With the server change, you may have noticed that the
Chatterbox clients are mostly, if not all, broken. This
will, I suspect, probably be resolved shortly, because I
would imagine that www.perlmonks.org will be resolving to
206.170.14.76 shortly.
In the meantime, I went through the code (which I
understand only superficially) and changed each
instance of www.perlmonks.org to 206.170.14.76 - and lo!
A cargo plane dropped off a working getchat.pl and monkchat
Perl/Tk client. I thought that I should post this
more promptly than carefully, since the problem is
immediate. It does seem to me that this sort of
configuration information should be gathered together in
a .monkchatrc file, to be read and exported as variables
by a module. Presently the addresses are spread throughout
the sundry files.
I was similarly inspired to look at the some
code in
a language I don't understand,
and write some code for
a module I
understand poorly. By adding the lines:
{
my @command = ($0,@ARGV);
$Window->command(?@command?);
}
$Window->group($Window);
to the Tk CB client, I was able to make it produce a
WindowMaker Icon. I announce this here because the code
is useful, but doubtless no good, and could use fixed by
someone who actually understands it. :-)
*sigh* Oh great Cargo Gods... send us a sign! Your servant
is calling...