Posts by agrothe

I just want a simple text-to-speech facility. I just want a digit to be spoken. I'm sure it can be done with an OCX. Could play a wav file, but want this ability within an exe.

Look up the Microsoft Agent API. It's a fast and easy way to get text to speech, as long as you don't mind the crazy little characters they use.

Sure, I just ask you let me know what you plan to do (so others reading can get a good resolution to it too). If you have any other questions, ask away... someone will answer.

After chatting with our sys admin, we have decided to go with the server doing the bulk of the filtering. In an enviroment where corporate headquarters is really picky about what goes on locally, haveing the server do the filtering and being in charge of tight security only seams right. Also, our network is very busy with mission critical applications which need the bulk of the bandwidth, so cutting down on bandwidth is nice. The P2P sulotion won't fly due to "security" concerns.

When it's all said and done, I'll post back to let you know how it works. . .

I've got a dedicated machine to run this, P4 dual core, 3.2GHz, 512 MB RAM (which i'll ask to get bumped up to 1GB) so I'll probably just keep most of the processesing on the server. With over 500 computers running the client, it will be easier to update the server, but not the clients. . . . well, IT could run a script but, still, Thanks for dissertation, it has helped.

OS, yeah no go with VB. Now a custom SHELL would be cool, and that CAN be coded in VB...

I'm developing a custom instant messenger for the office as we have need of rather unique IM needs.

So far I have two groups of users: Group and Individual.

The group users can comunicate with their group and all other types of groups. Individual users can only communicate with one specified user.

So right now the flow goes:

Client notifies server it's online.
Server sends a filtered list of other same group members
Server sends a list of of other different group members
If user has individual members attatached, it sends a list of those users too
Server then iterates through all other connnect clients to send the online presence of this new client to the appropriate users.

I'm doing this on server side to cut back on bandwidth (probably not nessacary, but requested)

My question would be this: Should I keep the server more simple and just serve as an echo server and echo everything? Then the contact list filtering would be done on the client side. I just can't figure out which is a better use of system resources. More filtering and less socketwork or more socketwork and less filtering on the server?