A new version of JavaFIBS 2001 has been released today thanks to the work of Tom Moulton and Ingo Macherius. The new version can be downloaded from http://www.fibs.com/javafibs/ . The changes from previous version are:

v1.010 (20080309)
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* Change: GTK look and feel for Unix systems supported (bug 017, inim)
* Change: Path names for Resources, Saved Matches and User prefs are no longer hardcoded and can be set by the user (see docs section 11) (bug 067, inim)
* Change: Repbot context menus added to player and inviter tables (bug 007, inim)
* Change: New About dialog, which displays additional information about the Java runtime used by JavaFIBS 2001 (inim)
* Change: Minor performance improvements all over, especially for the statistics window (inim)
* Change: New Preferences option to automatically save all matches in both internal and Jellyfish format (inim)
* Change: Countrycodes have been updated to contain all existing nations (Jan 2008) as per ISO 3166-2 definition (inim)
* Change: The "refresh" button of the player list sends the "who" command 4 times now, setting sortorder to rrating, rating, name, and login respectively. This should work around the "invisible player" problem a lot better (inim)
* Change: New naming scheme for saved matches: Player_vs_Opponent_YYYYMMDDHHMMSSNNNN, where Y=Year, M=Month, D=Day, H=Hour, M=Minute, S=Seconds and N=Milliseconds (inim)
* Change: Updated ID list of clients supporting PPP (PlayerProfileProtocol) (TourneyBot, JavaCLIPLib, and Delfibs) (ingo)
* Fix: Fixed typo in command menu ("Average") (inim)
* Fix: Saving positions from match recorder button crashed. Works again, positions can be saved as ASCII or Jellyfish *.pos files (bug 019, inim)
* Fix: Sound was distorted when using JDK 1.5 and up on Windows - probably on other systems too (bug 016, inim)
* Fix: Don't intercept ctrl-x key input anymore, it interferes with cut/paste shortcuts (switched to command mode before) (inim)
* Fix: Sorting match length in statistics dialog is now in numerical order (was A-Z), sorting opponent names is now case insensitive (bug 027, inim)
* Fix: Problems with I/O when loading or saving Preferences, Friends, Villain, Buttons, and other Resources are handled more graceful now. (inim)

Great.

It appears because of abuse by JavaFIBS users, Patti is thinking of nuking the saved-games list on fibs.com.  I hope cthulu, Tom and inim will get together with Patti and work this out.

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don

Don, what are you talking about? JavaFIBS doesn't read that list at all, and I've never heared such a thing from Patti. Could you please reveal the source of your amazing information? What type of "abuse" happens, and what exactly has JavaFIBS to do with that?

Thx don for providing me a shout log. It's a non issue for JavaFIBS, as the feature discussed was a 3rd party software which just happens to produce JavaFIBS compatible config files. See this thread  http://www.fibsboard.com/javafibs/repbotsavedgames-t1819.0.html;msg13930.

Adding such code to JF is a no brainer from the coding side, about 20 lines. But for now, this feature won't be added to JF -- as it obviously opens a can of worms way beyond that 20 easy lines. Nice idea though, which may be revisited in a form Patti considers politically correct.

It's a real act of faith to spend time coding for FIBS, knowing that Patti could pull the plug on any part of it at any time for reasons unknown.

I've said before, the more valuable way to leverage the saved games list, is to archive each days' somewhere and process that.
A single days' list doesn't have much meaning, as Patti admits. It is only differences across sequential days that have begin to have meaning.
Which is why RepBot compares 2 days worth.

If you had the raw data, and a way for users to customize how they query/interpret it, then you've really got something.
But then, one day, maybe Patti gets all emotional about something and stops generating the data. Oh well.

You're better off writing in some auto-vouch options so people have enough RepBot data to make the friends command meaningful.
Let users' decide the conditions for when a vouch is automatically registered, e.g. number of matches completed losing to you, at several experience levels, etc...

Thx for your report once more. I love to hear bug reports, be sure you will be heared. Filed it into the bugtracker, can't promise any fix date though. But will be handled when developer capacity is available. If you or somebody else can fix it, I will happily incorporate the fix into the next release.

I don't think this is a bug. You might want to check your buttons file (users->username->buttons) for leftover spaces or carriage returns. JavaFibs should NOT be running when you do this.

hth
Thomas

I guess I was a bit rash because my old buttons work perfectly. But adding via the menu doesn't work. Exactly as you stated.

Thomas

Checked it, the 2002 board and some other multimedia files shouldn't have been in 1.010 first hand. So the fix is: they will be pulled from 1.011.

Very thanks inim