PESTERCHUM 3.14.1: New Pesterchum (6/26 3.41 8eta pg54)

[DJ-P0N3]

I GET USED TO ONE PESETERCHUM
AND A BRAND SPANKING NEW EPIC ONE COMES OUT
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
DOWNLOADING LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER

[meticulousDraftsman]

As far as windows themes goes, I did indeed have 'modified theme' for some reason I can't recall. Upon setting it to 'Windows Vista' the problem remains however.

[Lunyann]

I am astonished. This is simply amaziingg! Im so glad I dont have to fiddle with java anymore, and we have an actual installer, an actual program.
It looks amazing, and I like the new timelines. > : D Is this compatible with any earlier versions? I was trying to switch my handle over to 3.14, and it said the handle was not available, until I changed my handle on 2.5

EDIT:
Fucked that smiley, and fixed my stupid tense.

[DragoonLancer]

That's because it's programmed in a different language, and honestly I'm pretty sure everyone nowdays has at least 100gigs of space anywhere, are 27mb really something worth getting bothered by?

[meticulousDraftsman]

I was trying to switch my handle over to 3.14, and it said the handle was not available, until I changed my handle on 2.5

That's because it's all the same server.

[Thatoneguy]

My Norton Antivirus keeps eating it.

[meticulousDraftsman]

Norton eats a lot of things.
Including dicks.

[illuminatedwax]

Jeez it's big and cluttered. Are all the .pyd and .dll necessary? Plus it's ~27mb all up (I'm not counting the themes 'cause I understand the size of them). I don't want to offend you and all the work you put into this(which is great btw), but wasn't the point of Tinychum and Pesterchum the fact that they were small, efficient and cross platform? Tinychum is ~500kb and Pesterchum 2.5 isn't much bigger (again, not counting themes). Why is this so inflated?

If you count the Java you have to install on your computer, TC is at least as big if not bigger. I don't like Java; I prefer Python, and the large file is to let people just download a file and be done with it, instead of downloading a zip, unzipping, installing Java, etc. Including the Python interpreter with the executable is why it's so big. It also uses Qt, which unfortunately has a large size footprint But I finished it in only a month, so it was worth it.

Also who cares about all the pyd clutter or whatever? If you use the installer, all that stuff is abstracted out for you anyway.

Lastly, it's 2011. 28MB is like, nothing.

[Lunyann]

I was trying to switch my handle over to 3.14, and it said the handle was not available, until I changed my handle on 2.5

That's because it's all the same server.

k thx. > w < That was the question I was trying to ask. I couldnt word it properly.

[Geonightman]

This is fucking perfect. Only two comments.
1. Do what 2.5 has. Something that tells you when someone's online.
2. These emotes don't seem to work. I just get a "pice of paper" for the image.
:ecstatic:
:relaxed:
:discontent:
:devious:
:sleek:
:detestful:
:mirthful:
:manipulative:
:vigorous:
: perky: (space just cuz of the emotes on forum)
:acceptant:

[illuminatedwax]

My Norton Antivirus keeps eating it.

Not sure what to say. Random programs running outside of Program Files and connecting to an IRC server is sketchy behavior though. I don't know how to change Norton's settings though

[Irockz]

how to save conversations?

[meticulousDraftsman]

Go to the log folder within the installation directory.
On that note I love you forever for including a bbcode version of the logs.

[illuminatedwax]

This is fucking perfect. Only two comments.
1. Do what 2.5 has. Something that tells you when someone's online.
2. These emotes don't seem to work. I just get a "pice of paper" for the image.
:ecstatic:
:relaxed:
:discontent:
:devious:
:sleek:
:detestful:
:mirthful:
:manipulative:
:vigorous:
: perky: (space just cuz of the emotes on forum)
:acceptant:

Shit. I screwed up. But until an update comes out, you can fix it by going into the smilies directory (default C:\Pesterchum\smilies) and renaming acceptant.png to acceptant.gif, and so on.

[Shad]

Posting on the forum just to say I think the themes are all really well done -- Especially the type writer one with all the changes oh gosh.
One thing though, and it's mostly asthetic -- when you're choosing from a menu, the highlight color seems to be pure yellow, and the white-text on yellow-back makes it near impossible to read. If you switch the text to the dark yellow or something at highlight that'd be awesome but it's not really something super important at all!
And thank you thank you for making this an executable! The other Java versions became a huge memory leak for me after time.

[Cervos]

THIS CLIENT IS SO 16 YEAR OLD BOY WITH A CHEESY MOUSTACHE

[Exptap]

Hum. Maybe that's a stupid question, but how can I replace the normal timelines with my own?

[CRP_MMDUDE]

Just wanted to know, since it's kind of confusing (and I can't program for shit): how do you, perchance, capitalize the LAST letter in a word?

[illuminatedwax]

Hum. Maybe that's a stupid question, but how can I replace the normal timelines with my own?

You basically make a new theme. Check out the theme editing document: https://github.com/illuminatedwax/pe...ter/themes.txt

Just wanted to know, since it's kind of confusing (and I can't program for shit): how do you, perchance, capitalize the LAST letter in a word?

REGEXP REPLACE: (.)\b WITH: upper(\1)

[Evicous]

I love this new version a lot! One thing though, and it seems more like a cosmetic suggestion, is change all of the different version numbers on the themes to say "Pesterchum 3.14" instead of, say, "Pesterchum 7.0". I understand the reasons for having the 7.0 and 6.0 on Gold and such but it just sort of seems silly when that isn't the version number. Maybe have an option to change between the version number from Homestuck and just have it display the version number of the actual client?

[meticulousDraftsman]

The proper version number is in help/about.
I'd rather the 'canon' themes stay as is, since that is the entire point of such.

[Thatoneguy]

Well, I got it to install, but now every time I try and log in, it gives me a message saying Connection Failed: Connection closed, with the options to quit or retry. Quit just closes it and retry just ends up giving me the same message again.


Edit: got it to work, then got DC'd while I was in a memo. It's probably just server strain.

[Evicous]

Well what I meant is that for "canon" themes there should be an option to switch between it showing the version number from the comic to the actual version number and vice versa

It would just be an option I'd like to see, I dunno if anyone else would want that.

[TCO]

Oh god, Enamel.

THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER
SO MUCH SHINY

[illuminatedwax]

Well, I got it to install, but now every time I try and log in, it gives me a message saying Connection Failed: Connection closed, with the options to quit or retry. Quit just closes it and retry just ends up giving me the same message again.

Make sure your firewall/router/etc accepts connections to port 6667. The host name for the server is irc.mindfang.org, make sure you can ping it too.