On 13/11/2006, at 10:01 PM, John McKenzie wrote:
Hi there.
Thank you for the work you put into PyMSNt.
I have a question about its capabilities. Although I am sure you
are busy, they should be quick answers. Your time is appreciated.
Sorry for the slow response :)
Been quite busy with Uni until now. Just finished my exams a week ago.
Hope you don't mind me CCing this to the mailing list for the
benefits of others.
Your website indicates that it allows file transfer between Jabber
and
MSN networks. Is this considered experimental or a little better than
that?
Well, it works fine for me. Others have reported success, yet others
have reported failure :)
Also, your web site mentioned avatars. I never used those, so I am a
little unclear on how they would appear/be utilized in cross-network
chat. Could you advise me as to what PyMSNt can do in regards to
avatar
use between XMPP and MSN users?
PyMSNt supports sending/receiving of vCard avatars (check the XEP on
jabber.org), and msn->jabber (receiving) of XEP0008 avatars. The
avatars are cached in a global directory by their SHA1 hash, so they
are only downloaded once, ever, to save bandwidth. Jabber clients
that support vCard avatars should see MSN users' avatars, and vice
versa with no effort on the part of the user.
Does PyMSNt allow the use of graphical emoticons between Jabber and
MSN users? (They annoy the hell out of me, but I am asking for the
benefit of someone else.)
They annoy me too, makes pasting code a pain :)
PyMSNt does nothing special. These avatars are usually just ascii
that corresponds to some agreed upon pixmap, eg :-) is a smiley face,
(H) is a heart (I think). PyMSNt just passes this text through. Some
clients have emoticon packs that can interpret them. Look up jisps
for Psi and other clients for the packs. http://
jisp.netflint.something...
I realize that your are busy with more relevant questions from other
coders, so I extra appreciate your time. Little things like this
shouldn't be directed towards you, but I could not find this info out
elsewhere and I did try.
Thank you, and thanks again for making such a big contribution to the
XMPP world.
You're welcome :)
Hope that helped.
---
James
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