ClicksAndWhistles
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| ClicksAndWhistles | |
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| Author(s): | Leigh Johnston |
| Programming language: | C++[1] |
| Platform: | Windows[2] |
| Status: | Active |
| Latest release: | 2.7.87[3] |
| Homepage: | http://clicksandwhistles.com |
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. The client has been developed in C++ and uses MFC and the Win32 SDK with GDI+[1].
Features[2]
- 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 playing a sound when a keyword appears
- Support for emoticons including animated GIFs, optionally playing 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"
- File transfers (DCC SEND) and direct chat (DCC CHAT)
- Identd support
- Secure (SSL) server support
- "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