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[darkrising]

Hello, this is a simple chat program I wrote a while ago! All you need is a computer (preferably colour) with a modem and your good to go!

Features:

• Does not require a server program!
  
• Simple IM styled chat
  
• Channels and colour too!
  
• Scrollable chat (Bar goes yellow when scrolling - see screenshots)
  
• Nice slash command system

The chat will work as far as rednet can reach! Default is 60 blocks at minimum height.

Download

• Github: My Github
  
• Pastebin: N22T449A -using the dark retriever!
  
• Also featured in LogOS!

commands:
/exit - leaves in a friendly manner and exits the program! (<name> has quit!)
/quit - same as /exit
/me - roleplay like talking for example, /me is a pie! -&gt; <name> is a pie!
/channel <number> - switch channel example: /channel 10
/list - shows who is in the channel
/clear - clears the chat
/help - no need to explain what that does
/nick <nickname> - Changes your nickname

Planned Changes

• Add colour support - Added
  
• re-do chat to be more supportive of slash commands - Done
  
• Add in channel switching - Added
  
• Add history / scrollable chat - Added
  
• Add in user filtering
  
• Add channel 'admins'
  
• Channel 'dictionary' ?

Changelog:

Spoiler

1.5

• Added /quit command, does the same thing as /exit
  
• Added some arguments so you can launch the program with your username directly or launch it a bit easier with other programs (OS and such)
  
• Updated to Computercraft 1.6+

1.4.2

• Exit will now exit instead of rebooting

1.4

• Added scrollable chat
  
• Added /help command
  
• Bottom bar has yellow pixels when scrolling!

1.3.3

• Added new command /list

1.3.2

• Did a code clear-up (its a lot tidy now)
  
• Added new private / public config options

1.3.1

• Added channel support
  
• Added '/me' command
  
• Added '/channel' command

1.3

• Added Colour Support
  
• Created a whole new commands system

1.22

• Added Dark Chat to my github
  
• Added my auto updater function (might end up using my api but we'll see)

1.2

• Fixed the 'sending to self' problem
  
• Changed communication from split to tables (more supportive

1.1

• Added "enter" and "leave" message

1.0

• initial release

Screenshots:

Spoiler

Any suggestions? found a bug?
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Check out my other programs!

• Dark Programs: Server with Database! / Keycards / remote login / relays etc
  
• Dark Buttons! - Easy bundled cable control gui for monitors

Edited by darkrising, 20 April 2014 - 07:14 PM.

[momona5]

uhmmm. So I'm not sure why, but I'm on my friends server with this chat and whenever i join, leave, or chat, it says it twice...

[Kingdaro]

Methinks that the program is receiving rednet signals from itself in that case.

[TwelveEight]

Oh my god, you deserve a medal. I've been trying to write something like this, but I kept messing up, haha.

[Shnupbups]

This topic got no posts up until today? Wow. Two months.

I'm making a new program a lot like this, but with colour, and support for channels.

[SuicidalSTDz]

Looks nice, never even saw this thread before or I would have posted a response

EDIT: Can two users have the same name? If so you should store all nicknames in a file and compare before they can join.

[darkrising]

Didn't think anyone was interested in this program

But anyway I did a small update and fixed the "sending to self" problem.

SuicidalSTDz, on 25 February 2013 - 12:57 PM, said:

Looks nice, never even saw this thread before or I would have posted a response

EDIT: Can two users have the same name? If so you should store all nicknames in a file and compare before they can join.

I'm planning to do this soon, as well as a channels feature.

Edit: Added dark chat to my github, bring on auto updates!

[SuicidalSTDz]

darkrising, on 26 February 2013 - 06:56 AM, said:

Didn't think anyone was interested in this program

But anyway I did a small update and fixed the "sending to self" problem.

SuicidalSTDz, on 25 February 2013 - 12:57 PM, said:

Looks nice, never even saw this thread before or I would have posted a response

EDIT: Can two users have the same name? If so you should store all nicknames in a file and compare before they can join.

I'm planning to do this soon, as well as a channels feature.

Edit: Added dark chat to my github, bring on auto updates!

I will be pleased to see how this program plays out once the channels and all are added. Keep up the great work!

[darkrising]

Added colour support and a whole new slash command handler.

[SuicidalSTDz]

Loving it. Keep it up

[darkrising]

SuicidalSTDz, on 26 February 2013 - 10:34 AM, said:

Loving it. Keep it up

And boom! channel support like a boss.

[TwelveEight]

Colour chat and Channel Switching? *pukes rainbows*
I saw this yesterday and it is already so much better! c:

[darkrising]

TwelveEight, on 26 February 2013 - 08:29 PM, said:

Colour chat and Channel Switching? *pukes rainbows*
I saw this yesterday and it is already so much better! c:

Yeah when I put my mind to something usually it gets done quick
hopefully I'll have slash colours working sometime soon (or even bukkit colours)

Edit: added config option for public / private
Edit2: Added the '/list' command to see who's online

[TwelveEight]

darkrising, on 27 February 2013 - 07:02 AM, said:

TwelveEight, on 26 February 2013 - 08:29 PM, said:

Colour chat and Channel Switching? *pukes rainbows*
I saw this yesterday and it is already so much better! c:

Yeah when I put my mind to something usually it gets done quick
hopefully I'll have slash colours working sometime soon (or even bukkit colours)

Edit: added config option for public / private
Edit2: Added the '/list' command to see who's online

I can tell!!
If you added slash colours, I would love you forever.

[darkrising]

Another update!

• Scrollable chat
  
• /help command
  
• new screenshots above

I need some more ideas, suggestions would be appreciated!

[momona5]

Wow. I started this project back up i guess haha. Happy you fixed it so quickly, and wow and added a bunch of stuff! DARKCHAT FOR THE WIN!

[momona5]

darkrising, on 13 December 2012 - 02:23 PM, said:

• Added new private / public config options

What exactly do the public / private options do? What is the difference?






Also, on another note: I tried tweaking the code a bit by changing the os.reboot() for the /exit to shell.run("startup") so it won't kill anything else running, but darkchat gui shows up over everything, and if I ctrl + t the startup program it brings me back into DarkChat as if I never left. crtl + t that and I get a lovely error:

parallel:22: Terminated

then I tried:

term.clear()
shell.run("startup")
exit()

which gave me this

parellel:22: b:302 attempt to call nil

[darkrising]

momona5, on 28 February 2013 - 01:18 PM, said:

darkrising, on 13 December 2012 - 02:23 PM, said:

• Added new private / public config options

What exactly do the public / private options do? What is the difference?

-snip-

Private option makes it so that you can set a username and default channel which is saved, so in a sense it will auto-login as the set user.
Public option doesn't save the user on restart or exit.

And yes there's a reason I used os.reboot All the functions would have to return to exit parallel, shell.run("shell") might work, however it would just run shell on top of everything else (not a good idea).

Edit: Took a look into it and made a few changes, so now the program will exit on /exit instead of rebooting, wasn't actually that hard to implement

[Derp_Herpsworth]

I've installed this program on my test server. It was nice. Tell me, was it hard coding it?

[darkrising]

Derp_Herpsworth, on 01 March 2013 - 11:18 AM, said:

I've installed this program on my test server. It was nice. Tell me, was it hard coding it?

Not really, some parts took a lot of brainstorming but most of the code I wrote didn't take much thought, this program is unique as usually I don't write totally event based programs.

If you have any suggestions feel free to drop a comment