[dcc2] Hi all :)

[Szymon Stefanek]

On Tuesday 10 February 2004 20:25, Jesse McGrew wrote:

> Actually, DCC VIDEO was (more or less) successfully implemented in
> Visual IRC '98. It's no longer implemented in ViRC 2 because it depended
> on an obsolete third-party component, and I wouldn't worry about making
> a new DCC VIDEO protocol compatible with ViRC '98, but there it was.

DCC VIDEO is a hard thing to implement. The idea of using a third party
component was good. I think the Dan's idea of triggering external programs
with a DCC2 negotiation is appealing in this case.

> Speaking of subprotocols, perhaps we should add DCC Whiteboard to the
> list, which was implemented in ViRC '97 and which I'm still supporting
> today. I haven't written up a specification yet, but the source code for
> ViRC 2 is available (see ViRC/Src/WhiteboardU.pas in CVS at
> www.sf.net/projects/visualirc/).

Yes, WHITEBOARD is also a really useful proto. I have thought of it many times
and even tried to implement it to a certain degree (canvas.cpp in the KVIrc sources).
My implementation is still unfinished but if we agree on a standard protocol (maybe
simplier that the one that I have tried to write down) I'll be happy to work again on it.

-- 

Szymon Stefanek

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