CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

hey, if you think if it's possible, could you add in a little utility to trim all whitespace in the chat to 1 space? if you put in enough spaces and a <username>, it will wrap. i mean, it's fun to do and all, but occasionally it can get annoying...

hmm... that sounds pretty easy as long as Mithrandir has the source to the .class files. Trimming whitespaces is an easy task in Java.

Heh. Sure, I *could* do that. It's easier not to, though. I'm pretty much through with the java chat. I'm working on a new and improved one that won't require java, though.

I could help with the process if you want. One question though... what exactly is the problem with whitespaces? too many in front of a message or at the end of a message?

hmm... in any event, multiple whitespaces aren't really that useful. One can use the Wrapper class to check to see if there are, say, 3 or more whitespaces in a row in a string sent by a user, then trim them out and replace them with a single space...

Slater wrote:I could help with the process if you want. One question though... what exactly is the problem with whitespaces? too many in front of a message or at the end of a message?

the "hack" goes as follows (using - for spaces for the puropse of this example)
i type in:

hello--------------------------------------<MyFriend>-hi

becomes

<TurkishMonky> hello
<MyFriend> hi

it's mostly harmless, until people start getting annoying with it, especially in the instances of doing multiple posts, ...

hello----------------------------------------<TurkishMonky>-hi----------------------------------<MyFriend> -hola.
<OriginalPerson> hello
<TurkishMonky> hi
<MyFriend> hola.

but it's not that big a deal, if it's that hard to do.

Heh. What version of Java are you refering to, Slater. I'd find it much simpler to sub in a regex of some type. I don't know if java supports it or not, though. I'm not much of a java programmer. I'm envisioning something like s/\s+/\s/g working quite nicely.

oooh, I see.
And I've been studying Java 5.0... last time I looked at the chat's source, I didn't notice if it used 1.4 imports versus 5.0 imports.
But what's a regex?