A somewhat chat program...

[DARKGuy]

hi guys! how's everyone's doing?

hey, I have some experience with PB and have experimented with the network commands of PB. I want to ask if it's possible to make a chat program in PB but WITHOUT all the people knowing other people's IP addresses, and that runs without any server, sorta like a P2P connection. I'm gonna use it for programming commodities because I have some friends who I can't contact all the time and I wanted a simple & efficient program that lets us share code / media and talk at the same time, sorta like MSN Messenger, but without all that bunch of things, just a simple instant messenger program where we can send and receive beetween us code and media (for team projects, for example)

Is this possible? and if it's possible, there's any example / way to do it using PB?

Thanks in advance, I really need that program .
-DARKGuy

[Karbon]

hi guys! how's everyone's doing?

hey, I have some experience with PB and have experimented with the network commands of PB. I want to ask if it's possible to make a chat program in PB but WITHOUT all the people knowing other people's IP addresses, and that runs without any server,

You have to either have a server or everyone know individual IP addresses. If you didn't you'd have nowhere to send your network data

[DARKGuy]

and then how can you explain how KaZaA works? they don't have any server...

[PolyVector]

I believe Kazaa uses a central server that connects clients to "Super-Nodes" which is like a sub-server...

Your best bet would be to get a YourName.No-IP.com address (they're free) and host the chat server yourself...
Then all clients can automatically connect to DARKGuy.No-IP.com and communicate thru' there....

[Anden]

Have a look at this one:

http://www.doublea.at/soft-chitchat.html