Keep Talking

What is Keep Talking

Keep Talking is a Jabber client for Windows 2000. It is based on JabberCOM, it is programmed in Visual C++ (makeing it somewhat faster to load and execute than its VB counterparts).

Keep Talking aims to be non-obtrusive. Desktop space is a scarce resouce. Keeping this in mind, Keep Talking uses a very limited space when minimized, yet it alerts you of inconming messages in a visual way by using a very small floating window.

See the screenshots

Current status

Server

• Register existing account
• Create account

Roster

• Add and remove contacts
• Group contacts, contacts can appear in multiple groups
• Broadcast message to all the members of a single group

Messages

• Send and receive messaes
• Chat
• Visual notification when your chat peer is typing a new line
• Bold, italic and underline properties for messages (HTML encoded)
• Hyperlink - aware
• Automatic display of emoticons

File transfer

• Receive files (Internet Explorer based)
• Send files (includes a very simple HTTP server, no firewall support)

Conference

• Support for GroupChat protocol
• Includes HTML encoded messages and hyperlink awareness

Alert functions

• Roster window can be transparent (layered windows courtesy of Windows 2000)
• Floating window shows status and incoming messages notifications

To Do

• Kill those bugs
• Progress of file transfer
• Better support for the conferencing protocols
• Windows 9x support

Downloads

• Beta 1.0 (Note: there is no installer yet. Download the package, extract KeepTalking.exe to a directory of your choice, download jabbercom and extract jabbercom.dll to the same directory).
• I'm working on a user manual.

About

Keep Talking is distributed under the GPL. Contact César Piñera for further information, or go to the sourceforge project page.