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Here is a new release of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.0.4 (experimental branch)

New in this release:

• llplugin library, SLPlugin, media plugins and QT Webkit updated to LL's viewer v2.6 ones. You will notice that the integrated browser is now much faster...
• One rare crash bug (when editing a corrupted wearable) fixed (patch by Zi-Ree, borrowed from Phoenix).
• New SL web search support implemented along old search engines. See this thread for details.

Enjoy !

Here is a new release of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.0.5 (experimental branch)

New in this release:

• Added worldmap URI support for the new SL web search (so that the "Map" buttons in the search results work properly).
• Updated the OpenSim grids list (if you are aware of mistakes or changes to that list, feel free to use this thread to let me know).

Enjoy !

Update: Oops ! I packaged the wrong grids.xml file with v1.26.0.5... if you downloaded v1.26.0.5 before 2011-06-13 18:35 UTC, then you got the package with an old (non-updated) grids.xml file in it... Either get v1.26.0.5b, or get the proper grids.xml file and place it into the app_settings/ sub-directory of the Cool VL Viewer v1.26.0 installation directory.

Here are two new releases of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:

Cool VL Viewer v1.25.0.38 (stable branch)

New in this release:

• New CrashOnWearableSaveDialog patch (by Zi-Ree): fixes a rare crash bug sometimes occurring while editing a corrupted wearable item.
• New URLrequestPossibleCrashFixpatch (by Shyotl Kuhr): fixes a potential crash that could happen when starting an URL request.
• Updated RestrainedLove patch: RestrainedLove features brought on par with Marine's RLV v2.07.02.
• Updated ItemLinksAndMultipleAttachmentsSupport patch: this new version implements the item links related changes in RLV v2.07.02.
• Updated MoreGridsDynamic patch: updated and added new OpenSim grids.

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.0.6 (experimental branch)

New in this release:

• RestrainedLove features brought on par with Marine's RLV v2.07.02.
• Fix of a potential crash that could happen when starting an URL request (by Shyotl Kuhr).
• Now make use of tcmalloc to allocate memory (necessary step towards Mesh support).
• SL web search tab changed to hide the (for now) useless maturity checkboxes when the new seach is used.
• Do not reject inventory offers by default when set Busy (with a new setting added for it in the Notifications tab of the Preferences floater).

Enjoy !

Here are two new releases of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:

Cool VL Viewer v1.25.0.39 (stable branch)

New in this release:

• New CallingCardInNotecardCrashFix patch (by Aleric Inglewood): fixes a crash bug that occurred when opening a notecard containing a calling card..
• New NewCertificates patch: updates the security certificates used for SSL connections.
• Updated RestrainedLove and ItemLinksAndMultipleAttachmentsSupport patches: fix two crash bugs in RestrainedLove (one is described here, and the other was introduced in v2.07.02 and could cause the viewer to crash when right-clicking immediately on an inventory item that was just created/received/moved/copied).
• Updated NewScriptFunctions patch: this new version adds the llGetEnv() LSL function to the functions dictionary.

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.0.7 (experimental branch)

New in this release:

• RestrainedLove updated to v2.07.02.02 (two crash bugs fixed, see v1.25.0.39 above for details).
• One crash bug fixed, that occurred when opening a notecard containing a calling card (by Aleric Inglewood).
• Security certificates used for SSL connections updated.
• llGetEnv() LSL function added to the functions dictionary.
• llmessage library brought on par with the v2.7 viewer (necessary for future Mesh support).
• llobjectlist brought on par with v2.7 viewer and further optimized (optimizations by Aleric Inglewood, myself and others (code borrowed from Singularity but probably itself coming from Phoenix or Imprudence).

Enjoy !

Here is a new release of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.0.8 (experimental branch)

The purpose of this release is to get yet closer to the v2 viewer code to ease up the Mesh backport. It however also brings a few new features and benefits from the better v2-like code (with a few minor quirks fixed, not listed here).

New in this release:

• llcommon and llinventory libraries updated to match most of the official v2.7 viewer libraries.
• Curl and c-ares libraries updated and llareslistener implemented in the llmessage library (better asynchronous DNS lookups).
• Inventory system updated (llinventoryicon, llviewerassettype and llviewerfoldertype implemented; llinventorybridge and llinventorymodel cleaned up) to be more v2-like.
  As side effects:
  
  • You can now delete all the stupid and useless system folders created by v2, such as "My Outfit", "Current Outfit", "Favorites", and "Calling Cards" sub-folders to get back your inventory in its clean v1-style state (to delete the calling cards sub-folders, first delete the deepest sub-folder, then delete each upper folder in turn; the root Calling Cards folder of course cannot be deleted).
  • The landmarks are now always full-perms, like in v2.
  • A new icon for unknown inventory item types was also added (since the Cool VL Viewer supports all current inventory item types, you will not see it used for now, unless you got mesh objects in your inventory on the beta grid).
• One potential crash bug fixed in llprimitive.
• DirectChatColor setting implemented (used for llRegionSayTo() and llInstantMessage() messages from objects) and corresponding color selector added to the chat preferences.
• Area Search code clean up.
• Avatar profile floater slightly improved (tooltip on the SL profile picture; description set and aspect ratio combo pre-focused for the full size view of the SL and RL profile pictures).

Enjoy !

Here is a new release of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.0.9 (experimental branch)

The purpose of this release is to get yet closer to the v2 viewer code to ease up the Mesh backport. It however also brings a couple improvements.

New in this release:

• Display names support improved and brought on par with the official v2.7 viewer (also, the "Never display 'Resident' as the last name in legacy names" setting now applies to a much broader range of UI elements, i.e. pretty much everywhere but for avatar search results and a few notifications).
• "Max non-impostors" setting can now be set up to 65 (like in the v2.7 viewer)
• llcommon, llcharacter and llmessage libraries brought even closer to the official v2.7 viewer libraries. As a consequence of llcommon update, under Windows, the operating system is now properly reported in the About floater for Vista and Windows 7.

Enjoy !

Here are two new releases of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:

Cool VL Viewer v1.25.0.40 (stable branch)

New in this release:

• Updated RestrainedLove patch: fixes a couple of minor bugs, and adds three advanced configuration settings (see RestrainedLoveReadme.txt for details).

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.0.10 (experimental branch)

New in this release:

• RestrainedLove updated to v2.07.02.03 (see v1.25.0.40 above for details).
• New 'Show "Typing" in name bubbles when avatars type' chat setting (it allows to see whether a resident is typing in chat or not, regardless of their "play typing animation" setting; note however that some text only clients may not send the "avatar is typing" info and some viewers may be configured so to not send it). The code for this new feature is based on Marine Kelley's RLV2 viewer v2.07.01.
• Moved the "Arrow keys always move avatar, even when typing in chat bar" setting to the "Keyboard Options", in the "Input & Camera" preferences tab.
• Added the "Rental" category to About Land floater and land searches.
• llxml library and LLCachedControl brought on par with official v2.7 viewer.
• Got rid of the dependency on boost::signal (full migration to boost::signals2, like in viewer v2).

Enjoy !

Here is a new release of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.0.11 (experimental branch)

The purpose of this release is to get yet closer to the v2 viewer code to ease up the Mesh backport. It however also brings a few improvements.

New in this release:

• Backport of the v2.7 official viewer texture system. Note that part of the backport (especially the part dealing with media textures) was inspired from Shyotl Kuhr's work for Singularity viewer. I also added one new advanced setting ("Advanced" -> "Rendering" -> "Load Textures Progressively") which, when enabled, makes the viewer behave like v2 viewers and decreases progressively the discard level for loading textures (this results in more textures appearing to load at once, but as an aside, they load slower and stay blurry longer). This setting is disabled by default (so that the viewer behaves like former v1.26 versions), and I don't recommend enabling it unless you have a very slow Internet link or enjoy seeing blurry textures for minutes after you teleported in a new place...
• Added a force-reload button (the small round exclamation mark button) in the texture preview floater. This complements the "Reload Selected Texture" ("Advanced" -> "Rendering" -> "Reload Selected Texture" or CTRL SHIFT U) feature I added a while ago but that could only apply to textures set on rezzed objects.
• About Land floater updated to match the one of the official v2.8 viewer (with support for the new avatar visibility and avatar sounds settings that were implemented this very week in the SL servers).
• PRIM_OMEGA, PARCEL_DETAILS_SEE_AVATARS and HTTP_VERBOSE_THROTTLE LSL constants added.

Enjoy !

Here is a new release of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.0.12 (new stable branch)

This is mainly a bugfix and polishing release, and the first release of the new stable branch (see the latest roadmap update for details about branches).

New in this release:

• Added a parcel icon (a small, stroked eye) in the status bar for the new avatar visibility parcel setting (note: the icon I made matches well the legacy icons, but not too well the v1.2x icons: if you don't use the legacy icons and want an icon matching the v1.2x ones, feel free to send me an icon of your creation ). Also made it so that the legacy icons could be used with the Silver skin.
• Fixed the missing "Bandwidth" and "Packet Loss" labels in the tooltips for the corresponding status bar indicators, and improved the status bar code (speedier, cleaner code).
• Implemented a new PlayChatAnims setting, allowing to either always play the whisper/say (nodding)/shout animations when chatting (default behaviour, like in other viewers), or to prevent playing them on pure emotes ('/me waves in greetings.' is a pure emote, without 'spoken' text by the avatar, '/me waves, "Hello !"' is not a pure emote since the avatar said "Hello !"), or to never play them (useful when sitting on as object that makes your avatar play a low priority animation that the chat anim could override and ruin). The checkbox for this new setting is available in the "Text Chat" tab of the "Preferences" floater.
• Backported from LL's v2.7 viewer a few fixes for potential crash bugs in the renderer (even if I never ran into them) that I spotted while working on Mesh backport.
• Repaired the broken Active Speakers floater (it was broken in v1.26.0.9). See this thread for details.
• Added support code for llTextBox() used by group-deeded objects. See this thread for details.
• Cleaned up all notifications so that the "Never display 'Resident' as the last name in legacy names" setting also applies to them.
• Made it so that the Group Info floater now remembers its last position instead of always appearing centered on the screen.
• Improved the music, media and master volume controls in the toolbar (fully rewritten for speed and correctness, properly differentiating the code paths for each control) and added the music/media URL in the tooltip for the play buttons.
• Made it so that when wearing a male shape, you still can edit the Belly Bounce setting in Physics wearables. Fix by Tank Master and borrowed from the Phoenix viewer.
• Hard coded Qt Webkit version number updated to reflect the actual Qt Webkit version in the About floater.
• Various minor code cleanup and dead code removals.

Enjoy !

IMPORTANT: the v1.25.0 branch is now to be considered deprecated. Please, upgrade to v1.26.0 (which is stabler, faster and implements the latest changes for the new features of the SL grid).

Here is a new release of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.0.13 (stable branch)

Another polishing release (no new "big" feature), but a worthy one !

New in this release:

• Fixed an issue (present in all other viewers, including in v2 !) that made the viewer spend excessive and useless time refreshing parcel textures (counted in the "Region Update" slot in the fast timers console) in more and more inactive regions over time and teleports (one of the reasons why the FPS slowed down over time during long sessions); the speed gain brought by this fix is quite significant (up to 6ms per frame after a few teleports !). Also optimized up the parcel overlay refreshing code.
• Major UI code cleanup to get rid of most (all ?) "Making dummy widget" warnings. Removal of corresponding dead code; proper rewrite of the corresponding various code paths for different floater layouts; added the missing "Take Off" button in the Physics tab of the Appearance floater; re-added a close ("OK") button in the friends floater (was removed from the XML floater definition in old days, around v1.17, IIRC, but the code was still around...).
• Removed the deprecated (deprecated in SL and, AFAIK, never implemented/used in OpenSim) "Group Voting" tab in the group info floater (if you know of any OpenSim grid implementing group voting, please let me know, and I'll reenable it for OpenSim grids).
• Implemented support for the new event URIs (now properly triggering the event details floater) and for the new region info URIs in the new web search results.
• Sped up the world map floater code.
• Fixed the graphics hardware settings not being applied before a restart (was broken in a former v1.26.0 release).
• Backport of a few minor renderer fixes spotted in v2 code while working on Mesh backport.
• Backport of a v2 viewer fix for doubly attached objects in inventory.
• Backport of a v2 viewer fix for land selection glitches.
• Increased to 999 the limits for texture repeats in the build tools floater.
• Improved the llui warning messages to better spot UI code/XML definitions flaws.
• Changed the beta search URL of the new SL search for the release one.
• Updated the OpenGL feature table.

Enjoy !