I had a ton of fun with the AIM SDK and Central back in the day.. gosh. .those were fun days.. and it was a sad day when the AIM/Macromedia deal went away and I could no longer sell licenses for the one app that I managed to get out the door. Not that I sold a lot of licenses, but it was just fun stuff to tinker with. I had just started to scratch the surface and saw a lot of potential for Central clients that had AIM features.
So.. when I saw today that AIM had released a new SDK to developers it almost made up for the other sucky news I heard today. Well, I just had a minute to look over the AIM developer site and download the SDK (which they hid pretty well..) and I found that ActionScript isn't a supported language. Sigh. Maybe there'll be a port? Or somebody can figure out a way to do it before Apollo becomes available? Please?
AIM SDK .. but we need a port for Flash Monday, March 06, 2006
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07 Mar 2006 at 12:42 am | #
Done awhile ago<a>, bro. <a href="http://blog.xsive.co.nz/archives/80">MSN too.
07 Mar 2006 at 12:44 am | #
Ohhh k, that was one hell of a mangled post... go RegExp!
*ahem*
AOL:
http://lab.zeusdesign.net/?p=6
MSN:
http://blog.xsive.co.nz/archives/80
07 Mar 2006 at 12:51 am | #
cool.. hmm.. but are those "legal"? I remember from the Central days that AOL didn't like folks hacking together code to connect to their network. Also this new SDK direct from AOL has loads more than just the standard connect, send messages, see buddy status, etc.. give it a looksee.
Thanks for the links though.. I'd forgotten all about those. hmm.. what caused that memory loss? hehe.
07 Mar 2006 at 06:43 pm | #
One thing thats immediately annoying-if you're looking to build a system that works with AOL and Yahoo or MSN or anything else(Google, etc.) you can't. From the AIM Developer's FAQ:
"Developers are not permitted to build Custom Clients that are multi-headed or interoperable with any other IM network."
As long as you don't care about getting locked into AIM, it sounds good.
07 Mar 2006 at 07:42 pm | #
The latest update for my Flash AIM client can be found here:
http://lab.zeusdesign.net/index.php/archives/36
23 Mar 2006 at 11:40 am | #
Alright, so I ru nthe .swf or the .html file and all I see is a blueish applet type thing. What's the deal, any special instructions?