With the pending release of Chatters 2.0, I figured I had best throw this out there. FlashChat is going though a full rewrite, top to bottom. Even the name will change. B-Net. I thought FlashChat was a gimicy name that only drew people in because of the flash.
B-Net will be a chat room. That is it. I feel that chatters uses way to much in the map and icon area. This will not happen in B-Net. I am still debating on an optional side bar or not. I do want to bring back flash, but it is actually the bottom rung of the priority list. I want to create a good, flexible chat system that will be just as functional on Linux and telnet as it is on windows.
Although I doubt it will beat out chatters 2.0, it will be a nice chatting environment that I hope people will enjoy.
As odd as this may sound, I plan on helping with chatters when it becomes opensourced. Hell, I might end up using it as a base for B-Net, just gutting out all the stuff I think is useless and then adding in my own smiley, emote, and link parsing systems.
What the future will hold, nobody knows.
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 Jun 17 2005, 5:57 am
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Gladly, but the flash part was nothing special, just passing links just like html.
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I see. Did you glance at my blog and the way I divised of communicating between flash and BYOND? I've never played Flashchat and the download appeared to be broked, so I wouldn't know how you did it.
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Well, the mole hill I could never get over was sending information into flash. It just always stumped me. Then again, I never tryed hard on it.
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I look forward to it, I liked FlashChat much more then chatters.
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I use text files, Scoob. In a Fusion tech demo I got a say verb to display the text in flash in the browser tab.
Obviously with a more elaborate system you could have a better working flash chat. | |
Ah, I remember when you were testing FlashChat with me (Wolf01)! That was a while back, and it was kind-of fun! I'll be looking forward to testing your rewrite.
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Elation, I thought of that way, but figured there was a better way of doing it. I know there is a way to make java and flash talk, and php and flash, so there has to be a way to make byond and flash talk, without constant writing to the harddrive.
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:p You posted an article on maz.byond.com about it, so I'll study that. =)
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You say that Chatters uses the map too much?
You know that you can turn the map off, right? Just use /view -1. =) | |
I have it off, and almost always have. But they could use those CPU cycles for other things. That is a waste of cpu right there.
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":p You posted an article on maz.byond.com about it, so I'll study that. =)"
Wow, I totaly forgot about posting that, it was ages ago (02/05/04). Ya, that gives a basic idea of how I did it. | |
Pretty please?