AIM Chat Invite

Rameses · Senior Member Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 182

Okay, I am making something to send a chat invite to everybody in a list. I have the code all ready except for the chat_invite thing, lol. I have tried looking at www.cpan.org to see if my method is correct, and it looks like it... Heres what I have written down:

eric256 · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 6:13 am Post subject:

If i remember correctly the chat_invite command takes the chat ID number. In the future you will get better help if you explain whats not working.

Cer · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:25 pm Post subject:

In Net::OSCAR you can just send the room name, and I <*lazy*>never got it working with Net::AIM.

eric256 · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:31 pm Post subject:

Well it did work for Net::AIM, many of use had chatroom games, and i'm pretty sure for Net::AIM you need to use the room id that you got when you joined or created that room.

Cer · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:46 pm Post subject:

On my Net-AIM bot I just tried making it send chat invites from the beginning right after it signs on.

eric256 · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 3:21 pm Post subject:

And? I'm not sure i get your question/info at all.

Cer · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 4:12 pm Post subject:

And well... it didn't work. I don't know of any ways to make the bot join a room under its own "free will" on Net::AIM, it has to be invited. And after some higher power has invited the bot to the room, then it should be able to invite others.

eric256 · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 4:52 pm Post subject:

I think part of the confusion may be your idea of rooms. On AIM (like MSN) there are two types of chat rooms. There are the aim ones which run on an exchange, (which you can tell it to join, don't remember how but i could prob look it up), and then there are rooms that people start themselves. The rooms that people start can be joined just by usind the room name, the rooms that aim has have to be joined in a special manner. There is NO reason a bot should ever be joining the special rooms anyway so it should be a problem. If the room doesn't exists, then the bot can create it, and then uses the ID to invite people. Sorry long time since i've done AIM stuff, had to brush away the cob webs.

Cer · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 7:35 pm Post subject:

The thing with exchanges aren't for just "special rooms", what they do is make sure you get into the room no matter what. For example, "Sports Chat", if the first room (Sports Chat) has enough room for you, you join that room. If it's full, you join "Sports Chat 1", and if that room's full too you join "Sports Chat 2" and so-on.

I think the exchange for that type of joining is 16, I heard other exchange numbers have different effects on the room or something.

eric256 · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 8:48 pm Post subject:

That would be the special part of the room, i don't think you can just makeup a room name and have it still add new rooms, dunno. IF you have a site with info a link would be nice.

Rameses · Senior Member Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 182

Okay, sorry Eric.. I had a headache yesterday and was asking stupid questions left and right without explaining things... Thank you for the help though, hehe. Smile

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