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Max4344:
--- Quote from: Ephialtes on November 21, 2011, 03:32:20 AM ---Initially I was intending to use Jabber/XMPP for the backend of the chat system but the way the protocol works didn't really suit my intentions for RTB Connect and in the end I wrote my own protocol + server. In the far future I hope to put together some sort of Pidgin plugin so people can use the chat system externally but that is a long way off since I don't know how to write Pidgin plugins.
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http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ThirdPartyPlugins
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Chrono:
--- Quote from: Marcem on November 21, 2011, 06:10:43 PM ---What does this mean?
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He hosts servers.
Ephialtes:
--- Quote from: Kalphiter on November 21, 2011, 05:58:26 PM ---30 copies of the game.
Major issue, left unfixed.
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RTB4 doesn't yet have a dedicated auto-updater so guess who's going to be manually updating 30 games anyway? Yep, you.
--- Quote from: Uristqwerty on November 21, 2011, 05:35:24 PM ---Might be possible to write and run locally a python script (or other language) that acts like a regular IRC server, internally translating messages to/from the protocol and passing them on to the RTB chat servers in the RTB Connect protocol.
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The whole idea behind RTB Connect is the friends list and proper authentication which both won't work on an IRC server. I'm not interested in some stuffty makeshift solution.
--- Quote from: Max4344 on November 21, 2011, 10:07:02 PM ---http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ThirdPartyPlugins
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Perfect thanks, now I know everything. The plugin should be ready next week!
Destiny/Zack0Wack0:
--- Quote from: Ephialtes on November 22, 2011, 02:14:44 AM ---Perfect thanks, now I know everything. The plugin should be ready next week!
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While you're at can you make one for empathy too? There's no plugin system as far as I can see, so you'll need to build it yourself. This should give you all the information you need: http://live.gnome.org/Empathy#Developers
Wait, can you make a web chat messenger too? Here's a tutorial on how to script in JavaScript, that should help a lot: http://www.w3schools.com/js/
I've heard lots of good things about the accuracy of w3schools' tutorials, so that should help you get it done in a week or so.
MegaScientifical:
I've always had this prejudice against messengers like Pidgin because I'd find people on them can have a lesser experience than being on the actual messenger it is linking. Some focus on simply supporting of chat, and you must find a slow to update plugin for the other main features of the messenger not provided. With WLM for example, I can not photoshare with some Pidgin users, forcing the roundabout route of uploading it to a site and linking them despite the built-in feature of the first-party messenger. Basically, I don't like having to sacrifice various provided conveniences for the single convenience of putting it in one messenger.
I bring this up to ask that could there be more than just a Pidgin plugin? Maybe just a section of RTB's site where you can talk utilizing your account. I apologize if my statements are at all troublesome, I know it's extremely petty to fret over the points I listed, and it does not need to be taken if you don't believe it's valid.
Edit: I took a while to type this. I basically asked the same thing as Zack did in his second paragraph, but with my statement in a less intelligent fashion.