Sorry that it took so long for this release. Honestly I was just waiting and testing it to make sure that the biggest part of this release was working correctly. It is, and has been, so I think it’s time to release it.
This version fixes the reconnect problem that I’ve been struggling with for the better part of a year now. With this finally fixed, if the bot pings out or gets disconnected without being shut completely off, it will attempt to reconnect. Upon connecting successfully, it’ll reset the reconnect attempts to 0 (as in most IRC clients).
It also added the ability for Kon to filter out repeat starting sentences but keep the rest of the sentence. For example, if the bot sees “I am in love with ” and “I am in hate with” it will only keep one copy of “I am in” but keep both “hate with” and “love with.” The reason for this is to try and reduce the size of the brain files and to try and keep repeats out.
There’s a few other small improvements to this version, but nothing really groundbreaking or major. If you want to see the rest, continue past the jump and read the changelog. If not, enjoy!
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Downlod Source: Click here (and download all the files)
1.4.0
- Added the ability for Kon to filter out repeat sentence starters but keep the rest of the sentence when adding new lines.
- Updated the LB Brain Utility to also filter out repeat sentence starters.
- Improved the “KON” to “UNNAMED_USER” filtering. Hopefully now it won’t replace the word “kon” if it appears in the middle of another word.
- Improved the word search function of the LB Brain again.
- Continued to improve/work on the reconnect code. Specifically, the error 451 that prevents the bot from reconnecting. It might actually be completely fixed this time around.
- Added a new console command: /TOGGLEPONG It will toggle the display of the ping/pong messages. Useful for debugging in some cases.
- Changed the way the reconnect attempts work so that it sets it to 0 when the bot actually connects to the server ala most IRC clients.
