I was afraid this day would come. Adium 1.3 beta was just released and it seems that Xblaze no longer works with it. I’ve been doing some initial digging and from what I can see, some things have changed in the plugin architecture which breaks some things in XBlaze.

The advice I’ll give for now is to not upgrade to 1.3 just yet. I’ll see what I can do about getting a fix out soon.

I’ve just thrown up a quick poll over on the Polls page. I’d appreciate it if you could just go over and submit which version of OS X you’re using.

Thanks!

Just released XBlaze 0.8.5.

This release fixes a crash upon creation of a new account when using Adium 1.2.0.
It also contains some icon and games list updates.

If you made any changes to your macgames.txt file then I suggest you back it up before upgrading as it’ll get overwritten.

The issue was that the Buddy List wasn’t being deleted properly on disconnect. But that’s all in the past now. Thanks to Jordan, (Xfire Plus) for helping me track this one down.

Head on over to the download page to grab it.

(Just download, mount the DMG and double click the plugin to re-install. After that your icons and xfire_games.ini should be up to date).

As a side note, those who have customised their macgames.txt files, you should back it up before downloading and reinstalling the plugin if you don’t want it over written. Sorry about that…

You’ll be happy to know that this release fixes the annoying 256 buddy limit bug. You should all direct your thanks to Jordan Toor (gammasts) of Xfire Plus for this fix

Head on over to the download page to get your hands on it.

Remember, don’t hesitate to contact me if you require help.

Just thought I’d mention that I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard yesterday, and I can confirm that XBlaze is working (for me at least). If you have any trouble, or questions, don’t hesitate to contact me.

I’ll think about putting up some screenshots of XFlame (a standalone Mac OS X XFire Client) in the near future. Hopefully I’ll make a little progress.
So far, XFlame can do basically everything that XBlaze can do and somethings that XBlaze can’t (like nickname changing). It doesn’t require Adium to run.

I’m working on getting an ‘info-view’ kinda thing working that will display some additional info about a buddy, like their avatar icon, a link to their profile, etc.

As a footnote, I installed XCode 3.0 along with Leopard and it’s taking some getting used to. Apple changed the way a few things work, so I’m still getting to know my way around the new XCode and Interface Builder.

This fixes the connection issue that has recently started happening.
I also included an updated xfire_games.ini and icon files as a treat.

Just as I begin making progress with the standalone client, I find out that a recent Xfire Update has somehow broken XBlaze.
I’m not 100% on the details just yet, but it would seem that Xfire have changed something on their end that is preventing XBlaze from connecting. I’ll talk to the XFireLib team and see if they know anything.
I’ll keep you posted.