in Work - jDip version 1.6.7 [August, 2004]

Changelog

New or Improved Features

  • New Variant: Octarine (created by Bjorn Lijnema).
  • New Variant: Imperium (created by Martin Asal).
  • New Variant: Asia.
  • New Units: Imperium (created by Martin Asal).
  • Startup time improvements (faster by 10-20%).
  • Splash screen may be disabled with the “-nosplash” command line option. Note that this improves startup time less than 250 ms.
  • Improved multiplatform installer.
  • Order drawing tweaks.
  • If an error occurs, a bug report can be automatically sent to the jDip centralized bug database.

    Bug Fixes

  • Fixed: Name display is not remembered when changing maps (975594).
  • Fixed: Background of saved images is not transparent
  • Fixed: Multiple move arrows to an empty destination overlap.
  • Fixed: German language localization was 1.6.5 instead of 1.6. All versions are now standardized at 1.6.7.
  • Fixed: RootZ Judge import issues.
  • Fixed: RootZ has an invalid supply center location for Turkey.
  • Fixed: When importing a Judge game, powers not submitting orders are not handled correctly.
  • Fixed: Importing of Judge turns to current game fails.
  • Fixed: Borders with specified “from” locations do not work correctly.

    Core and API changes

  • dip.misc.Convert removed. Replaced by new “jdip_tools” CVS module.
  • Plugins removed from main jdip code path. Plugins are now in a separate “jdip_plugins” CVS module.
  • IzPack 3.6 now used to create installer.
  • Chaos variants are split into nJudge and DP variants.
  • Xerces updated to 2.6.2.

    Compatibility

  • Fully compatibile with previous 1.6.x versions.

    Miscellaneous

  • Changes to the core dip.world.Unit class are in CVS, and will be in the next release. The next release may break save-game compatibility.