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<html> <head> <title> Other CB Clients </title> </head> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="?node=print%20displaytype%20stylesheet" /> <body> <div id="header"> <div class="title"> Other CB Clients </div> <div class="subtitle"> by <span id="author">SiteDocClan</span> on <span id="created">Jul 03, 2000 at 07:46 UTC</span> </div> </div> <div id="url"> http://www.perlmonks.org?node_id=20842 </div> <div id="content"> <h1>Other CB Clients</h1> <p> <i>"Hitting reload all the time is getting old! Is there a better way? What other clients can I use for the Chatterbox?"</i> </p><p> Try one of these alternate programs/scripts/pages for the Chatterbox, categorized for your convenience: <ul> <li>No installation required, click and type.</li> <ul> <li><a href="?node=FullPage%20Chat">FullPage Chat</a> and <a href="http://pthbb.org/cb/">Enhanced FullPage Chat</a> - web page w/ frames.</li> <li><a href="?node_id=725405">Free Nodelet Hack: Floating Chatterbox</a> - lets you "detach" the <a href="?node=About%20the%20Chatterbox%20Nodelet">Chatterbox Nodelet</a>. </li> <li><a href="?node_id=220674">new java chat client</a>. (The code is allegedly <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/jchatter/">available at Sourceforge</a>, if you would rather deal with a standalone app than embedded java applets.)</li> <li>The <a href="?node=chatterbox%20sidebar">chatterbox sidebar</a> doesn't require manual installation, but on most modern browsers, you can bookmark it, edit the properties of the bookmark, and use it as a sidebar.</li> <!-- <li>[im2] has a stream of the CB at <a href="telnet://desert-island.dynodns.net:4040">desert-island.dynodns.net</a> port 4040 - type <tt class='inlinecode'>telnet desert-island.dynodns.net 4040</tt> at a command prompt if your browser doesn't support <tt class='inlinecode'>telnet://</tt> style links</li> --> </ul> <br /> <li>Cross platform GUI clients.</li> <ul> <li><a href="?node_id=19420">mchattk</a></li> <li><a href="?node_id=22273">Perl/Tk Chatterbox Client</a></li> <li><a href="?node_id=61227">RedWolf MonkChatter</a></li> <li><a href="?node_id=338783">katterbox</a></li> <li><a href="?node_id=383819">Adso.pl</a></li> <li><a href="?node_id=1194423">pm-cb-g</a> by <a href="?node_id=832495">choroba</a></li> </ul> <br /> <li>Command line.</li> <ul> <li><a href="?node_id=82809">Unix text-mode CB Client</a></li> <li><a href="?node_id=117372">Curses Chatterbox Client</a></li> <li><a href="?node_id=85317">pmchat</a></li> <li><a href="?node_id=1194297">pm-cb (read-only, currently)</a> by <a href="?node=choroba">choroba</a></li> </ul> <br /> <li>Local web server required.</li> <ul> <li><a href="?node_id=95346">framechat2</a> is the updated version of <a href="?node_id=63816">framechat</a> (source at <a href="?node_id=598676">framechat.pl</a>)</li> </ul> <br /> <li>Windows only.</li> <ul> <li><a href="?node_id=18472">Win32::GUI Chatterbox client</a></li> <li><a href="?node_id=30694">AgentChat</a></li> </ul> <br /> <li>Interfaces for other protocols.</li> <ul> <li><a href="?node_id=118732">Jabber Bot For Chatterbox</a></li> <li><a href="?node_id=235499">perlmonkscb: An AIM / CB gateway.</a></li> <li><a href="?node_id=15869">Monktalk</a> - Speech interface to chatterbox.</li> <li><a href="?node_id=71822">monkyack.pl</a></li> <li><a href="?node_id=31805">PerlMonks pager</a></li> <!-- <li>[id://132484]</li> defunct --> <!-- <li>[id://595893] and [id://600052]</li> also defunct --> </ul> <br /> <li>Support scripts and info.</li> <ul> <li>See the <a href="?node_id=72241">XML generators</a> if you want to roll your own client.</li> <li>There are numerous scripts and modules listed in <a href="?node_id=26649">PerlMonks Related Scripts</a>. Some are better and better-maintained than others. Perhaps the most well known is:</li> <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/perlmonks-mods/">PerlMonks Modules</a> project on SourceForge</li> <!-- <p> Note that the above is the final resting place of [ZZamboni]'s stuff, which can be tracked historically as follows: <ol> <li>[http://perlmonks-mods.sourceforge.net/|port/update of web page]</li> <li>[http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/homes/zamboni/perlmonks.html|older web page]</li> <li>[id://31092|PerlMonks modules 2.0 - sourcecode node]</li> <li>[id://15025|Get chatbox lines]</li> <li>[id://15775|Get chatbox lines - Gtk version - never finished]</li> </ol> </p> --> </ul><br /> </ul> </p> <p> You may also be interested in ways to see <a href="/?node_id=236794#history">recent chatterbox history</a>. </p> <p> This is still an incomplete list. If you know of others, <tt class='inlinecode'>/msg</tt> any <a href="?node=SiteDocClan">SiteDocClan</a> member to have it added. </p> <hr /> <i>Back to the <a href="?node=PerlMonks%20FAQ">PerlMonks FAQ</a></i> </div> </body> </html>