
BOTJOHNNY 2.00 BETA
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---INTRODUCTION

This is a beta version.  Several bugs materialised with the alpha release and I just want
to clear them up before making this official.  I still have a little bit of work to do on
this, but I hope it will not be too much longer.


---CURRENTLY KNOWN ABOUT BUGS

x  If you are spawning a large number of specifically named bots for Capture the Flag with Eraser, it
   can cause Quake2 to go a little "mental".  You can get a couple more to work by deselecting your own
   team but this is still a problem I am working on. I haven't checked yet to see if this is sorted.
x  BJ might be defaulting to "don't show custom maps" when it shouldn't.  Or something slightly weird
   is going on that can prevent the custom maps from showing the first time.
x  The graphical skins list can crash if you have a huge number of skins


---FEATURES NOT READY FOR THIS RELEASE

A few minor things are not ready for this release as follows:

x  The SPAWN box on the MAIN tab still does not yet work for Deathmatch Teamplay
x  When setting profile locations, it won't clean up after itself (ie delete the files no longer
   in use)
x  The "arena map" icon isn't 100% - it may end up getting replaced by the normal map icon.
x  The convertor program does not handle any custom options added to the Extra Options list
   so you will lose any you have added yourself.  Sorry.
x  KeyBind is not quite ready (getting there).  You can edit most of the bits with Profile Manager
   now, but there's not much point yet.

I'm not sure how much of this will make it into the full release.


---THINGS TO WATCH OUT FOR

The following list is a guide of some things I would like to check for this
release.  There are others, of course, and I want to know about anything,
no matter how minor, but these are the most vital:

x  Viewable Weapons editor (didn't work before..)
x  Adding a profile (this has all been changed about)
x  Save on exit/launch (hopefully BJ will no longer crash here)
x  Starting up for new users
x  Arena support (now Rocketbot config files have been released)
x  Changing program and map preferences
x  Using the SPAWN options on the MAIN tab for CTF (and also for DM as before)
x  Clicking a tab on the Launch window (in case it doesn't load the file - this was a bug
   I think I have solved.  Note that some files are blank.  To make sure, change to a different
   tab then back again and if nothing still appears then the file is empty.)
x  Anything that seems very pedantic like typos in the program or Winhelp file,
   or slightly misaligned controls - please let me know.


---ARENAS

I have integrated arena support to some degree.  If you have Rocket Arena 2 and Rocketbot
I would very much appreciate it if you could have a look at this.  Please note the following:

x  If "(Random)" is chosen in the arena list or no arena is chosen, an arena will be chosen
   at random.
x  The list of arenas comes from the START MAP
x  If the start map is blank, a map from the map cycle is used at random
x  If a random start map is chosen, a random arena will also be chosen

I have been having problems wiith Rocketbot teamplay saying I have too many teams.  Also
I find the whole thing a bit confusing and am not sure whether I am getting it right.
Any help with this would be really appreciated.


---COMMENTS WELCOME

Well, as I just said.  They are very welcome on any aspect of the program.


---THANK YOU

Any comments, please send to semprini@buttle.com and thank you *very* much for
trying this release.
