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QtChat is a GUI chat client front-end for Yahoo! Chat for UNIX and X-Windows. It uses the Qt toolkit from Troll Tech and has been compiled on FreeBSD and Linux platforms. The goal of this project is to create a feature-rich collaborative tool with lots of goodies for programmers.
This project was begun for several reasons:
The current release, 0.9.7.6
, is a development snapshot to fix the latest in Yahoo's changes to
the YCHT login protocol. Many thanks and malted beverages due to
divine_dj,
who supplied the patch. I am only releasing this version now
since noone is able to use QtChat without this fix and apparently I have the
only working copy. BE WARNED: This version was slated to fix
many of the annoying little bugs in QtChat before I was forced to make it
public, and has many debugging print statements turned on (of course you have
the source code and may comment the 'cerr <<' lines out yourself). Among
the features fixed/added are:
Development in the current tree has been suspended and work has shifted completely to the 2.0 model. Being the procrastinator that I am, I almost never work on 2.0 at the moment, but most of the core is complete, I have to implement the Yahoo protocol-specific code and actually write a front end for it, which will probably be a curses client initially. Right now the best (okay, only) command line client I've seen is from Hiro_Protagonist_II called Curfloo.
Version 2.0 is slated for a revamped engine with support for user-defineable plug-in modules using (hopefully) CORBA, file transfer, other goodies. It will be OS-independent and front-end independent; as such, calling it "QtChat" will be something of a misnomer since it doesn't use Qt or any other GUI lib by default. There will probably be a Qt front-end, and probably a GTK+ one (since everyone's been bitchin' at me to use GTK+ :-) and a Curses one.
QtChat currently supports features such as joining rooms, chatting, pm, ignore user, autoignore, minimal invitation support, User away/back messaging, minimal buddylists, etc.
A later version will feature a whiteboard application or collaboration
on source code. Also will be file transfer protocol that will try to be
compatible with as many other third party clients as possible. The
whiteboard application is being coordinated by myself and ronin_aurora_eagle
of Yahoo! Chat and I hope to have a webpage up describing the interfaces
for my sketchings of the project. I'm also reading the specifications
for the voice codec that Yahoo! Chat uses, but it's been so long since I've
done digital signal manipulation and the code is greek to me at present.
So a QtChat-only voice protocol might be in the works.
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| 01-April-2002 |
Once again, Yahoo has screwed with the protocol.
I'm working on adding YMSG support (anyone got any docs?) |
| 20-May-2001: |
Okay, if Yahoo would quit changing the fuckin' protocol I wouldn't have to do this. 0.9.7 fixes Yahoo's change to the username information on 'Room Enter' packets. |
| 27-February-2001: |
Added binary for RedHat-6.2.
If this complains about not being able to find a shared library, do an 'ldd'
on the binary to see what it's looking for & what the runtime linker
was able to match. |
| 04-January-2001: | 0.9.6.pre4 and 0.9.5.3 released; fixes yet another Yahoo breaking of their cookie protocol. 0.9.5.3 is actually courtesy of penguin_power86 (hope I got the screenname right) and has many different options, including support for XMMS (needed to compile). 0.9.5.3 is alpha and is only on this page because I've been using it for the past 2 months or so. I've changed a few things from penguin's mods to more realign it with my own tastes (hey, it's an open source client :-) ). |
| xx-December-2000: | Been on something of hiatus since September; new girlfriend (hi
Jag
[HTML editor screwup, no time to fix now]"%21%29,%0Anew%20job,%20new%20city,%20new%20bills%20%28I%20do%20accept%20donations%20for%20QtChat%20by%20the%20way%29...%0Aneedless%20to%20say,%20Jag%27s%20the%20best%20change%20to%20my%20life%20in%20that%20list%20:-%29%0A%3C/td%3E%0A%3C/tr%3E%0A%0A%3Ctr%3E%0A%3Ctd%3E%3Cb%3E24-August-2000:%3C/b%3E%3C/td%3E%0A%0A%3Ctd%3E%3Ca%20href="0.9.5.2 released; fixes bug in cookie-parsing code. 0.9.6.pre1 patched as well. |
| 15-June-2000: | 0.9.6.pre1 made available on this site. |
| 11-May-2000: | 0.9.5.1 submitted to Freshmeat and LinuxApps. |
| 10-May-2000: | QtChat-0.9.5 submitted to LinuxApps.com. Freshmeat.net links cleared up & correctly point to my page. Again I apologize for any inconvenience. Apparently (and I don't know why this is) anyone with a Freshmeat account can change an entry, including myself. |
| 09-May-2000: | Unfortunately someone has already posted QtChat to Freshmeat , making it impossible for me to post new revisions to this distribution website under the name "QtChat". I have contacted the person, who ironically offered to maintain binaries of QtChat on his site, but neglected to inform me of the submission. In an effort to maintain control over the distribution of the intellectual property of the developers of QtChat, I am forced to temporarily deny access to the tarballs from this website. Hopefully this is merely a simple misunderstanding and the person will remove the unauthorized submission so that I may return the distribution to Freshmeat under my name. If you desparately need a copy of this spiffy Yahoo! chat client, drop me a line along with a short note mentioning where you heard about QtChat. I apologize for any inconvenience, and the site will be more publicly available soon. In the meantime, I'll probably post QtChat to Freshmeat under an alternate name. |
| 08-May-2000: | Version 0.9.5 released. |
| 24-Apr-2000: | Version 0.9.4.2 released. |
| 24-Apr-2000: | Binary distributions for RedHat Linux may be found here. |
| Moved version number to 0.9.5.1. Fixed segfault when null chatter created by mis-parsing of some received packets. Added clickable link for Yahoo mail when announced. |
11-May-2000 | 0.9.5.1 |
| Moved version number to 0.9.5. Fixed resizing of client. Completed state saving code. Fixed updating of chatters list. |
08-May-2000 | 0.9.5 |
| Added ignore PMs from chatters below specified FriendLevel Added code to enable/disable/adjust clone detection. Fixed FriendLevel-handling bug Began adding code to save QtChat state in ~/.qtchat/qtchat.ini |
04-May-2000 | |
| Added enable/disable for different autoignore conditions | 21-Apr-2000 | |
| Added AutoIgnore enable/disable to prefs dialog Added autoignore friend level to prefs dialog Started on Find dialog again |
20-Apr-2000 | 0.9.4.2 |
| Added clickable status bar that changes menu options. | 19-Apr-2000 | 0.9.4.1 |
| Fixed autoignore count setting in preferences Added /goto command |
14-Apr-2000 | |
| I lost half my changes notes apparently Added partial command evaluation (/tel, /q, etc.) Corrected highlight color restore operation Corrected highlight color dialog setting (was setting highlight to black if cancelled) Changed autoignore isIgnorable() to not autoignore FRIEND or higher |
13-Apr-2000 | |
| Moved revision number to 0.8.5. Added script to check for function declaration of strdup(). Should fix the strdup() declaration problems. Reenabled compilation of core/emotion.h in lieu of fix. |
12-Nov-1999 | 0.8.5 |
| Fixed bug with /exec command when command is not found in search path. | 09-Nov-1999 | |
| Moved revision number to 0.8.4 Fixed bug where chatters who left chatroom were deleted by the damn Qt QListBox widget when removed from the widget. This is thought to be the source of the crash bug. Fixed the /join command. Disabled compilation of the core/emotion.* files due to strdup() problems on Linux platforms. |
03-Nov-1999 | 0.8.4 |
| Segfaults noticed on several platforms, including mine :-( It apparently has to do with my edits to the network class in order to accomplish multiple simultaneous connections. We can't put off any longer moving to the new model and breaking up YahooNetConnection. Further comments in this file will include details of changes to new model. | 21-Oct-1999 | |
| Moved revision number to 0.8.3. Implemented File->New Window menu functionality. Added File->Close menu item to close single window. Began adding separate PM window capability. Modified Makefiles to add warning messages/ copyright info. Added COPYRIGHT file (empty). |
18-Oct-1999 | 0.8.3 |
| Added new "Connection" pane to preferences dialog. This pane
is non-functional at the moment. "/exec"/"/shell" commands added. Fixed View [component] menu item functionality. Began adding of state persistence to components. Still have to work out mechanism for saving/ restoring state. Deleted extra files in 3rdparty/ since they aren't being used. Reduced tarball size to sub-70k. Edit [Cut|Copy|Paste] functionality added. Chat entry "Copy" menu item and functionality added. Added ability to display PM text to room, revamped PM-handling menus. |
12-Oct-1999 | |
| Moved revision to 0.8.2 from 0.8.1. | 08-Oct-1999 | 0.8.2 |
| Added new "Diagnostics" pane to preferences dialog, the only pane implemented so far. New pane now controls messages to stderr such as constructor invocation and network debug printf()'s. | 07-Oct-1999 | |
| Added menu items to control display of statusbar, menubar, chatterslist, ignore bin. | 06-Oct-1999 | |
| Added control over debug messages sent to stderr, converted
constructor/destructor messages to new method. Added blank preferences dialog, set up structure for coding the widget. |
05-Oct-1999 | |
| Modified net/net.cc to allow entries that begin with '
/' but are not recognized commands to be entered as regular text.
Fixed bug with debug widget; was being instantiated with outgoing posts disabled. Added arrows to debug widget display to indicate direction of data, until colors are added in the future. |
04-Oct-1999 | |
| Moved version no. to 0.8.1 from 0.8.0. Added autoignore, fixed limit of 3 identical posts. This will be *much* more configurable in the future. Caught a bug with Chatter *me, who represents the person using the client; 'me' was getting deleted when person exits the room and the roomlist was cleared. Modified roomnames in login widget to drop the "Comp:" part as per the usual Yahoo silliness. |
03-Oct-1999 | 0.8.1 |
| Added ignore bin scrollbox to ChattersListWidget. | 02-Oct-1999 | |
| Added loop's patch for Yahoo autologout. | 01-Oct-1999 |
Current alpha version (sourcecode): qtchat-0.9.7.6.tar.gz
FreeBSD 4.x binary (broken): qtchat-FreeBSD-0.9.7.tar.gz
(675917 bytes)
RedHat-6.2 binary (broken): qtchat-RH62-0.9.7.pre1.tar.gz
(227466 bytes)
You may browse the archive of QtChat versions
here .