Much thanks to shenlon for doing an excellent job on the previous packages, and to ixokai for creating the new installer.

We’ve added Lua functions to create permanent aliases/triggers/timers that show up in the script editor. This means that the #alias way of creating stuff from the input line is now feasible!

Another scripting addition was that now you can check if an alias/trigger/timer exits or is enabled. You can also enable, disable, and delete them via scripting.

The trigger editor pattern list was also partially redesigned, along with the trigger editor itself – making it perform much faster.

Blaine von Roeder has also created a Variable Persistence System – which means you can now easily save your variables across sessions! The manual will be updated shortly on how to make use of this.

Additinally, Babelfish created a checho function – it allows you to easily make an echo that has colors in between, using the hex color values. Next Mudlet version will have a cecho function which will allow you to do things like cecho(“this is red green blue”)!

Bug Fixes

• Updated to QT-4.6, removing many rendering and display issues(doubling line inputs, etc)
• Fixed resetFormat( windowName ) to work on main console. Syntax is resetFormat().
• Defaulted LF-after-newline to ON for GA-enabled MUDs. Fixes reported problems with IRE prompts.
• Returning focus to Mudlet no longer causes incorrect characters to be hilighted in the command line.
• Pressing up when the command line is empty now selects the last sent command.
• Timer Folders no longer spam the Debug Console with execute announcements
• Debug console now shows correct capture groups for Aliases and Triggers (Bug 493400)
• LuaGlobal and Mudlet Documentation now properly updated on Mudlet start
• Colorizer triggers renamed to “Highlight Triggers” (Cosmetic)

• Fix: timer couldnt disable itself
• sqlite database support
• Added createGauge, setGauge, getRGB, deselect functions
• Fixed preferences dialog resetting the font

The Mudlet team is currently working on the 1.1.0 release, which will feature MXP! Here’s a preview of it on Imperian:

• “don’t print commands” option fixed
• command history: if you have the clear command line option turned on, cursor up should get the last command and not the one
• windows crash fixed: drag and drop: trigger drop trigger folder onto heading(triggers)->folder disappears-> crash if you click on 1st trigger
• fixed crash on drag and drop: if your drop into an open trigger folder
• drag & drop: fixed crash if you drop above or below the trigger headline parent -> forbid such drops

Lua functions:

• Added calcFontSize( fontSize ) to determine how wide and high a mini console needs to be to display a certain amount
• Added startLogging(true/false) turn logging on and off.

Several other misc. changes are included in the downloads section.

Enjoy!

It fixes a crash that would happen with drag and drop, allows send() to just send stuff to the MUD without echos, and has a display performance fix for Windows. Enjoy!

Watch the introductory Mudlet 1.0 screencast

What is Mudlet? It’s a free, open-source and cross-platform MUD client that works on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS! Designed to be fast, efficient, and user-friendly, you can get your own copy for free right here: http://www.mudlet.org/download/

Mudlet features Lua as it’s scripting base and a rich client API to support it. Split screen, auto-completion from output and input, multi-session gaming, HTML and text logging, replay recording and playback are all part of the package.

Mudlet also features a rich UI api for creating your own labels and buttons anywhere on the screen and changing their looks:

Special focus has also been placed on the speed of the client (watch).

Now go out and enjoy Mudlet! We’d love to hear your feedback on our forums.

The new clone url is git://mudlet.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/mudlet/mudlet, and the download as archive is available here.

Additionally, Mudlet beta 15 is now available!

Download (Note: It requires an Intel OS X 10.5+.)

There are installers for Windows and Ubuntu, with a Mac in plans. Mudlet at this point is a quite usable client for everyday gaming – we’d like you to stress it as much as you can, make it crash, find flaws or find new features that you’d like! Let us know, because we’re listening.

Changes since the pre-alpha version:

• Switched to the PCRE 7.6 regex engine which is much more powerful
• Enabled the new speed display by default
• Improved scripting support with more functions (see help manual)
• Improved trigger engine with trigger chains and multicondition triggers – many bugfixes and improvements
• Added support for XML packages, including import/export!
• Added customizable button bars
• Switched from qmake to cmake for building (qmake is still left as backup though)
• Improved command line autocompletion
• Added buffer limiting to Mudlet (right now it’s hardcoded at 100k lines with 10k batch deletion; this will be customizable later)
• Added small screen netbook support
• … and a more detailed changelog is available on our git page.

Caveats in the beta version:

• Settings from the pre-alpha won’t be transferred – but if you’ve made lot of them and wouldn’t like to lose them, let us know and we’ll add a converter
• The interface polishing is not done – does look ugly / unusable in some places, but the functionality should be there

Secure Profiles

One of the chronic problems in MUD clients is profile corruption – when all your work just goes *poof*. We’ve took that issue very seriously, so Mudlet now has a Secure Profiles feature.

The way this works is that Mudlet makes snapshots of your profile in different time periods – and when saving, it doesn’t delete the old snapshots until they’re obsolete. This way, even if you get a power loss, your old profiles will be safe and not everything will be lost.

Improved Connection Dialog

We’ve been hard at work to polish the Connection dialog. Here are rather recent screenshots (a bit of polishing is needed, as you might notice:

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We’ll be looking at improving all of Mudlet’s windows in terms of usability and aesthetics in the upcoming releases. Speaking of which – if you’re familiar with html & css, we need you! Mudlet could use a nice start page instead of the grey box that we have right now.

Import / export

Mudlet has also received import/export functionality – you can now import/export your whole profile, or selected items (for sharing). It’s rather basic for now, but does the job way better than copy/pasting. A more featureful addons system is being planned.

Improved developer process

We’re experimenting with using git, hosted on github.com sourceforget.net for the git code hosting. The master branch is available here – so if you’d like to make a patch, the preferred way is to setup a github account, make a branch there – and when your patch is ready, Heiko will merge your changes into the master branch.

Upcoming beta

As already mentioned, we’re working hard on making a beta-release soon (hoping to have it within a week, even). We’ve compiled a list of things we’d like to address before the beta – if you have anything to add to that, your input is welcome.

We’re still looking for more ways to make Mudlet easier to install/upgrade for you – so if you’re familiar with Mac, OpenSUSE, Fedora, *BSD packaging or anything else – let us know.

At the moment, it has scrolling, selection, copying, and split screen capabilities – with screenwidth 0 support coming next.

Preliminary tests results show that it is very fast – as intended! Given 14,258 various lines with color, the new display displayed them all in only 0.6 of a second. To compare, zMud took 2 minutes to display the same text (with cMud scrolling through at 20 seconds).

So stay tuned for when the display is finished and in use :)

Additionally, if you have any input on what capabilities Mudlet’s text display should support – let us know. We’re making a custom one just for Mudlet – so that it is extremely fast, and is able to cope with the large amount of text and formatting extremely quickly.

Update: The installer was updated, fixing a bug where scripts weren’t auto-compiled at start.

A lil’ bio of Bruno: college student, KDE-trunk fan, OpenBSD and FreeBSD on servers. His native tongue is French, and he resides in Quebec, Canada. Likes hockey, and only buys ThinkPads T-series for laptops.

Should you like to join the Mudlet team, get in touch with us!

Hopefully the coming year of 2009 will bring you a great version of Mudlet to play with :)

Unfortunately the Mudlet Beta will be delayed. The reason for this is that the current main display (where you see all the mud text) is too slow – while it handles fine large-spam situations like raids, it performs poorly in certain very unlikely and extreme cases when you get spammed with a lot of lines. So we’re working on implementing a simpler, much more efficient display which will boast much better performance – and this will delay the schedule.

Mudlet is still in pre-alpha though, and we’re looking for experienced scripters – preferably with Lua knowledge – to to test out the functions provided by Mudlet for scripting. This is just the time to request new features so that they can be incorporated into the design easily, or to find issues with the current ones. To get started, see the downloads page – or our forums if you need any help.

The last few developments in Mudlet have been a copy/paste function – this allows you to send text to mini windows, while preserving all of the formatting and coloring. Several bugfixes and usability improvements have also been added.

Source code is available via svn: svn co https://mudlet.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mudlet mudlet (or as an archive)

Along with a pre-compiled Windows binary:

Windows installers

  Mudlet 1.0.5
» unknown - December 16, 2009

New Features

Greatly expanded LUA API for accessing/manipulating Alises, Triggers, Timers.

Functions for creating permanent, GUI-viewable/modifiable items.

• permAlias( name, parent, pattern, code )
• permSubstringTrigger( name, parent, pattern, code )
• permRegexTrigger( name, parent, pattern, code )
• permBeginOfLineStringTrigger( name, parent, pattern, code )
• permTimer( name, parent, frequency, code )

Functions for checking the state of various items.

• exists( name, type ) - type is "alias", "trigger", or "timer". Returns the number of items that exist with that name and type.
• isActive( name, type ) -type is "alias", "trigger", or "timer". Returns the number of active items with that name and type.

New Alias Functions

All function the same as their timer/trigger counterparts.

Improved enable* and disable* to allow for error checking.

• enableTrigger, enableAlias, enableTimer, enableKey
• disableTrigger, disableAlias, disableTimer, disableKey

All functions now return number of items enabled or disabled.

Totally redesigned trigger editor, with huge speed improvements.

Variable Persistence System -- Easily save settings between sessions!

• remember( varName ) - flags a variable to be saved. Variables pending saving are stored in the table _saveTable
• loadVars() - loads saved variables out of SavedVariables.lua into _G (global namespace).
• saveVars() - saves all variables flagged for saving into SavedVariables.lua. Stores their values at time func is called.

Notes: Variables are loaded with the same name they were saved as. Saving global "myVar" will load it load it back in as global "myVar" when loadVars() is called.

Bug Fixes

• Updated to QT-4.6, removing many rendering and display issues(doubling line inputs, etc)
• Fixed resetFormat( windowName ) to work on main console. Syntax is resetFormat().
• Defaulted LF-after-newline to ON for GA-enabled MUDs. Fixes reported problems with IRE prompts.
• Returning focus to Mudlet no longer causes incorrect characters to be hilighted in the command line.
• Pressing up when the command line is empty now selects the last sent command.
• Timer Folders no longer spam the Debug Console with execute announcements
• Debug console now shows correct capture groups for Aliases and Triggers (Bug 493400)
• LuaGlobal and Mudlet Documentation now properly updated on Mudlet start
• Colorizer triggers renamed to "Highlight Triggers" (Cosmetic)

  Mudlet 1.0.4
» unknown - December 3, 2009

• Fix: timer couldnt disable itself
• sqlite database support
• Added createGauge, setGauge, getRGB, deselect functions
• Fixed preferences dialog resetting the font

Mac installers

  Mac Mudlet 1.0.5
» unknown - December 29, 2009
Note: Uninstall the previous Mudlet version (both main app and dependencies) before installing this one!

New Features

Greatly expanded LUA API for accessing/manipulating Alises, Triggers, Timers.

Functions for creating permanent, GUI-viewable/modifiable items.

• permAlias( name, parent, pattern, code )
• permSubstringTrigger( name, parent, pattern, code )
• permRegexTrigger( name, parent, pattern, code )
• permBeginOfLineStringTrigger( name, parent, pattern, code )
• permTimer( name, parent, frequency, code )

Functions for checking the state of various items.

• exists( name, type ) - type is "alias", "trigger", or "timer". Returns the number of items that exist with that name and type.
• isActive( name, type ) -type is "alias", "trigger", or "timer". Returns the number of active items with that name and type.

New Alias Functions

All function the same as their timer/trigger counterparts.

Improved enable* and disable* to allow for error checking.

• enableTrigger, enableAlias, enableTimer, enableKey
• disableTrigger, disableAlias, disableTimer, disableKey

All functions now return number of items enabled or disabled.

Totally redesigned trigger editor, with huge speed improvements.

Variable Persistence System -- Easily save settings between sessions!

• remember( varName ) - flags a variable to be saved. Variables pending saving are stored in the table _saveTable
• loadVars() - loads saved variables out of SavedVariables.lua into _G (global namespace).
• saveVars() - saves all variables flagged for saving into SavedVariables.lua. Stores their values at time func is called.

Notes: Variables are loaded with the same name they were saved as. Saving global "myVar" will load it load it back in as global "myVar" when loadVars() is called.

Bug Fixes

• Updated to QT-4.6, removing many rendering and display issues(doubling line inputs, etc)
• Fixed resetFormat( windowName ) to work on main console. Syntax is resetFormat().
• Defaulted LF-after-newline to ON for GA-enabled MUDs. Fixes reported problems with IRE prompts.
• Returning focus to Mudlet no longer causes incorrect characters to be hilighted in the command line.
• Pressing up when the command line is empty now selects the last sent command.
• Timer Folders no longer spam the Debug Console with execute announcements
• Debug console now shows correct capture groups for Aliases and Triggers (Bug 493400)
• LuaGlobal and Mudlet Documentation now properly updated on Mudlet start
• Colorizer triggers renamed to "Highlight Triggers" (Cosmetic)

  Mac Mudlet 1.0.4 updater
» 4.5 MiB - December 3, 2009
Use this if you have a previous Mudlet version installed to upgrade quicker.

  Mac Mudlet 1.0.4
» 28.6 MiB - December 3, 2009

• Fix: timer couldnt disable itself
• sqlite database support
• Added createGauge, setGauge, getRGB, deselect functions
• Fixed preferences dialog resetting the font

Source code

  Mudlet 1.0.5
» unknown - December 16, 2009

New Features

Greatly expanded LUA API for accessing/manipulating Alises, Triggers, Timers.

Functions for creating permanent, GUI-viewable/modifiable items.

• permAlias( name, parent, pattern, code )
• permSubstringTrigger( name, parent, pattern, code )
• permRegexTrigger( name, parent, pattern, code )
• permBeginOfLineStringTrigger( name, parent, pattern, code )
• permTimer( name, parent, frequency, code )

Functions for checking the state of various items.

• exists( name, type ) - type is "alias", "trigger", or "timer". Returns the number of items that exist with that name and type.
• isActive( name, type ) -type is "alias", "trigger", or "timer". Returns the number of active items with that name and type.

New Alias Functions

All function the same as their timer/trigger counterparts.

Improved enable* and disable* to allow for error checking.

• enableTrigger, enableAlias, enableTimer, enableKey
• disableTrigger, disableAlias, disableTimer, disableKey

All functions now return number of items enabled or disabled.

Totally redesigned trigger editor, with huge speed improvements.

Variable Persistence System -- Easily save settings between sessions!

• remember( varName ) - flags a variable to be saved. Variables pending saving are stored in the table _saveTable
• loadVars() - loads saved variables out of SavedVariables.lua into _G (global namespace).
• saveVars() - saves all variables flagged for saving into SavedVariables.lua. Stores their values at time func is called.

Notes: Variables are loaded with the same name they were saved as. Saving global "myVar" will load it load it back in as global "myVar" when loadVars() is called.

Bug Fixes

• Updated to QT-4.6, removing many rendering and display issues(doubling line inputs, etc)
• Fixed resetFormat( windowName ) to work on main console. Syntax is resetFormat().
• Defaulted LF-after-newline to ON for GA-enabled MUDs. Fixes reported problems with IRE prompts.
• Returning focus to Mudlet no longer causes incorrect characters to be hilighted in the command line.
• Pressing up when the command line is empty now selects the last sent command.
• Timer Folders no longer spam the Debug Console with execute announcements
• Debug console now shows correct capture groups for Aliases and Triggers (Bug 493400)
• LuaGlobal and Mudlet Documentation now properly updated on Mudlet start
• Colorizer triggers renamed to "Highlight Triggers" (Cosmetic)

Give it a try, and please report feedback!