Here\'s some of the main features that I\'ve achieved:
* Individual fonts and colors
* emoticons (optional)
* skinnable interface
* multiple room joining
* multiple choice trivia (gonna need questions again)
* Plus almost all the features that NitroX had
Here\'s some of the features I HOPE to achieve:
* scripting functionality
* Interprocess communication (IPC) between add-on bots and client
* filesharing
Here\'s some of the problems I\'m facing:
Due to using VB6 I\'ve come across an annoying limitation. I\'m in desperate need to be able to utilize multithreading. You see upon receiving a large shwack of data from an IRC server (usually in the form of room lists or name lists of VERY large rooms - usually 400 ppl or more) Gemini will freeze until the data has finished arriving. On a server like EFNET or DalNet this can take up to 5 minutes - this is unacceptable.
Multithreading would allow for specified parts of the program to continue while the data finishes arriving - a reasonable solution. However, although there are some methods of multithreading in VB6, they aren\'t very good. So hopefully I can come up with some solution or this may become a major strike against Gemini.
oooo .... I just had a brain fart.... since I\'m gonna impliment IPC I may be able to use a seperate .exe to accept the \"shwack of data\" and then pass it over to the main .exe; Thus the data-acceptor.exe would do the temporary freeze (no biggy) while the main .exe would continue to run smoothly. Hmmm, I\'ll have to try it
Sorry, I\'ve begun to think outloud.
Projected release date:
Late July to Mid August
