sitefaqlet SiteDocClan <h1>Other CB Clients</h1> <p> <i>"Hitting reload all the time is getting old! Is there a better way? What other clients can I use for the Chatterbox?"</i> </p><p> Try one of these alternate programs/scripts/pages for the Chatterbox, categorized for your convenience: <ul> <li>No installation required, click and type.</li> <ul> <li>[FullPage Chat] and [http://pthbb.org/cb/|Enhanced FullPage Chat] - web page w/ frames.</li> <li>[id://725405] - lets you "detach" the [About the Chatterbox Nodelet|Chatterbox Nodelet]. </li> <li>[id://220674]. (The code is allegedly [http://sourceforge.net/projects/jchatter/|available at Sourceforge], if you would rather deal with a standalone app than embedded java applets.)</li> <li>The [chatterbox sidebar] doesn't require manual installation, but on most modern browsers, you can bookmark it, edit the properties of the bookmark, and use it as a sidebar.</li> <li>[im2] has a stream of the CB at <a href="telnet://desert-island.dynodns.net:4040">desert-island.dynodns.net</a> port 4040 - type <code>telnet desert-island.dynodns.net 4040</code> at a command prompt if your browser doesn't support <code>telnet://</code> style links</li> </ul> <br /> <li>Cross platform GUI clients.</li> <ul> <li>[id://19420]</li> <li>[id://22273]</li> <li>[id://61227]</li> <li>[id://338783]</li> <li>[id://383819]</li> </ul> <br /> <li>Command line.</li> <ul> <li>[id://82809]</li> <li>[id://117372]</li> <li>[id://85317]</li> </ul> <br /> <li>Local web server required.</li> <ul> <li>[id://95346] is the updated version of [id://63816] (source at [id://598676])</li> </ul> <br /> <li>Windows only.</li> <ul> <li>[id://18472]</li> <li>[id://30694]</li> </ul> <br /> <li>Interfaces for other protocols.</li> <ul> <li>[id://118732]</li> <li>[id://235499]</li> <li>[id://15869] - Speech interface to chatterbox.</li> <li>[id://71822]</li> <li>[id://31805]</li> <!-- <li>[id://132484]</li> defunct --> <li>[id://595893] and [id://600052]</li> </ul> <br /> <li>Support scripts and info.</li> <ul> <li>See the [id://72241|XML generators] if you want to roll your own client.</li> <li>There are numerous scripts and modules listed in [id://26649]. Some are better and better-maintained than others. Perhaps the most well known is:</li> <li>[http://sourceforge.net/projects/perlmonks-mods/|PerlMonks Modules] project on SourceForge</li> <!-- <p> Note that the above is the final resting place of [ZZamboni]'s stuff, which can be tracked historically as follows: <ol> <li>[http://perlmonks-mods.sourceforge.net/|port/update of web page]</li> <li>[http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/homes/zamboni/perlmonks.html|older web page]</li> <li>[id://31092|PerlMonks modules 2.0 - sourcecode node]</li> <li>[id://15025|Get chatbox lines]</li> <li>[id://15775|Get chatbox lines - Gtk version - never finished]</li> </ol> </p> --> </ul><br /> </ul> </p> <p> You may also be interested in ways to see [href:///?node_id=236794#history|recent chatterbox history]. </p> <p> This is still an incomplete list. If you know of others, <code>/msg</code> any [SiteDocClan] member to have it added. </p> <hr/> <i>Back to the [PerlMonks FAQ]</i>