Friends

This may not be the last update today, but I decided to take a break and go ahead and talk about what I've done.

At long last, I've gone to work on the Friends List. While I haven't bothered with adding and removing friends yet -- it should be fairly trivial -- the friends list is working, as is private chat.

Private chat is basically a feature of the interface, and an extension to the "tell" command. If someone is your friend, you can open a private chat window and talk with them in there, using a (somewhat) nice graphic interface, much (read: vaguely) like those used in AIM or MSN messenger. Instead of having to type "tell soandso" all the time, you can just chat like normal. Another nice use for this is that you don't have to worry about your conversation getting lost if you get caught up in a hectic battle with lots of stuff scrolling by on your screen -- it will be separate in your nice little chat window.

Right now the tells only show up in a window if you have the window open already, but eventually I plan to set it up so that when you get a tell from a friend, the text will be hilighted somehow, and you can click on it to pull it into a private chat window.

That's about it.

Server version: 8.11.3.0 alpha