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#Ideas on further development

(note that this is just some notes of mine-feel free to comment/improve them) ##Redesigning the packets ###What we want to be able to do (that involves client and server)

  • We want the clients and server to be able to send/receive messages
  • We want to be able to send pings
  • We want to be able to change name during conversations-maybe just do this how they do it in irc as a single command
  • We want to be able to get a list of clients from the server

Metadata-this is a big fat list. Items are just strings, and lists within metadata are arguments of the previous item.

{'type'    : 'text/image/file' # Type of message being sent
 'message' : 'msg',
 'name'    : 'jim',            # (eg green..., client, server)
 'metadata': {'ping/pong': True,
              'newname': 'john',
              'gotname': True,
              'getusers': True,
              'gotusers': ['list_of_all_users']
             },
}

##Tkinter hyperlinks ###Some links to follow up on

These are related to setting up hyperlinks for Tkinter

###Discussion

  • For the Tkinter hyperlinks, there can be a separate hyperlnks module.
  • Then, when text is to be added, it is parsed and a list of tuples/lists is made by some separate view-independent code.
  • Each tuple has a fragment of text and what type of text it is (eg normal, hyperlink, @mention)
  • Then, we can run through and insert each text fragment with the corresponding tags

##re

  • Use re.match to identify commands given by user

##CLI view

  • This may require using addReader/addWriter-this needs further research/testing

##Image support