Re: Please welcome ebnc: ncurses UI for eb-lite

Karine Proot wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>   Summary of the following: I started working on the ncurses UI, it is
>called ebnc, and I have imported it to trunk. I wouldn't recommend
>looking at it yet.
>
>   OK, now with details.
>   I answered Meredydd's call one thursday afternoon (ok, I have to
>admit I don't really remember when it was, maybe one month ago) and
>asked for participating in eb-lite. I didn't know anything about ncurses
>or term UI, and am learning about it.
>   The code imported in the repository is "usable", but only if you
>really have time to lose... chatting with only one buddy at a time is
>not thrilling, and there are a lot of things unpractical or merely
>undone.
>   If anyone heard about it, I've been looking at centericq code and its
>tools for the UI, but don't use them (yet ?).
>   I live in France and hope I always make myself understandable, please
>forgive me if I don't. All I ask for now is to feel welcome here. But,
>as it is my first experience with open source development, I do want to
>be told when what I do or say is nonsense ! 
>
>Karine
>  
>
I know nothing of ncurses, but I've used naim 
[http://site.n.ml.org/info/naim/] for a while, and find its interface 
rather easy to use.  The author of it also makes himself easy to get 
ahold of, should you need to.  Just in case you wanted something else to 
get ideas from.

On a different note, I've been working on a Java client.. Like Karine 
I'm an open source neophyte, and I'm not that knowledgeable with Java.  
Even ignoring that, I've got it able to connect to a remote server, show 
the buddy list, away message dialog, and conversations.  Preferences 
almost done, which will make the accounts tab usable.  I was wondering 
if anyone else was working on a Java client as well?   Might be nice to 
share ideas if possible.  Probably not, but ..  *shrug*.  I only started 
it because I needed a client that worked on windows to test my visual 
studio .net compiled version of eb-lite (AIM, IRC, MISC modules only), 
but it seems to have gone a bit further than a simple test. 

If anyone wants a copy of it (it's rather ugly code, I'm warning you.. 
again, not all that knowledgeable about java.), or info on how I got 
eb-lite to compile in vs.net, email me, I'll share :)  (the vs.net 
compile is a hack: most of it is just #defining stuff that isn't in 
visual studio.. so most of it is done in the makefile and associated 
dummy header files that I needed. I made only three changes to source 
files I believe?)