instant-messaging

How messengers (IM) works (listening) ?

My task is to write a Messenger program for both internal and external staffs, I actually made it. However, I thing this is really not a good approach by using the client software keep "check-mesg" from server. So I think I am just simulating the IM program. I want to make the client app become a listening server, and let user p2p talk...

What do I need to know before working on an IM application?

I'm looking into building an IM-type application using Java stack (for the server at least). I'd be interested to see any information/advice on how applications like Skype/AIM/MSN work, as well as know any technologies/APIs that might be relevant. Without giving away the idea itself, it's perhaps more akin to Google Wave than Skype, but ...

Getting service unavailable message when sending messages to google xmpp using wokkel

Hi, I made a wokkel (twisted python) bot to send and receive messages from the google xmpp service. Everything (auth, presence) etc works fine. One of the requirements of our project is that we need to send broadcast messages to everyone in the list. Normal messages and replies work fin, but when i send a broadcast message, i get this s...

Jabber integration into site and multiple domains

Hi all, I'm creating a centralised web product, i.e. a customer gets assigned a personal domain, for example company1.example.com or company2.example.com and can then use our service. I'm planning to integrate a jabber service into the website. I have already found a decent jabber client library which I can use for the site. I know th...

Creating an Instante Messenger using XMPP and C#.NET

Hello I've been trying to create an Instant Messaging application in my ASP.NET site using C#. I came to know about XMPP which is a protocol used for instant messaging by GChat. I was wondering how to implement it in my ASP.NET application. Any insights provided on this will be very much appreciated. Thank you. NLV ...

How would I go about making an instant messaging system?

Is there an API or anything to help build an application around the instant messaging capabilities of Live Messenger and others? What tools and systems could a developer leverage to help launch such functionality in their application? ...

Yahoo messenger login

Have you any sample code for login in Yahoo messenger through OpenYMSG using OpenYMSG jar which is on site http://sourceforge.net/projects/openymsg/ ...

How to create a personalized ContactList with Qt

Hi everyone, I'm trying to find the best way to create a personalized contact List for an instant messaging app. Maybe with a Tree View but I'm not sure. I Need a way to view Groups in which there are Contacts. A Contact contains different info and action buttons like "Send a message, View infos, ... " An example @ http://ycorpblog.c...

How to create Real Time AJAX?

A good example of what I want is a chat system, where I send a message to someone and he can instantly see my message and vice versa. So I want the best way to track if in the database there is a new answer for me if yes then show it with AJAX. Example Websites: Twitter Friend Feed ...

How would you mirror XMPP bind sessions to multiple tabs or windows a la facebook, okCupid etc

I've implemented a web based instant messaging / chat feature using http binding and ejabberd. For the lazy here's the short version of my question: How would you go about implementing a web based XMPP chat client which could be displayed in multiple browser windows simultaneously, each displaying an identical view of the open chats? M...

Good example of using libpurple?

I have an old machine in my house and one of the things this machine does is detect whether a particular door in the house has just opened or closed. Right now, I have that machine post a tweet on a private Twitter account. I would now like to give this machine its own AIM account and have it send me a message on AIM. The only message...

How do Yahoo! Messenger status detectors work?

How do services such as ydetector.com make the difference between invisible users and off-line users? ...

Getting Zune information into Trillian

So I've been trying to get this to work for a long time, but I don't really know the Trillian API and need some help. I can do it three different ways: Get song info from registry (using http://znp.codeplex.com/) Read information from a fake Winamp window (http://tinyurl.com/znpdig) Act as WLM to recieve the messages Zune sends The ...

Instant Messenger in PHP?

I am woking on another project, and need to be able to create an online instant messenger that combines everybody's chat (Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, Google , etc) into one in order to provide the user with an easy way to chat with all their friends and not have to download anything. I was thinking of doing this with PHP, but I'm not ...

Instant messenger streaming with libVLC python wrapper

I'm trying to develop an instant messenger client that supports video streaming. I am working with the libVLC wrapper for Python. Most basic functions of an IM client are already there, my problem comes with the video streaming. I've been able to do basic tests like streaming a video and playing it in a tkinter form with my own code. But...

Fastest way to constantly send and receive data between 2 Android phones

What is the fastest way to constantly send and receive data between 2 Android phones? e.g. long, lat, IM or just some number. not for an always-on connection or push services. The app is running on foreground and waiting for data on both sides. ...

building an instant messaging application from scratch

I would like to build a web based instant messaging application where people can exchange files and also edit documents like word from scratch. People should be able to edit a document collaboratively and also chat simultaneously. Are there any tools that i can use to ease my work particularly in python or Php sql,ajax,java or c++? ...

Instant Message Framework example

Can someone show an example on how to log in to AIM, then send and receive messages using the IMframework? Thanks! ...

What instant messaging system would you use, to extend a bank website with a secure 1:1 chat with their bank manager?

I need to implement a chat system for a bank's website, so that customers of the bank can talk to their bank managers one-on-one online over the website. So what I need is a system which does: Shows a list of bank managers in the browser, with status indicating if they're online or not Allows the user to open a chat with a manager; p...

Problems with VLC and instant messaging.

I've have asked these questions before with no proper answer. I hope I'll get some response here. I'm developing an instant messenger in python and I'd like to handle video/audio streaming with VLC. Tha basic idea right now is that in each IM client I'm running one VLC instance that acts as a server that streams to all the users I want...