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Version 0.880
* Changed the images for the radio checked and unchecked icons (for menus)
* Changed the images for the check and unchecked checkboxes (for menus)
* Added a channel/private chat list to the systray menu
* Added an option to disconnect from the server to the channel/private chat list in the systray menu
* Removed an unneeded print() from irc.py
* Added options to change nicks and join channels to the systray menu
* Bugfix: nickname in systray menu wasn't always being updated properly
* In the log export tool, logs are now sorted by network and name
* Chats with unread messages are now marked in the systray menu
* Added a toggle for marking unread messages in the systray menu
* Added the systray unread message toggle to the "settings" dialog
* Added a setting to en/disable disconnection from the systray menu
* Added the disconnection toggle to the "settings" dialog
* Added a setting to en/disable connection from the systray menu
* Added the connection toggle to the "settings" dialog
* Added a setting to toggle connection/chat display in the systray menu
* Added the connection/chat display setting to the "settings" dialog
* Added a toggle for topic eliding to the config file
* Added the elide toggle to the "settings" dialog
* The log export tool won't appear in menus if log reading/writing is disabled
* Added a commandline flag (--notraymenu) to disable the systray menu
* Chats with unseen messages are now marked in the systray menu even if the chat is active and the window is "hidden"
* Chats with unseen messages are now marked in the systray menu even if the chat is active and the window is minimized
* Bugfix: chats with unseen messages were not properly marked as such if the GUI was minimized or hidden
* Added a "stack" to the Plugin class (a shared List, allowing separate plugins to share data)
* Added documentation for the "stack" to the Plugin documentation
* Re-worded some passages in the Plugin documentation
* Changed the "stack" from a shared List to a shared Dictionary (which makes more sense, on reflection)
* Changed the "stack"'s name to "stash"
* Added Libera.Chat to the server/network list
* Bugfix: scripts weren't always UTF-8 encoded in the script editor
* Connection command (/connect, etc) now will load and use connection scripts (if the option is turned on in the connection dialog)
* Errors are no longer written to the current page if the current page does not share the client connection that the error occurred on
Version 0.875
* New version
* Updated the version number in the documentation cover pages
* Bugfix: errors are now ignored on file reading/writing, due to "ignorable" errors being thrown on Windows
* Topic editor now shows the full topic in a tool tip
* Bugfix: disconnect menu item didn't appear until a channel was joined; it appears on connection now
* Bugfix: --last commandline flag was broken
* Added a user mode display to channel windows
* Added a settings to the config file to toggle the user mode display
* Added the toggle user mode display setting to the "settings" dialog
* Channel topic display now elides text that is longer than the widget width; if elided, the full topic is displayed in a tool tip
* If IRC colors are turned off, the presence of IRC colors is checked before attempting to strip IRC colors
* Bugfix: the schwa in the style file generator ASCII art was backwards (ugh)
* Changed the ASCII art for the help menu
* If the main dialog is now passed a list() of ConnectInfo() object, it will connect to *all* of them, in sequence
* If the user has connection script execution turned on in the user settings, autoscript will automatically load with the --last commandline option
* Edited some of the error messages in the launcher to reflect current terminology
* Changed the title of the "Export As..." log export filename dialog
* "Resumed at" message now uses 24hr clock only if that option is turned on for timestamps
* Server logs can now be optionally saved, loaded, and exported
* Added an option to load and save server logs to the config file
* Added the server log settings to the "settings" dialog
* Bugfix: users could "drag" the cursor "down" on the text input widget, making all text afterwards "invisible"
* Bugfix: "unseen messages" and "connecting" text animation in the connection display now uses the set text color as its base
* Animation color settings for "unseen messages" and "connecting" in the connection display are now set in the config file
* Added the ability to set the "unseen" and "connecting" animation colors to the "settings" dialog
* Added a setting to the config file to set the width of the cursor, in pixels
* Added the ability to set the cursor width to the "settings" dialog
* Removed the "*" from changed settings in the "settings" dialog
* Bugfix: server consoles weren't scrolling to the bottom while connecting
* Added a readme to the distribution file
* Added a commandline flag to disable log reading/writing
* Bugfix: better solution to the "drag" issue on the text input widget (widget is "reset" every time a key is pressed in the widget)
* Bugfix: unseen messages notification could be triggered upon connection and joining a channel for the first time
* Topic editor no longer elides if it is hidden
* Added commandline flags to disable log loading (--noload) and writing (--nowrite)
* Bugfix: setting a channel mode did not always trigger the "unseen message" animation
* Bugfix: mode notification weren't always being written to the console
* Connection display colors are now set with a stylesheet
* Open/close node icons are now visible (and custom) on the connection display
* Open/close node icons on the connection display now change color depending on the darkness of the background color (just like icons)
* Added an option to the config file to toggle collapsability on and off in the connection display
* Added an option to toggle branch line display in the connection display
* Added the toggles for collapsability and branches to the "settings" dialog
* The "arrow" changes to a "dot" when collapsability is turned off on the connection display
* Selected chats (channels or private) are now underlined when active in the connection display
* Selected consoles are now underlined when active in the connection display
* Added settings to toggle underline and bold (in the connection display) to the config file
* Added the toggle underline/bold settings to the "settings" dialog
* Added an option to italicize the current chat (in the connection display) to the config file, for completeness :-)
* Added the toggle italics setting to the "settings" dialog
* Changed the private chat icon to a "user" type icon, to make it more apparent it's a private chat
* Changed the "format" and "style editor" icons, as the old one looked a little sketchy in the GUI
* Changed the "user" icon to be the same as the "private chat" icon
* Bugfix: console style files are now loaded automatically
* Bugfix: unseen messages are now handled properly, so the flag shouldn't be raised on windows that are active and displayed
* Added an option to display connection uptime in seconds (in the connection display) to the config file
* Added the new uptime option to the "settings" dialog
* Script editor will no longer prompt to save on exit if there isn't any code in the editor, and there's no filename set
* Application now "spawns" a system tray icon
* Added a setting to the config file to toggle the system tray icon
* Added the systray icon toggle to the "settings" dialog
* Added a small menu to the systray icon (connect, preferences, exit)
* Bugfix: preferences menu item in the system tray menu had the wrong icon
* Added more entries to the system tray icon menu, making it more useful
* Reworked the systray menu; consolidated entries, and made the menu more compact
* Removed the old tool name (Styler, with the schwa) from the style editor
* Removed an unused event function from the style editor
* Added a tool tip to the systray icon with the application name
* Clicking the system tray icon can now hide/show the application
* Added a settings to toggle the hide/show control to the config file
* Added the hide/show on tray click setting to the "settings" dialog
* Added plugin "stuff" to the systray icon menu
* Bugfix: systray icon menu would show tools that are disabled
* Added a new commandline flag (--nosystray) to disable the system tray icon
* Changed the text in the "disconnect" menu entry
* Added a new menu entry: "disconnect from all servers" (only appears if connected to more than one server)
* Added a disconnect all entry to the systray icon menu
* Systray icon tool tip is now updated to show the number of active connections
* Added a list of active connections to the systray icon menu, allowing users to select a connection (and switch to that connection's console)
* Added a "disconnect selected connection" option to the systray icon menu
* Clicking on a server in the systray icon menu now brings the Erk window to the front (and unminimizes it)
* The "disconnect from current" menu entry (for the systray menu) now specifies what server it will disconnect
* Changed the systray tool tip display to show either what server the client is connected to (if there's only one) or how many servers the client is connected to
* Added the "export log" tool to the systray "tools" submenu
* Added "minimize" and "maximize" window options to the systray menu
* Removed the "About" entry from the systray menu
* Removed a separator from the systray menu
* Bugfix: --nomenus now also blocks the systray menu
* Bugfix: --nosettings now also prevents the "preferences" entry in the systray menu from displaying
* Added a setting to toggle the systray icon menu on/off to the config file
* Added systray menu toggle to the "settings" dialog
* Moved system tray icon settings to their own page in the "settings" dialog, on the "Application" page
Version 0.870
* New version
* Fixed the "Hide manager" menu icon
* Added a menu entry to load plugins from a user-selected directory
* Bugfix: the script editor now closes properly instead of hanging when launcher as a stand-alone app
* Changed the commandline option to launch the script editor: now -e, --edit, and --scripter can be used
* Moved the contents of the "Emoji" tab to the "Text Input" tab in the "settings" dialog
* Gave scripting it's own tab, and created a plugins tab in the "settings" dialog
* Changed the plugin icon from the python image to a puzzle piece
* Changed the "load plugin directory" icon to a puzzle piece with a magnifying glass
* Removed "restart" option from the main menu
* Disconnect entry in the main menu is now a "fancy" menu entry
* Redesigned the main menu, using all "fancy" menu entries
* Moved plugin stuff in the "Tools" menu to the "Settings" menu
* Plugin menu now appears regardless of whether any plugins are installed or not
* Plugin menu stuff is now in the permanent plugin menu
* New event method: connecting()
* New event method: exit()
* Updated the plugin documentation to reflect the new "plugins" menu
* Added a settings to the config file: a list of directories to also load plugins from
* Added a bit to the "plugins" page in the "settings" dialog to set (and remove) directories to load plugins from
* The plugins load list is now checked for duplicates (with duplicates being removed) before loading
* Bugfix: syntax formatter now handles multi-char macro interpolation symbols
* Added a "clear all" button to the add/remove plugin directories entry in the "settings" dialog
* Channel list searchs are now done in a separate thread (not completely happy with *how* at the moment)
* Channel list rendering is now done in a separate thread (as above)
* Channel list with *no* search are now printed to the window as the listings come in
* List messages now have their own "type" for display
* List messages use the "server message" style
* List messages can use HTML in their message portion of the message (unlike anything else but plugin messages)
* Added settings to limit list searches the channel names and a toggle to mark beginning/end of list searches
* Added new list search settings to the "settings" dialog
* Bugfix: Horizontal rules in chat (and date markers) are now always rendered in black
* Bugfix: config file verification would incorrectly reject proper config files
* Bugfix: some settings weren't being imported properly on config file import
* The config file patcher now will patch for *ALL* missing settings
* Bugfix: the /refresh command now uses the new list message type
* Updated the command documentation to reflect the new channel list search and features
* Added a new command: /dump
* Created a new message type: RAW_SYSTEM_MESSAGE, which uses the "system message" type, without the preceding symbol; messages can use HTML
* Most commands now use the new message type for command reponses
* Changed how list-search-threads are stored; should be cleaner
* Added a settings to make list searches case-sensitive (off by default)
* Added the case-sensitive-search setting to the "settings" dialog
* Updated the command documentation to show new list search feature
* The --settings commandline option can now accept a filename as an argument (for specific settings file editing)
* Bugfix: sometimes, quitting without a parting message would not use the default part/quit message
* Bugfix: channel parting was not using the proper Twisted method, causing part messages to not always be sent
* Bugfix: channel parting was not being handled properly (due to overloading a Twisted method *twice*)
* The dialog to change the default quit/part message now allows for directly editing the current quit/part default
* The --settings commandline option will now create a new config file if the one passed as an argument doesn't exist
* Moved the contents of the "Timestamp" tab to the "Messages" tab in the "settings" dialog
* Moved the contents of the "Menu Bar" tab to the "Application" tab in the "settings" dialog
* "Settings" dialog now shows the filename on the save button if the file being edited isn't the default
* "Settings" dialog now shows the filename in the title if the file being edited isn't the default
* Application name is now shown in the "settings" dialog if being executed with --settings
* If the editor is executed with --edit, then unusable widgets (like the server list, run button, etc) are hidden
* Set the border on the tab selector in the "settings" dialog to be 0px wide, and transparent
* Added the plugin repo to the help menu
* Bugfix: the menu in the style editor was not using the correct icons (and they were also in the wrong format, and the wrong size)
* Changed the "load connection script" button icon in the script editor to make the button's function more apparent
* All-new icon set: icons are now in the "material design" style
* Gave the "chats" tab in the "settings" dialog it's own (new) icon
* Gave private chats their own (new) icon in the connection display
* Changed the icon of the application page in the "settings" dialog
* Changed the icon of the files in the "Installed Scripts" submenu in the script editor
* Bugfix: the /switch command was broken in certain circumstances
* Reverted the "visited" and "unvisited" icons to the ones from the old icon set, as they're more visible/usable
* Added a new command: /console (switches to the current server console)
* Removed some unused icons from the app
* New logo splash (the image that appears when no connection/windows are open)
* Bugfix: setting the history size in the "settings" dialog would do strange things if the "set history size" dialog was canceled out of
* Added a new setting to the config file: dis/enable aliases
* Added the en/disable alias setting to the "settings" dialog
* Changed the wording of "Global aliases" to "Aliases are global" in the "settings" dialog
* Removed all Icons8 icons, and replaced all of them with icons from public domain sources (mostly Google's Material Design)
* Removed the Icons8 credit from the "about" dialog, and added a note about public domain sources for icons
* Added a settings to en/disable plugin input events (so, if a plugin has a malicious input event, it can be evaded)
* Added the en/disable input event setting to the "settings" dialog
* Added the new "disable input event" stuff to the documentation
* Added a section to the plugin documentation on malicious input events
* Added a setting to always/never scroll to the bottom on chat switch
* Added new always/never scroll setting to the "settings" dialog
* Moved the "Enable commands" and "always allow /me" checkboxes to the bottom of the "Text input" page in the "settings" dialog
* Bugfix: config file integrity checks would always fail
* New default font: Ubuntu Mono
* Altered the font loader to load multiple font styles from the resource file
* Added bold, italic, and bold-italic font styles for Ubuntu Mono to the resource file
* Changed the default font size to 11pt
* Added font credit to the "about" dialog
* Bugfix: entire default font family was not always loaded into memory; this has been fixed
* Changed the default font to Fira Mono, and added the font family to the resource file
* Changed "about" credit information to the new font
* Reset the default font size to 9pt
* Subscript of "fancy" menu entries are no longer in italics
* Tweaked the "about" dialog a bit
* Bugfix: client wouldn't rejoin channels on reconnection (if the connection was lost)
* Changed the menu entries for "Scripter" and "Styler" because the schwa has the potential of being rendered wrong on Windows
* Added a schwa to the menu icons for the manuals
* Removed the --scripter commandline option
* Renamed the --styler commandline option to --edit-style
* Removed the "channels" entry in the user config file, as it's no longer used
* Added a setting to toggle joining channels on reconnection (after losing a connection)
* Added the "rejoin channels" setting to the "settings" dialog (on the "miscellaneous" tab)
* Added a setting to toggle plugin load error display
* Added show/hide plugin load error toggle to the "settings" dialog
* Reloading plugins now clears the plugin autocomplete and plugin help tables
* Changed the "plugins" tab in the "settings" display into a set of tabbed pages
* Added a bit of documentation to the "plugins" tab about how to use the "add plugins locations" tool
* EVERY tab in the "settings" dialog is now a tabs bar (makes the dialog look more "unified" and consistant)
* "Tab-ified" the "applications", "messages", "hide & ignore", and "logs" tabs in the "settings" dialog
* "Tab-ified" the "chats", "text input", and "misc" tabs in the "settings" dialog
* Moved the "open new chat for private messages" option to the "chats" tab in the "settings" dialog
* "Tab-ified" the "scripting" tab in the "settings" menu
* Added an alternate name for the --settings option (--preferences, due to how that's how the dialog is referenced to in the GUI)
* Added a tab ("menus") to the "plugins" tab in the "settings" dialog, and added the plugin menu settings to it
* Updated the documentation to reflect changed to the GUI
* Updated referenced to the "settings" dialog in the documentation to reflect new "settings" layout
* Limited the height of the plugin source directory list widget to shrink the "settings" dialog a bit
* Added settings to set the background color and text color of the connection display
* Added the background/text connection display color setting to the "settings" dialog
* Bugfix: settings dialog would error out if the connection display was disabled
* Bugfix: context menus are fixed for the chat display; menu hovering and highlights work again
* Bugfix: fixed the context menu bug for the topic editor
* Added settings for the script syntax highlighter (background and text color) to the config file
* Rearranged the "scripting" tab in the "settings" dialog to add a new tab: "Highlighting"
* Added controls to set the background and text color to the "Highlighting" tab in the "settings" dialog
* All syntax highlighting colors for scripts can now be edited with the "settings" dialog
* Rearranged some settings on the "scripting" tab in the "settings" dialog
* Added a new setting: toggle topic editing on and off
* Added en/disable topic editor setting to the "settings" dialog
* The IRC color context menus (for the text input widget) now only display if IRC colors are enabled
* Added a setting to en/disable the user list context menu
* Added the dis/enable user list context menu setting to the "settings" dialog
* Added a setting to dis/enable the connection display context menu
* Added the en/disable connection display context menu setting to the "settings" dialog
* Added a tab to the "Connection display" tab in the "settings" dialog, and moved some settings to it
* Added a link in the script editor to the specific page in the "settings" dialog to edit syntax highlighting colors
* Only one instance of the script editor is now allowed
* Added a link in the script editor to the scripting features page in the "settings" dialog
* Added a new menu to the script editor ("Settings") and moved related menu items to it
* Removed the link to the highlight page in the settings dialog in the editor, and added a general "scripting settings" link
* Removed a long unusued settings from the user config file
* Changed the generated header for style files: added a new logo, and removed references to QSS
* Restored "light" horizontal rules for dark backgrounds (for both dividers and date/time markers)
* Increased the opacity of the images used for the horizontal rules to 100%, which removed some inadvertant rendering artifacts
* Changed the primary "horizontal rule" message to a dotted line (rather than a solid line)
* Added a new message type (HARD_HORIZONTAL_RULE) that doesn't use the dotted line
* Bugfix: two HARD_HORIZONTAL_RULES will no longer be displayed consecutively
* Bugfix: using /switch and /console now properly sets focus on the new window's text input widget
Version 0.860
* Removed all plugin-related code and documentation
* Config files are now stored in a directory in the user's home directory
* Log files are now stored in the same directory as settings files (in a subdirectory)
* Default style file is now stored in the styles directory
* Removed "Tools" menu
* The "Settings" menu is now the "Settings & Tools" menu, and "Tools" entries are located there
* Edited references to plugins and the plugin editor out of the command documentation
* Added a commandline option to open (and use) the "settings" dialog without the client running
* Removed some now-unneeded credits from the about dialog
* Tweaked the "about" dialog a bit more
* Bugfix: log exporter used the default log directory, rather than one supplied by the user
* Bugfix: log exporter defaulted to exporting as text, even though the GUI shows an initial default of JSON
* Added a commandline option to open (and use) the "export log" dialog without the client running
* Removed three commandline options: --export-all, --export-settings, --import-settings
* Changed a commandline settings description to "disable Settings & Tools menu" from "disable setting menu(s)"
* Added a commandline option to open (and use) the style editor
* Added a description of how Erk stores config files and logs to the README.md
* Moved "load defaults" into the "File" menu on the "edit style" dialog
* Changed some of the wording of the help text
* Added a two new commands: /ignore and /unignore (to add and remove from the ignore user list)
* Issuing /ignore with no arguments now displays the list of ignored users/targets
* Changed the argument interpolation symbol for macros from $ to &
* Bugfix: /edit command would not start the editor properly
* Alias names *CAN NOT* be a number (though they can *contain* numbers)
* Changed the wording for the global alias setting in the "settings" dialog
* /ignore can now use UNIX-style wildcards
* Changed the wording of the usage text for the /ignore command ("users" are no longer ignored, "targets" are)
* Changed the wording of the link to the scripting documentation in the GUI
* /unignore no longer contains a shortcut (/unignore *) to remove all entries in the ignore list
* Issuing /ignore * (which ignores ALL messages) now displays a warning
* Bugfix: ignoring a user from the userlist context menu would occasionally use the user's current nick with status symbol prefix
* Moved /ignore and /unignore higher up in the autocomplete hierarchy (so if a user does /i and hits tab, it will complete to /ignore)
* Ignored users (whether directly or by pattern matching) have strikethroughs through their nicknames in channel userlists
* Bugfix: when a user changes nicks, if the client already has their hostmask, the hostmask is migrated to the new nick
* Bugfix: users ignored using a hostmask are displayed correctly (with a strikethrough) on the userlist even if they change nicks
* Bugfix: users ignored using a hostmask are displayed correctly when initially connecting (as soon as their hostmask is obtained)
* Userlists are now repainted instead of regenerated when the ignore list is updated
* Hostmasks are now retained from chat messages
* Added a new page to the "settings" dialog: "hide messages" (from "hide notifications" in the "settings" menu in the GUI)
* Removed the "Hide Notification" submenu from the "Settings & Tools" menu
* Added an option to enable/disable user ignoring
* Added the enable/disable user ignoring option to the "settings" dialog
* Added options to ignore public, private, or notice messages (or any combination of the three)
* Added new ignore options to the "settings" dialog
* Changes to how notices are handled: now, if not sent to an existing channel or private chat, they are displayed on the current window
* Notices are always written to the console window
* Added an option to toggle whether notices and private messages are always written to the console
* Added the new notice/pm write to console option to the "settings" dialog
* Removed a number of no-longer-needed settings from the config file
* Bugfix: the main executable was using an incorrect setting to set the application font
* Bugfix: timestamps were being incorrectly recorded (and displayed) for private messages
* "Settings & Tools" menus are back to being two different menus
* The "settings" menu now uses all "fancy" menu entries
* Removed some legacy plugin code from the chat interface
* New adaptive help system: commands that are disabled from commandline or settings will no longer appear in /help or autocomplete
* Made the "hide messages" section in the "settings" dialog a little prettier
* Added an option to the config file: enable/disable commands entered into the text input
* Added new option to the "settings" dialog
* Client now harvests hostmasks from more events, making the ignore display work better and faster
* Bugfix: hostmasks weren't always captured correctly, or handled correctly
* Added a GUI ignore list manager
* Added a new library to the distribution: pike (https://github.com/pyarmory/pike)
* Added a new plugin system (plugins will now live in the .erk directory in the user's home directory)
* Added an en/disable plugins option to the config file
* Added the en/disable plugins option to the "settings" config
* Added a new folder for plugin storage : ~/.erk/plugins (plugins live in the user's home directory)
* Added mode and tick events to plugins
* Changed the name of the input() and output() event methods to line_in() and line_out() respectively
* Added a new event: input() (catches user text input)
* Added the new plugin guide to the distribution
* Added the new plugin guide to the GUI "Help" menu
* New plugin event: notice()
* New plugin event: motd()
* New plugin event: registered()
* New plugin event: join()
* New plugin event: part()
* New plugin event: joined()
* New plugin event: parted()
* Updated the README.md to show new plugin stuff
* New plugin event: kick()
* New plugin event: kicked()
* Added an option to show/hide the plugins menu
* Added the show/hide plugins menu option to the "settings" dialog
* Rearranged the "Extensions" page of the "settings" dialog, putting scripting and plugin settings in different QGroupBoxes
* Bugfix: if scripting is disabled via commandline, script options are blocked/hidden in the "connect" dialog
* Added a commandline option to block plugins (--noplugins)
* Added a commandline option to block plugins, scripts, and styles (--noextensions)
* Added a new commandline option to add directories to load plugins from (-P,--plugins)
* Added an option for plugins to catch ignored messages
* Added option for plugins to catch ignored messages to the "settings" dialog
* Changed how some extension options are disabled when --noscripts, --noedit, and --noplugins are used
* Bugfix: if an additional plugin directory was added at the commandline and the directory didn't exist, the client would crash
* Bugfix: improper wording in the --help text
* Added a new commandline option to block use of user commands (--nocommands)
* Added a 2px black border to the visited, unvisited, visited ssl, and unvisited ssl icons in the connection dialog to make them more visible
* Added an icon to the "Last server visited" in the QComboBox in the connection dialog
* Added information about disabling command input to the script and command documentation
* Added an exception for the "/me" command to command blocking
* Bugfix: importing a settings file did not work properly
* Added an option to allow or forbid the use of the /me command if command use is blocked
* Added the option to allow or forbid /me to the "settings" dialog
* New plugin event: quit()
* New plugin event: ctcp()
* Added a new plugin method: windows()
* Added two new plugin methods: server() and port()
* Added a "blank" plugin to the distribution
* Added a new commandline option: --generate (copies the blank plugin to a new file)
* Bugfix: some plugin events weren't detected properly
* Added a new icon for plugin modules
* Changed how plugins were entered into the plugin menu
* New plugin event: connect()
* New plugin event: topic()
* New plugin event: nick()
* New plugin event: invite()
* New plugin event: oper()
* Bugfix: plugin connect() was being called with an argument, when none is needed
* Plugins now have an id() (which consists of the module name, a period, and the class name of the plugin)
* Added the disabled plugin list *back* to the config file
* Bugfix: scripts no longer trigger the input() plugin event
* Plugins can now be en/disabled on a per plugin basis (so, in a multi-class plugin file, one class can be disabled and the other enabled)
* The client can now enable or disable all plugins at once
* Added the enable/disable all plugins functionality to the plugins menu
* Changed the text of the "Reload Plugins" menu entry to "Load new plugins"
* "Special" plugin class attributes are now all uppercase
* Added a new module attribute for plugins: PLUGIN (sets the name displayed in the menu)
* Fixed a bug in the example plugin code in the documentation
* Plugins in the "Plugins" menu are no longer "clickable"
* Moved the "Plugins" menu to before the "Help" menu
* Changed plugin menu display, so more information about plugins is shown
* Added an option to show/hide plugin details in the plugins menu
* Added the show/hide plugin details to the "settings" dialog
* Plugin "details" now shows more...details :-P
* Change to the plugin API (PLUGIN module attribute is now _ERK_PLUGIN_)
* Plugins can now have individual icons for both the module *and* and classes
* Updated the documentation with the new changes
* Two new plugin events: op() and deop()
* Two new plugin events: voice() and devoice()
* New built-in plugin method: uptime()
* New built-in plugin method: current()
* Added a note to the plugin docs that script() executes the Erk script in a separate thread, just like /script
* Bugfix: wasn't checking for the existance of plugin directories properly
* Plugin details will now show if the plugin was loaded from an external source (ie not from .erk/plugins)
* Removed the "reload new plugins" option from the "Plugins" menu
* erk.py will now exit if a plugin directory is passed to it that doesn't exist
* Added pike (and PyArmory) to the about credits
* Added a "reload new plugins" option to the "Settings" menu
* New built-in method: switch()
* Figured out a way to monkeypatch in various environment settings into running plugin classes
* New built-in method: ask()
* Plugin events are now triggered *AFTER* Erk is done processing the event (so, plugins don't trigger before events seem to occur)
* New built-in method: directory()
* --generate option argument is now optional (with no argument, it will print the plugin skeleton to STDOUT)
* Removed --scripter-edit optional argument
* --scripter now takes an optional filename (to edit a file)
* Plugins can now add entries to the autocompleter
* New built-in method: autocomplete()
* New option added to config file: toggle on/off plugin autocomplete
* Added plugin autocomplete toggle to the "settings" dialog
* Bugfix: emojis would only autocomplete if autocomplete nicks was turned on
* Bugfix: plugin entries would autocomplete if plugins were turned off
* Bugfix: notices weren't being handled properly by plugins
* New built-in method: help()
* Added a new setting to the config file: toggle plugin abilities to add to /help
* Added new plugin /help option to the "settings" dialog
* Removed some unneeded code from files.py
* Modified the make script to make moving to new major versions easier
* Bugfix: pike library wasn't being included in distributions
* Removed "settings" folder from distributions
* Plugin memory size is now reported more accurately
* Added the Python and GPLv3 logos to the documentation
* Re-arranged the "tools" menu
* Plugin related menu items will no longer appear if plugins are disabled
* Added an option to the tools menu to open the user's plugins directory
* Built-in method script() will now return True if the execution succeeded, and False if not
* script() will fail if scripting is disabled
* exec() will also return True if the command was able to be executed, and False if not
* Updated the documentation for script() and exec()
Version 0.850
* Changed the splash logo
* Added qt5reactor to the distribution
* Added qt5reactor to the credits in the "about" dialog
* Reworked the "about" dialog (using tabs now, "about" and "credits")
* Using a 200x200px image for the "erk button" image in the about dialog
* Added a new "Nutjob Laboratories" image to the about dialog
* Log file names now make the server/hostname all lowercase (so that servers with mis-cased network names are treated the same)
* Export log dialog now makes the network named all uppercase
* Style file names now make the server/hostname all lowercase
* Package export dialog now shows the package name rather than just the directory name
* Package export dialog now shows the package icon (if it exists)
* Changed the package export dialog text to "export plugin" from "export package"
* Package export dialog can now show single (not in a package) plugins
* Package exporting can now handle single plugin files (that is, files not in a package)
* Cleaned up the export log dialog
* Menubar on the style editor now matches the menubar on the connection dialog in appearance
* Cleaned up the export log dialog some more...with feeling this time :-)
* Using the Ctrl+F or Ctrl+R hotkeys in the plugin editor will now pass any highlighted words to find/find & replace dialog
* Cleaned up the server settings menu
* Bugfix: plugin and template generator didn't always escape quotes properly
* Reformatted the plugin/template generator dialog
* Added new entries for author, version, and website to the plugin/template generator dialog
* Exit messagebox now features the "Erk" icon rather than the generic "warning" icon
* The "create package" and "insert template" dialog now has descriptive text added to it, and is customized depending on which function is being used
* The "create package" dialog now allows for customizing the package/plugin icons
* The "create package" dialog can now set a name for the package that is different from the plugin
* The "create package" dialog's icon display has been cleaned up a bit
* Added a message box to see if the user is sure they want to uninstall a plugin
* Created clear markers for required and optional information in the "create package" and "insert template" dialogs
* Added another check for the "bad input method" detector: multiline/docstrings are ignored
* Bugfix: plugin engine now checks for the existence of *any* of the plugin methods, not just the main ones
* "Insert template/create package" dialog can now support multiple modes
* Creating a package with the generator will now name the plugin file after the name of the (initial) class it contains
* Bugfix: dis/en-abling plugins did not work. It works now
* The list of diabled plugins is no longer in the user config; it is now stored in the settings file
* Changed how plugin development tools are displayed in the "Tools" menu (if the client is in development mode)
* Changed the spacing on "fancy" menu entries
* The "reload plugins" in the editor is now a "fancy" menu entry
* Bugfix: the "insert messagebox" code generator in the editor had the wrong parent GUI
* Bugfix: clicking on "fancy" menu entries that didn't spawn a dialog or window wouldn't close the menu; now, they spawn a "blank" dialog that is immediately closed, thus closing the window
* Single file (.py) plugins can now be installed via the GUI as well as zipped plugin packages
* Changed the text of the "export package" entry in the editor to "export plugin"
* Exporting plugins now has a suggested output file name
* Exported plugins now have a new file extension: ".erkp" (for Erk plugin)
* Plugin installer now looks for ".erkp" file extension instead of ".zip"
* Documentation for plugins has been updated to match the new GUI changes, and Erk Packages (.erkp) files have been added
* Documentation for both plugins and scripting has been updated to include the new major version number
* Changed the package file extension to ".perk" because it looks better :-)
* Bugfix: "Tools" menu was displaying when, due to commandline flags, it would be empty
* Bugfix: toggling development mode could enable the script editor (and scripting) if scripting was blocked from the commandline
* Bugfix: editing settings could enable the editor even if the editor was blocked via commandline
* Bugfix: editing settings could enable plugins even if plugins were blocked via commandline
* Bugfix: editing settings could enable plugin installation even if plugin installation was disabled via commandline
* Exporting settings now defaults to "settings.json" as the default filename
* Bugfix: loading a config file into the settings dialog with a blank "FONT" entry no longer throws an error
* Added a new plugin command: .help(), which adds a command to the /help command
* Removed the option to install a plugin from the commandline
* Renamed --editor commandline option to --plugger (reflecting the plugin editor name)
* Renamed --edit commandline option to --plugger-edit (reflecting the plugin editor name)
* Added a new commandline option: --scripter (runs the script editor)
* Added a new commandline option: --scripter-edit (opens a file in the script editor)
* Changed the commandline option group "Development" to "Tools"
* All configuration files, scripts, styles, and logs are now stored in one directory: config/
Version 0.840
* Default alternate nickname now includes a random number
* Re-named the style editor to "Stylər"
* Re-named the script editor to "Scriptər"
* Rearranged the "Settings" menu, and gave the style/script editor fancy menu entries
* Edited the documentation to use the new names, and changed some formatting
* New command: /cat (sends the contents of a file as a series of text messages)
* Added a new built-in plugin method: .autocomplete() (adds entries to the autocompleter)
* Added .autocomplete() to the editor
* Added .autocomplete() to the documentation
* Added .autocomplete() to the examples in the plugin documentation
* Changed the menu entry for the "settings" dialog from a regular one to a "fancy" entry
* Changed the menu icon for the "settings" dialog from a cluster of gears to a wrench
* Changed the menu icon for the script editor
* Bugfix: fixed an error in the plugin documentation
* Added information about program directories to the command documentation
* Re-arranged how commandline options are displayed to the user with the -h flag
* Made the "help" menu a bit more "fancy"
* Added a link to the GPL 3 to the "help" menu
* Moved all of the entries in the "Logs" menu to the "Settings" menu and the "Preferences" dialog
* Removed the "logs" menu
* Changed the name of the plugin editor to "Pluggər"
* Created a new menu: "Tools". Moved most of the built-in tools to this menu
* Moved the plugin editor and related tools to the "Tools" menu ("development mode" is still required to view them)
* Cleaned up the buttons on the "Logs" page in the "settings" dialog
* Cleaned up the buttons on the "miscellaneous" page
* Changed settings in the "settings" dialog are now marked with an asterix
* All pages in the "settings" dialog have now been "cleaned up" (prettier, smaller buttons for editing stuff)
* Changed the editor and script editor icons to be more generic
* Changed the "format" (style) icon
* Moved the "Styler" menu entry in the "Tools" menu to below the "Scripter" entry
* Restored normal QT menu separators to the editor
* Changed the default package icon
* Changed the "export" icon
* Unified the "export package" icon (so Plugger and the main app use the same icon)
* Bugfix: exporting plugins, on linux, creating a mangled, non-functional archive; it works now
* Bugfix: the export plugin process now makes sure the output has a proper file extension
* Bugfix: the export log process now makes sure the output has the proper file extension
* Bugfix: plugin editor toolbar button icon for "insert template" now matches the menu icon
* Bugfix: creating a plugin from the --new commandline flag didn't include all event methods
* New event method: .mode(), for when the client receives a mode notification
* Added two new commandline options: --export-settings and --import-settings
* Changed the icon for the plugin editor (it's now a plug, which matches the name, heh)
* Added a new commandline option: --export-all (exports settings and logs to a zip file)
* Removed the "style editor" button from the "settings" dialog, and streamlined the font selection option
* Added a commandline flag to block the "install plugin" menu option
* Added an option to block the "install plugin" menu option to the config file
* Added the "block menu install" option to the "settings" dialog
* Changed the "export" icon to the traditional "floppy disk" icon
* Moved the "export logs" entry from the "Tools" menu to the "Settings" menu
* Modified the HTML generated for "fancy" menu entries to remove cell spacing in the tables for the "master" table
* Changed the appearance of the "title" of the "server settings" context menu to look a bit prettier
* Replaced the custom separators in the "server" menu with normal Qt5 separators
* Cleaned up the userlist context menu
* Added an "import" button to the "settings" dialog, for importing settings from a file
* Added a check for imported settings files, so non-config files won't be imported
* Changed the "save" button in the "settings" dialog to "apply" (which is more accurate)
* Added a "save" button to the settings dialog, for exporting settings to a file
* Bugfix: several commands were not in the "protected names" list
* Changed the user defaults to true: Reconnect on disconnection, save connection history
* Completely refactored the "connect" dialog; it's not as spaghetti as before, and cleaner
* Changed the default in the user config to execute connection script (it was previously turned off)
* Bugfix: clicking "connect" from the connection dialog will now display an error if there is no server entered, or if the port is not a number
* Added a "server" designation to the "script" tab in the connection dialog
* Added a link to the command documentation to the connect dialog
* Changed the "title" of the connection dialog to the application name and version
* Changed how "scripts" on the connection dialog work (turning off script execution now hides the script tab, and vice versa)
* Moved the "execute script" option from the options menu to a checkbox on the main window in the connection dialog
* Removed menu separator underneath the "Disconnect" menu option in the main menu
* The "Erk" banner on the connection dialog is now only seen when initially launched (it's removed once the program is running)
* Added an option to delete connection history to the connection dialog
* Added an option to delete the last connection to the connection dialog
* Added an option to restore the default user settings to the connection dialog
* Saving an empty connection script from the connection dialog will delete the connection script instead of saving a "blank" file
* Added a "save user settings" option to the connection dialog
* The background of all settings menubars in the connection dialog are now transparent
* Added an option to reload user settings to the connection dialog
* SSL/TLS-connection servers now have their own icon (for both visited and unvisited) in the server selection list
* Changed the "unvisited" icon from a hollow star to a filled star
* Added some SSL/TLS enabled servers to the built-in server list
* Bugfix: script editor now uses the command symbol ("/") set in the config file for generated code
* Added some script-code-generator stuff to the script editor in the connection dialog
* Added a "insert local alias" option to the code generator in the connection dialog
Version 0.831
* Macros have been removed from the client
* Bugfix: new nickname dialog would error out on saving the new nick to the userfile
* Added a new /macro command
* Reworked the /help command to generate the necessary display text on the fly, allowing macros to be to /help added after creation
* Macros are now added to the autocomplete list
* Added an option to autocomplete macros to the config file
* Added "autocomplete macros" option to the "settings" dialog
* Macro autocomplete is disabled if scripts are disabled
* Macros are disabled if scripts are disabled
* Macros will not appear in help if scripts are disabled
* Added macro information to the documentation
* Bugfix: the /preferences command was missing from the documentation
* Changed the icon for the "Extensions" tab in the "settings" dialog
* Added example macros to the documentation
* Added an option to save macros (so they persist across boots)
* Added "save macro" option to the "settings" dialog
* Added a new commandline flag: --macros, to set the macro save file name
* Added an option for macros to have a custom text line for the /help command
* Added a new command: /macrohelp, to set macro custom help text
* Added a new command: /unmacro, which deletes a macro
* Added more detail to the command documentation, explaining some "quirks" with the script engine
* Added /alias, /_alias, and /part shortcuts to the editor
* Added a new command: /clear
* Added a new command: /msgbox
* Added a shortcut insert for /msgbox to the script editor
* Cleaned up some of the language in the scripting documentation
* Bugfix: "Are you sure?" quit messagebox was missing a window icon
* Added a menu containing installed scripts (to make it easy to find/open/edit) to the script editor
* Added an explanation to the command documentation about how scripts should always have the ".erk" file extension
* Added an option to the script editor to save on file close
* Bugfix: oddly spelled commands (and other words, like "Erk" and "Ərk") are no longer flagged as misspelled
* Bugfix: opening up a file with the /edit command no longer flags it as "changed" when opene w/o editing
* Added an option to add multiline comments to the editor
* Added a link to the script editor to the "Settings" menu
* Bugfix: /mode was omitted from the scripting/command documentation; it has been added
* Added a new command: /macrousage, which sets the usage text for a macro
* Aliases are now interpolated into input text *before* looking for macros, so macros can use aliases
* Macro names can no longer be used to "overload" an existing command name
* Bugfix: the script syntax highlighter now uses the "command trigger symbol" (which is / by default) for commands
* Made a change to macro interpolation (all arguments are now $+, all arguments less the first one is now $-)
* Added a "macro" shortcut to the script editor
* Added an option to notify script execution end to the script editor
* Bugfix: error notification messageboxes in the script editor now have the script editor dialog as parent
* Added additional support for changing the "command symbol" (/) in the config file; help will now display properly, as will syntax highlighting
* Changed the "uptime" icon in the connection display to a clock (rather than a stopwatch)
* Added a new setting to the config file: a default quit/part message that will be used if one is not provided
* Added a custom bitly.com shortened URL for the official repo to the source code (it's used in the default quit/part message)
* Added the ability to customize the default quit/part message to the "settings" dialog
* Bugfix: all IRC quits now use the default quit/part message
* Bugfix: removed colon from default quit message
* Added RFC 1459 and RFC 2812 to the distribution
* Changed links to RFC 1459 and 2812 in the "Help" menu to local links to the included PDFs
* Bugfix: there was an error in the /argcount "wrong args" error text (heh)
* Bugfix: alias variables were still being interpolated into input even if scripts were turned off
* New command: /unalias (deletes global alias variables)
* Made a clarification about available commands for connection scripts in the "connect" dialog
* Bugfix: /unalias is now marked as "misspelled" by the spell checker (as it's not available for use outside of scripts)
* Added a setting to the configuration file to turn macros on and off
* Added the enable/disable macros settings to the "settings" dialog
* Bugfix: added "unalias" to the list of forbidden names for macros
* Macros will have autocomplete turned off (if it's enabled) if macros are disabled
* Cleaned up the "insert macro" dialog in the script editor
* Autocomplete will now not insert a space after macros that require no arguments
* Leading and trailing whitespace is now stripped from text input, explicitly
* Added a new built-in method for plugins: .channels(), which returns a list of channels the client is in
* Added the .channels() method to the documentation
* Added channel autocomplete
* Added a setting to the config file to toggle channel autocomplete
* Added the autocomplete channels option to the "settings" dialog
* Re-arranged the plugin documentation to make more sense (alphabetized the method list, etc)
* Added directory() and channels() methods to the plugin editor
* Added the above methods to the syntax highlighter & context menu code generator
* Bugfix: removed a menu separator that wasn't supposed to be there from the editor context menu
* Added a check to see if macro names contain the command trigger symbol or the interpolation symbol, and stop creation if it finds one
* Removed the "/clear" command, as it didn't work very well :-)
* Added a new plugin method: .users() (lists users in a channel)
* Added the .users() method to the editor and code generator
* Bugfix: editor's code generator dialogs did not have the editor as the parent window
* Added a new plugin method: .send() (sends raw messages to the server)
* Added the .send() method to the editor and code generator
* Bugfix: /script command will now correctly autocomplete
* Added a new plugin method: .script(), which works just like the /script command
* Added .script() to the editor, code generator, and to the plugin documentation
* In the script editor, the Ctrl+S hotkey will either work for save as (if the script isn't saved/doesn't have a file name) or save (if loaded/has a filename)
* Plugin editor's save/save as behavior works as ^^ above
* Bugfix: creating a new package in the editor didn't apply the ^^ above shortcut swaps
* Added two new commands: /dictionary and /undictionary (for adding/removing words to/from the spellcheck dictionary)
* Added new commands to the syntax highlighter
* Updated the new command documentation with /dictionary and /undictionary details
* Re-formatted the Plugin and Scripting guides to look alike
* Added a new command: /write (works like /print but saves the message to the log)
Version 0.830
* Menu text separaters now darken for light GUI backgrounds, and vice versa.
* Menu separators now darken and lighten as above
* Chat separators now darken or lighten depending on the text display's background color
* Minor bugfix: luminosity of text background is now determined only the first time text is rendered, not every time
* The "Ok" button on the connection dialog is now labeled "Connect"
* Editor now uses a white background and black text by default, regardless of host OS theme
* Main logo display now darkens or lightens depending on the host OS color theme
* Added an option to ask the user whether to quit or not
* Added a setting to the config file for the above
* Added "ask on quit" setting to the preferences dialog
* Cleaned up the preferences dialog
* Bugfix: IRC color options in input context menu would not appear if spellcheck is turned off
* Support for setting foreground/background colors from the input context menu
* Bugfix: fixed an IRC color rendering bug
* Bugfix: users can now select input text (for coloring) without the client autoselecting only the word the cursor is over
* Bugfix: no spelling correction is attempted if the user has selected text in the input box
* Menubar is now moveable, and can be docked at either the top or bottom of the app
* Added a setting to turn "moveable menubar" on and off
* Added two new plugin events: "received" and "sent" (triggered when receiving server data or sending server data)
* Updated the documentation with the new events
* Added an option to stylize the syntax highlighting in the editor
* Added new entries to 'text.css' with the new editor color settings
* Added new menu separators to the editor
* Changed the editor's name to Əditor
* Reworked the "plugin" menu; now, only the "install" and installed plugins are displayed if not in development mode
* Updated the plugin documentation to reflect new editor/client changes
* Syntax highlight coloring can now be edited in the editor
* Reworked the editor's "settings" menu
* Bugfix: fixed some coloring errors in the highlight colors dialog
* Added the ability to edit the background color of the current line in the color dialog
* Added help text to the color dialog
* Rewrote the text format setting dialog to be faster, less spaghetti-like, and make more sense
* Added some new features to the format setting dialog
* Bugfix: added a MOTD style type (which has been in the style file for a long time, unused)
* Bugfix: MOTD now used the "motd" style
* Cleaned up the new text format dialog, and fixed a bug where the "username" setting used the "system" style
* Added tabs to the text format dialog, and cleaned up some stuff
* WHOIS messages now use the "system" style
* Added a new style for plugin-generated messages named "plugin"
* Added the new style to the text formatting dialog
* Incomplete style files will now be patched with default style settings
* Changed the header attached to every generated style file with a small ASCII logo and the URL for the client repository
* Cleaned up the "connect" dialog to make it look a little better
* The "motd" style is now named "server", and is used for WHOIS messages as well as MOTD messages
* Changed the default color for the "server" style to a light(er) blue
* Updated the bundled "pyspellchecker" library from 0.4.0 to 0.5.5
* Fixed a bug where the "disconnect" menu entry would be disabled of only connected to one server
* Bugfix: user settings files weren't being patched correctly
* New feature: server scripts. Scripts can be written for each server that can be automatically executed on connection to a server
* Connection dialog was cleaned up and re-worked
* Connection dialog's "user" tab and "server" tabs are now combined into one tab
* Added a new tab to the connection dialog: "Options", which combines the old "Channels" tab and the new scripting feature
* Moved the "autojoin" stuff to the "server" tab in the connection dialog, gave an entire tab to the scripting feature
* Renamed the tabs "Connect", "Servers", and "Script" in the connection dialog
* Server scripts now run on their own thread
* Added a new scripting command for server script: "/wait" (or "/sleep")
* Added new editing buttons to the scripting tab, allowing for file management and shortcuts for various commands
* Added some help text to the connection dialog
* The "/script" command now runs scripts in a separate thread
* The "/wait" ("/sleep") command now works with the "/script" command
* Added comments (between /* and */) to all scripts
* Added some basic help to the script tab on the connect dialog
* Added a new button to add comments to the script tab
* Erk will look for called scripts first in the script directory, then the settings directory, then in the installation directory
* When executing a script with "/script", if /wait is called with a non-number, and error is displayed to the user
* Added a new script command: "/print" (or "/echo"): displays a message to the current window
* Added /print command to the connection dialog script tools
* Added a new user setting: "save_script", which saves the script from the connect dialog
* Connection dialog can now toggle the "save_script" setting, and save scripts without hitting the "save" button
* Changed the name of of the user setting "script" to "auto_script" to better reflect the setting use
* Changed the location of the two checkboxes on the "script" tab to be together, horizontally, on the bottom
* Added commandline flag "-T","--noscripts" to disable scripts. Scripts can't be executed, and the script tab will not appear in the connection dialog
* Added a setting to disable scripting to the config file
* Added the new "disable scripting" setting to the "preferences" dialog
* Fixed a bug in the preferences dialog (features disabled on the commandline can't be changed in the dialog)
* New commandline flag to set a custom directory for all scripts
* Changed the default port for the /ssl command to 6697
* Added a banner to the connection dialog, and cleaned up the widget layout
* Bugfix: the /wait command can't be called from the chat input widget, only from scripts
* Added documentation for the Erk client commands (for input and scripting)
* Added a link to the PDF command documentation to the "Help" menu
* Added a new entry to the main menu: "Run script" (loads and runs a script on the current server connection)
* Made the small checkboxes on the connection dialog slightly bigger
* Bugfix: blank script will now save if the user uses the "clear" button in the connection dialog (and the save script option is selected)
* Moved the "run script" menu entry to a button on every consol window, on the right side of the input widget
* Removed the "run script" menu option
* Disabling scripting on the commandline or via the "preferences" dialog disables the "run script" button on console windows
* "Run script" button on console windows is now invisible if scripting is disabled
* Bugfix: "You are now know as <new nick>" no longer appears twice if you change nicks on a console window
* Added "Join Channel" and "Change Nick" buttons to the console window, right next to the "Run Script" button
* Added a "Disconnect" button to the console window
* Removed "Join Channel" and "Change Nick" buttons from console windows, as there are multiple other ways to do both of these
* Bugfix: connection display no longer displays the "selected" box that flickers in and out of existence whenever a server or channel is clicked
* Nickname display in channels can now be double-clicked to bring up the "change nickname" dialog
* Added an option to the "settings" dialog to toggle "double click nickname" on and off
* Added a new setting to hide/display the 'Run Script' and 'Disconnect' buttons on console windows
* Added the new hide/display buttons setting to the 'settings' dialog
* Re-named the 'Plugins & Macros' settings page to 'Extensions' in the 'settings' dialog
* Moved 'enable scripts' to the new 'Extensions' page
* Updated the plugin documentation to show the new location of the 'Development mode' option
* Disabling plugins from the commandline now disables the 'show plugin errors' and 'development mode' settings in the settings dialog
* Added a commandline option to hide the connection display
* Removed the "(disabled)" tag from settings in the settings dialog for stuff that's been disabled from the commandline
* Cleaned up the "Connections" page in the settings dialog
* Removed the "always on top" configuration file setting
* Removed the "always on top" menu option
* Added a commandline flag to launch in "always on top" mode
* Changed the "full screen" menu option to say "Enter full screen" to enter, and "Exit full screen" to enter/exit full screen mode
* New script command: /alias
* Documentation has been updated with the new /alias command
* Scripts can now be passed arguments
* New script command: /argcount
* Documentation has been updated with the new /argcount command
* Added the plugin documentation to the 'help' menu
* Bugfix: macro type explanation (in the macro dialog) wasn't displaying properly
* Cleaned up the macro dialog
* Added an "open script" option to the connection dialog
* Cleaned up the connection dialog
* Changed command documentation filename to "Erk_Scripting_and_Commands", and updated the GUI to match
* Added an option to interpolate all arguments to a script with the $0 symbol
* Added the interpolation symbol to the config file
* Added a new commandline flag to disable the custom menu toolbar and use the normal QMenuBar instead
* OSX users are no longer forced to use the QMenuBar (they can now choose to with the above commandline flag)
* Added a new config setting which allows global script aliases to be toggled
* Added global script alias setting to the "settings" dialog
* Grouped macro, plugin, and script settings in the "settings" dialog together
* Cleaned up "settings" dialog, and moved various settings to different tabs
* Added a new setting to the configuration file: toggle using standard Qt5 menu or using the menu bar
* Added QMenuBar toggle to the "settings" dialog
* Removed "autocomplete" tab in the "settings" dialog, and merged those settings into the "text input" tab
* Cleaned up "application" tab in the "settings" dialog
* Cleaned up the "misc" tab in the "settings" dialog
* Cleaned up the "messages" tab in the "settings" dialog
* Added a new tab to the "settings" dialog, "menu bar", and put the appropriate settings there
* Cleaned up the "connection display" tab in the "settings" dialog
* The "tab" selector on the "settings" dialog is now transparent
* Moved the language selection widget to the top of the "spellcheck" tab in the "settings" dialog
* Added a new plugin built-in method: directory() (returns the directory the plugin is in)
* Added the directory() method to the documentation
* Added the ability to load style files into individual window
* Added a new command: "/style" (loads style files into the current window)
* Changed the name of the text format editor in "settings" to "Style Editor"
* Added "save as..." option to the style editor
* Added the "/style" command to the documentation
* Added a new commandline flag: "-a,--autoscript" (loads saved server script if the script exists)
* Added a new commandline flag: "-s,--script" (loads a custom script and runs it on connection)
* If --autoscript and --script are used together, the custom script is concatenated to the server script
* Removed single letter commandline flags for flags that disable functionality
* Changed the -R,--scripts commandline option to -S,--scripts
* The --script commandline flag can now be used multiple times to load multiple scripts
* Moved emoji settings to their own tab in the "settings" dialog
* Added a "style editor" menu entry to the "settings" menu
* Added a context menu option for all windows to "load style"
* Added the ability to load style files into the style editor
* Relabled and moved the buttons on the style editor to make more sense and be more informative
* Set the default file extension for scripts to ".erk"
* Set the default file extension for style files to ".style"
* Changed the default style file name to "text.style" (from "text.css")
* When looking for script files, the ".erk" file extension will be appended while looking for files
* When looking for style files, the ".style" file extension will be appended while looking for files
* Style files are now stored/loaded from a specific location (by default, a directory in the "settings" directory named "styles")
* Added a new commandline flag (--styles) to allow users to set a specific directory for style files
* Changed the "-F,--format" commandline flag to "-Y,--style" to match the new text style naming convention
* Updated the README with the new changes
* Added a commandline flag to disable style loading
* Added a menu bar to the "text style" dialog
* Chat windows now "remember" custom styles (they save when loaded, and are automatically loaded and applied)
* Remembered styles are not applied if the --nostyles flag is used
* An option to "restore" (set to default) styles has been added to the connection display context menu
* Clicking the "apply" button in the style editor only applies the style to non-custom-style chats
* A window's specific styling can now be edited and saved
* Added an "edit style" entry to the connection display's context menu
* Added load, edit, and revert options to the chat display's context menus
* Bugfix: server console styles could be loaded before it could be properly saved
* Bugfix: new style items in the chat display's context menu are no longer shown if styles are disabled
* Bugfix: context menus now use the same colors for all sub-menus
* Added Foreground\Background labels to the IRC color menus
* The "disconnect" menu option is now hidden when disconnected
* Moved the "disconnect" menu option to be directly under the "Connect" menu option
* Added a new command: /connectscript (which executes a connection script for a specific server)
* The /switch command will now let the user know if there are no available chats
* Bugfix: the /part commands now uses the Twisted client to part, rather than some GUI nonsense
* Added a link to the command documentation to the connection dialog's "script" tab
* Added syntax highlighting to the "script" tab's editor
* Added placeholder text to the "script" tab's editor
* Cleaned up and added some more explanitory text to the "connect" dialog
* Moved script syntax highlighting code to its own module
* Bugfix: saving a script from the connection dialog now auto-updates the script cache
* Added a script editor to the client
* Added an entry to run the script editor to the main menu
* Added editor documentation to the scripting documentation
* Converted separators in the main menu back to the stock QMenu widget
* Added new error displays to the script engine
* Added the ability for the script editor to display errors
* Added a new color for the script syntax highlighter: aliases
* Added a new command: /edit, which can be used to edit scripts
* Removed the menu option to launch the script editor (only way to open the editor now is with the /edit command)
* Bugfix: applying the "all" style to menus prevented them from displaying properly; "all" is no longer applied
* Added a commandline flag to block the script editor
* Added a new option to the config file: enable_script_editor
* Added new script editor setting to the "settings" dialog
* Added script syntax color settings to the config file
* Modified the "connection" dialog to load the config file and use the syntax settings
* Added new features to the script editor (autoscript loading, insert commands, some small bugs fixed)
* Updated the documentation with the new script editor features
* Added a new command: /_alias (allows scripts to create alias variables that will not be exported globally to all scripts/commands)
* Added new command to the command documentation, and add more info on how scripts work
* Added the new command to the syntax highlighter
* If /alias is called with the interpolation symbol ($) in the first argument, it is stripped
* Added support for multi-character interpolation symbols (if users want to do that...not sure why, but why not?)
* Syntax highlighting for multi-character interpolation symbols is supported
* Bugfix: when opening the script editor, the text entry widget is automatically in focus
* Added a commandline flag to disable scripts, macros, and plugins all at once
Version 0.822
* First version with Linux support
* Fixed a bug where the connection display wouldn't update properly when the dock width changes
* Changed the default font to DejaVu Sans Mono
* Connection display width is now saved automatically when it is changed (rather than on exit)
* Added a platform notification to the about dialog
* Moved the GNU license link to the top (after the app name) in the about dialog
* "Open X directory" now uses QDesktopServices to open directories in a file manager in a cross platform way
* Fixed a bug with running plugins cross-platform
* Changed "Server options" menu entry to "Server settings"
* Added an option to show dates in channel chat
* Changed the option to mark resume chat to false by default
* Added a "radio button" style graphic to menus
* Fixed a bug where the "show timestamp seconds" menu entry was displaying wrong status
* Removed the "nomenu", "nosettings", and "noconnect" commandline options
* Changed the "-A"|"--noask" commandline option to "-N"|"--noask"
* The toolbar has been disabled on the OSX platform, and uses a normal QMenuBar on any platform besides Windows and Linux
* Added an error notification for IRC server connections that fail to be established
* Added an error notification for lost IRC server connections (only when the option to reconnect is disabled)
* Added a new built-in method to the Plugin object: userinput
* Added documentation for the userinput() method to the documentation
* Added a new option to the connect dialog: reconnect on failed connection (only active if "reconnect" option is turned on)
* User file is now patched with new option ("failreconnect") if the option is missing
* Rearranged the options on the connection dialog (now in two columns of two options each)
* Bugfix: single channel IDs (&,#, etc) with no other text would have links created for them in channel chat
* Added two new settings: one to toggle showing dialogs for connection lost, and one to toggle showing dialogs for connection failed
* New settings are patched into existing settings files
* Added connection/lost dialog toggle options to the "Settings" menu
* New "splash" logo graphics
* Bugfix: -l commandline flag now works properly
* New plugin method: msgbox()
* Streamlined toolbar/menubar generation; all done in one function now, no duplicate code
* Tweak to the new splash logo
* Network error dialogs are no longer modal
* New addition to text input context menu: IRC colors
* Tweaked the hex color codes used by the IRC color renderer to be closer to other IRC clients
* Restored nosettings, nomenus, and noconnect commandline options
* Bugfix: application window name is now reset properly if there are no active connections
* The backspace in the editor now follows the settings for indentation
* Updated the editor syntax highlighting to recognize the new built-in methods
* Bugfix: failed/lost connection notification dialog should close/hide on reconnection
* Added a toolbar with common functions to the editor
* Altered the "open plugin directory" function in the editor to open the plugin directory of the plugin currently being worked on, if known
* Added msgbox() and userinput() to the editor's context menu code generator
* Added menu (and toolbar) entries to read plugin documentation to the editor
* Bugfix: failed/lost connection dialogs are now properly closed when reconnection occurs
* The editor's "open plugin directory" option will open the directory of the plugin being edited, or the regular directory if no file is saved
* Added a list of banned users to the connection display right click context menu for channels
* Added /time command
* Cleaned up WHOIS response display
* Added /whowas command
* Added /whois command to autocomplete list and help
* Bugfix: /whois now can take multiple nicknames
* Added /version command
* Added /who command
* Moved indention settings to the their own menu in the editor
* Shuffled around menu locations in the editor to conform closer to other apps
* Tweaked the editor toolbar and added some new functionality
* Moved documentation button on the editor toolbar to the far right
* Bugfix: text input widget is given focus when the app window becomes active
* Bugfix: save file keyboard shortcut now works properly in the editor
* Added a dialog to the "install plugin" menu option (the dialog lists what plugins are going to be installed, and can be canceled)
* Re-arranged the pluugin menu to put "install" and "options" at the top, and the plugin list at the bottom
* Bugfix: lost/fail connection dialog would flash on exit/disconnect
* Added a little label to the connection dialog that notifies whether a server has been connected to before
* Added IRC network website URLs to the connection dialog
* Made the connection dialog a bit "prettier"
* Bugfix: font file set in the config file is now loaded/used for the initial launch connection dialog
* Added a setting to toggle channel userlists on/off
* Moved the "get hostmasks" option to the "Miscellaneous" settings menu
* Major overhaul of the settings menu, with a new "Preferences" dialog
* Bugfix: a number is added to the end of the user nick if both the normal and alternate nicks are taken; different numbers are appended until one is not in use
* Changed the in-app name of the program to "erk", due to not all fonts being able to display the schwa by default
* Added a new event method for plugins: ctcp() (triggered when the client receives an unknown CTCP message)
* Better cursor management (main chat only scrolls to the bottom if the user enters text or it is already at the bottom)
* Cursor no longer scrolls to the bottom when a link is clicked
* Server windows now have the server's hostname (or IP/port) as a title, instead of "Server"
* Server windows pre-registration now feature the IP/port as a title, instead of "Server"
* Bugfix: channel topic entry widget now resets to the current channel topic when it loses focus
* Changed the editor icon
* Bugfix: the log() plugin method was not saving printed messages to the log (it has been fixed, and is working properly now)
* Added a new plugin method: sysmsg() (writes a system message to the current window)
* Moved the "plugin development mode" setting to the "Preferences" dialog
* Re-arranged the plugin menu