Friends Beta Updated

[CSN NewsBot]

Having just gone public last night, the Friends Network BETA test has just received a substantial update today.

Friends


• fixed right-clicking to bring up a context menu not working if the context menu was already open, in the friends and games lists
  
  
• changed it so any unanswered friendship requests in the game show outside the game after the user quits
  
  
• changed the saved config name of the friends dialog and added a default position, to solve some users having old super-large saved dialog settings for friends
  
  
• fixed missing word in Friends 're-login' string
  
  
• fixed issues selecting text in chat dialog; off-by-one selection overdraw, indent-ignoring hit detection and unicode-mangling
  
  
• changed double-clicking on a section header in the games list / friends list to collapse/expand the section
  
  
• fixed 'paste' context menu item in vgui::TextEntry not deleting selected text before inserting clipboard contents
  
  
• fixed case where menus wouldn't immediately resize if menu items were hidden
  
  
• fixed missing newline after '%friend% is playing %game%' chat message

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• made chat window flash in taskbar more than once after receiving a chat message
  
  
• fixed case where URL's in the chat dialog wouldn't be clickable
  
  
• changed text input in the chat dialog to be capped at the max network size (255 bytes, will be upped at some point)
  
  
• changed friends name input in friends->option->edit profile to allow a max of 127 characters for the player name
  
  
• fixed crash in localized string construction due to an off-by-one error in it's string manipulation code, yielded a crash on entering a long friends name
  
  
• fixed chat dialogs stealing focus when receiving a new message
  
  
  
  Steam
  
  
• changed Steam when on system startup, to not show the retry connection dialog immediately, but to wait 20 seconds and then retry - this is to give systems with networking that takes a while to start a chance to
  
  
• fixed regression where launching a game would delete its launch options

The update was released a few hours ago today, so if you haven't restarted Steam yet, and you're participating in the BETA, fire up Steam to grab the latest fixes.

[CSN NewsBot]

Friends Beta Updated

For those who opted in to test the Friends Network BETA, a new update was released last night that addresses a number of issues.

• increased max size of chat messages to 2048 characters
  
  
• changed friends to carry chat dialogs & history into and out of the game
  
  
• fixed case where a friend could potentially be seen as both offline and in-game
  
  
• fixed URL's in the chat history causing invisible text if they were the first thing on a line
  
  
• fixed regression where actively preloading games would show as paused in the mini-games list

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• fixed several french strings mistkenly having the %variable% names being translated, causes the variable substitution to never occur
  
  
• fixed multiple online alerts dialogs being open for the same friends
  
  
• changed adding friends by email address/account name to clean off any whitespace before using the string (for copy/pasting to work easily)
  
  
• fixed missing strings in game->properties->local files tab
  
  
• added an extra check to make sure vgui windows don't draw with focus when they really don't have it
  
  
• fixed html control being stuck displaying 'loading...' in the case of switching to the store, a game in the store, the purchase option, the games tab, then back to the store tab
  
  
• fixed several serverbrowser filtering regressions
  
  
• fixed case where auto-retry radio buttons would stay visible in the game info dialog after a friend leaves the game
  
  
• fixed friends dialog empty-list context menu not updating checked menu items in status sub-menu

Happy trails to the rest of the BETA testers out there.

[CSN NewsBot]

Friends Beta Updated

Just released a few minutes ago, a new update for the Friends BETA is available! Read on for the changelog.

• Added friends beta opt-in button and dialog
  
  (it is now necessary to opt-in to Friends to access it's functionality).
  
  
• Added 'System information' option in the help menu to re-access the survey hardware data
  
  
• Updated survey with some detection fixes
  
  
• Fixed serverbrowser not displaying mod names correctly in game
  
  
• Fixed bug with offline mode not working for users who account names that are all digits with leading zeros
  
  
• Changed Friends desired persona state (online/away/busy/offline) to be saved across client sessions
  
  
• Localization updates

Beta testers, restart your Steam clients in order to get this latest update.

[[GH]-Paladin]

wow they are on the ball with this.

[defuser]

finally....now i can contact my clan to let me in thier server

[|azure|]

played last night and after the game there were friends request waiting for me.. I do not want any friends from CS. I prefer my friends to have faces and real names in rl.



I did not enable the friends beta.



So anyway, how can I stop that from happening?

[snkcube]

That was...fast.

[stevomanevo]

holy crap they fixed all those little itty bitty problems like 'fixed missing newline after '%friend%' is playing '%game%' chat message.' but they didnt fix the bug where you can't JOIN GAMES from inside the game lol

[washuplushie]

|azure| wrote..

played last night and after the game there were friends request waiting for me.. I do not want any friends from CS. I prefer my friends to have faces and real names in rl.



I did not enable the friends beta.



So anyway, how can I stop that from happening?

stop being stuck up and realize internet people are still real people?

[Jobbeh]

defuser wrote..

finally....now i can contact my clan to let me in thier server

bet they still don't let you in!



Just kiddin :P

[Sava]

washuplushie wrote..

internet people are still real people

wrong



they are all figments of my imagination! :tinfoil:

[Zom-B]

It's broken my CS :) The menu (New game, find servers, options etc) don't load anymore.. well done valve.

[peagle]

Zom-B wrote..

It's broken my CS :) The menu (New game, find servers, options etc) don't load anymore.. well done valve.

Like your reading ability, it's still in beta. No one guarenteed a finished product.

[videege]

peagle wrote..

Like your reading ability, it's still in beta. No one guarenteed a finished product.

ka-pow

[Simplex]

You know why it's so fast? In the example of the '%friend% is playing %game%' missing a newline bug, they literally added two characters and checked to see if the thing ran and sent it out to you. They don't have a proper QA department, and any respectful software company wouldn't have shipped a piece of software with this many bone-headed bugs. WE ARE NOT YOUR TESTING DEPARTMENT, VALVE.