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#225704 08/09/10 10:12 AM
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The mIRC beta is a version of mIRC that is not yet ready for public use and is being made available for testing purposes only.

We need feedback to resolve any issues in the beta before we can release a final, stable version of mIRC for public use.

You should only download the beta if you are happy to test the beta and submit bug reports.

Please see the following post for the latest beta release and a list of changes.

#265827 22/03/24 05:55 PM
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The latest beta can be downloaded here and includes the following changes:

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Beta v7.76.2477 changes:
1.Item 28, fixed.
2.Item 29, added.
3.Item 30, fixed. Due to Visual Studio 2017 change.
4.Item 31, changed.
5.Item 32, updated.
6.Item 27, updated, see for details. Changes to all of the resource
parsing code. As this is a first release of a new feature, with a lot
of new code relating to translatable resources, it needs testing.

Beta v7.76.1610 changes:
1.Item 4, https://forums.mirc.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/272418
2.Item 25, added.
3.Item 26, added.
4.Item 27, changed.

Reviewed 10000+ strings embedded in the source code, filtered down
by heuristics. Most translatable strings were already in resources
but some needed to be moved.

This also allowed me to review which literal strings needed
to remain in the code as non-translatable, depending on context,
eg. "Status Window" needs to remain non-translatable when used
internally in scripts and ini file item names, otherwise these
would break every time a different language was used, but needs
to be translatable for the GUI. This applies to window names,
script-related names, ini item names, and a variety of other
strings.

Some dialogs needed extra code to convert to/from the translatable
GUI resource string, visible in the dialog, and its non-translatable
version that is used internally.

A lot of legacy code depends on strings being formatted in a specific
way, eg. spaces/order of words in strings such as "Status Window". So
translating mIRC will not be as simple as just translating the text
in resources. A translator will need to be aware of a string's context,
format, and word order and the need to keep it as close as possible
to the original. Changing the code to get around these limitations
will take much more work.

Overall, this beta includes several hundred changes to source code
files and resources.

Beta v7.76.1151 changes:
1.Item 18, fixed focus being set on editbox after the find/replace
buttons are pressed.
2.Item 23, fixed.
3.Added back smiley face to right-click on About button at
different icon sizes.
4.Item 24, https://forums.mirc.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/272403

Beta v7.76.1060 changes:
1.Item 15, fixed.
2.Item 5, fixed a Find/Replace bug where the first attempt
for a Replace All was not working.
3.Item 18, changed.
4.Item 16, changed, eg. when switching between mdi/desktop
windows.
5.Item 17, fixed.
6.Item 19, fixed.
7.Item 20, fixed.
8.Item 21, updated.
9.Item 22, updated.
10.Updated help file.

Beta v7.76.856 changes:
1.Item 9, https://forums.mirc.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/272379
2.Item 10, added.
3.Item 11, added. To apply to all server connections, you would
need to use /scon -a.
4.Item 12, added.
5.Item 13, added.
6.Item 14, fixed.

Beta v7.76.668 changes:
1.Item 6, udpated. The update.html file now contains a file
signature used by mIRC to verify that the installer is
authentic and unmodified.
2.Item 8, extended.

Beta v7.76.237 changes:
1.Item 1, https://forums.mirc.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/272326
Note that this UTF-8 decodes characters as well.
2.Item 2, https://forums.mirc.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/272329
Tested with different combinations of font/font size/button
size. Needs further testing.
3.Item 3, https://forums.mirc.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/272331
4.Item 4, added. This also UTF-8 encodes/decodes characters.
5.Item 5, fixed.
6.Item 6, added.
This will download and execute the exe specified in update.html
on the mIRC website. The exe is saved to the "updates" folder.
Currently, the exe is the standard install file, set to update
files in silent mode. By default, it will backup existing files,
update mirc.exe, mirc.chm, ircintro.chm, readme.txt, versions.txt,
and cacert.pem, and will perform required updates to other files
where necessary. After the update is complete, mIRC is restarted
and the About dialog is displayed.
7.Item 7, https://forums.mirc.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/272346

Changes:
1.Fixed $urlget() support for percent-encoded username:password
format.
2.Fixed treebar spacing when switching back and forth between
different icon sizes.
3.Fixed $base() floating point conversion bug.
4.Added $encode()/$decode() 'x' switch that percent-encodes/decodes
all characters except "unreserved" as defined in RFC3986.
5.Fixed Scripts Editor find/replace bug where first found item
was not being replaced.
6.Added Check for Updates support for downloading/installing an
update directly.
7.Fixed auto-op/voice/protect being incorrectly triggered when
you don't have ops.
8.Extended $samepath() to handle more contexts, such as subst
drives and network prefixes.
9.Changed Scripts Editor find/replace dialog behaviour to wrap both
forward and backward when a search ends.
10.Added Scripts Editor find/replace dialog "Count" option to
display number of found/replaced matches.
11.Added /markasread [name] that marks the specified window name as
read. If no name is specified, all windows on a server connection
are marked as read.
12.Added Scripts Editor find/replace dialog support for escape key
to stop a long search.
13.Added Scripts Editor find/replace dialog support for remembering
dialog position after restarting mIRC.
14.Fixed $input() dialog not accepting escape key to close dialog
if only ok button is displayed.
15.Fixed editbox eye icon focus bug when switching to another control.
16.Changed Find dialog in status/channel/query windows so that it will
re-open in the active window if Control+F is pressed while open in
another window.
17.Fixed MDI window titlebar colors not being set correctly when
desktop/mdi windows are active/inactive.
18.Changed Scripts Editor Find/Replace dialog to modeless, allowing you
to scroll/edit in the editbox while the dialog is open.
19.Fixed Shift+Tab to show nick list keyboard shortcut not working in
windows without editboxes.
20.Fixed List Channels dialog not enabling/disabling List button when
the active server connects/disconnects.
21.Updated OpenSSL library to v3.0.13.
22.Updated zlib library to v1.3.1.
23.Fixed $input() icon/text positioning on different DPI displays.
24.Added email/userid support for IRCX mask \ character.
25.Added MDI window/menubar icon sizes for different DPI displays.
26.Added alternative method for opening help files that gets around
the Windows CHM locked files issue.
27.Added support for loading translated resources from external
language DLLs found in the "languages" folder. Language DLLs must
use the format mirc-en-US.dll, where the language code is found at
the end of the filename.

A language selection option has been added to the Options/Display
dialog. This displays the language name, code, and DLL name. The
internal default is English (en-US). The selected language DLL is
saved to mirc.ini in the [language] section.

For translators, the translatable resource sections are: RT_MENU,
RT_DIALOG, RT_STRING, RT_ACCELERATOR, and RT_VERSION. The command
"/langdll -m" can be used to create a default language DLL that
contains the translatable resources in mirc.exe. This can then be
edited with a resource editor. The command "/langdll -d oldmirc.exe
newmirc.exe" can be used to compare the translatable resources of
two exes/dlls to show which sections have changed/need to be udpated
after new versions are released. The currently loaded language dll
is returned by $langdll.

mIRC performs several checks when loading resources from a language
DLL, including checking for matching sprintf() specifiers, id
numbers, number of controls, and so on. If an external resource
does not match the internal resource, the internal resource is used
instead.

28.Fixed $window().title not returning correct title text for DCC
Send/Get windows.
29.Added $window().fulltitle that returns the full titlebar text.
30.Fixed manifest file being included twice in resources.
31.Changed Treebar DCC Send/Get to show progress bar below text, like
the switchbar.
32.Updated CA root certificates cacert.pem file.


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