Coding MSN Video support into iChat

[Tallest Skil]

It's the summer before I go to college and I have little to do when I'm not working. I was wondering about something that has irritated me and many other iChat users for a very long time: MSN A/V support.

Mercury Messenger has it. Several other apps do, too. I was wondering how much Objective-C I would have to learn to be able to take that code from a third-party app and write it into iChat for MSN Jabber A/V support.

Time... is not an issue. I'm going to college for computer science, so I will probably learn everything that I will need to find out how to do in due time... I'd just like to get started on my own. Can someone point me in a direction leading towards understanding the code that I need to understand?

 

[Cromulent]

How much programming experience do you have with other languages? If you haven't had any you may want to try something else as a first project. I'm not even sure it is possible, does iChat have a reference library and / or an SDK available?

Edit : Just had a look on ADC and it might be possible. Depends, have a look at the source code and see if you can work out what is going on. If you can't you need to keep learning until can.

 

[Tallest Skil]

Zero to none. Like I said, I'll most likely learn what I need to know in college, but I'd really like to try to figure out what to do on my own. Give it to me straight; is there really any hope for me to teach myself enough Objective-C to port any working code to iChat?

 

[Cromulent]

Zero to none. Like I said, I'll most likely learn what I need to know in college, but I'd really like to try to figure out what to do on my own. Give it to me straight; is there really any hope for me to teach myself enough Objective-C to port any working code to iChat?

Seeing as you said time is not a problem. Then I don't see a reason why you can't learn enough to do something useful. That project might be a bit advanced though, working with someone elses code is harder than working with what you have written yourself.

Here is a free book to get you started though.

http://developer.apple.com/document...ectiveC/Introduction/chapter_1_section_1.html

You'll probably want to do some reading about C as well seeing as Objective-C is built on top of it.

 

[Tallest Skil]

Thanks for that. I'll see what, if anything, I can do.

 

[rev316]

You'll need to learn about input managers; as well as the MSN protocol to the teeth. That isn't were you start learning objective-c.

There are probably significant hurdles to achieve this. Not trying to discourage you, but rather inform you of the work involved.