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General info

• New user guide
• Screenshots
• FAQ - Have questions? Maybe we have answers!
• Extending grumpy - How to extend grumpy
• Grumpyd - Bouncer for grumpy

Building

• Building_linux
• Building_windows

Architecture

GrumpyChat components and how they work together

+--------------+ +-----------------+
|GrumpyChat <-----------+----------->Grumpyd |
|Client (Qt UI)| | |Client (headless)|
+--^-----------+ | +-------^---------+
| | |
| | |
+--+------------+ +----+-----+ +------+----+
|libirc2htmlcode| |GrumpyCore<------+ libgp |
+---------------+ +----^-----+ |GP protocol|
| +-----------+
|
+-----+------+
|libircclient|
+-----^------+
|
|
+--+---+
|libirc|
+------+

GrumpyCore (libcore)

Contains common code for GrumpyChat, deals with

• IRC and GP sessions
• Scrollback concept and model
• Configuration management
• Command processing and autocompletion
• Grumpyd client
• SQLite interface

libirc

Very abstract base for IRC library that can be used as a base for IRC client or server library.

libircclient

Full featured IRC client library based on libirc

GrumpyChat (Qt UI)

Graphical frontend based on GrumpyCore, implements:

• Graphical frontend for scrollbacks
• Tree menu on side for scrollbacks
• Text input box for commands
• Graphical user menu

Grumpyd (Headless client)

Headless IRC client based on GrumpyCore that supports multiple user sessions, implements:

• In-memory frontend for scrollbacks
• Grumpyd server
• User management

libgp

Low level binary protocol that is used for communication between GrumpyCore and Grumpyd

libirc2htmlcode

Library that converts IRC markup to html