What's New: Addventure 2.1
Version 2.1.1
- Bug Fixes
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- Hopefully fixes the problem where some blank episodes
and options-only episodes were created.
- Choices of all spaces are not allowed.
- Appearance Changes
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- Applet checking for a running game now has white background.
Version 2.1.0
Version 2.1 adds several new features to Addventure and changes some
internal structures from Version 2.0.
Version 2.0 files are fully
compatable with version 2.1, but some features may be lost if going
backwards.
- Listing linkable episodes is optional
- On large games, generating the list of linkable episodes started
taking a lot of time, and returned huge pages. The ability to
list episodes by name or number as the way to select episodes
to link to may be disabled by the administrator.
- Changes to the 'About' program
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- Since games may run with different features, the about
program will return what features are enabled and disabled.
- Since listing linkable episodes is optional, the about
program can list them.
- Since there is a lot of stuff, the about program has
multiple pages.
- Informational messages
- Game administrators may set files to be printed during episode
creation and when errors occur.
- UI improvements
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- Entered text is displayed before authors enter the options
- Administrators can set a maximum number of options
- Mailing list support
- Administrators can now run a mailing list, and new authors can
subscribe to it when they create their episode.
- Mailto support in signature
- If the administrator allows it, and the user chooses it, the user's
signature can become a link to their email address.
- Improved sanity-checking in email addresses
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- Java ready
- Our forward compatability module. {: Addventure will be ready for
the JavAddventure applets and applications when written.
(As of 2.1.0, the applets have not been written.)
- Improved administrator documentation
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- Improved administrator debugging
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- Disk space monitoring
- Cron script can be run to periodically check the status of the
disk and turn the game off if it is running out of space.
[ What was new in 2.0
| What is left to do? ]