Friday, May 26, 2006

EMPP Client Progress

After searching for a long while how to make the message displaying work out nicely, I switched the client to Swing. At least you can find HTML Rendering Components for that one :)
A preliminary result can be seen below....Mars Attacks, with Flying Saucers ;)
Left the EMPP Client in progress, right the SSH shell access.

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Not too bad, although it took quite some while to figure out some nifty little tricks to make this work out (including some custom URL Handler, some custom Node builder for insertion in DOM Documents, a hand written Emoticon parser to avoid running hundreds of regexps over a simple string etc.).

PS: Thanks to Adium for the default Emoticon set.....they can be replaced :)

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