[MUD-Dev] java clients

[Zach Collins {Siege}]

On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Matt Mihaly wrote:

> The bad news was that I should have listened to something
> Christopher Allen told me. He said they (Skotos) had investigated
> expanding a java client they have for more general use, but ran
> into a lot of problems with Java, and man was he right. We have
> been unable, for instance, to enable any sort of copying from the
> output window into a clipboard, and are also unable to log
> anything to the player's computer. This inability alone basically
> renders Java unsuitable for a full-featured text MUD client. (And
> while I'm not much of a programmer, if any of you clever
> programmers out there have figured out good work-arounds for this,
> I'd love to hear them.)

While Java is conveniently included with most users' Web browsers,
Tcl/Tk also has a very clean install, and is the basis for several
nice MU* clients, including Trebuchet.  Not just the standard
features; it includes support for MCP as well.

  http://www.belfry.com/fuzzball/trebuchet/

--
Zach Collins (Siege)


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