DS chat program Released (source too)

[bafio]

Updated 22/2/2006

 

Hi everyone! DSchat is finally out, with real functionalities this time! you can find it here:

 

http://bafio.drunkencoders.com/

 

Version 0.9

 

Version 0.9

* New default skin, designed by Rat (Ben) of Drunken Coders

* New keyboard with support for all the keys, shift and caps.

* Multiple messages view (press X to change from 1 message to 4 messages view)

* Menus (back to bootloader, turn off the ds...)

* Settings (change nickname)

* Changable font for the drawings

* Changable skins (simple JPG images, located in the /skins folder)

TODO:

** fix some bugs still present in the server

** Update to the new Wifi library (when out). That will add support for WEP, etc.

* Saving and loading messages from the CF

* Save settings on server and/or on the CF

* Possibly colors and TCP version... not in the near future though

 

(old)

Hi,

 

I have been working on this chat program, that would allow to write (using the pen) and send messages to people on the internet.

 

This is more of a test release, since messeges go only to the server, but it has some functionality so I decided to release it.There is some hidden functionality too

 

You can get it here:

 

http://bafio.drunkencoders.com/

 

I'll be working on the UI a bit, then on the server and client to have a user list and real chat functionality, then probably on the pc version of the program...

 

PS The settings are not inplemented jet, so you will 1st have to run the transfer program to create the settings file.

 

Bafio

Edited March 8, 2006 by bafio

[captain_duck]

This looks really awesome. I tried it, and it seemed to work on my M3 SD, but i haven't run wifitransfer yet so no settings . I'll just wait till a next release that has settable settings. Anyway i can't wait for a working online version

 

Also as a suggestion, for the server program, could you make it have an option so it saves every picture you make/send to the computer ? This would be awesome for just doodling while your bored. I've made a ton of doodles myself but well there all lost since you want to play games once in a while to

 

Also, i bet it would make the people at http://ndsart.net/ very happy to have an saving function, no need for going through the trouble of making pictures of the doodles with a camera.

Edited January 26, 2006 by captain_duck

[tssf]

It would be cool if after TCP/IP support was released, that this turned into MSNDS.. (since, of course, MSN has "hand writing" capability)

 

Cool program I'm excited for when the wifi library comes out, we're gonna be able to do a lot of cool things.

[Sektor]

It works. I sent a few messages and they went through. I got it to display a zoomed out pic of my desktop. It seems to lose the server often and just says "Is the server up?". I'm right next to the AP and the server is running.

 

The interface looks good, green text is still cool. Like most homebrew apps (apart from dslinux), the touch screen code doesn't work very well on my DS. I can't draw in the top left corner, to get that close, I had to run the stylus along the very left of the screen, I was moving it straight but it curves for some reason.

Edited February 13, 2006 by Sektor

[bafio]

It would be cool if after TCP/IP support was released, that this turned into MSNDS.. (since, of course, MSN has "hand writing" capability)

 

Cool program I'm excited for when the wifi library comes out, we're gonna be able to do a lot of cool things.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

I was just thinking about that, but I didn't find documnetation or better libraries on MSN messenger "handwriting protocol" but that would be really cool, let's see...

 

Fabio

[bafio]

This looks really awesome. I tried it, and it seemed to work on my M3 SD, but i haven't run wifitransfer yet so no settings . I'll just wait till a next release that has settable settings. Anyway i can't wait for a working online version

 

Also as a suggestion, for the server program, could you make it have an option so it saves every picture you make/send to the computer ? This would be awesome for just doodling while your bored. I've made a ton of doodles myself but well there all lost since you want to play games once in a while to

 

Also, i bet it would make the people at http://ndsart.net/ very happy to have an saving function, no need for going through the trouble of making pictures of the doodles with a camera.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

actually, a saving method would be really easy to add, I'll put it into the next release

 

Bafio

[tssf]

All I can really guess is that the picture display capability in MSN messenger is just..well, GIF files. I mean, people pm me on MSN all the time with little animations in their sentances and all.. Would the handwriting function be mearly a capture of someone's mouse movements rendered to a standard GIF file, and displayed within the window?

 

Perhaps there's more to it, but from what I can see, most of the MSN libraries out there are out of date.

[Öhr GmbH]

nice program! how about this:

pictochat over internet(and WLan only, too)?

DS <----Message/Picture---INTERNET---Message/Picture---> PC

DS <----Message/Picture---INTERNET---Message/Picture---> DS

Edited January 28, 2006 by Öhr GmbH

[dualscreenman]

Hey, you're stirring something up on the nintendo forums.

http://forums.nintendo.com/nintendo/board/...p=true#M2176114

Don't worry, I've given them an explanation on to what it is. (I'm Knuxtheechidna on the board) Anyways, Bafio it'd be cool if you actually went onto the thread at Nintendo and shocked them with actually talking to the author.

[Lockwood]

those dam nintendo ds noobs in that forum!!!

They say that its not good to hack the nds.

 

muwahmuwahmuwah

 

(sorry for any agressions in this post (its not meaned to you))

[dualscreenman]

I know exactly what you mean, and more than one time have felt frustration trying to beat into their noob-skulled heads the truth about homebrew.