UControl 4th Beta - README
01/01/02

Copyright by Thomas Friebel a.k.a. <PSY>choPATH
EMail: path@psy-headz.de
ICQ: 652414
IRC: QuakeNet #psyclan

This file comes within a ZIP-Archive (ucontrolb4.zip) which should contain the following files:
- borlndmm.dll		A borland DLL which is needed by UControl
- cc3250mt.dll		A borland DLL which is needed by UControl
- ucontrol.exe		The application UControl
- ucontrol.ini		Some default settings to let UControl work properly on its first launch
- readme.txt			The text file you are currently reading

Just unzip all files into a new directory on your harddisk.
Use your explorer to launch UControl just by double clicking the ucontrol.exe

First non-beta will have a real setup routine - promised!



What's this all about?
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UControl is an Unreal Tournament querying tool for MS Windows which enables you to watch the happenings on any 
UT-Server you want. That's the basics, but there will be a lot more features:
- Realtime War-Reporting to any IRC-channel(s) - now implemented
- Graphical Display of team and player statistics (saveable for later re-use) - now implemented
- XML/HTML-Page producing for web servers (let your page visitors take a look onto your UT server)
- Import/Export functions to exchange your UT favourites - works now
- Server watching: Let UControl watch your favourite server and tell you if a player slot is available
- and so on (any wishes? Let me know!)


!!! Please read the DISCLAIMER below !!!




What's new?
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[4th beta]
Speciallity: First release in 2002 - nice, isn't it?

It's still a beta - You still should remember this, when using UControl.

- Fine new design: Added button bars like Internet Explorer has with lots of images, so even an non-alphabetic 
  should now be able to use UC (=UControl)
- Popup-Menue-Mania: Reach all functionality by right mousebutton clicking
- Improved the IRC-reporting:
	- more detailed War-Information
	- Reporter-Kidnapping: Get a clone of the IRC-Reporter into a channel of your choice
- Autosaving of War-Graphs for usage on a web-server. Let your page visitors follow server happenings in "real time"
- Improved Memory-Usage
- Server timeout now works and leads to a "No response"
- Clipboard functionality (Copy & Paste) 
- Exchange your UC-Favorites with your UT-Favorites
- Sorting the tables now works
- lots of error corrections and smaller new features
- more c urself :)


[3rd Beta]
It's a beta - Always remember this!

- Release without debug panel and messages ;)
- War & !!!Player!!! Statistics
- First support for use on a web server: Realtime Graphic-Statistics on your webpage
- IRC Reporting. Setup your own little War reporter bot and let everyone in your IRC-Channel follow a war in realtime
- Memory usage improved, but still increasing memory usage - still need to figure out why :(
- ...

more to come with the next release


[2nd Beta]
It's a beta - Always remember this!

- improved Look & Feel: 
	1: New menue button bar with nice little graphics
	2: Added (matching) glyphs to all tabs
	3: removed buttons that are for developing/testing purposes only
	4: some minor correctures (alignments etc.)
	
- new Table-Type:
	I replaced the favourites table by a freeware component of a third party developer.
	This table now has lots of features (I still haven't mastered yet ;) which will improve the handling.
	Features I already tried to implement:
		1: Selection indicator - a red cross marks the current selected favourite
		2: Row sorting: Doubleclick a column header to sort the favourites ascendent or descendent
		3: Colored displaying (temporarely disabled because of massive performance impacts)
	
- War-Recording:
	This is the most important feature added within this release I think.
	You can now "lock" a server and get detailed information on what's going on there.
	While a server is locked it's not possible to select another one.
	This behavior is necessary to ensure the GRAPHICAL DISPLAY of teamscore per time to be consequent (?).

- Game joining:
	When you found a server you want to join just right click the corresponding row and select "Join Server".
	Make sure you entered a valid path to your UT-System directory in the preferences before.
	UControl then launches UT and tells it to join the server you selected.
	
- Preferences:
	There's a few points I added to the preferences window:
		1: You can define the look of the new graphical display just by picking your prefered colors


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Former releases:

visit http://ucontrol.psy-headz.de for information about the previous releases



DISCLAIMER:
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UControl is and will be free for non-commercial use.
If you want to use UControl in an commercial environment contact me. We will find a solution.
Use this program on your own risk. I'm not responsible for any damage your system 
(hardware/software/network/etc.) takes while using this program. Neither I guarantee it will work properly.
