Chax updated

I’ve previously posted about Chax, a very useful plugin for iChat.

Version 1.3.2 has just been released, with these changes:

• (New) Automatically set status to away when the screen saver is activated
• (New) Basic Growl notifications for text invitation and text message received
• (Feature improvemet) Set custom font for group separators
• (Bugfix) Joining a new group chat properly focuses on the window
• (Bugfix) Saved preferred screen names ignores offline users
• (Bugfix) Fixed a bug where an NSArray exception would be thrown (-[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (0) beyond bounds (0))
• (Bugfix) Sending away auto-replies when using an ICQ account no longer sends HTML formatting
• (Bugfix) Minor UI changes in the preferences

I’ve been running the beta for the past few days, it’s been rock-solid.

The new feature to automatically set the status to away when the screen saver is activated is awesome. I’ve been wanting this capability in iChat for a long time, and now I’ve got it. No more need to remember to change my status prior to walking away from the computer (I always invoke the screen saver, with the OS X feature that requires the password to wake the computer from sleep or screen saver).