Author Topic: Chat Client for Linux ? (Read 10279 times)

String · « **on:** May 20, 2005, 12:49:35 pm »

hi ... i 've been re-writing the well-known DraconisMX chat client, dropping windows API and using instead the GTK 2.2 library... But now i don't have the time (and necessary skills) to port it on Linux.
If someone interested ... :roll: i can post here te code..

look the link below for a preview

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/lastanzadidaniela/draconisgtk.PNG

SteveUK · « **Reply #1 on:** May 20, 2005, 06:11:47 pm »

I would love to have a look at this code, as I'm interested in a cross-OS compatiable client, but haven't really decided what to do it in.

Me Here · « **Reply #2 on:** May 20, 2005, 10:08:56 pm »

Ermmmm....
WOW..!!

Thanks String for that great offer... and great work you already put into that..
SteveUK, let us know what you come up with. Many people would love to use Linux but havent simply because of programs like WinMX.

Thanks ppl ...

String · « **Reply #3 on:** May 20, 2005, 10:26:41 pm »

enjoy it!

(make sure you have a debugger

)
and remember that it's still unfinished.

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/lastanzadidaniela/DraconisMX%20GTK%20src.zip

P.S.
for any questions about GIMP toolkit refer to http://www.gtk.org/
and http://www.dropline.net/gtk/

GhostShip · « **Reply #4 on:** May 21, 2005, 07:01:29 am »

Thats very good of you String, Thank you for making it available to those that, wish to continue with it.
Steve Uk has said he will look at it and decide if its the way he wishes to proceed but I,m sure it will not go to waste, thanx again

SteveUK · « **Reply #5 on:** May 22, 2005, 12:22:20 am »

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You don't have permission to access /lastanzadidaniela/DraconisMX GTK src.zip on this server.

Woops. I really do want to have a look.

KM · « **Reply #6 on:** May 22, 2005, 01:21:26 pm »

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/lastanzadidaniela/DraconisMX%20GTK%20src.zip

works for me... didn't when i tried at first, but then i went to http://xoomer.virgilio.it/lastanzadidaniela/ and went to it from that page and it worked after that (even from the original link in the post) - probably some form of anti-hotlink

String · « **Reply #7 on:** June 11, 2006, 06:42:31 pm »

The first release of the DraconisMX for Linux is now available (not too bad as the previous one i hope)
This one uses requires GTK >= 2.6.0. It's released under the GNU license.

I've been testing it within a local room hosted on WCS 1.8b4-Unix.... and everything was fine....

Anyway it's undergoing hard changes, so this is like mode a test release.

P.S. In order to build it.... type of course:

$ ./configure (cross your fingers)
$ make (to build it)
$ make install (not required, just if u want to copy a file....)

Screenshot:

Download:
http://xoomer.alice.it/lastanzadidaniela/DraconisMX-0.0.1.tar.bz2

GhostShip · « **Reply #8 on:** June 12, 2006, 01:08:41 am »

Cheers String, this looks like a nice clean project, keep up the good work

PS: Well done on your exam results

nylly444 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 12, 2006, 02:09:01 pm »

Hmmm. I can't get it to join any room though...

Anything we need to know about it?
It's fill in room name, own name, connection type, number of files and hit the green button, right?

* nylly444 confuzzled...

String_afraid · « **Reply #10 on:** June 12, 2006, 05:34:38 pm »

:shock: :shock: :shock

Did you use the full nickname ?? Es. nickname111_22222 ?
Did you get any warnings during the compile fase ?

Anyway i have no idea...sorry

nylly444 · « **Reply #11 on:** June 12, 2006, 06:29:33 pm »

Yes, I tried with a full nickname.
And no, it compiled without problems, runs too - just won't get me into a room, and I tried several as well

nylly444 · « **Reply #12 on:** June 12, 2006, 06:47:26 pm »

OK, I compiled it again and this time I can enter our room.
There seems to be an issue with weird characters though, lines from chat are missing and from the userlist too - see screenshot...
Looks nice though and is definitely worth working on

String_still_afraid · « **Reply #13 on:** June 13, 2006, 12:23:14 am »

It's something related with the language, the LANG environment variable and the gtk_set_locale call...
To me of course everything is OK.

Nylly, can i ask u where are you from ?? I have to know your language.
Maybe if you remove the gtk_set_locale() in draconis.c->main() and recompile it... that could help, but sorry i'm still not ready to handle with languages...

I hope to fix it very soon. Anyway thank you for your valuable support and for wasting your time with this crap.

Bye the way, do you use a gtk theme engine ? I like better the way it looks with the Gnome Clearlooks theme...
(i.e. See the screenshot above)

nylly444 · « **Reply #14 on:** June 13, 2006, 02:58:34 pm »

String, my native tongue is german - my language is set to english(US) though.
I tried your suggestion and removed the gtk_set_locale() as you suggested.
That didn't help and it crashed after a moment

Could it be the names starting with "[" being misinterpreted?
I'm not a programmer though and pretty much a newbie with linux too, so I'm afraid I can't really help you

Oh, and yes, I'm using thin-ice as a theme engine

String_very_afraid · « **Reply #15 on:** June 13, 2006, 05:51:01 pm »

Me too, i'm new to linux programming...of course

In the future i will only write code for kde...

But there is one last thing u can do x me. Restore the gtk_set_locale() in the main() and start draconis
from the console (KConsole, xterm, etc...).
./draconis &
Enter some room and everytime there is a line missing there should be a warning...
Tell me what gtk is complaining about and maybe this can help me...

nylly444 · « **Reply #16 on:** June 13, 2006, 08:08:30 pm »

Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_text_buffer_insert_with_tags_by_name: assertion `text != NULL' failed

That's the error message for every line that doesn't show - hope that helps

Good luck!