ML Chat
Posted: 24 Mar 2011, 09:46My neighbor and i are occasionally playing on LAN (wireless) and his Monitor is quite small (15"), so often times he won´t be able to have the chat on the screen.
So i tried to build a "mini" chat with my limited Visual Basic skills (just recently started to learn VB 2010 , so the code is most likely not optimized, but it works).
The goal was to create a chat program that does not fill up much of the screen.I can´t really compare the size on my 20" monitor, but it should be a lot smaller than the basic one.
The obvious downside is that you would have to scroll down when there are a few messages around. I tried to avoid that and made it just "overwrite" the old message.
Download ML Chat
Known Bugs:
-The "Enter Chat" skips a row.I don´t know how to fix this yet, the "send" button is working fine though.
-The 2nd version (that is using the .ini file) is noticeably slower.Not sure if it has to do with the .ini or the code.
Just put that in there like an hour ago.
Wrote everything just today and could obviously not test much.I included the source code of both versions and would be grateful for any improvements.
I don´t have a 2nd PC around and my neighbor is not available for a couple days so i couldn´t test everything.
So i tried to build a "mini" chat with my limited Visual Basic skills (just recently started to learn VB 2010 , so the code is most likely not optimized, but it works).
The goal was to create a chat program that does not fill up much of the screen.I can´t really compare the size on my 20" monitor, but it should be a lot smaller than the basic one.
The obvious downside is that you would have to scroll down when there are a few messages around. I tried to avoid that and made it just "overwrite" the old message.
Download ML Chat
Known Bugs:
-The "Enter Chat" skips a row.I don´t know how to fix this yet, the "send" button is working fine though.
-The 2nd version (that is using the .ini file) is noticeably slower.Not sure if it has to do with the .ini or the code.
Just put that in there like an hour ago.
Wrote everything just today and could obviously not test much.I included the source code of both versions and would be grateful for any improvements.
I don´t have a 2nd PC around and my neighbor is not available for a couple days so i couldn´t test everything.