StrikeLight

Woooohoooooo! Jea baybees... My Pittsburgh Penguinos have finally once again risen to the top.. What an entertaining year it's been for them, from replacing their coach midseason, to fighting for a playoff spot, to the series of the century with Crosby vs Ovie, and to top it off, avenging their defeat from last year against the Detroit Red Wings in a very entertaining 7 game series... Amazing.. Congratulations to my pittsburgh pennies!

Released Blocktrix 0.72 Beta today. Changes between 0.72 and 0.71 are as follows:

- Fixed minor startup bug
- Fixed loading of "Hold Key" setting (Reported by
Schiffner)
- Added italian language file (by Alberto Giuffrida)
- Updated Tcl/Tk engine to 8.5.0
- Updated Tix engine to 8.4.2
- Added 'shadow' option to extended tnet protocol
- Added /clear partyline command to clear the 
  partyline text
- Updated Copyright year

With the recent release of Tcl/Tk8.5, I was eager to update one of my programs (Written in Delphi) that uses an embedded Tcl/Tk scripting engine (with the Tslc component). I ran into a few stumbling blocks when attempting to do so. The update wasn't as seamless as it was when upgrading between Tcl/Tk8.4.x revisions. A couple of major problems that were encountered: Windows created through Tk8.5 were unusable, bindings not triggered, etc.. The other main problem was with using scripts that made use of Tix, a module that extends functionality of Tk with better widgets and what not, where they would fail to execute properly due to color code issues. For the first problem, I found that by pressing the alt-key, the Tk windows became functional again (I have no idea why), so in my application, I created a Tcl command from Tslc, 'pressaltkey' which emulates the key-press of the alt-key, and called this command through a Tslc eval during the initialization of Tcl/Tk. For the second problem, it appears that Tk8.5 doesn't like hexadecimal color values, so I had to edit some scripts in the Tix library to use color names instead (eg. black). I only hope that Tcl/Tk8.5 isn't this troublesome between revisions.

Released Blocktrix 0.71 yesterday. Changes between 0.71 and 0.70 are as follows:

- Changed splash logo again
- Added close button beside tabs on partyline
- Fixed bug with bottom button positions when restoring
  from maximized state
- Fixed scrolling behaviour of bottom buttons
- Fixed bug with game events text displaying improperly
  when run under WINE with -wine command line option
- Fixed an issue with Partyline at startup under WINE
  with -wine option
- Fixed bug with emptying music file theme entry 
  (Reported by Miffy)
- Fixed bug when scrolled up, and scrolling down, 
  timestamp is in incorrect format under wine or
  unicode mode
- Fixed bug when scrolled up, and scrolling down,
  game statistics aren't formatted properly under
  wine or unicode mode (Reported by dunno)
- Fixed bug with text being inserted on incorrect 
  lines in wine/unicode mode(?) (Reported by dunno)
- Updated Tcl/Tk engine to 8.4.16
- Fixed bug with text not displaying in partyline 
  when new text arrives while another tab is active

As some of you may know, I used to be highly involved in the ASCII art scene years ago, so I finally got around to putting up most of my ASCII designs on the web. If you're into the oldschool ASCII scene, then check it out, and hopefully enjoy.