www/src/client.html

Client

<h2>The Deliantra MORPG Client</h2>

<p>This  is the new Deliantra client which was written from scratch
in Perl with C bindings to SDL/OpenGL. It was written to have a more
immersive overall gameplay and to base as ground to implement new
features.
</p>

<h3>Screenshots:</h3>

<p>Screenshots? See on the <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshot page</a></p>

<h3>Download:</h3>

<p><a href="play.html">See the Play now! page</a> about the downloads!</p>

<h3>Installation notes:</h3>

<ul>
   <li>
      <p><b>Windows</b></p>
      <p>
         To start the client, run the executable, i.e. by doubleclicking on it with your left mouse button or
         use the context menu of the right mouse button.
         <b>Note:</b> The windows binary might take a while to start (up to some minutes), as it needs to unpack itself
         and start up everything it needs.
      </p>
   </li>
   <li>
      <p><b>GNU/Linux</b></p>
      <p>
         <b>
            Please note that you need glibc-2.3 and x-libs with XFT.
            (For amd64 you will need ia32-libs and a 32bit OpenGL driver,
            eg. nvidia-glx-ia32 (for NVIDIA) or fglrx-glx-ia32 (for ATI))
         </b>
      </p>
      <p>
         After downloading you need to extract the client and execute the extracted binary.
      </p>
   </li>
   <li>
      <p><b>Mac OS X</b></p>
      <p>
         To start the client, just double click on the <tt>.dmg</tt> image file to open it and start the client.<br />
         <b>NOTE: You will need an Intel CPU for this binary, it will not work with PPC CPUs! Also you will need Mac OS X 10.5 or later.</b>
      </p>
   </li>
   <li>
      <p><b>Build from source</b></p>
      <p>
      If you want to build the client from source there are two ways that
      are explained on a different page: <a href="client_cpan.html">Source installation</a>.
      </p>
   </li>
</ul>

<p>
<b>For further instructions and informations look at the <i>Help!</i> button on the top!</b>
</p>

<h3>News:</h3>

<p>
  <em>
   2008-11-09 Version 0.9978: Some minor fixes:
   The healthbar is now correctly smoothly moved. Own text in NPC dialogues are
   emphasized now. A crash bug in the macro dialogue has been fixed. The tooltips
   in the Mesage Window tabs are updated correctly now. And Alt+x won't let
   Message Window tabs disappear for ever anymore.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
   2008-09-29 Version 0.9977: A race condition has been fixed that could lead
   to client freezes or crashes on login, especially on slower systems. The
   smooth movement is no longer choppy. The default font for messages is now a
   (hopefully nicer looking) proportional font. Text display has been tweaked.
   The client no longer makes unnecessary screen refreshes and uses less CPU
   time.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
    2008-09-05 Next version of the client: 0.9976 comes with many fixes for Mac OS X,
    like some fixed keyboard issues on OS X. Improved the protocol with compression
    and fragmentation, leading to more efficent bandwidth usage. Implemented crash
    diagnostics, which are sent to the server, for easier debugging. Important fix
    with the default resolution, which was too small. Added theming support, with some
    basic themes. And some other minor fixes all over the place.
    </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
    2008-08-27 Version 0.9975 comes with a small fix with the initial resolution and
    a carification of the weight/value autopickup option. There is also a <b>Mac OS X</b>
    port available now of the client!
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
    2008-08-01 Version 0.9974 comes with smooth scrolling for player movements,
    workaround for a possible OpenGL slowdown, and other small fixes and enhancements.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
    2008-07-07 Some minor fixes and features: IPv6 support, chat tabs have tooltips
    again and converted to a new non-blocking API. Also fixed the CPAN distribution.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
    2008-05-23 Next release: 0.9972. The map cache has been extended a bit to store more
    map changes (fixes some minor bugs). Fixed some crashbugs when the client is
    logged out and some UI elements were used. The server XML format is now also
    supportet in item tooltips. The keyrepeats are ignored now in some conditions.
    And crashes when the map cache is corrupted are now prevented. Also the client
    configuration is now stored in pretty printed JSON.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
     2008-05-05 Long time no release, but now we got some fixes for you: Some issues
     with the default sort order have been sorted out, some tooltips were fixed,
     a long standing bug with the stats tab being empty has been resolved and some GUI
     fixes have been done. Also the pseudo-items are now only shown in the inventory
     and not the floorbox. Have fun!
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
     2008-03-30 Release of version 0.9970: Reduced documentation memory usage, fixed
     the stat gauge tooltips that have gone missing since 0.9966. Fixced a grave bug
     with tile id allocation, which effectively disabled the tile cache. And last
     but not least: The NPC Dialogs have also been fixed.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>2008-03-24 Release of version 0.9967 of the Client: A memory leak was fixed
      where the messages in the message window were kept for ever and the client
      consumed more and more memory. The highlighting of the chattabs is now red and
      not blue. The history handling of the chat input will now not erase the
      typed input if the down cursor key is pressed. A keyboard modifier display has
      also been implemented, (for example to signal whether numlock is on,
      which caused problems under windows). Also a bug with the layout font under
      windows has been fixed.
   </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
     2008-01-19 Another release of the Client, version 0.9965: Some bugs
     have been fixed: A race condition was found in the database access and
     a bug which crashed the client with nvidia drivers has been fixed.
     Some minor bugs in the GUI, the message fontsize and chatbox label padding,
     have also been fixed.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
     2008-01-06 First release in the new year, version 0.9963: Among the
     changes are some minor bugfixes, optical tweaks and performance
     improvements on the GUI. Some to the user invisible changes were
     improvements of the server side widgets and a reimplementation of the
     message window to allow to undock chats from the central message window in
     future releases.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
    2007-12-25 Released version 0.9960 with some important fixes in the item animations
    and GUI code, along with an API update to a more recent EV version the documentation
    had some minor improvements. And last but not least the face loading consumes less CPU.
    too.
  </em>
</p>
<p>
  <em>
    2007-12-09 Released version 0.9959, main changes were a bugfix of the
    audio-jingle playing (sometimes a jingle was played repeatedly if there was no
    server-provided music available). Also some debugging hooks were added and
    the code was updated to follow API changes in some of the modules used.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
    2007-11-27 Released version 0.9956, main changes were an improved event loop
    for better performance and compatibility under windows,
    and the server list has been disabled due to problems with activestate perl.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2007-11-03 Released version 0.9955, Main changes were adjustment of the default
    resolution (to 800x600) and making fullscreen the default. The widget extension
    system was also officially enabled.
 </em>
</p>


<p>
 <em>
    2007-10-14 Released a new binary. Main feature: Rename to 'Deliantra'.
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2007-09-02 <b>Finally!</b> We released a non beta version of the client.
    The version 0.99 is considered mostly stable and playable now. Changes
    from the last release are: Better compatibility with OpenGL drivers,
    better face caching, background music and spatial sound effects,
    more default keymappings and the item descriptions are in the tooltips
    now (eg. in the inventory).
 </em>
</p>


<p>
 <em>
    2007-05-09 <b>Big news!</b> There is a <b>Linux binary</b> now too! Get it and play with it! :-)
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2007-04-24 Next windows beta with following changes is out:
    Better character creation dialog and item descriptions in the inventory
    are now in the tooltip rather than spread over the message window.
 </em>
</p>

<p>For older news look at the bottom of this page.</p>

<h3>Features:</h3>

<p>
These are the features that are already implemented and work (minus bugs).
</p>

<p><b>Technical:</b></p>
<ul>
    <li>Runs on GNU/Linux and Windows.</li>
    <li>
        Uses hardware acceleration if it exists (but also runs without as
        long as you have OpenGL).
    </li>
    <li>
        Windowed/Fullscreen mode in multiple resolutions 
        with scaling invariant user interface.
    </li>
    <li>Smoothing and fog of war.</li>
    <li>Very nice font rendering with pango (gtk's font renderer).</li>
    <li>Sound and background music.</li>
    <li>Face prefetching for the game graphics.</li>
    <li>Integrated documentation browser with linking and images.</li>
    <li>Server side widgets (these are server side defined dialogues).</li>
</ul>

<p><b>Gameplay:</b></p>
<ul>
    <li>
       A minimap which keeps track of explored territories
       and helps you to navigate on the worldmap.
    </li>
    <li>Easier key binding with the ability to <b>record</b> actions.</li>
    <li>Gained experience is shown in the statusbox.</li>
    <li>Reporting of stat-changes (stats, resistancies and other stuff) in the statusbox.</li>
    <li>Online wiki style help.</li>
    <li>Message window entry with history.</li>
    <li>
       Command completer, eg. completes 'cbh' to 'cast burning hands', which
       eases the input of commands.
    </li>
    <li>Command repetition with '.'.</li>
    <li>
       There are tooltips all over the GUI which help a lot.
    </li>
    <li>Spell list with key-binding shortcuts and tooltip descriptions of the spells.</li>
    <li>Skill list with quick key binding.</li>
    <li>
       NPC dialog system makes chatting with NPCs a lot easier and
       improves overall game interaction.
    </li>
    <li>Inventory operation shortcuts, like: ignite/thaw, inscribe and rename.</li>
    <li>Healthbars above monsters and players.</li>
</ul>

<h3>News archive</h3>

<p>
 <em>
    2007-04-22 Another windows beta has been released: A problem with map-ghosting
    was fixed and other bugs werde fixed. Also a texture cache workaround for buggy
    opengl drivers was implemented (which could reduce the memory leak inside the
    driver).
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2007-04-14 Another windows beta has been released: Support for smoothing
    on crossfire+ servers has been implemented along with the support for the
    large 64x64 tileset!
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2007-01-25 Next beta released to the world: loads of bugfixes, added
    'bind apply ...' to the context menu of the inventory, improved local
    database handling, rework of the whole keybindings (much easier now!).
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-12-03 Released next beta, further bug fixes. Pickup flesh has been implemented too.
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-11-07 Another beta release: The off-by-one bug in the map displaying has finally been found
    and fixed! This hopefully also fixes other problems with the map :) Have fun and please tell us
    about your experience with the CFPlus client!
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-09-29 New beta is out! Changes: minor bugfixes, added documentation and a 'tip of the day' dialog.
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-09-21 Another update of the cfplus.exe is online now. Changes: Fix in the NPC speech bubble code.
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-09-20
    And again: A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! The ghosts on maps have been fixed, along with other
    minor bugfixes. NPC speech bubbles were also added!
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-08-14 
    A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! <b>Healthbars</b> are in!!! Players and Monsters now
    have a healthbar on top of them, which shows their actual health status.
    This renders the 'probe' spell mostly useless, but we will find other ways to
    replace it!
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-08-14 
    The <b>next CFPlus beta release is out!</b>: Inscription and renaming shortcuts have been
    added to the Inventory. The interface got line frames to be more eye pleasing.
    On top of that the documentation browser has been greatly improved and the documentation
    improved also a bit. And other minor stuff has been implemented and fixed.
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-07-30
    The long awaited beta release! The last bugs we wanted to fix and features we wanted
    to add are done and CFPlus is ready for the first more serious testings. Please make sure to read the
    documentation and the tooltips if there is something not yet clear. Although the documentation
    is far from complete at the moment, it might be helpful.
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-07-24
    Lots of detail work was done now, and there are still some minor issues that
    need to be cleared until the client is ready for a beta release. We were working mainly 
    on the documentation the last two days. There is light on the end of the tunnel.
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-07-03
    Finally: The alpha release! Lots has changed since 2006-06-12 and
    we are happy to present the first test release!
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-06-12
    The new NPC dialog system has been added, and character creation
    helper dialogs. Along with many other bugfixes and improvements.
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-06-02
    Added pickup configuration. The window titles work again and
    some other bugs and enhancements went into the gui toolkit.
    Shift-middle click lock/unlocks items in inventory now. First version
    of the spell dialog is in and a context menu item has been added to the
    inventory to allow to get/drop a specified count of items.
 </em>
</p>

<h2>Authors/Contact</h2>

<p><b>The Deliantra Development Team:</b></p>

<p><b>
      95% of the client, stuff like: protocol handling, widget toolkit, OpenGL integration, windows build,
      the map, help viewer, all the cool features and all other stuff the user never sees.
   </b></p>
   <p>
    Marc Lehmann <a href="mailto:schmorp@schmorp.de">schmorp@schmorp.de</a>
    <a href="http://home.schmorp.de/">http://home.schmorp.de/</a>
   </p>

   <p><b>The remaining 5%, stuff like: client theme graphics, (some) dialogs, key bindings, inventory and some 'concept' code</b></p>
   <p>
    Robin Redeker <a href="mailto:elmex@ta-sa.org">elmex@ta-sa.org</a>
    <a href="http://www.ta-sa.org/">http://www.ta-sa.org/</a>
   </p>

<p></p>

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1	elmex	1.11	Client
2	pippijn	1.1
3	root	1.6	<h2>The Deliantra MORPG Client</h2>
4	pippijn	1.1
5	root	1.6	<p>This is the new Deliantra client which was written from scratch
6	root	1.5	in Perl with C bindings to SDL/OpenGL. It was written to have a more
7			immersive overall gameplay and to base as ground to implement new
8			features.
9			</p>
10	pippijn	1.1
11			<h3>Screenshots:</h3>
12
13	root	1.2	<p>Screenshots? See on the <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshot page</a></p>
14	pippijn	1.1
15	elmex	1.11	<h3>Download:</h3>
16	pippijn	1.1
17	elmex	1.26	<p><a href="play.html">See the Play now! page</a> about the downloads!</p>
18	pippijn	1.1
19	elmex	1.11	<h3>Installation notes:</h3>
20	pippijn	1.1
21	elmex	1.11	<ul>
22			<li>
23			<p><b>Windows</b></p>
24			<p>
25			To start the client, run the executable, i.e. by doubleclicking on it with your left mouse button or
26			use the context menu of the right mouse button.
27			<b>Note:</b> The windows binary might take a while to start (up to some minutes), as it needs to unpack itself
28			and start up everything it needs.
29			</p>
30			</li>
31			<li>
32			<p><b>GNU/Linux</b></p>
33			<p>
34	elmex	1.32	<b>
35			Please note that you need glibc-2.3 and x-libs with XFT.
36			(For amd64 you will need ia32-libs and a 32bit OpenGL driver,
37			eg. nvidia-glx-ia32 (for NVIDIA) or fglrx-glx-ia32 (for ATI))
38			</b>
39	elmex	1.11	</p>
40			<p>
41	elmex	1.30	After downloading you need to extract the client and execute the extracted binary.
42	elmex	1.11	</p>
43			</li>
44			<li>
45	elmex	1.26	<p><b>Mac OS X</b></p>
46			<p>
47	elmex	1.27	To start the client, just double click on the <tt>.dmg</tt> image file to open it and start the client.<br />
48	elmex	1.33	<b>NOTE: You will need an Intel CPU for this binary, it will not work with PPC CPUs! Also you will need Mac OS X 10.5 or later.</b>
49	elmex	1.26	</p>
50			</li>
51			<li>
52	elmex	1.11	<p><b>Build from source</b></p>
53			<p>
54			If you want to build the client from source there are two ways that
55			are explained on a different page: <a href="client_cpan.html">Source installation</a>.
56			</p>
57			</li>
58			</ul>
59	pippijn	1.1
60			<p>
61			<b>For further instructions and informations look at the <i>Help!</i> button on the top!</b>
62			</p>
63
64	elmex	1.11	<h3>News:</h3>
65	pippijn	1.1
66			<p>
67	elmex	1.21	<em>
68	elmex	1.33	2008-11-09 Version 0.9978: Some minor fixes:
69			The healthbar is now correctly smoothly moved. Own text in NPC dialogues are
70			emphasized now. A crash bug in the macro dialogue has been fixed. The tooltips
71			in the Mesage Window tabs are updated correctly now. And Alt+x won't let
72			Message Window tabs disappear for ever anymore.
73			</em>
74			</p>
75
76			<p>
77			<em>
78	elmex	1.29	2008-09-29 Version 0.9977: A race condition has been fixed that could lead
79			to client freezes or crashes on login, especially on slower systems. The
80			smooth movement is no longer choppy. The default font for messages is now a
81			(hopefully nicer looking) proportional font. Text display has been tweaked.
82			The client no longer makes unnecessary screen refreshes and uses less CPU
83			time.
84			</em>
85			</p>
86
87			<p>
88			<em>
89	elmex	1.28	2008-09-05 Next version of the client: 0.9976 comes with many fixes for Mac OS X,
90			like some fixed keyboard issues on OS X. Improved the protocol with compression
91			and fragmentation, leading to more efficent bandwidth usage. Implemented crash
92			diagnostics, which are sent to the server, for easier debugging. Important fix
93			with the default resolution, which was too small. Added theming support, with some
94			basic themes. And some other minor fixes all over the place.
95	elmex	1.29	</em>
96	elmex	1.28	</p>
97
98			<p>
99			<em>
100	elmex	1.26	2008-08-27 Version 0.9975 comes with a small fix with the initial resolution and
101			a carification of the weight/value autopickup option. There is also a <b>Mac OS X</b>
102			port available now of the client!
103			</em>
104			</p>
105
106			<p>
107			<em>
108	elmex	1.25	2008-08-01 Version 0.9974 comes with smooth scrolling for player movements,
109			workaround for a possible OpenGL slowdown, and other small fixes and enhancements.
110			</em>
111			</p>
112
113			<p>
114			<em>
115	elmex	1.24	2008-07-07 Some minor fixes and features: IPv6 support, chat tabs have tooltips
116			again and converted to a new non-blocking API. Also fixed the CPAN distribution.
117			</em>
118			</p>
119
120			<p>
121			<em>
122	elmex	1.23	2008-05-23 Next release: 0.9972. The map cache has been extended a bit to store more
123			map changes (fixes some minor bugs). Fixed some crashbugs when the client is
124			logged out and some UI elements were used. The server XML format is now also
125			supportet in item tooltips. The keyrepeats are ignored now in some conditions.
126			And crashes when the map cache is corrupted are now prevented. Also the client
127			configuration is now stored in pretty printed JSON.
128			</em>
129			</p>
130
131			<p>
132			<em>
133	elmex	1.22	2008-05-05 Long time no release, but now we got some fixes for you: Some issues
134			with the default sort order have been sorted out, some tooltips were fixed,
135			a long standing bug with the stats tab being empty has been resolved and some GUI
136			fixes have been done. Also the pseudo-items are now only shown in the inventory
137			and not the floorbox. Have fun!
138			</em>
139			</p>
140
141			<p>
142			<em>
143	elmex	1.21	2008-03-30 Release of version 0.9970: Reduced documentation memory usage, fixed
144			the stat gauge tooltips that have gone missing since 0.9966. Fixced a grave bug
145			with tile id allocation, which effectively disabled the tile cache. And last
146	elmex	1.22	but not least: The NPC Dialogs have also been fixed.
147	elmex	1.21	</em>
148			</p>
149
150			<p>
151	elmex	1.20	<em>2008-03-24 Release of version 0.9967 of the Client: A memory leak was fixed
152			where the messages in the message window were kept for ever and the client
153			consumed more and more memory. The highlighting of the chattabs is now red and
154			not blue. The history handling of the chat input will now not erase the
155			typed input if the down cursor key is pressed. A keyboard modifier display has
156			also been implemented, (for example to signal whether numlock is on,
157			which caused problems under windows). Also a bug with the layout font under
158			windows has been fixed.
159			</em>
160			</p>
161
162			<p>
163	elmex	1.13	<em>
164	elmex	1.19	2008-01-19 Another release of the Client, version 0.9965: Some bugs
165			have been fixed: A race condition was found in the database access and
166			a bug which crashed the client with nvidia drivers has been fixed.
167			Some minor bugs in the GUI, the message fontsize and chatbox label padding,
168			have also been fixed.
169			</em>
170			</p>
171
172			<p>
173			<em>
174	elmex	1.17	2008-01-06 First release in the new year, version 0.9963: Among the
175			changes are some minor bugfixes, optical tweaks and performance
176	elmex	1.18	improvements on the GUI. Some to the user invisible changes were
177			improvements of the server side widgets and a reimplementation of the
178	elmex	1.17	message window to allow to undock chats from the central message window in
179			future releases.
180			</em>
181			</p>
182
183			<p>
184			<em>
185	elmex	1.16	2007-12-25 Released version 0.9960 with some important fixes in the item animations
186			and GUI code, along with an API update to a more recent EV version the documentation
187			had some minor improvements. And last but not least the face loading consumes less CPU.
188			too.
189			</em>
190			</p>
191			<p>
192			<em>
193	elmex	1.15	2007-12-09 Released version 0.9959, main changes were a bugfix of the
194			audio-jingle playing (sometimes a jingle was played repeatedly if there was no
195			server-provided music available). Also some debugging hooks were added and
196			the code was updated to follow API changes in some of the modules used.
197			</em>
198			</p>
199
200			<p>
201			<em>
202	elmex	1.14	2007-11-27 Released version 0.9956, main changes were an improved event loop
203	elmex	1.13	for better performance and compatibility under windows,
204			and the server list has been disabled due to problems with activestate perl.
205			</em>
206			</p>
207
208			<p>
209	pippijn	1.1	<em>
210	elmex	1.12	2007-11-03 Released version 0.9955, Main changes were adjustment of the default
211			resolution (to 800x600) and making fullscreen the default. The widget extension
212			system was also officially enabled.
213			</em>
214			</p>
215
216
217			<p>
218			<em>
219	elmex	1.7	2007-10-14 Released a new binary. Main feature: Rename to 'Deliantra'.
220			</em>
221			</p>
222
223			<p>
224			<em>
225	pippijn	1.1	2007-09-02 <b>Finally!</b> We released a non beta version of the client.
226			The version 0.99 is considered mostly stable and playable now. Changes
227			from the last release are: Better compatibility with OpenGL drivers,
228			better face caching, background music and spatial sound effects,
229			more default keymappings and the item descriptions are in the tooltips
230			now (eg. in the inventory).
231			</em>
232			</p>
233
234
235			<p>
236			<em>
237			2007-05-09 <b>Big news!</b> There is a <b>Linux binary</b> now too! Get it and play with it! :-)
238			</em>
239			</p>
240
241			<p>
242			<em>
243			2007-04-24 Next windows beta with following changes is out:
244			Better character creation dialog and item descriptions in the inventory
245			are now in the tooltip rather than spread over the message window.
246			</em>
247			</p>
248
249			<p>For older news look at the bottom of this page.</p>
250
251			<h3>Features:</h3>
252
253			<p>
254			These are the features that are already implemented and work (minus bugs).
255			</p>
256
257			<p><b>Technical:</b></p>
258			<ul>
259			<li>Runs on GNU/Linux and Windows.</li>
260			<li>
261			Uses hardware acceleration if it exists (but also runs without as
262			long as you have OpenGL).
263			</li>
264			<li>
265			Windowed/Fullscreen mode in multiple resolutions
266			with scaling invariant user interface.
267			</li>
268			<li>Smoothing and fog of war.</li>
269			<li>Very nice font rendering with pango (gtk's font renderer).</li>
270			<li>Sound and background music.</li>
271			<li>Face prefetching for the game graphics.</li>
272			<li>Integrated documentation browser with linking and images.</li>
273			<li>Server side widgets (these are server side defined dialogues).</li>
274			</ul>
275
276			<p><b>Gameplay:</b></p>
277			<ul>
278			<li>
279			A minimap which keeps track of explored territories
280			and helps you to navigate on the worldmap.
281			</li>
282			<li>Easier key binding with the ability to <b>record</b> actions.</li>
283			<li>Gained experience is shown in the statusbox.</li>
284			<li>Reporting of stat-changes (stats, resistancies and other stuff) in the statusbox.</li>
285			<li>Online wiki style help.</li>
286			<li>Message window entry with history.</li>
287			<li>
288			Command completer, eg. completes 'cbh' to 'cast burning hands', which
289			eases the input of commands.
290			</li>
291			<li>Command repetition with '.'.</li>
292			<li>
293			There are tooltips all over the GUI which help a lot.
294			</li>
295			<li>Spell list with key-binding shortcuts and tooltip descriptions of the spells.</li>
296			<li>Skill list with quick key binding.</li>
297			<li>
298			NPC dialog system makes chatting with NPCs a lot easier and
299			improves overall game interaction.
300			</li>
301			<li>Inventory operation shortcuts, like: ignite/thaw, inscribe and rename.</li>
302			<li>Healthbars above monsters and players.</li>
303			</ul>
304
305			<h3>News archive</h3>
306
307			<p>
308			<em>
309			2007-04-22 Another windows beta has been released: A problem with map-ghosting
310			was fixed and other bugs werde fixed. Also a texture cache workaround for buggy
311			opengl drivers was implemented (which could reduce the memory leak inside the
312			driver).
313			</em>
314			</p>
315
316			<p>
317			<em>
318			2007-04-14 Another windows beta has been released: Support for smoothing
319			on crossfire+ servers has been implemented along with the support for the
320			large 64x64 tileset!
321			</em>
322			</p>
323
324			<p>
325			<em>
326			2007-01-25 Next beta released to the world: loads of bugfixes, added
327			'bind apply ...' to the context menu of the inventory, improved local
328			database handling, rework of the whole keybindings (much easier now!).
329			</em>
330			</p>
331
332			<p>
333			<em>
334			2006-12-03 Released next beta, further bug fixes. Pickup flesh has been implemented too.
335			</em>
336			</p>
337
338			<p>
339			<em>
340			2006-11-07 Another beta release: The off-by-one bug in the map displaying has finally been found
341			and fixed! This hopefully also fixes other problems with the map :) Have fun and please tell us
342			about your experience with the CFPlus client!
343			</em>
344			</p>
345
346			<p>
347			<em>
348			2006-09-29 New beta is out! Changes: minor bugfixes, added documentation and a 'tip of the day' dialog.
349			</em>
350			</p>
351
352			<p>
353			<em>
354			2006-09-21 Another update of the cfplus.exe is online now. Changes: Fix in the NPC speech bubble code.
355			</em>
356			</p>
357
358			<p>
359			<em>
360			2006-09-20
361			And again: A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! The ghosts on maps have been fixed, along with other
362			minor bugfixes. NPC speech bubbles were also added!
363			</em>
364			</p>
365
366			<p>
367			<em>
368			2006-08-14
369			A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! <b>Healthbars</b> are in!!! Players and Monsters now
370			have a healthbar on top of them, which shows their actual health status.
371			This renders the 'probe' spell mostly useless, but we will find other ways to
372			replace it!
373			</em>
374			</p>
375
376			<p>
377			<em>
378			2006-08-14
379			The <b>next CFPlus beta release is out!</b>: Inscription and renaming shortcuts have been
380			added to the Inventory. The interface got line frames to be more eye pleasing.
381			On top of that the documentation browser has been greatly improved and the documentation
382			improved also a bit. And other minor stuff has been implemented and fixed.
383			</em>
384			</p>
385
386			<p>
387			<em>
388			2006-07-30
389			The long awaited beta release! The last bugs we wanted to fix and features we wanted
390			to add are done and CFPlus is ready for the first more serious testings. Please make sure to read the
391			documentation and the tooltips if there is something not yet clear. Although the documentation
392			is far from complete at the moment, it might be helpful.
393			</em>
394			</p>
395
396			<p>
397			<em>
398			2006-07-24
399			Lots of detail work was done now, and there are still some minor issues that
400			need to be cleared until the client is ready for a beta release. We were working mainly
401			on the documentation the last two days. There is light on the end of the tunnel.
402			</em>
403			</p>
404
405			<p>
406			<em>
407			2006-07-03
408			Finally: The alpha release! Lots has changed since 2006-06-12 and
409			we are happy to present the first test release!
410			</em>
411			</p>
412
413			<p>
414			<em>
415			2006-06-12
416			The new NPC dialog system has been added, and character creation
417			helper dialogs. Along with many other bugfixes and improvements.
418			</em>
419			</p>
420
421			<p>
422			<em>
423			2006-06-02
424			Added pickup configuration. The window titles work again and
425			some other bugs and enhancements went into the gui toolkit.
426			Shift-middle click lock/unlocks items in inventory now. First version
427			of the spell dialog is in and a context menu item has been added to the
428			inventory to allow to get/drop a specified count of items.
429			</em>
430			</p>
431
432			<h2>Authors/Contact</h2>
433
434	root	1.5	<p><b>The Deliantra Development Team:</b></p>
435	pippijn	1.1
436	pippijn	1.3	<p><b>
437	pippijn	1.1	95% of the client, stuff like: protocol handling, widget toolkit, OpenGL integration, windows build,
438			the map, help viewer, all the cool features and all other stuff the user never sees.
439	pippijn	1.3	</b></p>
440	pippijn	1.1	<p>
441			Marc Lehmann <a href="mailto:schmorp@schmorp.de">schmorp@schmorp.de</a>
442			<a href="http://home.schmorp.de/">http://home.schmorp.de/</a>
443			</p>
444
445	pippijn	1.3	<p><b>The remaining 5%, stuff like: client theme graphics, (some) dialogs, key bindings, inventory and some 'concept' code</b></p>
446	pippijn	1.1	<p>
447			Robin Redeker <a href="mailto:elmex@ta-sa.org">elmex@ta-sa.org</a>
448			<a href="http://www.ta-sa.org/">http://www.ta-sa.org/</a>
449			</p>
450	pippijn	1.3
451			<p></p>
452	root	1.5