Extended Chat

[shadowfax]

The Chat system could allow for extended chat features.

I've tested a modification making the chat system work in an IRCish fashion. As simple as the chat system gets right now it would send:

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:<DISPLAY_NAME>!<USERNAME>@<COMPUTERNAME> PRIVMSG :<MESSAGE>

...or...

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:<USERNAME>@<COMPUTERNAME> PRIVMSG :<MESSAGE>

(Destination nickname used in IRC protocol is not used right now but would be REALLY nice to use it)

This will show up in the chat window as:

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<DISPLAY_NAME>: MESSAGE

or

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<USERNAME@COMPUTERNAME>: MESSAGE

How the hell could this extend the feature sets of UltraVNC?

Right now we could through in some additional commands such as NOTICE (Could keep the chat window hidden while popping a MessageBox showing the message), or even add commands such as "SYSINFO" (To gather system information. This last bit could be retrieved through a JSON array or keep the IRCish fashion such as in WHOIS commands...

On the long run, the repeater could sneak into chat conversations allowing some users to send a global message to all the viewers, all the servers, or all the viewers and the servers. For example:

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:Administrator!admin@Repeaterhost PRIVMSG ALL_VIEWERS :System maintenance. The repeater will be rebooting.

Not sure if anyone else would find this usefull apart from the Display name... I think it could extend the features of the chat system.