Friends Beta/UpdateNotes/0302
From Valve Developer Community
Steam beta, March 2nd 2006 changes:
- 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
- fixed several french strings mistakenly 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
