CornMaster's Trillian Companion

[damunzy]

Because mister Corn had a hot date with his bed I am posting this without his knowledge
Information that CornMasta posted to Ceruleanstudios that I copied an pasted for little old you!:
[CornMaster]
I've written a little program that unlocks some hidden features of Trillian. Description from the website:
"Trillian Companion Background: I love Trillian. A multi-chat application that intergrates ICQ, MSN, AIM, YM, and IRC into one program. The newest 0.70 release is chalked full of features. However some of these features are hidden. This program helps unlock them!!
Features: This program unlocks hidden features in Trillian. It allows selective Bolding and Underlining of text. It also makes it easy to customize font colors...allowing multiple colors to other Trillian users!!"
[/CornMaster]

The download and information page:
http://www.angelfire.com/geek/cornempire/minor.htm#trillian

The Ceruleanstudios forum page that he posted it to:
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=001838

Pic:
SERVER DOWN!!!

 

[Cedric Greene]

That is pretty sweet, good job Corn. Too bad Cerulean Studios couldn't get it right.

 

[CornMaster]

Thanks PH!

I've working on a new version. I left out white text and the /me command. Looking to see if there is anything else missing.

 

[damunzy]

Can you make it skinable also? Maybe intergrate it with trillian

 

[The Balrog]

I really like the program!

 

[CornMaster]

Originally posted by PaleHorse76
Can you make it skinable also? Maybe intergrate it with trillian

Skinnable!! I can make it look like Trillian...but I attempted skinnable once...and it failed pretty bad. Chech out the full version of Convert and Calculate 2.5 to see that horrible attempt.

And intergration....have to talk to the developers about that one.

 

[damunzy]

Making it look like Trillian is a set in the right direction, but consider if someone skins Trillian. Then the Companion would stand out like a sore thumb. Ok, maybe not that bad, but I am just giving you my wish list
Remember I know very little about programming. I am just giving some suggestions.

 

[CornMaster]

I'd like to...but as my program isn't part of Trillian.....the skin of Trillian couldn't be intergrated into my program. I'd have to create individual skins for each Trillian skin. Also...I would have to alter the program so that it can be skinnable (which is tough) and I don't know how to use XML (however their tutorial could help there).

I'll look into it, but don't hold your breath.

 

[GenghisK]

Damn, ok, now I understand why 2 days ago, you IM me lots of strange and weird messages while I was sleeping, such as /color blablabla/message/ blablabla
You were testing!

 

[CornMaster]

Originally posted by GenghisK
Damn, ok, now I understand why 2 days ago, you IM me lots of strange and weird messages while I was sleeping, such as /color blablabla/message/ blablabla
You were testing!

Ahhhh......ahhhhh....

Yep....you caught me.

I was going to add a "Preview" window, that displayed the text with proper formatting, but it proved very difficult. I plan to persue it further, but more passifily. Hopefullly it will come to me in my sleep.

 

[GenghisK]

Btw, are you programming it in VB? Java?

 

[damunzy]

He is doing it in VB, that is why you need the VB runtimes

 

[GenghisK]

Damn, that's why I really hate VB... Those sticking runtimes errors... Hey Corny, what about switching to VC++, that's much better

 

[damunzy]

He probably will as soon as he gets MS VS 6.0 from someone in the mail. It should be out tomorrow or Monday.

 

[GenghisK]

ah yeah true, he doesn't have hotline nor broadband yet
Otherwise... That "way" goes even faster than postal mail

 

[animepornstar]

this is the 21st century and some people are still using mail.

 

[damunzy]

Originally posted by GenghisK
ah yeah true, he doesn't have hotline nor broadband yet
Otherwise... That "way" goes even faster than postal mail

With the speed your server goes it is faster to send snail mail! Oh, I am not complaining...no don't take away my access!
Oh and it is DOWN right now also! You playing games again! How dare you

 

[GenghisK]

Mwarf, that's a good one! I can't even use my own computer for personal use :crazyeyes: I must let it open for other people...
Well actually I was doing that for 1 month and a half already... All the games I got, mmm, couldn't even play it, because, either I'm busy getting other ones, or the machine is busy running server.
He he, will I be able to play Unreal 2, one day?

 

[Divis]

I just recently downloaded Trillian and have had some trouble typing in the text box where you type the text you want to send. When I type, the text is all these funny designs, not wingdings, it's one pattern duplicated everytime I type a character. I can usually fix the problem when typing to someone using Yahoo Messenger, by changing the foregraound color and text color, but I can't change the foreground color when typing to someone using MSN, is there an easy fix to this? BTW thanks for introducing me to a wonderful product

P.S. if it matters, I am running Trillian on a Win ME platform.

 

[GenghisK]

right. I had quite the same problem with the previous version of trilian. When I typed in MSN, nothing appeared. Nor the IM my contacts sent to me. All I could do was to hear the incoming message sound. Nothing else happened. And that phenomenon only ocurring with MSN, the other worked fine... Don't have a clue why.