Chat - Coding Contest

orufet

08-28-2001, 01:51 PM

I just had an idea....For all I know, it will be shunned, but you never know. Some of us regulars at the forum are in the chat room a lot, and that gave me an idea for the next Coding Contest. Who can make the best, most powerful and easy to use chat program?

We could use the winner's idea as our official chat program... Let me know what ya think

Jacob Sheehy

BillSoo

08-28-2001, 01:58 PM

Considering I could only get 4 people to try a sorting contest....I would imagine the turnout for something like this would be sparse at best....

Still, if there is sufficient interest....

"I have a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel!" - Edmund Blackadder

Keltus

08-28-2001, 03:21 PM

a irc client? or a script, you mean?

"I want quality, not quantity; but lots of it."

orufet

08-28-2001, 03:22 PM

Actually, I was thinking of something with Winsock or INet....

Jacob Sheehy

Keltus

08-28-2001, 03:32 PM

that's VERY hard.... would take a long long time like a year to make... there are so many irc commands and stuff

"I want quality, not quantity; but lots of it."

Garrett Sever

08-28-2001, 03:53 PM

Well, I'll back out right now since I already did that project (LAN chat program using Winsock). I use it to communicate with my collegues back in the US.

Attached is a screenshot of the project.
-<font color=orange>The Hand</font color=orange>

Mornin inb2een cold stone ashes fall upon the wretched chosen 1s 100 megatons evaporate those chosen

orufet

08-28-2001, 04:31 PM

I wasn't thinking of including commands and stuff.....My image would be nothing like mIRC, more like MSN Messanger or something like that....

But oh well, nevermind. If that's too hard, no problem, I was just trying to suggest something

Jacob Sheehy

Volte

08-28-2001, 06:25 PM

I've done that millions of times. images/icons/smile.gif
I even made a network Xs and Os program.

orufet

08-28-2001, 07:31 PM

You mean Tic-Tac-Toe?

Yeah, I'm working on a TCP multiplayer pong...

Jacob Sheehy

Volte

08-29-2001, 04:12 PM

yeah, the tic-tac-toe was easy. Pong doesn't sound too hard. The actual MAKING of the game would be harder than implementing 2-player.

dragnut

08-29-2001, 08:58 PM

I'll pass on this one too, i havent ever played with doing inet stuff yet, not even emailing, not to mention working 12-14 hours a day :(
Shawn

Keltus

08-30-2001, 02:27 PM

I'm going to post it here so I don't have to start a new thread:

we got a new high number of users today: 8 :)

"I want quality, not quantity; but lots of it."