tl;dr: Yet another standalone chat client, scroll down for links
Vha.Chat and Vha.Net
The chat client
Vha.Chat is a new standalone Anarchy Online chat client that aims to replace AORC as the primary chat client.
I hope to achieve this by creating a solid and much more feature complete implementation of Anarchy Online's chat.
Already has Vha.Chat matched many of AORC's features and includes several AORC doesn't.
The main difference between AORC and this client:
- Significant effort has been made to display AOML and Info Windows just like Anarchy Online does.
- Full support for encoded messages (displays the tower and org msg. channel correctly)
- Full support for system messages (offline tells, inbox full, /cc commands)
- Completely open source with active development and a public roadmap
- Popup windows for a single channel or private conversation
The chat library
The library (Vha.Net) is a heavily cleaned and fixed version of VhaBot's AoLib.
Most notable is the addition of full support for remote private channels and system messages.
Additionally many shutdown/disconnect related bugs have been fixed.
Links
Contributors
Developers
Vha.Chat wouldn't be the state it is in today without the help of the community.
Are you a developer and feel like helping out? Read more about it
here.
Alpha testers
But even as a user you too can help out. With Vha.Chat growing bigger we've increased our need for testers.
Among the links there is a link to a list of alpha builds (top one is the latest).
We'd be most grateful if you're willing to take the risk of taking these for a spin instead of the stable builds.
You can report bugs here on the forum, by PM or even on IRC (#coders @ irc.funcom.com).
Known issues
Weird characters
Output produced by certain bots (like VhaBot) may appear incorrect in Vha.Chat.
Unfortunately, this is related to a bug in these bots and a bug fix in Vha.Chat.
A fix has been made for VhaBot and will be included in its next release.
No colors
By default all colors are stripped from scripts and bots in the main chat window.
This is working as intended and often greatly improves the readability of bot output.
In 1.1 and earlier; this behavior can be changed by manually editing Config.xml.
In 1.2 and later; this behavior can be changed in the options interface.
Can't select
There are some known issues with selecting and copying text from the chat window.
I've been unable to track down the source of this and doesn't seem to be reproducible on my machine.
If you're having this issue, please reply with your OS and IE version. Also mention if the issue is constant or only at random times.