SilverWing for BeOS

About

SilverWing is a Hotline client for BeOS intel and PowerPC. Hotline is a proprietary protocol of Hotline Communications that provides News, Chat and FTP.

Supported functions.

Old type news and multithread news (reading and posting).
Upload and download (not yet complete file management).
Drag and Drop file uploading and downloading.
Public chat and private chat.
Drag and Drop from window listing Hotline tracker to connect to server.
Drag and Drop from window listing Hotline tracker to save server as bookmarks.
Multiple simultaneous connections to different servers.
Kick&Ban support
Private messages
User icons including Badmoon icons.
Queued file transfers.
Move files and folders.

Not supported functions.

User account management.
Server side queued file transfers.
QuickTime and Flash streaming.
File preview.

Screenshots.

Download

SilverWing for BeOS R5.0 Intel
SilverWing for BeOS R5.0 PowerPC
Development version
Badmoon icons for silverwing ( You can download the newest one from bedevcity.com )

Changelogs

version 1.2.6 Rel 2 to 1.2.7 (2000/09/16)
1. Added "Use old style file window" option .
2. Added server side queued file transfer support.
3. Added chat history like bash.
4. Added nick name completion with Tab key.
5. Added Message chat support.
6. Added Server name field to Add Server Dialog.
7. Added ability to load Badmoon icons by just rename filename hotline.dat to hotline.rsrc.
8. Added SilverWing-Server detection code.
9. Added drag & drop greeting.
10. Fixed some minor bugs.
version 1.2.6 to 1.2.6 Rel 2 (2000/08/21)
1. Fixed problem with Korean and Japanese.
version 1.2.5 to 1.2.6 (2000/08/12)
1. Added private chat topic support.
2. Added timestamp in chat option.
3. Added auto show, hide task window option.
4. Added keep alive option.
5. Added barber pole status bar to the file window.
6. Replaced chat entry with resizable one.
7. Added nickname color in chat view option .
8. Added clickable URL
9. Added multi line chat message support with SHIFT+RETURN.
10. Tracker reader's filter was improved.
11. Built-in icon resource was improved.
12. .Fixed some minor bugs.
version 1.2.4 to 1.2.5 (2000/07/11)
1. Added ALT+RETURN shortcut key to the Apply setting button.
2. Fixed crashing problem with listing files.
version 1.2.3 to 1.2.4 (2000/07/10)
1. Added moving file support.
2. Fixed crashing problem with getting file info.
3. Fixed problem with not refreshing user name when changing it.
4. Added date and username columns to threaded news window.
5. Added bedevcity.com as a built-in bookmarks.
version 1.2.2 to 1.2.3 (2000/07/03)
1. File list view was replaced with tree view.
version 1.2.1 to 1.2.2 (2000/06/28)
1. Added ALT+ " / " shortcut keys to zoom main window and tracker window.
2. Added caption to display how many users connected.
3. Fixed trouble with joining private chat.
4. Fixed some memory leaks.
5. Fixed minor bugs.
version 1.2.0b to 1.2.1 (2000/06/21)
1. Improved stability.
2. Fixed minor bugs.
version 1.2.0 to 1.2.0b (2000/06/12)
1. Fixed problem with deleting tracker. (HLTrackerReader)
version 1.1.8 to 1.2.0 (2000/06/11)
1. Fixed problem with failing uploading and downloading.
2. Queued file transfer was supported. (Not supported server side queue yet...)
3. Added some shortcut keys to Hotline commands.
4. Fixed some minor bugs.
version 1.1.7c to 1.1.8 (2000/06/05)
1. Fixed problem about crashing when press refresh button. (HLTrackerReader).
version 1.1.7b to 1.1.7c (2000/05/21)
1. Korean EUC support was improved.
version 1.1.7 to 1.1.7b (2000/05/20)
1. Fixed Korean EUC setting problems.
version 1.1.6 to 1.1.7 (2000/05/19)
1. Korean EUC support was improved.
2. Fixed problem with PowerPC.
version 1.1.6 to 1.1.7 (2000/05/16)
1. Korean EUC support was improved.
2. Fixed problem with PowerPC.
version 1.1.5 to 1.1.6 (2000/05/10)
1. Added ALT+RETURN shortcut to posting news and sending message.
2. Fixed lots of minor bugs.
version 1.1.4 to 1.1.5 (2000/04/30)
1. Fixed news viewing problem with 1.2.3 servers.
2. Fixed chat font updating problem in private chat window.
version 1.1.3 to 1.1.4 (2000/04/29)
1. Rewrite download & upload functions.
2. Fixed several bugs.
version 1.1.2 to 1.1.3 (2000/04/13)
1. Support several character encoding.
2. Fix lots of bugs.
version 1.1.1 to 1.1.2 (2000/04/11)
1. Upload & download functions were improved.
2. Can receive post news (server version 1.2.3)
version 1.1.0 to 1.1.1 (2000/04/11)
1. Fixed downloading problem with Hotline server 1.2.3
version 1.0.0 to 1.1.0 (2000/04/10)
1. Icon collecting speed was improved.
2. New server find function to the HLTrackerReader.
3. Show login and logout users.
4. Can change chat font and color.
5. Support SOCKS5 firewalls. (NOT tested yet...)