Recent changes to feature-requests

package class files as an executable JAR

Kelvin Jiang — Mon, 04 Aug 2003 06:45:05 -0000

should package all /bin/ class files into an executable
JAR so it's compact and more well maintained, atleast for
the binary file download.

Auto complete screen name?

Jimmy — Fri, 23 May 2003 17:47:02 -0000

Is there a way to add in an autocomplete
functionality? such as pressing tab to cycle through
the names on ur buddylist.

Support permit/deny list

Tue, 13 May 2003 06:02:24 -0000

Parse the permit/deny once it comes from the server,
save it, and send back the appropriate command
toc_add_deny/toc_acc_permit. It's annoying when someone
you've blocked im's you...

Can use toc_get_status instead of toc_get_info

Tue, 13 May 2003 05:40:18 -0000

Instead of using tog_get_info command to check if a
user is online, you can use the toc_get_status command,
which will invoke an UPDATE_BUDDY message from the
server about that person. This command was never
documented, but it's quite useful.

get_info

Anonymous — Fri, 02 May 2003 19:05:45 -0000

allow get_info to display the status of a user even if s/he
is not on the buddy list.

change get_info functionality

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:56:43 -0000

simply change the get_info command to
display "*username* is available" instead of "*username*
is not away"

Extend to usage of Java packages

Kelvin Jiang — Sun, 20 Apr 2003 01:59:44 -0000

We want to use packages for the overall code to provide
for better encapsulation of the source. Here's a snippet
of the thread from the developers forum:

By: cjennings ( Craig Jennings )
Packages
2003-01-09 05:37
Hi All,

I think we should make use of packages. I suggest
net.sourceforge.simpleaim for the main package. Any
reason why we haven't so far? Other comments?

By: cjennings ( Craig Jennings )
RE: Packages
2003-01-30 02:35
Actually, I mean java packages. Typically, it's not a
good idea to have no package declaration in a java
source file. You'll see something like:

package com.sun.java
or
package com.oracle.jdbc

in source code that you download elsewhere. One
problem I'm facing is that it appears the javadoc tool
doesn't run if your source files don't have a package
declaration. Here's a page that discusses packages on
sun's tutorial site:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/interpack/pa
ckages.html

Typically, the default name of your package is the
reverse URL of your internet domain. (that's why sun's
source always has com.sun and oracle's com.oracle).
Ours should be net.sourceforge.simpleaim.

What this will do is put our sourcefiles and classes in a
directory so that when others decide to use our source
to build on, there won't be any class or source
namespace clashes.

Let me know what you all think.

By: cloudkj ( Kelvin Jiang )
RE: Packages
2003-01-30 08:31
Ah!

Yes, yes, I understand your point. I think this is a great
idea, not only in terms of allowing javadoc to run on our
code, but also provides us with a standard heirarchy.

If we were to expand the application (ie. with a GUI add-
on), this would probably make the process much
simpler.

I like the idea.

Fix auto-response

Kelvin Jiang — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 00:55:21 -0000

When user is away and someone sends the user a
message, the auto-response should only come up the
first time, then stop coming up until after a while. Same
case with idle messages.

I'm not sure about the details of this feature. I think the
only way to implement this is to somehow keep track of
the amount of time since the last IM received from a
certain buddy. If the time was long enough, then the
auto-response message is sent. Else we would do
nothing.

add/remove buddies from list

Kelvin Jiang — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 00:54:32 -0000

have to implement ability to add/remove buddies from
buddy list

support buddy groups

Kelvin Jiang — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 00:53:55 -0000

support display and config of buddy groups. may need
to implement adding/removing buddies from list first