Anyone want to help make a 'PureMessenger'?

lexvictory · Post by **lexvictory** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:03 pm

if no one else wants to do msn protocol support, i'll give it a try

does anyone in this discussion actually want to give this program a try?

Hydrate · Post by **Hydrate** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:04 pm

lexvictory wrote:if no one else wants to do msn protocol support, i'll give it a try

does anyone in this discussion actually want to give this program a try?

I would love to try, dibs on the google talk conectivity if i do

lexvictory · Post by **lexvictory** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 4:13 am

Hydrate wrote:dibs on the google talk conectivity if i do

sure; u need ssl to do it with google..... (i dont know how to do it on normal connections)

is there anyone willing to help by doing the user interface? on an IM client i tried before i couldnt do the UI very well....

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:19 am

SSL i can do with Winapi...

And google only needs SSL for login, from then on it's normal HTTP.

BTW, google protocols are the best i've seen, very simple and straight forward!

A google talk messenger would be very nice to have!!!

lexvictory · Post by **lexvictory** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:36 am

google talk (jabber/xmpp) uses ssl for the whole connection, or so it seems on my computer

ok, anyone who wishes to help with this project, email me at PureMessenger@demonioardente.us.to and tell me what job u would like to do

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:41 pm

Here is Google talk API, free ..

http://code.google.com/apis/talk/about.html

lexvictory · Post by **lexvictory** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 10:06 am

sounds good - especially the audio stuff.....

but if the bit that connects to the XMPP server doesnt support unicode, or doesnt support jabber servers (jabber and xmpp servers are slightly different), then i would be no good for that part, but i was planning to get libjingle added in eventualy

and did anyone happen to spot this bit of my previous post?

ok, anyone who wishes to help with this project, email me at PureMessenger@demonioardente.us.to and tell me what job u would like to do

kenmo · Post by **kenmo** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 6:02 am

I wrote a decent AIM client in PB4 that I haven't touched in months. It supports normal IMs, chats, away messages, profiles, tabbed windows, all the basic stuff. (The buddy list management is super limited but we're focusing on the protocol for now right?) If you guys are interested I can upload it.

Edit: the downfalls - no buddy icons, no direct connect, no file sending or any of that, messages are displayed as plaintext, and it is Windows only due to a lot of API use...

lexvictory · Post by **lexvictory** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 12:09 pm

kenmo wrote:I wrote a decent AIM client in PB4 that I haven't touched in months. It supports normal IMs, chats, away messages, profiles, tabbed windows, all the basic stuff. (The buddy list management is super limited but we're focusing on the protocol for now right?) If you guys are interested I can upload it.

Edit: the downfalls - no buddy icons, no direct connect, no file sending or any of that, messages are displayed as plaintext, and it is Windows only due to a lot of API use...

can u put it in a zip file and send it to the email address mentioned above? (unless u want to do the AIM/ICQ protocol bits in the project?)

and:
I FINALLY DID IT! I LOGGED INTO THE MSN SERVER USING MSNP8 AND PB4!!!!!!!! (and its only 148 lines or so....)
I would have done it sooner, but i was using an incorrect flag value with wininet, so the https login bit wasnt being sent right.......
the code needs a bit of cleaning up tho..... (but that can come later)

lexvictory · Post by **lexvictory** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 2:19 pm

Joakim Christiansen wrote:If we set up a Wiki page for this project then everyone can contribute.

when my broadband gets connected in a few days, i'll make a wiki on my server so we can get started on some planning.
has anyone got any experience with administrating wikis?
and would MediaWiki be good for this? (or can u not edit the nav bar?)

kenmo · Post by **kenmo** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:52 pm

Here's my client with source

My two references for the AIM protocol are http://simpleaim.sourceforge.net/docs/TOC.txt for most of the protocol and http://snaphat.com/toc2 for a few updated functions.

ricardo · Post by **ricardo** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:38 pm

Jabber is the most logic step, since jabber lets the messenger to comunicate with most networks.

I have some experience to Jabber BUT from VB.

Is there any idea how to use it from PB? If some shows a starting point, we could develope it in PB.

ricardo · Post by **ricardo** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 12:12 am

http://developer.imendio.com/wiki/Loudmouth

Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 3:36 am

I don't know if i can help too mcuh but if this becomes serious I can create a custom version of InfoSkin component to make it eyecandy

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lexvictory · Post by **lexvictory** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 8:55 am

Inf0Byt3 wrote:I don't know if i can help too mcuh but if this becomes serious I can create a custom version of InfoSkin component to make it eyecandy ...

sounds good, but skinning has to be optional, maybe chosen during install