/*############################### # FH Salzburg # # WS2010 MMT-B2009 # # Multimediale Netzwerke # # Uebungsprojekt # # Fritsch Andreas, Hanli Ismail # # Sun, 28.11.2010 22:00 # ###############################*/ About: This Twitter fork is a student project. It's to learn how to use sockets. You can find this project on http://github.com/ihanli/twitterClient Commands: :i [tweeter] -> login as [tweeter] :o -> logout :p -> pull your tweets from server :t [message] -> new tweet :f [tweeter] -> follow a given tweeter :me -> get my tweeter Compilation guide for Visual Studio (2010 in my case): 1. Create new empty project. 2. Add all files as existing items. 3. On Project properties Linker->Input->Additional Dependencies add 'ws2_32.lib'. Compilation guide for Code::Blocks 10.05: 1. Open project file 2. Settings > Compiler and Debugger 3. click on the second tab (Linker settings) 4. add libws2_32.a How to run TwitterClient: 1. Execute TwitterClient.exe 2. set the ip address of the server 3. press ':' if you want to type in a command 4. your tweets will refresh, after you sent a request to the server Known issues: if you want to work with more than one client, start all your clients and login one after another. things will not work, if you start a second client after you are already logged in.