The Latest Version of Baxter is Y

Baxter is a fully-featured Internet Relay Chat client for the BeOS.

Note: I've received reports from three or four people about Baxter Y crashing. Unfortunately, I won't be able to address these problems until September. If you are experiencing problems I suggest down-grading to Baxter X, available for x86 and ppc. I apologize for the inconvenience.

As with X, I was unable to implement all the features and fix all the bugs that I wanted to before Tuesday, so some of the things I had said were going to be in Y didn't make it. Fortunately, many useful features were implemented, like scripting support, and configurable ctcp responses.

Without further ado, here's what's new in Baxter Y...

• Scripting! Consult the Scripting documentation in the Help directory for more details.
• CTCP Features
• Configurable CTCP responses
• CTCP sound now supported (/ctcp sound SoundToPlay)
• Bug with uptime reply to sound requests fixed
• Option to tell you about incoming ctcp requests (disabled by default)
• User List Features
  • New symbols to show ops and voice in user list
  • Check box to disable sorting users in user list (shown instead by time when they joined)
• Check box to make notification window open after connection to server
• New, comprehensive list of preset servers (I'll make the GUI for this more usable in Baxter Z)
• New settings for join, part, quit, and nick change colors
• Very useful channel options menu for chan-ops, or just for viewing channel modes. (not included in the ppc version, will be added for Baxter Z)
• /cycle command (parts then joins a channel)
• Right-clicking a tab reveals a couple features, with more coming soon
• Recent channels menu
• Tab colors can be incorporated into a skin. Start Baxter with --printtabcolors in a Terminal to make Baxter print out the current tab colors. Look at the Turtle skin for an example of a skin that has both text colors and tab colors.
• Sound Prefs
  • Highly configurable sounds prefs: some sounds let you select whether the sound should Always be played when Baxter is not in focus, whether the sound should be played when it occurs in the focus channel, and whether it should be played when it occurs in a channel without focus.
  • New sounds for when a user in your notify list comes online or goes offline.
• Check box to disable Baxter's remote control features (QueryCLAmp will not work if the remote control features are disabled, of course).
• ...and more

See what was new in BaxX