Vha.Chat and Vha.Net released

**DocJones** · Dec 1st, 2010, 15:40:12

I am slowly working on a port of your Vhab.net classes to obj-c. Just to let you know. Thats merely to allow me learing the bit's-n-bolt's of obj-c and to polish my oo-skills a bit. I am not sure if i come around with a working thing, but for the moment i am on it (since a few days) and it looks quite good.

**Vhax** · Dec 1st, 2010, 15:50:46

Alright. Pop in on #coders if you need any help.

**DocJones** · Dec 1st, 2010, 17:09:09

Will do.

**zyberwax2** · Dec 9th, 2010, 17:37:20

When a player turn off/on the city shield, or city is attacked by aliens.
When there is no nick sending the message.. its a guild channel message but from system saying city shield was disabled.
It doesnt show the text just alot of !!!! and other strange signs..

copy/paste from vha.chat latest build.
[18:04:09] [Prisonerbot] Nightman joined the channel
[18:04:20] ~&!!!#?!284ksord_smarket_clan_advanced~

Was abit anoying cause i cant add a timer to check how long it is until i can enable shield :P

this was in vha.chat ver.. 1.2.1

I added another try statement in "void _chat_SystemMessageEvent" because AOchat crashed when writing /cc help
after adding the try and catch exeption.. this is what i got.

[18:22:11] Error while decoding message: Buffer cannot be null.
Parameter name: buffer
[18:22:11] Unknown system message 20000:55531266 Exeption:Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(message.Value))
This is what caused the crash.. it checks if message.Value is null or empty but message is null.

could just be a error on the handling of /cc help.. it crashes everytime i write /cc help

**Vhax** · Dec 9th, 2010, 21:52:25

I'll look into it, thank you.

I've been rounding up some things for 1.2.2 and 1.3 beta actually.
It shouldn't take too much longer.

**Vhax** · Dec 13th, 2010, 17:54:27

1.2.2 has been canned. A few bugs remain there which are already fixed through larger changes in 1.3.0.
Instead I'm fairly confident of 1.3.0 and as such I'm pushing out a version I deem release worthy pending your testing.

A few features were cut from this version, but the amount of fixes in this release made me feel the need to get this out now and push those features back.

1.3.0 RC1
- Added an AOML parsing library which allows Vha.Chat to display AOML more accurately
- Added link detection making http:// and https:// urls in chat clickable
- Added icon and gui image support to the info windows
- Added a donation button (which you can hide from the options screen)
- Added support for Vista's restricted user access model
- Added a GUI to manage your ignore list
- The output window no longer scrolls down when you scrolled up
- Now also available as installable application
- Now (mostly) compatible with Wine on Linux
- Some internal changes to system/template message parsing
- Fixed several system/template message related bugs
- Upgraded to Visual Studio 2010

A link for your downloading pleasure: http://www.vhabot.net/downloads.php#Vha.Chat

**Calibria** · Dec 14th, 2010, 02:45:53

You got a bug with images in new RC.Looks like this.Think savaged already solved it in IRC though

<Savagedlight> <img src=tdb://id:GFX_GUI_FRIENDLIST_SPLITTER>
<Savagedlight> Basically, it looks like vhab didn't add that icon to the server which provides the images to vha.chat.

**Vhax** · Dec 14th, 2010, 08:17:47

Originally Posted by Calibria

You got a bug with images in new RC.Looks like this.Think savaged already solved it in IRC though

<Savagedlight> <img src=tdb://id:GFX_GUI_FRIENDLIST_SPLITTER>
<Savagedlight> Basically, it looks like vhab didn't add that icon to the server which provides the images to vha.chat.

I think I know what went wrong there.
I'm probably forgetting to take out the 'id:' part before constructing the link.

Thank you for reporting.

**Vhax** · Jan 12th, 2011, 09:07:27

A few things are already fixed in the automated 1.3 build, RC1 users might want to consider upgrading.

I'm still working towards RC2. Just a bit slow going with all kinds of fun stuff distracting me

We'll get there eventually.

**Vhax** · Jan 18th, 2011, 14:43:54

I've been sitting on this for a while now pending testing, but my testers informed me it's all good (at least, the part they were testing)

Changes since RC1 in the all new RC2:
- Added support for <i> aoml tag
- Fixed display of GUI images inside an info window
- Fixed an issue where the output box would remain blank on some systems
- Fixed an issue where options wouldn't update in other Vha.Chat processes
- Fixed e-mail address in the donation link

I have good hopes this one could turn into the stable release.
There's 1 known bug left, but it's fairly rare to trigger and also exists in 1.2.

Package and installer can be found at: http://www.vhabot.net/downloads.php

Some changes may impact wine users, refer to this thread for more information.

**Vhax** · Jan 19th, 2011, 16:30:00

It seems another bug slipped in.
In case you're getting javascript errors in the pm/channel popup windows, you can use the following work around:

In Configuration.xml change:
<OutputMode>Detect</OutputMode>
to
<OutputMode>Direct</OutputMode>

**Vhax** · Jan 30th, 2011, 14:31:40

There, 1.3.0 is out the door

Not many changes since RC2:
- Fixed javascript errors in 'Delayed' initialization mode
- Made 'Direct' initialization mode the default mode again

For users coming from 1.2.1:
- Added an AOML parsing library which allows Vha.Chat to display AOML more accurately
- Added link detection making http:// and https:// urls in chat clickable
- Added icon and gui image support to the info windows
- Added a donation button (which you can hide from the options screen)
- Added support for Vista's restricted user access model
- Added a GUI to manage your ignore list
- The output window no longer scrolls down when you scrolled up
- Now also available as installable application
- Now (mostly) compatible with Wine on Linux
- Some internal changes to system/template message parsing
- Fixed several system/template message related bugs
- Upgraded to Visual Studio 2010

As usual, get the goods here: http://www.vhabot.net/downloads.php

**Vhax** · Apr 29th, 2011, 08:46:55

It has been a bit silent around Vha.Chat for a while, but the project hasn't been without activity.
Actually, quite a few changes went through.

AODevs Project Pages

Vha.Chat's project page is now hosted and maintained on the new AODevs site.
This is now also the main location to fetch the latest releases. Update your bookmarks!

http://aodevs.com/projects/view/1

Shameless advertisement: the same features are available to all 3rd party projects, click here for more information.

Bye SVN, Hi Mercurial

The project has been moved from Subversion to Mercurial.
Moving to Mercurial gave me a bunch of new toys to work with, too many to go in details about it even

.
Biggest change here is that Vha.Chat's source repository has been moved to BitBucket, which does a better job at hosting it than I could myself.

https://bitbucket.org/Vhab

Bye Trac, Hi Redmine

When switching to Mercurial, quite a few things ended up getting changed around.
Most importantly; components were split into sub repositories.
This messed up the flow with Trac a bit, so I took this opportunity to upgrade in this department too.

Vha.Chat now uses Redmine to manage the project which has been an absolute joy to work with so far.

http://code.aodevs.com/projects/vhachat

Work work work

All the previous mentioned changes grinded development to a halt for a while.
But I recently got back on the horse and the current beta offers a few much needed bug fixes.
So far all fixes were formatting related and mostly dealt with malformed/incorrect AOML code.
Users experiencing crashes in Vha.Chat when interacting with Budabot likely will want to download the latest beta version.

http://build.vhabot.net/ccnet/server...ckageList.aspx

**Iriche** · Jul 19th, 2011, 00:09:14

Bump

**Demoder** · Sep 29th, 2011, 04:48:38

Well-deserved bump.

**Iriche** · Oct 5th, 2011, 17:33:43

bump?

**Whitecoma** · Dec 1st, 2011, 12:34:08

Its very nice chat client, i love it! Just need adjustable fonts, mean font size, its too small for me, can you please? =)

**Vhax** · Dec 5th, 2011, 17:11:25

It's been a long time since the last release.
Since a few bug fixes were made, but no major changes.
Since I don't see myself working on the client for yet another while, I'm putting out the current beta as a new stable release.

1.3.1
- Added support for user:// tags
- /reply now support 0-arguments
- Fixed + and possibly other symbols in chatcmd:// not working properly
- Invalid AOML tags are now hidden, emulates AO behavior
- Fixed a crash bug related to badly formatted AOML code (fixes Budabot compatibility)
- A few misc bug fixes and compatibility changes

Standalone package and installer available at: https://bitbucket.org/Vhab/vha.chat/downloads

Originally Posted by Whitecoma

Its very nice chat client, i love it! Just need adjustable fonts, mean font size, its too small for me, can you please? =)

Yep, that certainly needs to get done.
I can't really give an ETA though, but it's high on my list of things to do.

**Vhax** · Dec 9th, 2011, 22:17:10

Changeable font size is now available in alpha and beta builds.
See the first post for details on how to obtain these.

Let me know if there are any issues.

**Whitecoma** · Nov 29th, 2012, 16:51:35

No more versions?

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