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Questions tagged [chat]

Generic term for "Instant Messaging System". It can also represent a discussion that occurs in an Instant Messaging System.

In terms of computing, chat refers to methodologies and applications to enable to transmission and receipt of messages between end users, whether text or media (e.g voice, video), as well as the content of any such communication.

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Developing Chat API like that of Stackoverflow

How to begin developing chat api, like the one stackoverflow uses? If it is open source, where can i find it, if not can anyone guide me how to build a similar chat api?
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out of this world Comet programming and a web-based chat

Current Project Setup I've been working on a web-based chat, similar to Facebook chat. At the current state, I listen for incoming chats and check for new messages in an existing chat is by doing... setTimeout(function() { listenForIncomingChat() },…
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Is there a way to access Skype IM logs?

I tried looking in C:\Users[name]\AppData\Roaming\Skype and I found a folder called "chatsync" with some mysterious folders with files ending in .dat. I'm almost certain that these are the chat logs but I don't know a way to properly open these…
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Change color of Label in C#

I'm working in a chat program using C# and i need to give to every user a different color , =>So I need a function to change color of writing in C# Thanks
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Methods for new user registration xmpp framework iOS

I have developed the XMPP Chat client for iOS and now I'm researching for how to do a new user registration from iOS itself. Can anyone help with the methods used to register a new user. As it needs to communicate with the Server and store the…
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How can I show days by group like Whatsapp chat screen?

How can I excatly do a similar Date system like the one in the Whatsapp chat screen? As you can see the messages are in a group by date, I mean they are separated by date. Here is a ScreenShot that i found for better explanation: I do this in a…
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Live chat with PHP and jQuery. Where to store information? Mysql or file?

There are 1 on 1 live chat. Two solutions: 1) I store every message into database and with jQuery's help I check if there is a new message in database every second. Of course I use cache either. If there is, we give that message. 2) I store every…
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How to embed youtube livestream chat

I'm trying to embed a youtube livestream chat onto a webpage on my website, I'm trying this,…
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How to make Paging library work with reverse recyclerview?

How to use the latest paging with endless reverse recyclerview for the purpose of chat? I have linear layout with reverse layout true: LinearLayoutManager layoutManager = new…
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Javascript performance problems with too many dom nodes?

I'm currently debugging a ajax chat that just endlessly fills the page with DOM-elements. If you have a chat going for like 3 hours you will end up with god nows how many thousands of DOM-nodes. What are the problems related to extreme DOM…
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Error on smack 4.2.0 : IN AAAA yielded an error response NX_DOMAIN

i start openFire and test it with spark everything is ok but when i try to connect with smack 4.2.0 in android studio i got this error: Ljavax/naming/directory/InitialDirContext; and my dependencies is this: compile…
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While fetching Chat History I am Not getting Both user History from Openfire

I fetched History from openfire by installing open fire plugin in the open fire and tried this code. let iq1 = DDXMLElement(name: "iq") iq1.addAttribute(withName: "type", stringValue: "get") iq1.addAttribute(withName: "id", stringValue:…
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Android app did not receive data from SignalR hub

I already read these topics: how to use SignalR in Android Android Client doesn't get data but .net client getting data from SignalR server I write a simple chat system with Android that works with SignalR. It is supposed to the clients send…
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Best way to store chat messages in elasticsearch

We are currently implementing an Instant Messaging system on our platform. We need to provide our users a chat history and be able to show the last 5 conversations that user had ( preview like on facebook). ipso facto we necessarily need to think…
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Application chat character limits?

I'm building a MEAN web application which I hope to deploy on the open internet sometime soon. Part of this application includes a chat feature supported by the awesome Primus abstraction layer backed by WebSockets. As I was coding up the chat…
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