Battle.net Instant Messenger!

[iago]

ROFL. This is almost as bad as that Battle.net Trillian plugin that I forget who (I think it was Yoni) wrote for someone else I forgot.

That's a reallly good idea, and a super-useful plugin.  I've been wanting to write one for Gaim for a very long time, but have never gotten around to it. 

[Newby]

Useful if you implement some way to message the channel and basically open up a chat window for the channel that you can close at will but still be in the channel.

[iago]

Isn't that what Yoni's Trillian plugin did?

[Chavo]

There is this plugin for gaim, but when I last tried to use it (some time ago), I wasn't able to get it to work.  I didn't put any effort into discovering why at the time, but it would certainly be a better project than writing a client from the ground up.

If you just want some primitive AIM <-> BNET communication, my announce plugin for JavaOp2 already does that.

[Furious]

How much effort does it take to leave a bot open?

[Mythix]

Is it me or when someone suggests a new idea in their bot joe takes it and tries doing it?

[igimo1]

It's been done already.

[Newby]

Is it me or when someone suggests a new idea in their bot joe takes it and tries doing it?

Something along those lines. It's joe!

[iago]

Is it me or when someone suggests a new idea in their bot joe takes it and tries doing it?

Something along those lines. It's joe!

Joe likes to attempt to implement neat new ideas.  Is that a bad thing?

There is this plugin for gaim, but when I last tried to use it (some time ago), I wasn't able to get it to work.  I didn't put any effort into discovering why at the time, but it would certainly be a better project than writing a client from the ground up.

If you just want some primitive AIM <-> BNET communication, my announce plugin for JavaOp2 already does that.

It worked fine for me, and there's also a binary version that works with Starcraft.  I'd rather do it from scratch, though, I don't think it would be terribly difficult.

[Warrior]

Sure it is when you make a big fuss about it and never get it done.

[Joe]

Wow, you guys are real supportive.

You don't think AIM has more than one machine running to service their IM protocol?

You're funny.

Did you read my post? I said that it had a single location, not a single server. Ugh.

[Newby]

Wow, you guys are real supportive.

We love you. Well, some of us do, anyhow.

If you want to try something new, write something useful. If you can't think of anything useful, try to write a program that emulates something you use every day. Something like, uh, an AIM client, or a web browser.

If you do like me and try and think of things you don't have, you'll get so bored and confused you'll quit programming.

Did you read my post? I said that it had a single location, not a single server. Ugh.

Location? Elaborate, now you've confused me.

[iago]

If you want to try something new, write something useful. If you can't think of anything useful, try to write a program that emulates something you use every day. Something like, uh, an AIM client, or a web browser.

That seems much more useless than making something interesting.

[Sidoh]

Did you read my post? I said that it had a single location, not a single server. Ugh.

I really don't think it's in a single location anyway.  And even if this is true, why does it really matter?  In all the years of my life, I've had the internet backbone for my state go down... once, I think.  And they fixed it within an hour.  That was only for government buildings, too.

[iago]

Did you read my post? I said that it had a single location, not a single server. Ugh.

I really don't think it's in a single location anyway.  And even if this is true, why does it really matter?  In all the years of my life, I've had the internet backbone for my state go down... once, I think.  And they fixed it within an hour.  That was only for government buildings, too.

What if there was a large-scale war that Blizzard survived and AOL didn't?