MSNClient

Skywing · March 27, 2003, 01:37 AM

I've put together a small standalone driver for MSNClient.bcpx. It's not nearly complete, and there's no GUI setup (you'll have to use regedit), but it's usuable to chat through.

Known issues: Lots of the menus aren't implemented for the contacts window. Popup menus for the contact list aren't done yet. Sometimes everybody on your contacts list appears offline -- I think that I've fixed this, but post back if you see this happen to you... reconnecting or restarting appears to fix this if it does happen.

This program requires the Visual C++ 7.0 runtime libraries.

Skywing · March 29, 2003, 07:57 PM

Okay, I've updated a whole lot of things. You can now change your online status from the GUI (via the Contacts menu), and if you have "Offline" selected, the program will stay disconnected. The "Offline" state is only "remembered" if it is manually set, not if you get disconnected by the server. The View > View List menu will show the active list being displayed, though you cannot change this yet.

The tooltips now work properly when you scroll the listbox. Chat windows will now flash (once, not endlessly as in the official client) if a message is displayed and they are not the active window. Issues with contacts display when disconnected have been resolved. Your current status should no longer (rarely) disappear from the first contacts listbox item.

Skywing · March 29, 2003, 10:16 PM

Notice to moderators: Please leave my thread alone. I don't want it in the bot development forums, because it pertains to a specific program, and not bot development in general.

Skywing · March 30, 2003, 01:46 AM

The latest update includes support for using enter as a keyboard shortcut to open a conversation to the currently selected contacts listbox user. Additionally, the popup menu for the selfinfo contacts item is functional, and the tooltip activation rectangles no longer extend far beyond the end of a contacts listbox item.

Invert · March 30, 2003, 08:00 PM

I moved to MSN bot development. And this is what this post relates to.

I just think you want this post here so more people will notice since you dont have many folks posting or care about the MSN bot development.

Sky, tell me when your client is better than the one made by MS then i'll use it, thanks.

Keep up the good work.

iago · March 30, 2003, 09:08 PM

Microsofts:
* It was made by microsoft -100000
This one:
* It can be used over telnet +2
* It was made by skywing +100000

Final score, -100000 to 100002. Skywing's wins by 200002, kthanks

Yoni · March 30, 2003, 11:45 PM

Blah, everyone should just use Trillian. No flames.

Grok · March 31, 2003, 08:22 AM

One of the things I dislike about MSNM or YMSG is the contact list is less accessible when you are not connected. You should be allowed to see your own contact list w/o having to log on the server. For instance, if you want to get an email address or telephone number off of a particular contact, without having to go through buried menu options to find it.

iago · March 31, 2003, 09:47 AM

I don't like having a stricly limited message size, makes it a lot harder to send code which is something I end up doing a lot

MrRaza · March 31, 2003, 11:45 AM

Try using Direct connect for aim. I wasn't able to send large amounts of text(code) in normal mode, but once i direct connected, there was more than enough space.

Adron · March 31, 2003, 12:21 PM

Quote from: Grok on March 31, 2003, 08:22 AM
One of the things I dislike about MSNM or YMSG is the contact list is less accessible when you are not connected. You should be allowed to see your own contact list w/o having to log on the server. For instance, if you want to get an email address or telephone number off of a particular contact, without having to go through buried menu options to find it.

As far as I've seen, you can't access it at all while offline in MSN?

Grok · March 31, 2003, 01:15 PM

Quote from: Adron on March 31, 2003, 12:21 PM
As far as I've seen, you can't access it at all while offline in MSN?

I didn't think so, but didn't want to look stupid by not knowing about some hidden menu option that allows you to see them.

Skywing · March 31, 2003, 01:33 PM

Quote from: Grok on March 31, 2003, 08:22 AM
One of the things I dislike about MSNM or YMSG is the contact list is less accessible when you are not connected. You should be allowed to see your own contact list w/o having to log on the server. For instance, if you want to get an email address or telephone number off of a particular contact, without having to go through buried menu options to find it.

Right now MSNClient doesn't save your lists locally -- when I add that, you'll be able to view your contacts (and the other three lists) while offline.

The protocol limits the amount of data in a message to 1664 bytes - however, the actual limit is slightly less because this length includes the message header.

I'm planning on making MSNClient automatically split large amounts of text between messages.

iago · April 02, 2003, 01:53 AM

Quote from: Skywing on March 31, 2003, 01:33 PM
I'm planning on making MSNClient automatically split large amounts of text between messages.

THAT would be a nice feature.

Skywing · April 05, 2003, 07:26 PM

New version released - changes:
Fixed a bug which caused the userlist to be obscured when a user in a conversation was renamed.
Added support for adding/removing users from the contact, allow, and block lists.
Added support for deleting a user from the active list by using the delete key.