Change Log
DeadAIM 4.5
The following new features were added:
Support for AIM 5.5.3572 with account linking.
Improved serial number handling.
Improved method for rearranging the buddy list.
Adverts with sounds blocked.
Increased integration with AIM internal API.
Support for AOL smiley sets.
Idle logging.
Instant idle feature.
Remove yourself from someone's buddy list.
The following bugs were fixed:
Crashes when buddy list docked.
Adverts for AIM 5.0 and higher stopped from downloading.
DeadAIM 4.1
The following new features were added:
Buddy aliasing - backup/restore feature
Per-screen name settings
AIM Version 5.5.3415 Beta support
The following bugs were fixed:
Deleting logs may not delete screen name folder.
Spaces leading and trailing serial number are not ignored.
DeadAIM 4.0
The following new features were added:
Buddy aliasing - rename the buddies on your buddy list to what you want.
New configuration screen.
Talking while away.
Transparency - Fade down transparency.
Tabbed IMs - Always on top.
Notifications - Select the time period for notification display.
Logging - Optional whether to log images and inline files.
Logging - Chatroom logging.
The following bugs were fixed:
Sometimes even if the "advertise DeadAIM in your profile" tick was not selected it would get added to the profile anyway.
Notifications - Clicking on notification alert replacements opened a window to the wrong screenname.
DeadAIM 3.2.1
The following new features were added:
New installer wrapper for MSI that will automatically download the installer engine on demand.
Generic improvements to installer including the ability to shut down the AIM client for the user.
Support for the latest 5.2 beta.
Tabbed IMs - Tab icon turns orange when user is typing when both users are using AIM 5.
Tabbed IMs - SHIFT+CTRL+TAB key shortcut to switch between tabs in the opposite direction.
Tabbed IMs - CTRL+F4 closes current tab.
Tabbed IMs - Clicking with the middle mouse button on a tab closes it.
Tabbed IMs - New context menu item "Log Manager..." navigates to the last log for the selected screen name.
Tabbed IMs - New message tabs no longer steal focus away from the current tab.
Tabbed IMs - When the first IM is received the container window is created minimised and starts to flash.
Logging - "Session Concluded" message is now optional.
The following bugs were fixed:
Generic number of bugs fixed that caused crashes, including when coming back from away.
Tabbed IMs - Double clicking on the title bar of the container window did not maximise it.
Tabbed IMs - GDI handle leak caused strange system behaviour after prolonged use.
Tabbed IMs - New tabs would not cause the container window to flash.
Tabbed IMs - The container window would sometimes flash continuously.
Tabbed IMs - Pressing ctrl on its own would be incorrectly "remembered" resulting in incorrect tab switches.
Logging - UNICODE text caused logging to fail, now UNICODE is converted into ASCII.
Logging - A malformed IMG tag when directly connected could have lead to a crash.
Logging - Windows 9x clients would sometimes not log if closed with the tab's X or the File/Close menu option.
Log Manager - Logs were sometimes displayed in the wrong order.
Popup Notifications - Alert replacement popups would steal the focus for a small period of time.
Notes for release:
This is a maintenance release. A maintenance release concentrates on resolving problems rather than adding new features.
DeadAIM 3.1
The following new features were added:
"Repair DeadAIM" shortcut in the DeadAIM group is now verbose. It will give information to the user when run.
The repair on startup feature will now not be automatically added when AIM runs allowing users to remove it.
Tabbed IMs - Redesign.
Tabbed IMs - CTRL+TAB key shortcut to switch between tabs.
Tabbed IMs - Container window now states the screen name you are signed on with.
Cloning - Windows 95/98/ME can now clone.
Cloning - Menu option duplicated in My AIM. It is available just above "Switch Screen Name..."
Popup Notifications - Option to disable when user is away.
Logging - Keyboard shortcuts available in log manager.
Logging - Print preview.
Logging - Edit menu added.
The following bugs were fixed:
Incompatibility with nVidia's Desktop Manager suite. This was the cause of AIM close/crash on loading/resize.
Incorrect stack calling convention on some functions would have caused random cloning crashes on startup.
Windows 9x users would experience "Can not find DeadAIM.ocm" error if AIM is installed in non-default directory.
Logging - Date search sometimes picked an incorrect date.
Logging - Images pasted into direct connection sessions were not logged and an error message occurred.
Logging - Links in logs now open in a seperate window.
Logging - Closing down AIM with IM windows open would cause AIM to crash.
Logging - CTRL-C to copy text would not work if tree view was selected in the log manager.
Tabbed IMs - When container window was flashing and the active IM was selected flashing would not always stop.
Tabbed IMs - Sending a message sometimes caused the IM window to become mis-aligned in the container window.
Tabbed IMs - ALT+TABing from the container window to another window would always have the buddy list next in order.
Tabbed IMs - ALT+TABing to the container window would not set the focus to the IM text input control.
Tabbed IMs - If the container window was minimized and a new IM was received no visual prompt alerted the user.
Tabbed IMs - Minimizing the container window then minimizing the buddy list window would cause the container to restore.
Tabbed IMs - Blinking icon was not noticable enough.
Tabbed IMs - Enabling and disabling tabbed IMs while using transparency caused unexpected results.
Tabbed IMs - If an IM window's screen name was changed the tab would not update to display the correct screen name.
Tabbed IMs - Pressing ESC in an IM window would close the IM window but leave the tab behind.
Tabbed IMs - Container system menu was not available from the usual ALT-Space key shortcut.
Popup Notifications - Sign on/off and away/back notifications did not occur if logging was disabled.
Notes for release:
This is a maintenance release. A maintenance release concentrates on resolving problems rather than adding new features.
DeadAIM 3.0
The following new features were added:
Logging - The ability to search by screen names and dates.
Logging - Log files can be easily saved to another location.
Logging - Inline images and files are logged.
Logging - Time stamps are always shown.
Logging - Text background is shown correctly.
Logging - The Log Manager now remembers its window size and position.
Grouping of instant message windows into one tabbed window.
Cloning; the ability to have more than one AIM client running simultaneously (NT4/2000/XP and higher only).
DeadAIM can now add a link to its website in your profile so others viewing your information can find out about it.
DeadAIM group in the start menu that contains a link to the Log Manager.
"Repair DeadAIM" shortcut in the DeadAIM group that will re-associate DeadAIM with AIM after an upgrade.
A very small lightweight program is run on system start up to check DeadAIM is associated with AIM correctly.
The following bugs were fixed:
Logging - Date format in the log manager had an errenous '[' in some locales.
Logging - If a picture or other binary file was inserted no more conversations were logged that day for that person.
Logging - If Windows was shutdown or if the user logged off without first closing the IM windows then the conversations would not be saved.
Logging - Logging could not be disabled.
Transparency - Docking and undocking the AIM window removed transparency.
Transparency - Clicking on the area around or using the keys to manipulate the slide control did not work correctly.
Dependencies on new DLLs caused 2.06 not run on Windows NT 4.0 unless the IE desktop enhancement was installed.
The installer did not prompt the user to close AIM before installing. This lead to a lot of people thinking DeadAIM did nothing as they hadn't restarted AIM.
When Apache running on jdennis.net did not respond in a timely fashion after the connection of a socket DeadAIM would crash.
DeadAIM would not work after upgrading AIM when using AIM's built in upgrade functionality.
On Windows 9x platforms the user would be prompted to report their installation everytime AIM was loaded until they clicked "no".
Notes for release:
DeadAIM will now automatically check for a new version once every 24 hours instead of every sign-on. Manual checking for a
new version is not effected by this change.
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