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[News] Programmer sought for an Amiga Jabber clientANN.lu
Posted on 10-Mar-2002 11:59 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä24 comments
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Amiga-news.de posted a message from Matthias Münch: "I am looking for a new Amiga Jabber client programmer who would be interested in realizing such a project. Jabber is a multi instant messenger and is based on the open XML technology. Besides its own Jabber protocol, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo!, MSN and IRC services can be used as well. Planned so far is the programming language C and ReAction as GUI." If you're interested, mail him at this address.
Programmer sought for an Amiga Jabber client : Comment 1 of 24ANN.lu
Posted by zurt on 10-Mar-2002 14:02 GMT
I've already thought of this at least a couple of times :) My main aim was to
implement a Jabberwocky-like client but featuring much more options à-la MSN
Messenger. These features should be:
* Emoticons (parsing of incoming text)
* Automatic pop-up windows
* Usage of expat for XML traffic parsing.
* MUI environment
* Perhaps skinnable
* etc.
However my main handicap is that I don't have enough time for doing that :(
Good luck though! :)
Antonio
zurt
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Posted by Kryptonite on 10-Mar-2002 18:33 GMT
If someone has the ability to write a Jabber client from scratch, WHAT IN HELL do they need Matthias Münch for? He hasn't mentioned paying someone to write it for him, so what would such a prospective programmer get for taking this project on for Matthias? Why, they'd have the joy and privilege of Matthias' name in the credits, even though Matthias didn't actually contribute anything towards it. There are enough do-nothing people in this world trying to take credit for the effort of others, Matthias is just another parasite looking for a host.
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Posted by 4pLaY on 10-Mar-2002 18:56 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (Kryptonite):
This is perhaps a "friend" of youres or so?
Programmer sought for an Amiga Jabber client : Comment 4 of 24ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 10-Mar-2002 19:09 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (Kryptonite):
Yeah, and why has Matthias decided the programmer will have to use C?
Programmer sought for an Amiga Jabber client : Comment 5 of 24ANN.lu
Posted by anon on 10-Mar-2002 20:13 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (Anonymous):
Well, the problem is, he decided the programmer has to use ReAction. I hope AInc will scrap reaction as soon as possible :)
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Posted by Peter Gordon on 10-Mar-2002 21:08 GMT
I started writing one in Amiga E using MUI. I wrote the XML decoder, it could login, get your roster and receive messages. Kinda got bored and stopped working on it though. I may finish it if enough people are interested...
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Posted by Daniel Allsopp on 11-Mar-2002 07:49 GMT
I'm actually 30%-ish finished a MSN Messenger client for the Amiga. I was gonna keep it quiet until I got more work done but to hell with it :-)
I'm using a MUI interface (I too, also hope Amiga scrap ReAction ASAP, one advantage of MorphOS is it has PPC MUI ;-)) and it's written in C (not that that makes any difference). At the minute, it only supports MSN but I was planning to include AOL support, sort of like an MSN/AOL Messenger rolled into one.
More later, when I've finished more.
-
Daniel
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Posted by zurt on 11-Mar-2002 09:09 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Peter Gordon):
I am interested :)
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Posted by 4pLaY on 11-Mar-2002 09:40 GMT
ReAction wont be scrapped! at least NOT for mui! considering the delicat relationship there is! Stefan is a mos/amithlon beliver not Amiga Inc.
Programmer sought for an Amiga Jabber client : Comment 10 of 24ANN.lu
Posted by Peter Gordon on 11-Mar-2002 10:14 GMT
I wish people would stop bitching about ReAction.
Its an officially Amiga-sanctioned GUI, and it does the job. Take it or leave it :)
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Posted by Daniel Allsopp on 11-Mar-2002 10:43 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (Peter Gordon):
Think I`ll "leave it" thankyou very much :-P
Nah, come on, it is BUTT ugly to look at. What a mess all the OS3.5/9 prefs GUI's looked.
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Daniel
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Posted by Peter Gordon on 11-Mar-2002 10:59 GMT
In reply to Comment 11 (Daniel Allsopp):
Hmm? The only one i didn't like the look of was the ReAction preferences itself :) All the rest look OK to me, but then I spent time configuring it to look nice :)
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Posted by cOrpse on 11-Mar-2002 11:13 GMT
In reply to Comment 11 (Daniel Allsopp):
at least reaction's stable , that counts more then anything , also the reason i use IBrowse 2.2 over voyager.
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Posted by Anonymous on 11-Mar-2002 13:05 GMT
In reply to Comment 13 (cOrpse):
Are you implying that MUI isn't stable?
Enforcer logs please. Also a completely annontated disassembly of
the offending part of the MUI libraries will be appreciated.
Otherwise your comments look like complete FUD.
Programmer sought for an Amiga Jabber client : Comment 15 of 24ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 11-Mar-2002 13:06 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (Peter Gordon):
I'll leave it thanks. It's a pile of poo.
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Posted by Keith Blakemore-Noble on 11-Mar-2002 13:23 GMT
In reply to Comment 13 (cOrpse):
"at least ReAction is stable" compared to what?
Obviously you are not claiming MUI is unstable, becuse you go on to say that you use IBrowse 2.2 - which itself is MUI-based.
So which GUI system *are* you saying is unstable?
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Posted by KennyR on 11-Mar-2002 13:26 GMT
In reply to Comment 14 (Anonymous):
Its not so much that MUI itself throws hits (even though its f***ing prefs editor certainly does!). All of this buggiest apps I use (whether commercial, shareware or freeware) all use MUI as their GUI engine. Compare Voyager to AWeb, for instance. Or SimpleMail to YAM. There are more.
MUI doesn't like me so I don't like it. ;)
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Posted by Kent Seaton on 11-Mar-2002 14:27 GMT
Personally I think MUI should be scrapped right along side Reaction for a better approach. There are times when a reinvention of the wheel are required.
Programmer sought for an Amiga Jabber client : Comment 19 of 24ANN.lu
Posted by cOrpse on 11-Mar-2002 15:18 GMT
In reply to Comment 16 (Keith Blakemore-Noble):
Ibrose 2.2 does use mui true , i was using it as a comparison , e.g. v3 crashes very ten mins whereas ibrowse 2.2 has yet to fail on my system . same is true of mui and reaction , maybe its not mui itself but the apps written for it ( e.g. vapour apps ) that are unstable.
The fact that Reaction comes free in its full state with the os is its other strong point.
I do agree that Reaction looks butt ugly when you first install os 3.5/3.9 and can go all to feck after playing with visual prefs , but i think one of the os 4 things is to make reaction better :). When reaction's as old as MUI it`ll be killer :)
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Posted by cOrpse on 11-Mar-2002 15:22 GMT
BTw . Why not just work on porting GAIM or at least use some of its source , it does afterall support MSN , AIM and yahoo (maybe more) if i remember correctly , also i think its gpl so no problem with using its sources.
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Posted by Stephen on 11-Mar-2002 21:18 GMT
MUI vs Reaction. As a GUI interface, I'd certainly choose MUI. But then again, ReAction is still in early stages of development, and as the OS4 update said; more classes etc will be added. :) As long as it works, what the hell.
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Posted by smithy on 11-Mar-2002 22:56 GMT
In reply to Comment 12 (Peter Gordon):
>Hmm? The only one i didn't like the look of was the ReAction preferences
>itself :) All the rest look OK to me, but then I spent time configuring it to
>look nice :)
Why do all the preference windows have a thick, ugly border down the right of the windows and not the bottoms? It looks hideous.
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Posted by Sam Dunham on 12-Mar-2002 04:35 GMT
I'd rather see a port of Trillian. Trillian kicks a**.
-Sam
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Posted by Iggy Drougge on 12-Mar-2002 14:22 GMT
In reply to Comment 19 (cOrpse):
ReAction is just a repackaged version of ClassAct, and that's certainly old enough for me to have stopped counting the years.
As for interesting online tools, I'd like to see a client for AudioGalaxy and or WinMX.
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