As promised I've at last released an updated beta of Quest 3.5.

You can download it from http://www.axeuk.com/quest/beta/

If you're a Quest Pro user, please check your email for download instructions.

If you have any problems, questions, suggestions, bug reports etc. then please email me at alex@axeuk.com or post here.

What are the updates from Beta 1?

As always the place to look is VERSIONS.TXT and VERSIONS-QDK.TXT:

Quest

        - Improvements to LDF:
                - The widths of the "Selected game" and "Add" buttons can be
                  changed to accommodate different word lengths, by modifying
                  "add-width" and "game-width" in the "start" section.
                - The "archive" string in the "start" section wasn't being
                  applied.
                - Added "questnet" string.
                - Added "default" section for gender and article.
        - When an "enter" command is in effect, the "up" and "down" buttons are
          now disabled as well as the north, south etc. buttons.
        - When loading a game from a ZIP file, Quest will now successfully
          include libraries in the ZIP.
        - On the Options window you can now choose your own default foreground
          and background colours.
        - Exits can now be destroyed by leaving the destination room parameter
          blank, e.g. "create exit north <room1; >"
        - Fixed "if type" for rooms.
        - You can now specify "game" as the second parameter of
          $getobjectname()$ to search for the object anywhere in the game.
        - You can now read "take" tags:
                take <Take text>
                        is readable with the object's "take" property
                take do <some script>
                        is executable with the object's "take" action
                take
                        is testable - the object's "take" property is ON
        - You can now run object "give ..." tags using the same names as those
          used to set them.
        - You can now override "beforeturn" and "afterturn" using "override"
          without having to also specify a script.

QDK

        - Fixed bugs in version 3.5 beta:
                - Run-time error when loading some games.
                - Run-time error in Windows 98 and ME when changing a compass
                  direction.
                - "enter" script wasn't working properly.
                - The "Notes" buttons have been moved to stop them clashing with
                  tabs added by libraries.
                - Game Notes weren't being cleared when a new game was loaded.
                - When editing Properties, previous edited values sometimes
                  appeared when editing started.
                - QDK was erasing the list of Standard Messages when it
                  shouldn't have been.
        - The Standard Messages window now displays the Quest defaults.
        - QDK now recognises the "|xn" code and displays "[NO NEW LINE]" rather
          than "[UNKNOWN]".
        - Changes to the Object Properties window Take pane.

Alex, are the docs changed enough to justify reprinting them?

Nope! There's hardly any difference between the Beta 2 and Beta 1 docs at all.