AIM bots have to be programmed in an event driven style. Well they don't HAVE to be, but it makes life easier.

This means that you need to break that sequence of commands you have down, and put them in the events when they should be executed. As was already mentioned you need to use do_one_loop to tell the AIM protocol you are ready for it to loop, then keep calling do_one_loop constantly, normaly in an infinite loop of sorts.

If you would like to learn more about bot programming you can check out my forums at http://Bot-depot.com, there are programmers there of all levels of experience. Many of us program AIM,MSN, Jabber and IRC bots in perl, and there are some who use other languages like VB and PHP. Good luck.


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Eric Hodges

In reply to Re: Waiting for callback event by eric256
in thread Waiting for callback event by cow4263

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