mIRGGI - The First S60 3rd Edition IRC Client

Ok, so I got the crap working. Now I know something more about Symbian once again :P

So 0.4.3 fixes the stuff with windows not updating (only titlebar changed etc), nothing much more. Get it, at least if you were so unlucky you installed 0.4.2. Sorry.

Note! v0.4.2 seems to be a bit broken. Don't download it yet.

I have just released v0.4.2. It contains the following features:

• Turkish character set (Windows 1254)
• Greek character set (Windows 1253)
• Baltic character set (Windows 1257)
• Password is sent to the server
• Less flashing with channel activity
• Pressing * will open inputbox and write /

I have currently implemented these character sets in mIRGGI:

• Latin1
• UTF-8
• Russian (Windows 1251)
• Greek (Windows 1253)
• Turkish (Windows 1254)
• Baltic (Windows 1257)

Is there any need for additional charsets? Hebrew (1255)? Arabic (1256)? Or do you use UTF8 already in other regions of the world?

Also a note on the Auto UTF-8 setting in decoding. What it means is that every line received is checked and if there are any UTF-8 sequences found, we'll decode the line as UTF-8. Otherwise it's shown as Latin1. This way you can be on channels that have users with Latin1 and UTF-8 mixed and you'll always get correct text.

I compiled mIRGGI for 2nd Edition devices. I tested it on N70 and 6260 and it's not that nice looking but it works. It does not have the backbuffer for the inputbox since it crashed but otherwise it works. Also the font size setting has no effect since the fonts aren't vector fonts as they are in 3rd edition.

Get it here!

I got the backbuffer for input text working so I decided to release v0.4.1 right after v0.4. There are no other changes in this version.

v0.4 has been released. It contains some fixes and some improvements:

• copy/paste
• T9 and channel activity won't mess up writing
• /part or /leave without any parameters won't crash
• When typing text and another window has activity, the window might change and typed text goes to wrong channel
• When connecting with autojoin, screen flashes quite a bit
• Input box height changes depending on the font size
• Port number wasn't shown correctly in settings
• Password wasn't always saved in settings
• timestamps

Some of the things I wanted to get to this version were left to future versions so that I could get these improvements out for you to use. Hope you like it!

Please report all bugs found here as comments. Report the version used and the problem as accurately as you can (devices tested etc).

Currently known open issues

Currently no known issues on this list, though there are some. I'll update this list after 0.5 is out.

Fixed issues

N73, N80, N93 crashes when trying to use special characters in settings. Doesn't happen with E61 or emulator.

Fixed in 0.4.90

/msg nick something crashes

Fixed in v0.4.4

Kick reason had a : character in front

Fixed in v0.4.2

Screen flicker when channel activity on another channel

Fixed in v0.4.2

T9 and channel activity won't work

Fixed in v0.4

/part or /leave without any parameters may crash

Fixed in v0.4, without parameters will leave the current channel

When typing text and another window has activity, the window might change and typed text goes to wrong channel

Fixed in v0.4

When connecting with autojoin, screen flashes quite a bit

Fixed in v0.4

Input box is not always high enough to fit text with different font sizes

Fixed in v0.4

Port number isn't always saved in settings

Fixed in v0.4

Password isn't always saved in settings

Fixed in v0.3.2

I was in Санкт-Петербург a couple of years ago and I saw on MTV a video for the song Хуямба by Ленинград. If anyone has a nice quality version of it, please let me know. I would really appreciate it.

I have gotten quite a few request for features and I also have some things I personally would like to have. I'll list them here and if you want something, just add a comment and I'll add it here. These requests are in no particular order whatsoever.

I also remove the things I've done from this list when they're available.

Nick list

v0.5

Menu for most used commands

v0.5

nick completion

Could be done since mIRGGI already tracks all users on a channel, probably NOT in v0.5, must figure out a key to do this

device specific keys

For example E61 has volume keys that could be used for scrolling, then we wouldn't have to press ok/enter when writing text etc. Also other devices have extra buttons that can be used. We shall see.

Multiple IRC servers

Possible, but won't be done in the near future. First all other more important functions.

DCC chat/send/receive

A bit bigger things, we'll see. After v0.5

Indicators for activity while using other apps

A bit bigger thing, not soon.

Autoreconnect + rejoin

Sometime, don't know when

changing server from input box

Sometime

not scrolling to the bottom when checking the backlog and there is channel activity

Hopefully in v0.5

rejoin to channels after reconnect

After autoreconnect is done

copy&paste with multiple lines

Maybe in v0.5

Editable "frequently used commands/phrases" section in menu

Hopefully in v0.5

Translations to other languages (Finnish, Swedish, Russian...)

v0.4.7

/close leaves channel

v0.4.7

On-connect commands

v0.4.x

backlight on when messages arrive

v0.4.x

keepalive for the server connection

v0.5

Logging

v0.4.92

CTCP ping, clientinfo etc

v0.4.x

Sound message when private messages arrive

v0.4.91

Shorter commands possible (e.g. /j for join)

v0.4.91

URL catcher

v0.4.x

SSL support

v0.4.93

I have written some things for the coming v0.4 release:

• backlog for own texts so you don't have to rewrite stuff for different windows
• copy&paste from channel/query windows (if I get it to work nicely)
• screen flickering reduced
• probably a keep-alive -ping for people moving a lot and getting disconnected
• some checks for some commands that can be used to crash the whole thing (Symbian descriptors rock, you know)

I don't know when v0.4 will be out, I must see what functions I get done and when. I think it'll be out quite soon though. I have some other boring bureaucratic things to get done at the moment, so...

As the mIRGGI has a life of its own and I do get email requests and questions, I thought I could open a new site just for it. Here you can send requests, bug reports etc as comments.