ClicksAndWhistles

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Website:

• http://clicksandwhistles.com/

Bio:

• ClicksAndWhistles is a free IRC client for Windows. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet text messaging allowing you to communicate with others in IRC channels (chat rooms) and one-to-one communication via private messages. You can also connect directly with another user to chat or send/receive files.

Some Features

• Multiple server connections and multiple "identities" allowing you to have different nicknames on different servers.
• Unicode (UTF-8) support.
• Channel favourite list with configurable key press shortcuts.
• User groups (buddy lists) and user highlighting allowing you to associate different colours with different users.
• Keywords letting you know when somebody has mentioned something of interest to you or perhaps has mentioned your nickname. Optionally play a sound when a keyword appears.
• Support for emoticons including animated GIFs. Optionally play a sound when an emoticon appears.
• Two text display modes ("normal" or "column").
• Configurable themes, image backgrounds, outline fonts, colour gradient effects.
• Text formatting (colours, bold/italic/underline).
• Different window modes (tabbed, "place on desktop" and MDI).
• Minimize to tray with activity popup and sound event notifications.
• Full logging support including archiving and "scrollback logs" (previous session history).
• File transfers (DCC SEND) and direct chat (DCC CHAT). Identd support.
• Secure (SSL) server support. This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/).
• "Connection scripts" (a simple list of commands to run once connected) and "macros" (use one command to automatically run a series of other commands).
• Customizable message text.

Programming Language and Libraries:

• Language
  • C++
• Lib's
  • C++ Standard Library (also known as STL)
  • MFC
  • Win32 SDK, GDI+
  • zlib (1.2.3)
  • OpenSSL (0.9.8k)
  • NoFussXML

Platform:

• Windows

Latest Stable Release: 2.7.48, Windows, Source, Debian - See Repository