chitter-chatter

An upgrade to instant messaging where channels are in style. Create a channel, have your friends join it, and then talk away!
A Systems project by Stanley Lok, Danny Qiu, and Ivy Wong in Period 8 Systems-Level Programming.

Requirements

GTK+
- Install on Ubuntu using sudo apt-get install build-essential gnome-devel
- Other platforms need to have GTK+ compiled indepently. See installation details here

Running

make to build both the client and the server

make client to build the client and /build/client to run the client

make server to build the server and /build/server to run the server

BUGS

While working with GUI's we encountered the inherent "Heisenbugs" where the program would SEGFAULT and we would be unable to reproduce the error. Please use this at your own risk.
- ~~We mostly see the SEGFAULTS occuring in creating and joining channels due to the way GTK+'s TreeView works.~~ We believe that this was fixed in d9f3ac5

List of Files

constants.h has constants and anything used in both the client/server
- If using multiple computers, SERVER_IP must match the IP Address of the computer running the server
server.h, server.c contains the code for running the server
gclient.h, gclient.chas functions for the client to connect to the server as well as sending data
- It was originally going be to text-based, but that code is commented out in favor of a GUI
gui.h, gui.c are the GUI interface wrappers for function in gclient (And honestly more difficult to understand than we ever expected)
layout.ui is the builder file used for constructing the GUI
util.h, util.c contain useful functions that will probably be used often

Notes