Kervala deviantART Messaging Network client written in C++ and using Qt framework.
Please click on Download Application on the right to access to download page.
Project page : dev.kervala.net/projects/kdamn…
Download page : dev.kervala.net/projects/kdamn…
Debian/Ubuntu : please add ppa:kervala/ppa in your sources, update packages and install package kdamn
You can download its source code on : hg.kervala.net/kdamn
Changelog:
2017-11-18 - Version 1.2.621
- display a message when no update are available
- improved About... dialog
- cycle between users when pressing <tab>
- support latest DA API changes
- allow to create/edit CSS styles
- AFK mode with /afk
- implements URL content changes
- DeviantART now uses oEmbed for :thumb:
- truncate deviation title if too long
- support latest versions of compilers (GCC, clang and Visual C++)
- packages creation on command-line
- updated translations
- fixed several bugs
2015-01-24 - Version 0.9.329
- encode special characters and accents as HTML entities
- open logs menu
- fixed a lot of bugs
- check for new version at launch and propose to install it
- notes manager (read and write notes)
- new DA icon
- support oEmbed for different sites (see oembed.ini)
- use oEmbed to get thumbnail for stash links
2014-09-29 - Version 0.9.199
- check for notes
- create a new session when launching kdAmn et close it when leaving
Features:
- dAmn protocol
- tablumps (proprietary DA format syntax) to HTML conversion
- all DA specific code (icon, dev, thumb, emotes, etc...)
- download of thumbnails/icons/avatars
- channel management
- users management
- privilege classes management
- DA and OAuth2 authentication
- display of time before the message
- users auto-completion with
- multi-lines messages
- save channels and connection parameters in an INI file
- tray icon
- class to manage settings
- tray icon/tab color change when a user writes in a channel or talk to you
- compilation under GNU/Linux
- list of known channels
- choice between OAuth2 and DA login
- log files in html or raw text for each channel
- drag and drop to upload a file to stash
- update OAuth2 token before it expires
- supports both Qt 4 and 5
- progress bar in window task bar under Windows 7 while uploading a file to stash
- auto save settings
- Debian packages
- allows to upload a screenshot on stash
- double-click on a user opens up his DA homepage (thanks to
for the suggestion 
)
- oEmbed for some sites (DA, Youtube, Kickstarter, Dailymotion, Flickr and Instagram) see oembed.ini
- check, view and send notes
To implement :
- details on a user (connections to other channels, idle time, online time, avatar, group, etc...)
- admin dialog to manage a channel
- private chats
- multiple selection for users (allows private chat)
Please click on Download Application on the right to access to download page.
Project page : dev.kervala.net/projects/kdamn…
Download page : dev.kervala.net/projects/kdamn…
Debian/Ubuntu : please add ppa:kervala/ppa in your sources, update packages and install package kdamn
You can download its source code on : hg.kervala.net/kdamn
Changelog:
2017-11-18 - Version 1.2.621
- display a message when no update are available
- improved About... dialog
- cycle between users when pressing <tab>
- support latest DA API changes
- allow to create/edit CSS styles
- AFK mode with /afk
- implements URL content changes
- DeviantART now uses oEmbed for :thumb:
- truncate deviation title if too long
- support latest versions of compilers (GCC, clang and Visual C++)
- packages creation on command-line
- updated translations
- fixed several bugs
2015-01-24 - Version 0.9.329
- encode special characters and accents as HTML entities
- open logs menu
- fixed a lot of bugs
- check for new version at launch and propose to install it
- notes manager (read and write notes)
- new DA icon
- support oEmbed for different sites (see oembed.ini)
- use oEmbed to get thumbnail for stash links
2014-09-29 - Version 0.9.199
- check for notes
- create a new session when launching kdAmn et close it when leaving
Features:
- dAmn protocol
- tablumps (proprietary DA format syntax) to HTML conversion
- all DA specific code (icon, dev, thumb, emotes, etc...)
- download of thumbnails/icons/avatars
- channel management
- users management
- privilege classes management
- DA and OAuth2 authentication
- display of time before the message
- users auto-completion with
- multi-lines messages
- save channels and connection parameters in an INI file
- tray icon
- class to manage settings
- tray icon/tab color change when a user writes in a channel or talk to you
- compilation under GNU/Linux
- list of known channels
- choice between OAuth2 and DA login
- log files in html or raw text for each channel
- drag and drop to upload a file to stash
- update OAuth2 token before it expires
- supports both Qt 4 and 5
- progress bar in window task bar under Windows 7 while uploading a file to stash
- auto save settings
- Debian packages
- allows to upload a screenshot on stash
- double-click on a user opens up his DA homepage (thanks to
for the suggestion )- oEmbed for some sites (DA, Youtube, Kickstarter, Dailymotion, Flickr and Instagram) see oembed.ini
- check, view and send notes
To implement :
- details on a user (connections to other channels, idle time, online time, avatar, group, etc...)
- admin dialog to manage a channel
- private chats
- multiple selection for users (allows private chat)
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how hard is it to get it to auto check for updates on app-startup? (Windows/OSX/Linux)Edit: literally just read the descriptionPS: If you need Linux install Packages 'Alien' can help with that
Usually, there is developers and each distro has its maintainers who will package the application.
I'm sorry, but I don't have enough free time to maintain everything myself. I'm already doing more than most of the other alone developers (some of them keep their application closed source and/or only package for Windows). I try to be multi-platform and that's never enough
All my code is open-source, if someone want to package kdAmn, he can create a package and/or fork my code and adapt it.
We really new a proper forum for our Programmers united club, and if this program could be used to create either an app on every users desktop, or a journal entry that magically displaces the content of the chat
then it would be absolutely perfect for team discussions and community growth
I found DA chat very cool because it supports images thumbnails, differents smilies, etc... in fact, the same syntax used in comments, journals, deviations, etc...
I've actually discussed this before and apparently it isn't possible, but you are closer to the inner workings of the chat. I'm hoping you can prove the impossible is possible
also is it compatable with the raspberry pi? (can't install with LXtermnal) using: Raspbian
You can see all supported versions of Ubuntu on : launchpad.net/~kervala/+archiv…
And you just need to find the Debian equivalent to be sure dependencies are satisfied
For example :
Ubuntu => Debian
15.10 wily => jessie / sid
15.04 vivid => jessie / sid
14.10 utopic => jessie / sid
14.04 trusty => jessie / sid
13.10 saucy => wheezy / sid
13.04 raring => wheezy / sid
12.10 quantal => wheezy / sid
12.04 precise => wheezy / sid
11.10 oneiric => wheezy / sid
11.04 natty => squeeze / sid
10.10 maverick => squeeze / sid
10.04 lucid => squeeze / sid
~Plasma Blast
But you could compile it yourself
MD5 hash? are you serious? that just proves that the hash is the same as MD5 is outdated
also fun little tidbit OSX has a Linux base system
kdAmn stands for "Kervala deviantART Messaging Network" so K is Kervala not KDE
Why do you talk about MD5 hash and OS X ? Sorry, but I don't understand
kdAmn is an open-source software I write on my free time, if you want to use it, do it, if you don't want, don't do it...
I'm sorry, but I don't see the aim of your comment...
as for MD5 hash on "dev.kervala.net/projects/kdamn…" it just confirms that the hash on the file is the same as the given hash I would recommend that you use SHA-2 (I don't know about SHA-256) on your files it will help prevent people from creating a file with a virus in it with the same hash
as for the bit about OS X that's unimportant it's info
About MD5, I'm just using Redmine project management so I didn't code anything related. You should post a suggestion on : www.redmine.org
I thought you were taking about : hg.kervala.net/kdamn/file/d8f2…
Because I'm using MD5 to associate content with downloaded images in C++
About OS X, Darwin (OS X core) is based on NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD not Linux. OS X uses its owns APIs but since Qt is multi-platform, it allows me to code for both platforms (with some manual fixes)
Thanks
And Linux is a UNIX
There is a drawing explaining UNIX history : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix#/me…
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
da_page page;
char user[DA_USER_NAME_MAXLENGTH];
char message[DA_USER_MESSAGE_MAXLENGTH];
if (da_init(DA_LOGIN_URL, "ader-x", ADER_X_PASS) != DA_SUCCESS)
{
printf("Could not login to DA !\n");
return 1;
}
if (da_page_set("kervala.deviantart.com/art/kdA…", &page) != DA_SUCCESS)
{
printf("Cannot set page !\n");
da_exit();
return 2;
{
if (da_page_writenew(page, "Aha, you're a programmer too ? Interesting !") != DA_SUCCESS)
{
printf("Cannot write comment !\n");
da_exit();
return 3;
}
if (da_page_waitreply(page, 60*60*24*7*2) != DA_SUCCESS)
{
printf("Two weeks gone. Kervala probably doesn't want to reply, or there was a network error at the end of the timeout !\n");
da_exit();
return 4;
}
if (da_page_readreply(page, &user, &message) != DA_SUCCESS)
{
printf("Cannot read reply !\n");
da_exit();
return 5;
}
printf("%s replied: %s\n", user, message);
da_exit();
return 0;
}
May need debugging and design reconsideration
Thanks for your comment !
I know the channel name, because I saw it mentionned on wikis where dAmn protocol is described
I'll join #Botdom to discuss with you further
Although I'm getting this on the server page:
And my room has a pretty ugly topic sta.sh/0iell9m8aft And the settings don't seem to be working
For the topic and title, I completely forget to convert "tablump" into HTML
I'll fix that too.
And for the settings, they are not yet implemented
I'll try to complete it these 2 next weeks
Thanks again foir testing !Yeah parsing the HTML tags in topic/title would help. But all in all, pretty good program
As for loging in, perhaps add an alert/notice discribing how to grab your auth token (
javascript:alert(dAmn_Client_AuthToken);)? Or does using your password work basically the same way?Thanks, I'll add some details on connect dialog
In fact, I implemented 2 ways :
- connect to DA login page with login and password, remember cookies, get the dAmn Token in HTML code from chat.deviant.com
- connect to DA OAuth2 page, use DA Api to get the dAmn Token
The first one is the first I implemented but I plan to upload files to stash while drag'n droping them on the window, so I'm using the second one now, but I could ask to the user what method he prefers
Almost all operations are done with sending POST data or parsing HTML/JSON.
Once the authtoken is saved, it won't use the password anymore excepted if it receive a authentication failed message from chat server.
If you want to check the source : hg.kervala.net/kdamn
I am not that well versed in coding (other than js really), so not sure if I could understand that, but might check it out later. I know a decent bit about the js that works in chats, and have a few *.user.js scripts, although I still don't proclaim to be that good
Hehe
I'm working on kdAmn right now 
I'll post a new version when the bugs you found are fixed and I'll implement some other functionnalities 
New version uploaded
I added some details in connect dialog but it doesn't do anything for the moment (I didn't add the code), fixed the problems with HTML code in title and topic, and values for properties, begun to refactor the code for a better readability and allowed to send several lines at once
First, thanks for your comments
Sources are available in my Mercurial repository at : hg.kervala.net/kdamn but you'll need CMake modules from hg.kervala.net/cmake
I'm doing that because almost all my projects and using the same CMake modules and I prefer to not copy them in each repository
You can do that :
hg clone hg.kervala.net/cmakecd cmake/modulesexport CMAKE_MODULE_PATH=$(pwd)hg clone hg.kervala.net/kdamncd kdamnmkdir buildcd buildcmake ..makeIt should work under Linux and Mac OS X but I didn't take time to check yet
Good luck