There is a bug.
If I minimize messages dialog and put it back again some controls did not redraw!

Hi.
The latest posted version crashes on startup. I traced the program to the first call of ShowWindow, immediately after creation. The program crashes on call of ShowWindow somewhere in Kernel32...

btw: the previous version doesn't crash on startup. (but, it crashes on search for user and also it doesn't save my user data: UIN, password, nor contact lists.

My OS is: Windows 98

Regards.

hi

i'm working on XP and all is .ok

great work, keep it up

Sniper, the bug was fixed just that I did update here.

John Found, could you give me more details? Too bad I do not have windows 9x installed anywhere to test it out.... Anyway the searching bug was a mistake that i never get to see. There are always users found based on what I have searched for. But when I searched for "JohnFound" it just crashed because there is no such user. I have fixed it..

I have added some right click popup menu for the messagewindow and also added the ability to change status from the trayicon and also limit the resizing of messagewindow.

Any bug reports or feature request just ask here or mail me or throw it at the forum set up on the faim website. http://roticv.rantx.com/faim

I can't wait to release a stable version soon....

Hi. I found the bug. Remove line 295 from faim.asm ( add esp, 16 ).

And beleave me, you will have more troubles than profits from using esp this way. Why not to use ebp and local variables? Also, more using of standard structures only can help programming when the project become more complex.

Also, what parameters have to be saved on exit? Because now, for me, FAIM save nothing - neither my UIN, nor password, contact list, position of the window etc. - I have to retype them on every start of FAIM (btw: IMHO, .INI file will be more convenient, than registry - for example I will be able to write FAIM on diskette and to take it with me on the work with the same settings.)

Regards.

actually it should save your uin and password

Thanks JohnFound...

It is just a remainder of my test codes which I forgot to remove. The reason why I did not use "standard structures" is because they are not found in the standard include files and I am too lazy to define them myself when I only need a few fields of it and I only access that structure once.

It saves password, uin and position. Perhaps you can try breakpointing at RegCreateKeyEx and RegSetValueEx help me check whether the the functions are successful. I guess must be some flags which are not compatitable with 9x.

Thanks anyway...

Bug:
in previous release russian charset was allright and in the last release it broak charset.

Sniper,

It is just a little utf-8 -> unicode -> ascii conversion. I guess the either the utf-8 -> unicode conversion or unicode -> ascii conversion is screwed up. I will fix it when I have the time, which would be about a week later, because I am having exams. Meanwhile, perhaps you can use the old version? or perhaps comment out

stdcall IsAscii, [lparam]
jnc @F
stdcall utf9toascii, [lparam]
@@:

found at the label .addmsg

lol I must be sleeping when coding cause my function name is named wrongly.

*bump up*
and waiting for new version......

[edit]
oh yes, a feature request here:
Smilies!
[/edit]

Hi all,

What do you think if I add auto away or something like that? Like msn messenger.

Anyway.... features I would add when I have time (currently abit busy due to college life):
1) Message logging.
2) Smilies (Would be nice if someone help me draw them. Or I have to use the ones I drew. )
3) Auto away? Do you want that?
4) Support for unicode - Means I would need to redo some of the message system

Roy reports that the contact list is not processed properly I will do something abt it too.

Hy developers,
look what i found for you, it sais its GNU,
its in C, but i'm sure some of you could take a few ideas from it


http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/

MATRIX

hi, i just downloaded your FAIM
but upon execute it, i got this error

This program has performed an illegal operation
and will be shut down.

If the problem persists, contact the program
vendor.

and the following info:


i am on a win95 box, + IE 5.0

i thought i could see some code like how you use LoadBitmap :p

but no bitmap in your resource :O

No bitmap used. Anyway I am curious what is causing the GPF. The EIP value is off. This would mean somehow the stack is corrupted or maybe not cleared properly. Will look into it.

hey matrix thanks for the gaim link
actually we had that info long time before
and dont think it will give us any ideas
but thanks again

it is in c and we use asm ( and roticv's awesome hardcoding )

ps: BTW Hi roticv

Hello Yunus! How's life?

Hey!,
you're welcome, maeby sometime i'll link something useful though.

i thought you might be interested.

BTW i'm using AOL too.

MATRIX

ah hi victor
life sucks atm
i am trying to be a chemical engineer rather then an asm programmer
i must finish my university this year but i have failed lessons which fills up +2 more years
i am damned

i wish u'd be better than me
u alone coder there

Where can I download a new version?