Hi everyone,
I'm waiting until I have binaries built for Mac OS X and Windows before
I announce this to the general public. If you see anything which could
be improved about this announcement, please feel free to email me.
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Primary Thousand Parsec client (Python wxWidgets) version 0.3.0 released
(and supporting libraries)!
It's been a long time since the last release of the primary client for
playing Thousand Parsec games. Now, the wait is finally over and it was
well worth it. Large parts of the client have drastically changed. If
you downloaded a previous release and didn't like it, please give this
new release a try!
In the version 0.3.0 you will find a lot of new features, such as:
* Finding servers is now easy! With support for the metaserver
protocol the client can get (and display) lists of both remote
and servers.
* The user interface has been rewritten so that it now uses the
wxWidgets AUI interface (like found in Microsoft Visual Studio
IDE) and takes advantage of XRC (an XML-based resource system).
* The client now supports internationalization (under Windows and
Linux) and has been translated to Slovenian.
* Downloading the universe is significantly faster, less likely to
get stuck and more informative.
* The star map has been drastically changed and you can now,
* Choose how objects are coloured, either on a per player
bases or on own verse enemy bases.
* See the resources availability using the resource
pie-chart overlay.
* Quickly see what is in a star system with new
information pop-ups for objects.
* Issue move orders painlessly with a new waypoint mode
and context menu for quickly issuing single orders.
* Use shortcuts to manipulate the star map using the
keyboard.
* The interface has been drastically improved on long latency
links through the ability to see the pending status of orders.
The client now works correctly when there are many outstanding
changes of any type.
* You can now filter the systems panel to quickly find the objects
you are looking for.
* You can easily find objects which are idle with new "Object
without Orders" window.
* Quickly changing orders is now much easier with the addition of
keyboard shortcuts for order manipulation.
Off course there are thousands of bugfixes, support for easy Debian
packaging, better integration on Mac OS X and loads more!
Download is available from our web site
( http://www.thousandparsec.net/ ) or from SourceForge.net
( http://thousandparsec.sf.net/ ).
I would like to thank Nathan Partlan who has been extremely helpful and
is responsible for a number of these new features. Jure Repinc for
putting up with the constant headache of translation and helping prepare
these release notes. All the people who tested the client and those who
put up with stable client while the development version was being
developed.
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Tim 'Mithro' Ansell
PS If you have a Mac OS X 10.3.9, we need your help building the Mac
packages.
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