Textual IRC Client
By BestTechie Holdings, Inc.
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Description
Textual is a lightweight IRC client created specifically for Mac OS X. It was designed with simplicity in mind. Textual has taken the best of IRC and built it into a single client. Its easy-to-use functionality combined with scripting support makes it an ideal IRC client for novice to advanced users.
For up-to-date news about Textual be sure to follow us on Twitter: @textual
What's New in Version 2.1
The release of Textual 2.1 is a major release with several new features, bug fixes, and other improvements. We hope you enjoy this release and want you to know we have a lot more planned. As this is a very large update many new bugs and glitches are to be expected so be sure to provide all the feedback you can.
Apple Sandbox: This version of Textual implements the sandbox that will soon be required for all applications within the Mac App Store. As a result, some features such as configurable log location is no longer available. Additionally, some third party scripts may no longer function. See: https://github.com/Codeux/Textual/issues/136
Major Changes:
- [NEW]: New, lion-esque aqua based user interface.
- [NEW]: Support for SASL plain text authentication.
- [NEW]: Added “/spotify” script.
- [NEW]: Message count for channels similar to Mail, iTunes, Colloquy, and other applications. Uses red background to indicate a highlight in an unread selection.
- [NEW]: The input box now automatically resizes based on the amount of data presented to it.
- [NEW]: Highlight logging will now appear within a sorted list by pressing ⌘5 or selecting the “Highlight List” menu item from the “Window” menu. They will no longer be logged to queries.
- [NEW]: User interface redesign for “Server Properties” to make it easier to navigate and leave room for future expansion.
- [NEW]: IPv6 full support.
- [NEW]: Inline images can now be disabled for specific channels.
- [NEW]: Join, part, quit activity can now be disabled for specific channels.
- [NEW]: Support for regular expression highlights.
- [NEW]: Textual now supports multiple inline images with the ability to differentiate between duplicate ones.
- [NEW]: Added ability to hide an inline image by shift clicking it. Woo!
- [NEW]: Added support for mode +u for channel owner. (ac3xx)
- [NEW]: Added support for ESC key to exit full screen.
- [NEW]: Added support for the keyboard shortcut ⌃⌘L to focus the channel view in order to allow scrolling with the keyboard.
- [NEW]: Added two new HTML layouts for theme developers to use. The first one is a slight variation of the original and the second is a “div” based table layout.
- [CHANGED]: Sandbox support is now enabled in Textual to comply with app store guidelines. This may break some scripting functionality. Contact Textual support for more information.
- [CHANGED]: Xsysinfo is no longer packaged with Textual by default as requested by developer.
- [CHANGED]: The server and user list of Textual now have the ability to be hidden during normal usage instead of reverting size when the view has changed. Simply drag each list until it is hidden and it will remain that way as long as Textual is kept open.
- [CHANGED]: The writing direction of the input text field now reflects the setting specified in Preference as apposed to only applying the setting to the chat window.
- [CHANGED]: The underline text format keyboard shortcut has been remapped to ⌘⇧U to accommodate the “Server Properties” window which already uses the combination cmd+u
- [CHANGED]: Scripts, Extensions, and Themes that are packaged with Textual by default are no longer copied into a separate folder. They are stored exclusively in the application so that only custom items are stored in the old location.
- [CHANGED]: Simplified Light is now the default theme.
- [CHANGED]: Maximum scroll back size has been extended to 10,000 messages. Double original value.
- [CHANGED]: During wake Textual now only reconnects to the servers which were already connected to before sleep occurred.
The full list of new features, changes, and bug fixes can be found on our GitHub repository at: https://github.com/Codeux/Textual/wiki/Changelog-History
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Customer Reviews
UI Redesign should be rethought.
I loved this app before. Now the UI is ruined. With blinding white elements around the screen please give us an option to reverse out the lists and text field and I will change back to 5 stars!
An awesome app gone ugly
Can you please bring back the old UI? I agree with the other reviewers who say the new UI is blinding.
Ruined
They took a wonderful UI and destroyed it… I loved the old UI with their dark theme and now its all different nothing is the same…. They should know better then to drastrically re-design the UI like this after so many people are used to it!
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- $4.99
- Category: Social Networking
- Updated: Mar 03, 2012
- Version: 2.1
- Size: 1.7 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: BestTechie Holdings, Inc.
- © Codeux Software
Requirements: OS X 10.6.6 or later
