mIRC version 6.14

mIRC version 6.14 has been released wednesday march 3rd, 2004. The new version fixes lots of the small but nevertheless annoying buggies found in the previous version. Among them the much discussed tooltip gpf bug and a daylight savings time offset bug.

While we tried to focus on fixing things, of course some new features and
functions have been added. Although some of these new things, like the SSL
support, might have to mature a bit over the next versions, we think it is
fun to play with them already! A few items I'd like to mention as useful
changes:

- Lots of work has been done on the support of multi-byte character
  encodings and the sjis-jis support. Khaled has added a "Multibyte editbox"
  option to the Messages dialog, which makes mIRC use a richedit editbox in
  all mIRC Windows for entering text. mIRC was using the standard Windows
  editbox before. The richedit editbox displays complex s properly.
  The Sjis/Jis and Multibyte options are now automatically enabled if mIRC
  detects a Multibyte version of Windows the first time mIRC is run. Khaled
  also fixed various multi-byte display/mark/copy bugs.

- An option to 'reload' logs has been added to the /IRC/Logging/ dialog. It
  will make mIRC load the tail of a logfile into your channel and chat
  windows. Seems to work fine. However, various line attributes, such as
  color, are not (yet) saved in the log files, so the reloaded log is
  displayed in the normal text color.

- Support for SSL has been added. You'll have to download some DLL's of
  OpenSSL 0.9.7c separately from mIRC and place them in the mIRC folder for
  this to work. mIRC will load the dll's automatically if it finds them,
  after which you can initiate a secure connection to an SSL capable IRC
  server. SSL settings can be found in the Connect/Options dialog, and are
  visible only when openssl dlls are loaded. Read more on
  http://www.mirc.co.uk/ssl.html.

- A Sort dialog has been added to the Window Menu. It allows you to specify
  the sort order of Switchbar buttons and Window types. Buttons are always
  sorted into groups. With the /View/Options/Display/ sort option turned
  off, Switchbar buttons are sorted according to creation time within groups
  as opposed to alphabetical sorting.

- By popular request Query/Chat windows now remember their individual font
  settings. We also moved the port range options, which now applies to all
  connections, to a /Connect/Advanced/ dialog, added a /cnick -sN switch,
  sorts item into Nth position, made the switchbar to allow up to eight
  lines in height and displays scroll buttons when it is vertical, fixed a
  $com() dispatch pointers bug, added an :error goto point, by which
  errors can be caught, and improved the find dialog in the editor a
  lot.