Homebrew [Request] Texting Application

[Alex Spady]

Would it be possible to create an application that connects a texting server. For example: The "Text Free" servers. If that part would be possible, could it go further and create a gui interface? This is all just an idea, and keep in mind that I really have no consensus of how these kind of things work. I'd love to help, although I am generally ignorant in coding and such. Any help and responses are greatly appreciated. Have a good one.

[Edit]
This is no longer a request and has become a project started by a certain group of people. The repository to this project is as follows:
https://github.com/skewerr/dim

 

[Stecker8]

I think it will be good

 

[MasterFeizz]

This is the perfect learning opportunity for you. Instead of offering help, ask for help on how you can develop your own homebrew. It's a fairly simple concept and if you really want to learn I can help you.

 

[MasterFeizz]

I would try this since I have a bit of c++ knowledge but for the most part it's all basic stuff, I can't do anything graphical or network-related so I won't bother.

There is nothing special about graphics or networking, if you know c++ then you're all set

 

[spoonm]

If @Tjessx releases the source code for their Pictochat homebrew(and server), you can use that to begin messing around with sockets.

I like the idea, maybe I can be of some help? I don't know C++, but I know C. Still a beginner, but eager to get involved.

 

[MasterFeizz]

There you go, you guy's got a team. You don't need the source for Pictochat since you can learn from any socket tutorial on the web, the only thing different you need to do is initialize the SOC service

 

[spoonm]

There you go, you guy's got a team. You don't need the source for Pictochat since you can learn from any socket tutorial on the web, the only thing different you need to do is initialize the SOC service

I only ever saw basic usage of unix sockets on an IRC bot I refactored, so I'm not really sure how this will go. Does the wiki or the ctrulib examples have any documentation on using sockets on the 3DS? Or is it not the right approach?

 

[MasterFeizz]

I only ever saw basic usage of unix sockets on an IRC bot I refactored, so I'm not really sure how this will go. Does the wiki or the ctrulib examples have any documentation on using sockets on the 3DS? Or is it not the right approach?

You can learn from BSD sockets tutorial on the net. To initialize the SOC service it's pretty much just 2 commands. You can either write the server and client from scratch, or write just the client to another service.

 

[spoonm]

You can learn from BSD sockets tutorial on the net. To initialize the SOC service it's pretty much just 2 commands. You can either write the server and client from scratch, or write just the client to another service.

Thanks for your help. I'm reading the ctrulib examples. Will others in this thread, who wish to help, join an IRC channel? I'm joining a channel on GBAtemp's server in a bit, not sure what I'll call it, but I'll edit this post when I do(or someone could do it and post in this thread). I'll go make some pop tarts.

 

[spoonm]

brilliant. I know minimal C++ and no C, and the other guy knows minimal C and no C++. ._.

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I would join but I'm doing stuff atm, I can't really until a couple hours from now, sorry.

Wouldn't say I know minimal C. I know C. I'm not an expert C programmer, but I'm very familiar with the language. Never made anything graphical out of comfort with the terminal and lack of interest, but from here on out it's just learning the ins and outs of libraries.

As for your minimal C++, you should know C syntax very well. Take out object oriented aspects, focus on structs and you're left with pretty much C.

 

[spoonm]

alright. tbh I have taken CS101, but that's the extent of my C++ knowledge if that helps.

Our education systems are different, I don't know what CS101 is supposed to be about. In my college, Programming Logic 1 and 2 are taught in C.

join #3dstext on gbatemp irc

Will do.

 

[MasterFeizz]

Use C, that would be commom ground between you 2

 

[jsa]

This looks interesting - I'm just learning C right now but I'm going pretty fast as I'm very experienced with PHP (which is C-like).

Might help out at some point.

 

[MasterFeizz]

Whenever you guys get stuck, PM me. Also i recommend setting up a git repo

 

[BurningDesire]

If @Tjessx releases the source code for their Pictochat homebrew(and server), you can use that to begin messing around with sockets.

I like the idea, maybe I can be of some help? I don't know C++, but I know C. Still a beginner, but eager to get involved.

H e told me he lost the source code. I will see if I have a version somewhere

 

[Alex Spady]

Hello all,
I appreciate all the support. I am at school right now and am not very flexible as of now. But currently, do any of you have any suggestions of where to start learning a coding language. I remember speaking to "ShinyQuagsire" about starting with python. All your responses are greatly appreciated. I will start to see documentation on these kind of things. Thanks for all the suggestions.

 

[MasterFeizz]

Hello all,
I appreciate all the support. I am at school right now and am not very flexible as of now. But currently, do any of you have any suggestions of where to start learning a coding language. I remember speaking to "ShinyQuagsire" about starting with python. All your responses are greatly appreciated. I will start to see documentation on these kind of things. Thanks for all the suggestions.

IMHO learn C.

 

[Alex Spady]

IMHO learn C.

Okay. Any suggested documentation for learning?

 

[spoonm]

Hello all,
I appreciate all the support. I am at school right now and am not very flexible as of now. But currently, do any of you have any suggestions of where to start learning a coding language. I remember speaking to "ShinyQuagsire" about starting with python. All your responses are greatly appreciated. I will start to see documentation on these kind of things. Thanks for all the suggestions.

Try CodeAcademy. If you want to get involved in the project, we're using C, so that'd be good to learn. Python is a nice first language, but you'll have to abandon OOP concepts when heading to C, or use C++, which we're not.

 

[Alex Spady]

Try CodeAcademy. If you want to get involved in the project, we're using C, so that'd be good to learn. Python is a nice first language, but you'll have to abandon OOP concepts when heading to C, or use C++, which we're not.

Okay. What are the big differences in C and C++?

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Just made a GitHub repository. https://github.com/amspady20/3DSText