I am pleased to release version 4.27 of MUSHclient. See the release notes for more details.

Improvements

• Fixed a few minor bugs
• Added more files for generating random character names
• Added the StatusBar.exe program to the install
• Changed world.Save to allow you to do a "save as different name" without changing the main file name
• Added the utils.directorypicker function to the Lua script, so you can choose a directory from a GUI dialog
• Added new script function AcceleratorTo - this lets you set up a keyboard accelerator, but send the text to a desired location, such as script or speedwalk
• Added a "sendto" table to the Lua script space, to let you use words for a sendto location rather than numbers
• Added various extra tables for Shift+Tab completion

Download

You can view the release notes for version 4.27

You can download MUSHclient 4.27 now from ...

• http://www.gammon.com.au/files/mushclient/mushclient427.exe (1.96 Mb).

If there are any problems, please post messages to the Bug Reports, Suggestions, or General parts of this forum.

If you do an md5sum on mushclient427.exe you should get this result:

0a9b79b5392c1d7a439d8b132f1202ea

The forum post a small script to sumcheck the MUSHclient download shows how you can write a small script in MUSHclient to do the sumcheck.

Message about "Failed to load resources file"

Some users are reporting getting a message like " Failed to load resources file: C:\Programme\MUSHclient\locale\DE.dll - trying English file" when starting MUSHclient (the DE.dll part might be another language like FR.dll).

This will be because you have customized the "locale" of MUSHclient to other than EN (English). See the How to localize MUSHclient messages into other languages forum posting for more details about localization.

To fix this, find the directory you installed MUSHclient into (eg. "C:\Program Files\MUSHclient\") and then locate the subdirectory "locale". In that you will find a file en.dll. Copy or rename that file to match the missing file in the message (eg. copy en.dll to de.dll).

Alternative suggestion: Go into the File menu -> Global Preferences -> General, and change the field "Locale code" back to "EN" (English) and then it should look for EN.DLL next time.

Warning about Lua 5.1 upgrade

MUSHclient version 3.80 upgraded the Lua script engine from Lua 5.0.2 to 5.1.1. If you are upgrading to this version from an earlier version than 3.80, you should read Version 3.80 released - with Lua 5.1 script engine - this post has recommendations about what is required if you use Lua scripting or Lua plugins.

Warning about upgrading from versions prior to 3.21

MUSHclient version 3.85 (onwards) no longer reads the old "binary" world files produced by versions prior to 3.21. For more information about this please read the forum post Versions 3.85 onwards no longer support world files created prior to version 3.21 - this post has recommendations about how to upgrade your world files if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 3.21.

Note that version 3.21 was released about 5 years ago, so people who have recently installed MUSHclient should not have any problems.

The Bazaar source repository is at http://www.binarygoblins.com/mushclient/bzr/.

The diffs for the source compared to version 4.26 are at http://www.gammon.com.au/files/mushclient/src/version_4.27_diffs.txt

The md5sum for the diffs file is e4688f9286c267fdd69089c33124d33c.