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Release notes for MUSHclient version 4.61

Version 4.61

Released on 10 Sep 2010


1. Added plugin Automatic_Backup.xml to the distribution. This backs up your world file every time you connect and disconnect to a "save as" file name with the day/month/year in it. This hopefully reduces the incidence of lost world files due to corruption during saving.



For a bit more detail see:



http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/?id=10565



[Commit 2702f19]







2. Added GetInfo (305).



This returns the date/time when the client started executing. (So you can see how long it has been up).



[Commit 1da3306]





3. Added GetInfo (306).



This returns the date/time when the world was created or opened. That is, if the world was just created, this is the date/time the world document was made. If it is opened (from a saved world file) this is the date/time the world was opened.



It is not the time it was originally created (perhaps weeks ago) but when the world was opened "this session".



[Commit baa6353]





4. Added second argument to trigger/timer/alias/variable filter functions. Since this is a new argument this is backwards compatible with earlier versions.



The second argument is a table, which will contain relevant details about the current item we are filtering on. This make writing filter scripts simpler, for example:



function filter (name, t)

  return t.send_to == sendto.script

end -- filter



The old method would have been to write:



function filter (name)

  return GetAliasInfo (name, 18) == sendto.script

end -- filter



The keywords you can use are as documented for ImportXML on this page:



http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/?id=7123





In addition, some run-time data can be returned, as follows:



ALIASES



"execution_error"   // GetAliasInfo  (28) *

"execution_time"    // GetAliasInfo  (30) *

"included"          // GetAliasInfo  (15)

"invocation_count"  // GetAliasInfo  (10)

"last_match"        // GetAliasInfo  (25) *

"match_attempts"    // GetAliasInfo  (31) *

"match_count"       // GetAliasInfo  (24) *

"script_valid"      // GetAliasInfo  (27)

"temporary"         // GetAliasInfo  (14)

"times_matched"     // GetAliasInfo  (11)

"when_matched"      // GetAliasInfo  (13) *



TRIGGERS



"invocation_count"  // GetTriggerInfo  (20)

"times_matched"     // GetTriggerInfo  (21)

"when_matched"      // GetTriggerInfo  (22) *

"temporary"         // GetTriggerInfo  (23)

"included"          // GetTriggerInfo  (24)

"match_count"       // GetTriggerInfo  (31) *

"last_match"        // GetTriggerInfo  (32) *

"script_valid"      // GetTriggerInfo  (34)

"execution_error"   // GetTriggerInfo  (35) *

"execution_time"    // GetTriggerInfo  (37) *

"match_attempts"    // GetTriggerInfo  (38) *



TIMERS



"invocation_count"  // GetTimerInfo  (9)

"times_fired"       // GetTimerInfo  (10)

"when_fired"        // GetTimerInfo  (11) *

"temporary"         // GetTimerInfo  (14)

"included"          // GetTimerInfo  (18)

"script_valid"      // GetTimerInfo  (26)



Fields marked * may not be present (ie. be nil) under some circumstances (eg. regular expression failure).



VARIABLES



"contents"         // variable contents



[Commit 83b2dd3, 9c65986]







5. Updated Example_filters.lua (suggested trigger/timer/alias filters) to use the new filtering method described above.



[Commit c26cacd]

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