Ok, so I had this idea AGGEESS ago, but it was more to get convos to look like an IRC chat (dont worry, was stupid idea), but now im back with an even zanier idea!

A IRC client for messenger.
I've been looking up activeX controls and stuff to give me some sort of telnet connection (but on port 6667) to an IRC server. Then after I looked at some IRC protocols (SENDMSG #msgplus test ) I thought maybe this wouldnt be to hard to do after all.

The way I thought of today of doing this, goes like this.
When the script starts its IRC functinality, it opens telnet window (one per server connected) then hides it both visably and in task bar. Then send commands to the window, and read commands from the window (then clearing them so they wont be read again). All this will be done with Interop calls and some User32 methods.

Sound possible?

Anyone got any better ways of how this could be done?

Something that will activate a function like OnTelnetMsgReceive(MsgReceived) so then I could parse the info and display it in the right chat window.

Basically already been done with http://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html Not sure if you've heard of it or not, just trying to save you some work.

But wheres the fun in not making it .

But actualy, what I want is completly the opposite.
An IRC client <i>in</i> messenger.

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Originally posted by bigbob85
Then after I looked at some IRC protocols (SENDMSG #msgplus test )

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Yeh, well, you got me there, but thats not the point. I wrote that at uni whilst busy with java.

I'll work on it when I can and see if I can find a better method to send/recieve data across to a server.

What's the point of having irc on WLM? I think it would pretty much suck
Maybe that's just me

>: convinience. And something for me to do over the summer.

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* bigbob85 goes \o/    100 Posts

yeah, convenience. same reason wlm includes a browser, mp3 player, and toaster.