Friends Beta Released!

[maDDin]

Tuesday January 31, 2006
We're going to run a short beta on Steam to test the new version of Friends. To run the beta you'll need to run Steam from a command line, adding the following parameters:

steam.exe -clientbeta steam3friends -beta steam3friends

If you find any bugs, please edit this page with a description of the problem.
A helpful bug format is:
short title

Expected: expected behavior
Observed: observed behavior
Steps to reproduce: steps to reproduce the problem
a description of your network topology, if appropriate
Use ~~~ to insert your username
Source and Bug Report Page. (http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Friends_Beta)

[Cessle]

does anyone use the steam friends? i used it a couple of times but not much

[Debaser]

I don't suppose so, Cessle, it's been offline for 12 months.

[Cessle]

i now its been offline but i ment before it went offline did anyone use it :p

[maDDin]

Friends beta update released - Wed Feb 1st 3pm PST

SteamUI / FriendsUI beta refresh Feb 01 3pm PST
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
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 messageSteam:

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 optionsSource (http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Friends_Beta_UpdateNotes0201)

[acehigh]

how do i add that line in ? /me a noob

[Miz]

Make a shortcut to your Steam.exe, right-click it and go to Properties.

In the target box make sure you leave a space after the " and add -clientbeta steam3friends -beta steam3friends

So, mine would be "C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\Steam.exe" -clientbeta steam3friends -beta steam3friends

[Vorm]

If anybody is actually using this, post your usernames so I can search for you.

[Cessle]

SimonGtn @ hotmail DOT com (stops knobjoeys serching for emailadress on websites i h hav enough spam as it is) (i hav an old steam acount)

[Vorm]

stops knobjoeys

Do you actually know what a Joey is? You are far too young to know.

in fact, I'm sure only over 30's would know that anyway.

V.

[Cessle]

i meant knobjockeys