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FH Salzburg

WS2010 MMT-B2009

Multimediale Netzwerke

Uebungsprojekt

Fritsch Andreas, Hanli Ismail

Sun, 28.11.2010 22:00

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About:

This Twitter fork is a student project. It's to learn how to use sockets.

You can find this project on http://github.com/ihanli/twitterClient

Commands:

:i [tweeter] -> login as [tweeter] :o -> logout :p -> pull your tweets from server :t [message] -> new tweet :f [tweeter] -> follow a given tweeter :me -> get my tweeter

Compilation guide for Visual Studio (2010 in my case):

1. Create new empty project.
2. Add all files as existing items.
3. On Project properties Linker->Input->Additional Dependencies add 'ws2_32.lib'.

Compilation guide for Code::Blocks 10.05:

1. Open project file
2. Settings > Compiler and Debugger
3. click on the second tab (Linker settings)
4. add libws2_32.a

How to run TwitterClient:

1. Execute TwitterClient.exe
2. set the ip address of the server
3. press ':' if you want to type in a command
4. your tweets will refresh, after you sent a request to the server

Known issues:

if you want to work with more than one client, start all your clients and login one after another. things will not work, if you start a second client after you are already logged in.