0.0.6 minor changes and TODO list

After a really hectic weekend I bring to you 0.0.6. It doesnt really look much different from 0.0.5, but it does have a little better messaging. The messages now display into the left_frame text box as well as com eup in a pop_up (which will be changed sooner or later). I also added a few screen shots of 0.0.6 to the home page http://perlchat.sourceforge.net/screenshots/ so go and check them out if you are curious.

Here is a small list of things we need to do to the Perl Chat client (or at least what I want to do)
- smooth out the messaging interface. currently a popup is generated when you double click on a user in the buddy list. I would like to make this more AOL like unless other develoeprs object.
- I would like the left_frame text area to be a global chat room where anyone could post a message.
- we need to go through this program and test it test it test it. making sure all our error messages are correct and helpful.
- we need to possibly auto connect the user when he/she fires up the client, and possibly auto connect the user if he/she tries to log on (if the user is not already connected).
- i would like to create an edit menubutton with a command 'preferences' or 'options' which would allow configuration of the program. We could start with putting the server name/ip and port in there as well as a default login name and password. Then we need to save this to disk as a file and make sure it is loaded when the user fires the program up the next time.
- im not crypto master but we could use some form on crypto for our passwords (though this is not important at this stage)
- we could use someone to make this baby work under win32 and write up directions on how to get active perl configured correctly for this. (I did get the program to work kinda, but the threads were not working correctly in the client)
- fix the globals, and clean up the code