[ANN] Chatrev beta

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Sat Jun 9 14:59:49 CDT 2007


Björnke von Gierke wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have made a prerelease stack of the chatrev client that is supposed to 
> work within metacard. I'd be very glad if you guys would check it out, 
> but please do not distribute the link. If all is well, I'll use the same 
> stack as the newest version, minus the red field ;-)
> 
> http://homepage.mac.com/bvg/temp/chatrev1.3b3_beta.rev
> 
> New features are:
> 
> 1. Metacard compatibility
> Please report anything broken, i already thought it was since a year or so!
> 
> 2. A chatrev icon for the dock respectively the task bar
> Only when starting as standalone, or when the checkmark is set (changing 
> the checkmark itself does not have any effect, the icon is only set at 
> preopenstack).
> 
> 3. Automatic reconnect after some unintended disconnects
> Of course there are still many connection loss scenarios which i can't 
> work around (because I do not want a connection checking "send in time" 
> in the client).

Nicely done!

Only two very small suggestions:

1. Could the liveResizing be turned on?

2. You might consider turning on the autoTab for the fields in the 
Settings pane

Other than that, seems just about perfect!

Great job, Björnke.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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