IRC is the Internet Relay Chat is a protocol for interactive chatting between internet users and was developed originally in Finland for use in the university network by Jarkko Oikarinen. See http://www.irc.org/ and http://irchelp.org/ for more information.
tcllib has an IRC package documented here [L1 ]
There is a pure Tcl IRC server under the BSD license here: http://www.hping.org/tclircd/ .
For some reason, Tcl/Tk seems to be quite popular among client authors - here are the ones I know about:
What: BitchX Where: http://www.bitchx.org Description: ANSI color IRC client. Updated: 08/2002 Contact: edwards at bitchx dot org (Colten D. Edwards)
What: ChatIT
Where: http://sourceforge.net/projects/chat-it/
Description: Cross platform IRC client that aims to support all IRC
protocols. Written in Tcl.
Updated: 09/2001
Contact: See web site
SITE SAYS IN 02/2004: This Project Has Not Released Any FilesNote however that many SF.net projects work directly from the CVS repository without regular releases occuring. In this particular case, they have put nothing in their CVS repository either. Too bad - appears to be vaporware.
What: dirc
Where: http://www.dircchat.com/
Description: ActiveX and windows based IRC client.
Updated: 09/2002
Contact: info at algenta dot com (Kemal Hadimli)
What: DMAT
Where: http://eazy-living.de/dmat-0.27/dmat-0.27.tar.bz2
Description: IRC proxy which allows you to detach from your session and
then reattach to the session using a different client or changing
client's host. Written in Tcl.
Current version 0.27.
Updated: 10/2007
Contact: eazy at eazy-living dot de+++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Eembot Dead Link ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
What: Eembot
Where: http://www.cs.vu.nl/%7Eerbruijn/
Description: An IRC client with Tcl, terminal, X11, Windows 95 and WWW
interfaces.
Updated: 04/1998
Contact: erbruijn at cs dot vu dot nl (Emiel Bruijntjes)+++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Go-IRC Dead Link ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
What: Go-IRC
Where: No longer available for download from the author
Description: A Tcl based IRC client, integrating Microsoft Internet Explorer,
Active-X, CTCP/2, etc. Designed for Windows 96/Windows NT 4.0.
Updated: 07/1997
Contact: jamie at thehunters dot org (Jamie Hunter) What: Hermes fserv
Where: http://devel.degoeij.org/
Description: Hermes fserv is a Tcl script for use with the BitchX IRC client
to provide ftp-like access to local file archives.
Currently at version 0.1.6 .
Updated: 08/2001
Contact: j dot ellerbroek at student dot tudelft dot nl+++++++++++++++++++++++++++ JiMM Dead Link ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
What: JiMM Where: http://www.atlink.it/personal/avatar/Jnews.html Description: Full featured Tcl/Tk Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client. Updated: 06/1997 Contact: dasnake at freenet dot hut dot fi
What: Kalich
Where: http://kalich.sourceforge.net/
Description: Intelligent IRC bot written in Tcl.
Currently at version 0.05.
Updated: 08/2001
Contact: l3ech at l3ech dot com
What: keirc
Where: http://www.indonesia-undernet.org/keirc/
http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/%7Esalim/keirc/download/
Description: KDE based IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client program. Uses
Tcl 7.5 for scripting. Supports multiclient, multicolor and font,
DCC chat and file, small webserver, sound, ignore list,
communicates with Netscape, etc.
Updated: 04/1999
Contact: sj039su at uni-duisburg dot de (Eko Bono) What: MilkBot
Where: http://www.cowofdoom.com/archive/pub/aim/milkbot.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.cowofdoom.com/pub/aim/milkbot.tar.gz
Description: Eggdrop Tcl script that connects the Eggdrop IRC channel bot
to AIM.
Updated: 07/1999
Contact: wwoods at wam dot umd dot edu (Will Woods) What: NetPlug
Where: http://www.box.eu.org/%7Edl/netplug.html
Description: An extensible multi-connection, multi-protocol network client
program, written in pure Tcl/Tk. Currently supports an IRC client
and a GO game client, as well as a memory plugin, an async event
driven file pipeline and a TCP/IP gateway and multiplexer.
Can be the basis of a tool to debug various
networking services. Uses Tcl 7.5/Tk 4.1 and newer platforms.
Can run on Unix, Windows and Macintosh platforms.
Updates on a regular basis. V0.62 works with Tcl 8.
Updated: 04/1997
Contact: L at demailly dot com (Laurent Demailly)
What: Netscape client Tcl Tclets (Demailly)
Where: http://www.lyot.obspm.fr/%7Edl/Tclets/
Description: A go game, an adaptive optics simulation demo,
and an IRC Tclet are all available at this time.
are available at this time.
Updated: 06/1997
Contact: L at demailly dot com (Laurent Demailly)What: Progeny Where: http://www.fdcor.net/misc/progeny.shtml Description: Altenrative to Infobot, written solely in Tcl. Updated: 09/2001 Contact: concept at fdcor dot net
What: QuIRC
Where: http://quirc.sourceforge.net/
http://quirc.org/
http://quirc.org/quirc.tar.gz
Description: X based IRC client with full Tcl/Tk scripting support.
Coded in C/C++ for speed and some advanced features. Supports
use of themes, and socks5.
Currently at version v0.9.82 .
Updated: 02/2000
Contact: hynato at quirc dot org
What: Quotesaq
Where: http://rad.capecod.net/quote/
http://rad.capecod.net/quote/Quotesaq-v2.1.tar.gz
Description: Advanced quote system for Eggdrop IRC bots. Uses
Tcl script to interface to Perl scripts.
Updated: 07/1999
Contact: RADKade1 at i-hate-the-internet dot com What: savIRC
Where: http://www.savirc.com/
Description: IRC client for both Linux and Windows, supporting multiple server
connections, SOCKS5 connections (Server __and__ DCC), CTCP, DCC, ignore
and notify lists, mIRC colors, nick completion, dedicated windows, logs,
custom popups, pre-defined events, Tcl/Tk scripting, and much more.
Currently at version 2.1.0 .
Updated: 03/2007
Contact: casey at savirc dot com
Contact: phobie at savirc dot com
[Please do not use emailslinks, we get spam because of this, I remove the "@"'s for the other developers too... - phobie 05-05-23]What: T2I
What: TclBot
Where: http://www.crosswinds.net/%7Eyeutham/
Description: Tcl IRC bot being developed. Curently at v0.4.0.
Provides structure for providing support functions such as uptime,
dictionary, fact triggers, fortune, etc.
Updated: 07/1999
Contact: yeutham at crosswinds dot net
What: tcl file server
Where: http://dejavo.n3.net/
Description: tclfserv is a IRC File server written in Tcl.
Currently at version 3.3-7 .
Updated: 08/2001
Contact: dejavo at PunkAss dot comWhat: tkirc Where: http://www.north.de/%7Eatte/tkirc/ http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/networking/irc/clients/unix/ircII/ http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/irc/ http://www.tenebrous.com/ (???) Description: Graphical front end for ircII. Requires ircII and Tcl/Tk 8.x. The tenebrous site is said to have a patch to allow you to change the small max-topic length in tkIRC. Currently at version 2.46. Updated: 02/2000 Contact: atte at gecko dot north dot de
What: Tomahawk Where: http://sf.net/projects/tomasoft/ Description: An effort to build a better Tcl-enabled IRC client. Updated: 08/2002 Contact: davygrvy at pobox dot com (David Gravereaux)
What: XiRCON
Where: http://www.xircon.com/
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1616&package_id=27045
Description: beta release IRC client for Windows 95/NT. The author
no longer is working on this application.
Contact #xircon on the efnet IRC network for help with the client.
D. Gravereaux has also provided the above 'hack' so that XiRCON
works with Tcl v8.1.0 and beyond.
Updated: 08/2002
Contact: mhanson at servtech dot com (Mark Hanson)
davygrvy at pobox dot com (David Gravereaux) What: Zipper
Where: http://users.vnet.net/ashman/zipper/
http://users.vnet.net/ashman/zipper/zipper-1.62.tar.gz
Description: Zipper is a Linux X/Tcl/Tk based IRC client. Supports many
functions including scripting, DCC Transfers and Chats, Colors,
sounds, and many others.
Updated: 10/1998
Contact: wolfie at vnet dot net (Ash Bowers)| What: | Zircon |
| Where: | http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Programs/Zircon/ |
| ftp://catless.ncl.ac.uk/pub/zircon-1.18.256.tar.gz | |
| ftp://coombs.anu.edu.au/pub/irc/tcl/ | |
| Description: A Tk interface to IRC. | Does not permit commercial use. |
| Updated: | 06/2002 |
| Contact: | zircon-request at catless dot newcastle dot ac dot uk |
| Lindsay dot Marshall at newcastle dot ac dot uk |
What: NeoSoft Tcl
Where: ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/neosoft/neotcl/
Description: Tcl 7.6 and 8.0 set of commands and libraries providing
interfaces to disk-based btree and hashtables,
TCP/IP server-client objects,
along with examples of an IRC robot object, RFC931 authentication
object, support for WWW CGI scripts, WWW log file parsing.
Also, this includes file requestors, dialog boxes, pull-down menus,
class libraries for databases, listboxes, a Tk notepad, progress
notifiers, UDP-based object sharing, and more. Package includes
Tcl, Tk, itcl, Tcl-DP, tclX, color pixmap and GIF support,
and Expect.
Updated: 10/1998
Contact: See web siteNOTE: Karl Lehenbauer, Neosoft's Tcl champion, has moved on to procplace. Contact him regarding the status of this software.
What: RoxIRC
Where: http://roxirc.lighter.net/
Description: Another Tcl/Tk IRC client. BSD licensed.
Updated: 11/2004
Contact: roxirc at lighter dot net
What: mbot
Where: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mbot/
Description: C++ IRC bot with embedded Tcl scripting.
Partially compatible with eggdrop.
Currently at version 0.0 .
Updated: 07/2003
Contact: See web siteThe most popular IRC clients are probably mirc for windows and xchat for Linux. Although XiRCON is most definitely the most scriptable windows client. A XiRCON clone is being built :) Jump to XiRCON-II
steveo offers that "the only decent *free* IRC client I have found for windows is roxirc".
[Trillian? GAIM?]
A valuable tutorial [L2 ] that's more rigorous than much IRC programming is Peterre's "How to write eggdrop scripts ..." [L3 ]. See also Writing Tcl scripts for eggdrop
29Sep02 Jacob Levy A Tcl library providing basic IRC client side functionality is now part of the Tcl Library. Also note the "IRK" Tcl IRC library I wrote [L4 ], it's just in the concept stage, I'd call this code Alpha quality. If someone wanted to pick up where I left off... :)
RS tried this little example to post one message to #tcl:
proc IRC msg {
set fd [socket irc.freenode.org 6667]
puts $fd "NICK tcltest"
puts $fd "USER tcltest 0 - :my real name"
puts $fd "JOIN #tcl"
puts $fd "PRIVMSG #tcl :$msg"
close $fd
}... and to write a clock bot (that posts my local time every hour) is as easy as this:
proc every {ms body} {eval $body; after $ms [info level 0]}
every 3600000 {IRC [clock format [clock sec] -format %H:%M:%S]}SS 5Dec2004, the following is a minimal Tk IRC client (44 lines of code) with the hardcoded server/channel info to enter the Tclers chat:
package require Tk
set ::server irc.freenode.org
set ::chan #tcl
text .text -width 50 -height 40
entry .cmd -width 50
grid .text
grid .cmd
bind .cmd <Return> usercommand
proc send str {
puts $::fd $str
flush $::fd
}
set ::fd [socket $::server 6667]
set ::me guest[expr int(rand()*10000)]
send "NICK $::me"
send "USER $::me 0 * :PicoIRC user"
send "JOIN $::chan"
fileevent $::fd readable recv
proc recv {} {
gets $::fd line
puts $line
if {[regexp {:([^!]*)![^ ].* +PRIVMSG ([^ ].*) +:(.*)} $line -> \
nick target msg]} \
{
.text insert end "<$nick> $msg\n"
.text yview end
}
}
proc usercommand {} {
set cmd [.cmd get]
.cmd delete 0 end
.text insert end "<$::me> $cmd\n"
.text yview end
send "PRIVMSG $::chan :$cmd"
}See picoIRC 0.2 for RS's variation on the above. Or minibot