Snak 5.1.5 review
DownloadSnak is a Macintosh IRC client.
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Snak is a Macintosh IRC client. It's Danish for"Chat". It also provides extensive scriptability and supports the majority ofthe ircII scripting language, supports contextual menus and playing of wav sound files.
Here are some key features of "Snak":
Complete and extensive manual to explain both the program and IRC basics.
Unique docking windows for efficient use of screen space, as multiple channels can share a window.
Powerful Action list to set up automatic responses to many events.
Built-in address book to keep track of the snippets of information you find as to talk to other people via IRC.
Guardian feature to help parents and teachers control what channels their children and students can visit.
MP3 list for easy download from IRC channels dedicated to MP3 sharing.
Settings like background color and font can be selected individually for each channel.
Multiple connections and multiple channels per connection
Connection records can specify multiple servers, which allows the program to try each server until it finds one that will connect.
Scriptable using AppleScript and the powerful ircII scripting language.
Aliases and scripting eliminates much tedious typing.
Configurable menus to store aliases and shortcuts.
Integrated notify support, so you can see when your friends log onto IRC.
Find and Find Again functions to search in the channel listing and channel text.
Intuitive Drag and Drop operations in many situations.
Automatic and Manual logging functions.
URLs can be command-clicked to open them automatically.
Limitations:
After the 30-day evaluation period has ended the program will quit after 15 minutes of use if a licence is not purchased.
What's New:
[New] Limited Unicode (UTF-8) support. All characters from the 11 languages for which Snak is localized, are automatically handled correctly when received as UTF-8. Full Unicode supprt (Japanese, Greek, Hebrew etc.) is expected in the next major version.
[New] Option to use the more descriptive word "room" instead of "channel". This is set by default for a new installation. Existing installations are not changed.
[New] Character encoding popup in the connection profile. The choices are the traditional western encoding, Unicode, and cyrillic. When Unicode is selected, International characters in outgoing messages are formatted as UTF-8.
[New] The selected text is accessible through AppleScript with the panelSelectedText property.
[Chg] Doubleclicking in the userlist to add to inputfield will add a space at the end
[Chg] The panel name AppleScript property is changed to group:name, like this: List:Profiles/Contacts/Actions/Requests/Users or DCC:name or network:name.
[Chg] The channel topic is shown in the text area when joining.
[Chg] New AppleScript behavior when accessing panels by index. When asking for panel 1, or "first" or "front" panel, the last activated panel is returned. Otherwise the panels are accessed sequentially.
[Fix] Some characters would not get coloured if you selected a text color from the style popup and typed very quickly.
[Fix] asking for the version through AppleScript returned incorrect information.
[Fix] Panels could not be accessed with the every keyword with AppleScript.
[Fix] Panels could not be accessed by name with AppleScript.
[Fix] An incorrect number was returned for number of DCC Connections.
[Fix] Reopening connection by selecting panel and doing cmd-o would also show the console window.
[Fix] Can't load AppleScripts if the filetype isn't set right.
[Fix] Blinking insertion point in multiple windows.
[Fix] Inactive selection is not grey.
[Fix] Repeating disconnect and reconnect on sleep when a mounted volume/refreshing webpage or something else prevented the system from going fully to sleep.
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