bug.  from_server was pointing
to the wrong server when the EVKEY message made it back to
the main thread.  This affected any GUI BitchX's.

What's new in 1.0c16 release 4:

Fixed saving of the MDI variable. (as well as a few others)

Fixed a bug in /window delete.

Added double click keybindings.

Updated script to use these keybindings to open query windows.

Added Saving of the nick@network time date in the "Comments"
Extended Attribute.  So you can tell when and where a file
came from.

Fixed some major multiserver issues.  Some issues still exist.

Updated to the latest version of dynamic windows.

Fixed a bug where the window size was set to 0 when a window was minimized.

Fixed size bug of the minimized icons in MDI mode.

Added virtual host support.

Fixed a couple timer bugs.

Fixed a crash when trying to detach shared menus from a menu that
didn't exist.

PM About box.

What's new in 1.0c16 release 3:

MDI fixes, resizing flips the y component.

Enhanced codepage support with tips from mikh.

Fixed a bug where BitchX was attempting to operate on dead screens.

What's new in 1.0c16 release 2:

Once again updated the installer.  Fixed a bug in release 1 installer
which caused crashes when updating CONFIG.SYS.

Fixed a bug which *VERY* intermittently caused crashes when updating
the cursor (blink).

Fixed crashing when loading the script (when comparing against a 
string with "infinity" in it... i.e. in the server list).

Removed MMPM dependency.  Now when starting up it tries to load
MCIAPI.DLL and if it fails it disables sound support.

Fixed a crash bug when SERVER_GROUPS is enabled, and it cycles 
through all the server entries.  

What's new in 1.0c16:

Updated script to allow CTRL-X to switch windows as well as channels.
If you turn off JOIN_NEW_WINDOW please also disable the rebinding of CTRL-X.

Added some keybindings to bx-rc to make things easier.
If you are an OpenChat user you may want to edit the bx-rc
and uncomment a couple lines.

Fixed crash bug when reloading menu.bx.

PMPaste now pastes to your query.

Fixed window close crash bug.

Fixed Switch List to show only one window in MDI mode.

Fixed background not redrawing in the MDI window in certain conditions.

Added attached nicklist.

Script enhancements to take advantage of the nicklist.

Preliminary MDI code ... it's buggy in spots.

New JOIN_NEW_WINDOW_TYPE, QUERY_NEW_WINDOW and QUERY_NEW_WINDOW_TYPE.
Allows the JOIN_NEW_WINDOW variable to be used in console clients.

Since DavidW2 and pana reautoconfed BitchX PMBitchX can now be configured
via the configure script with the following options:
./configure --with-pm --enable-sound

Rewrote the copy code.  It now allows you to select the entire window.
Fixed a bug where it was using the wrong character size during the 
selection when more than one font is in use. It now strips trailing 
white space from the end of the line.

Added tab stops to the properties notebook so it can be manuvered with
the keyboard.

New shared menu code in line with OpenChat.

New function $menucontrol().

Rewrote the font dialog, dialog is bigger, has the option to 
change the font for all windows. No longer blocks the UI while
the dialog is open.

Fixed a key binding problem with the delete key.

Script updated to demonstrate the new functionality. (settings menu)

New command /dialog in the source tree althought disabled for release
because it is to incomplete/buggy at the moment.

Debating best fix for keybinding differneces on OS/2 and Unix.

What's new in 75p3 (rel 3):

Fixed a bug in /window setwindowpos which core if the improper
number of arguments was used.

Fixed the scrollerbars in the pm and gtk, so they no longer use
the bug work around in clients prior to 75p3.

Fixed a bug which made /window menu -delete not function.

What's new in 75p3 (rel 2):

Bug fix for window #10 cores.

ajoin, invite etc now obey the JOIN_NEW_WINDOW parameter.

The Join menu now works properly.

/window setwindowpos implemented.

Bug fix in $winitem() so it properly returns the current position
in pmbx and gtkbx.

$screensize() implemented.

Various updates to menu.bx.

What's new 75p3:

Renamed bxmenu.bx to menu.bx (which is what is used in gtkbx).

Several menu.bx fixes, including adding the "quiet" alias.

Merged with the latest source, fixed a bug with event sending when more
than 10 windows were open.

Fixed a bug in the nicklist when the window in focus was not on a channel.

What's new 75p2 (rel3):

Fixed a bug where the maximum file descriptor limit was incorrectly set to
16, it is now set to FD_SETSIZE (which in emx 0.9d is 256).  Solves a 
core problem with a large number of DCCs.  

Fixed a plugin bug where it would loop infinitely when there were less than
20 nicks on a channel.

Fixed /window show to properly change the current focus.

What's new 75p2 (rel2):

Readded /exec code fixes, and file dialog code that didn't get merged. 

What's new 75p2 (rel1):

Fixed a bug in the input line.

Subsequent calls to /nl (nicklist plugin) now correctly turn the
nicklist on and off.

Updated the nicklist plugin so you can /set nl_always_on_top on.

Using new keybinding code.

Fix for Aurora/Trident/GRADD/Cirrus Logic drivers. (IBM misdocumentation)

Based on BitchX 75p2 (public) code, merged with main distribution.

I have created an XP-like interface in the source code to ease
porting to other OSes.  A preliminary gtk port is available.

Some performance changes in the caching code.

File dialog no longer blocks the window which it was called from.  
It now runs in a separate thread. 

Added a clist window scripting function.

Fixed a bug in $servergroup() which caused the script to screw up
in the server menu server list.

Fixed a bug in /window show which caused a crash when used with 
hidden windows.

Added SIGINT on CTRL-C to allow you to break out of a server connect.
(In both pmbx and gtkbx)

Changed the installer to not add IRCSERVER to the CONFIG.SYS.

Readded a couple patches that got missed in the last code merge.

Fixed the corruption bug in gui_clreol().

Known bugs:

No PM specific ones known at the moment.

Please don't report the above as bugs, I already know about them. :>

Please send any comments to dbsoft@technologist.com