Hi !
I wasn't sure about releasing this version, but two crash-to-desktop (CTD) bugs coming close to each other kind of forced me to.
The first CTD occurred when receiving a folder to #RLV from an object, with a name containing slash characters ("/"). Normally, when this happens, the RLV cuts the name into individual parts, removing the slashes, and creates as many folders with the corresponding names, parenting them in a chain of folders.
For example, when the folder is named "#RLV/~A/B/C/D", the viewer would create this structure :
#RLV
| some folder
| some other folder
\ ~A
\ B
\ C
\ D (this is the original "#RLV/~A/B/C/D" folder, renamed and parented to the ones above)
| Item
| Item
\ Item
Better, it ignores the folders that already exist so your inventory is not unnecessarily cluttered. So if ~A and B already exist, the viewer would create only C and D. However, if D already exists, a new D folder would still be created since we don't want to pollute existing folders with additional items (because the RLV works with folders, not with items), leading to potential doubloons.
But since the addition of folder thumbnails, that feature failed spectacularly, crashing the viewer. I won't go into boring technical details, but that's the kind of stuff several viewer devs have been scratching their heads about. In short, that code relied on a client-server process that simply doesn't exist anymore, so we have to do it another way.
This version of the RLV has a tentative fix to it, at least it won't crash anymore, and the folders seem correctly created, but it seems to work only once or twice in a row, after that strange things may happen to that folder (the received folder is not renamed correctly, or it is named correctly but not parented correctly, or both). The "strange things" won't ruin your inventory, don't worry.
The other CTD bug would happen when entering some Chinese characters in chat or in IM. I could reproduce this bug in 2.9.33 (the first version with PBR), but I must admit, I don't speak or read a word of Chinese so that was just me monkeying on my keyboard until it broke (the viewer, not my keyboard). Problem is, that crash is violent and the viewer log does not contain any relevant error. I could never crash this version, which includes emoji support, and probably some fixes from LL about that precise crash. But I didn't see anything about hat in Git. Nevertheless, no amount of monkeying on my part could crash this version, so I'm hopeful that this is fixed. I'll need someone who actually speaks and reads Chinese to confirm that 2.9.34 does not crash for them.
You can download the Windows version from http://www.erestraints.com/realrestraint/
The MD5 hash for the Windows version is :
6ab8ea2f7b525f20e16acf0babf59507
The Linux and Mac versions are proposed by Chorazin at this address :
https://sourceforge.net/projects/kokua.team-purple.p/files/RLV/
Have fun !
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