Chat Client (Yeah, I was bored)

[The Reborn Devil]

Yeah, I found out that it occurs then too.

 

[Eccho]

Another bug is, that I can see all ignored people even though the "show ignored users" option isnt checked.

 

[PurplePoot]

That refers to chat from them, not their existence.

 

[Eccho]

I cant chat with them no matter the option... I mean, sure, I see their name, in both options, but I can never see what they write no matter what either.

 

[PurplePoot]

This applies only for users blocked via /ignorelist, not via /ignore (the site doesn't even send the messages of the latter). If you are doing that correctly then it is indeed a bug and I'll look into it.

 

[PurplePoot]

Fixed the emote filter and made it less crappy. Also fixed the archive corruption problems--it turns out my batch code had a bug which caused it to rar files instead of zipping them.

 

[oh_snap]

Displaying what the client is capable of:

~Snap

 

[Pyritie]

Here's my userlist if anyone wants it. It's got all of the chat icons and colored names back to what they used to be.

 

[Billy the Cat]

5C5C5C for Hubcool and 8c00f7 for Tank-Commander for whoever wants to use those
They picked them.

Opening links and highlighting names by clicking goes a bit weird for me :\
It only works when I click on the bottom of the link/name.

 

[Joe-black-5]

cant the hive just put these in chat instead of all members just downloading the client?

 

[Pyritie]

no because we're communist

 

[MortAr]

Ok, so I don't know if the client is still supported, but I have some problems regarding to connect and use.

First one is this:

Screenshot

It doesn't happen very often but sometimes I need to restart the client several times (by restart I mean, close it and open it again) before its successfully connects. I don't know what is wrong here, prephas you can explain?

Secondly, when I finally and successfully connect to the server, it only shows this:

Screenshot

It stays like this FOREVER. I mean, I left like that for more than an hour and nothing happened.

So, can you help me solve my problems?

 

[PurplePoot]

1) Probably due to your connection hiccoughing and the client thus only receiving part of the information (this would also explain why restarting several times fixes it). Can't say I know for sure though since I haven't experienced that myself.

2) No idea.

Also, no, it's no longer supported. I was working on a from-scratch client for the new chat, but that was dropped through a combination of my inactivity on the project and my (mostly) leaving THW.

 

[Kimbo]

Sometimes I have ghost users.. example:
Anarch is talking in chat, but he isnt on my list.

Py didnt have a leave message and was on my list, but it was confirmed by others py left afew minutes ago.

I closed your client, went into hivechat and 5 users were gone. Meaning, about 5 on your client seemed to have left awhile ago and were still listed as there.

I recently got capped. im on a dialup (actual speed 3kbps) shared among 11 people speed.

 

[PurplePoot]

Yeah, seen that occasionally. As I said, it's no longer being maintained so if anything just use the browser chat (or get someone else to pick up the project or write a new one).

 

[MortAr]

Ok, I understand you're not supporting it anymore, but, could just tell me what this means (I've found this into the errorlog.txt):

java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "X-Cache: MISS from proxy-*My-proxy-adress*"
	at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Unknown Source)
	at components.ChatHandler.getUserList(ChatHandler.java:222)
	at main.Client$membersListClass.run(Client.java:293)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

 

[PurplePoot]

That means it's trying to convert an invalid string (part of the header) to a number. The client assumes that data is well-formed because I never saw any variation in it unless the data was sent improperly and thus garbage anyways.

 

[MortAr]

That means it's trying to convert an invalid string (part of the header) to a number.

Alright, then what da hell this has to do with the connection problem?
I mean, the same error(s) appears in the errorlog file whenever I start the client, no matter if it display "Successfully connected to server" or "Failed to parse chat info" ...

 

[Pyritie]

Alright, then what da hell this has to do with the connection problem?
I mean, the same error(s) appears in the errorlog file whenever I start the client, no matter if it display "Successfully connected to server" or "Failed to parse chat info" ...

I'll whip up a program that should just print out the header. This might help.

 

[Anachron]

Sometimes I have ghost users.. example:
Anarch is talking in chat, but he isnt on my list.

You mean anarchiambadian or me?

 

[Pyritie]

Alright, then what da hell this has to do with the connection problem?
I mean, the same error(s) appears in the errorlog file whenever I start the client, no matter if it display "Successfully connected to server" or "Failed to parse chat info" ...

Okay I sent you a PM with a link.

Change the stuff inside LoginInfo.txt to your username and password. Then run the jar.

Copy and paste the stuff you see in the main window. It might take a few seconds so don't close it immediately.

Also please don't distribute this.

 

[MortAr]

Done, I've sended you 2 PMs with the things I get when trying to connect.

By the way, Idk why but the main window does not scroll down automatically... I need to scroll down manually everytime when the screen is filled with messages.

Also sometimes I see when someone types something but then immeditily I get disconnected.

 

[Pyritie]

I think it has something to do with this:

[06-23-42] [SYSTEM] Reconnected! 
[06-23-47] [KICK] You need to reopen this page (Authentication mismatch - expected 90.154.2xx.xxx, found 79.110.1xx.xxx) 
[06-23-47] [SYSTEM]
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
[...]
X-Cache: MISS from proxy1.borusia.telecoms.bg
X-Cache: MISS from proxy-main.borusia.telecoms.bg
[06-23-48] [SYSTEM] Reconnected! 
[06-23-53] [KICK] You need to reopen this page (Authentication mismatch - expected 79.110.1xx.xxx, found 90.154.2xx.xxx)

You seem to be switching rapidly between two different IPs

 

[MortAr]

Yes, I notice that, but I can't fix it .. its cause of my ISP.

Can you fix that or its clearly impossible?

 

[Pyritie]

You could try running everything through another proxy. That way sites would just see the one proxy instead of you switching between two all the time.

It might slow down your internet though.

 

[MortAr]

Yes, but you need to show me how
Edit: I've found out how, I also have founded some free proxy servers, but everything is the same.
The IP still keeps changing every time in a while (Like every 5 minutes or less) and I get disconnected everytime.

Maybe theres something else I'am missing, dunno, Im still trying to figure out how to fix the problem.

 

[The Reborn Devil]

Woot? This got stickied?!

 

[PurplePoot]

I guess I may do some fixes for this seeing as it still seems to be popular. Anyone want to make a 'most important feature requests/fixes' list?

 

[Billy the Cat]

My problems with the client:

- Using a drawing tablet somehow makes clicking on links and highlighting names by clicking very difficult. Don't know why, but I can only click on the bottom of the names to open a link.
- It sometimes loses the lobby list, moves the icons and naes to weird positions or flushes it all the time.
- My chat crashes pretty often even when I'm still connected to the Hive.

 

[PurplePoot]

Loses the lobby list: Not sure. Any errors in errorlog.txt?
Icons and names going all over: This is due to people putting certain charsets into the client, as far as I know. I may be able to replace those malformed characters (according to the client) with ?s: actually supporting them is pretty much out of the question as unicode charsets are not exactly small and I would have to package one with the client and have it install to your java.
Chat crashing: as in losing its connection?

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I'm thinking of just rewriting this from scratch in LISP, but if I did I don't think that I would include icons etc. Maybe for the new chat (if it ever gets released), since the information sent to it isn't so bad.

 

[Billy the Cat]

Loses the lobby list: Not sure. Any errors in errorlog.txt?
Icons and names going all over: This is due to people putting certain charsets into the client, as far as I know. I may be able to replace those malformed characters (according to the client) with ?s: actually supporting them is pretty much out of the question as unicode charsets are not exactly small and I would have to package one with the client and have it install to your java.
Chat crashing: as in losing its connection?

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I'm thinking of just rewriting this from scratch in LISP, but if I did I don't think that I would include icons etc. Maybe for the new chat (if it ever gets released), since the information sent to it isn't so bad.

Sometimes when I open another tab and return to the chat after a while it's all white and the only thing I can do to close it is Ctrl+Alt+Del.
Pyritie told me about the charset problem. No idea what to do with that. Apparently Pyritie also got the loss of the lobby list problem sometimes.

This is what the chat looks like when scrambled up:
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/pastebin_data/g1zeyw/List.jpg

 

[Pyritie]

Sometimes the @ list works fine with unicode, sometimes it doesn't.

Main feature from me I'd like: When the "sound on highlight" thing is checked, make it also play a sound when you are whispered.

 

[Eccho]

Oh and I remember I had a request. If you could add a "saving preference" in the config file or something, so that it remember what options you have checked and not checked in the tabs menu, and maybe also remember the window size.

I had a problem before, that the chat was basically disconnecting after some time without displaying anything in the error log or saying "connection lost". Apparantly this seem to have been fixed when I changed OS to Windows7 (oddly yes).

 

[PurplePoot]

Sometimes the @ list works fine with unicode, sometimes it doesn't.

The unicode fonts shipped with Java are only partially complete to my knowledge.

Main feature from me I'd like: When the "sound on highlight" thing is checked, make it also play a sound when you are whispered.

Okay. That is literally a two-second change.

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Preferences: I might get around to it finally.

 

[Pyritie]

The unicode fonts shipped with Java are only partially complete to my knowledge.

Yeah but I didn't think random characters would completely break the layout; just be displayed as squares or something.

Okay. That is literally a two-second change.

Okay thanks

 

[PurplePoot]

They are displayed as ?s, but the JEditorPane certainly seems to have its quirks...

 

[Pyritie]

They're displayed as squares for me. >___>

 

[PurplePoot]

Yeah, in the JEditorPane they are displayed as squares, but whenever you attempt to do any sort of printing or viewing of them on a terminal they come out as ? and have the same ASCII code. It's really weird...

 

[Numerion]

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/pastebin.php?id=3387sw <---- dunno when they were created (Xp SP3 )

 

[PurplePoot]

Can you post your rankinfo.txt and userinfo.txt?

 

[Numerion]

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/pastebin.php?id=3387sw <---- Updated

 

[Eccho]

I was eyeing through it, could it be that "wolverabid:Raider.png:393990" screws it up?
"

 

[Pyritie]

Hm, that might've been me hitting ctrl+backspace a few times >___>

As for that "purple", yeah that's me too. "purple" is a color you can use in html so I didn't think there would be any problem with it.

 

[PurplePoot]

I'll see about fixing that (allowing it to load arbitrary colour strings) I guess. If the name doesn't render in colour it will be obvious that you're doing it wrong.

 

[Numerion]

btw , my userinfo is by Billy The Cat ,cause he had most of users done...(i didn't met Shados on chat client though)

 

[Billy the Cat]

Well it's the same as Pyritie's with 2 added colors and icons you might like/not like.
I suggest just using the list Pyritie posted if you like it clean.

 

[PurplePoot]

Fixed some minor bugs, added ding to whispers, and made named colours (such as purple) work. The default colour is black if the colour you enter is invalid.

Also, you can now write to the file with the /set colour and /set icon commands by adding w to the end of the field: for example, /set colour uw ... or /set icon rw ....

 

[Eccho]

no config for preferences then :|?

 

[PurplePoot]

Not yet. It's on my todo list though.

I'm also going to see about cutting down on the memory usage etc.

 

[PurplePoot]

New version; now tracks config changes between uses (you'll need config.txt).

Won't be uploaded until tomorrow since THW doesn't like my computer and thus Py has to upload it.