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[abdul]

I am thinking of making a cool chat program as my next project. Do I make a messenger like (where I have central server which is really an ftp site containing the information about all the users),
server/client
client/clinet
server,client/server,client

or which kind of chat program should I make? Any suggestions?

[hot2fire]

just make any kind, as long as its reliable and user-friendly

[abdul]

Any other suggetions?

[nabeels786]

it doenst log your conversations like AIM and ICQ

[flamewavetech]

make it authenticate any files that you can download off peoples servers so you dont spend a long time downloading a file that doesnt work or isnt the actual file you wanted or they said it was.

[abdul]

Originally posted by nabeels786
it doenst log your conversations like AIM and ICQ

So AIM and ICQ know everything about your conversation? How do they get that much space to store on their servers.

[abdul]

Originally posted by flamewavetech
make it authenticate any files that you can download off peoples servers so you dont spend a long time downloading a file that doesnt work or isnt the actual file you wanted or they said it was.

How can you know abotu the actual file unless you have it on your computer. Or the information the file can be put in the file by the user as "personal Files".

[deane034]

what u shoud do is make a all in one Jumbo, i mean don't build your own chat server, just connect to all of the popular ones like MSN,MIrc,Yahoo,ICQ, and our own vbforums channel. i was goin to do it myself but then i was stuck with improtant other projects,
if you find the ports for those let me know!
good luck

[abdul]

But if one program is using the same port, then you won't be able to access it

[deane034]

what do u mean?

[abdul]

I mean if you are running MSN messenger at the same time, and you try to connect on the same port on which MSN messenger is listening, you will get an error.

[deane034]

who wants to run both the programs?

[Ping]

How bout a "boot" feature...

3 votes in 3 minutes by 3 ppl and your locked out for 5 minutes!

[abdul]

I got the port for MSN messenger. It's 1863 but I don't know if it stays the same.

[deane034]

i beleive it does stay the same since, then how the heck msn messenger finds the port?

[Ping]

....you could let them see the chat, but not let them post...thats a bit more friendly.

[abdul]

I have decided to make my own messenger because it's just waste of time to work on a project that intergrates into some other application.

[deane034]

it's not actually integrating a nother App it's using their Service, very well, it's your decesion, i have to build it my self then

[Arc]

It's fairly simple to build your own chat program. The only hard part is the server which transfers data from one user to another and that is pretty easy as well.


Check out planetsourcecode.com Theres a few of them there.

[Ping]

PC plus did an article and coded it last year...try seaching old features at www.pcplus.co.uk. The may have tackled the server side of thiings as well.

I still like my boot idea ur ignoring! yellow card, red card..out

[DaoK]

All big chat have a server to have the database of the username and userpassword than to connect with the ip and the port.

[DiGiTaIErRoR]

You could create an awesome chat... you'd want c++ to do it... but you COULD do it.

Make a 3D world... where people actually have lives, it'd be a micture of a game and a chat, use OpenGL to do it. Then have map editors and avatar editors so people can make their own 3d models and 3d worlds.

That'd be awesome =D

[TiPeRa]

DiGiTaIErRoR - That has already been done!

[DaoK]

These 3d chat aren't so popular anyways

[DiGiTaIErRoR]

Originally posted by TiPeRa
DiGiTaIErRoR - That has already been done!

Yeah but the current ones are really crappy.

[DaoK]

Well how can you have private message in a 3d environnment ?

[JungleMan]

Have little 3-D heads talk to each other..if someone could make a DX speech engine

[DaoK]

well all 56k will lag

[JungleMan]

Not really, if the end client could just render the voices..

all that needs to be sent is text, the program does the rest.

[DaoK]

humm but 28k will lag with all these graphic and coord and text .

[JungleMan]

Originally posted by DaoK
humm but 28k will lag with all these graphic and coord and text .

Not really, just depends on the speed of your system...

[MidgetsBro]

Make a chat program that lists all the other users in the room, and when you right click on their name, it allows you to choose to view a list of their files. Then the user can browse them, and if they find somthing they like, they can instant message them and ask for it. That would be cool.

[DiGiTaIErRoR]

You all seem to describe IRC.

[MidgetsBro]

I don't like IRC, well I didn't like mIRC. It just wasn't user-friendly enough for me, and I couldn't figure out which channel to join. I just wanted to chat, but there were so many servers and channels. I would rather have one central server with like maybe 20-30 channels, and just have a choice between one of those. Not a whole bunch of channels that no one needs.

[TiPeRa]

I like mIRC because it is very customizable, you can write scripts etc It is a programmers chat program

[abdul]

I think I should make a chat program that support a little scripting language so you can have some fun with it

[JungleMan]

Originally posted by abdul
I think I should make a chat program that support a little scripting language so you can have some fun with it

Yeah,that'd be cool, along with the file-sharing thing. Make it a little easier to do it, as in a bunch of people connect to a server and you can search the files of everyone on there...not like it's possible to shut down.

[TiPeRa]

Ohhh, and smilies, you must include smilies

[JungleMan]

www.pctsonline.com , which is Dimava, Emo, and chenko's site, has the COOLEST smilies!!!!