Friends Beta/UpdateNotes/0201

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January 2024

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 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