Before anything: this is a WIP Project, expect it to crash at any moment!
Originally this was a custom discord client, but after some dead ends and a loss in interest i decided to rewrite it to a IRC client, which besides not being a grey area seamed and is a lot of fun.
DecIRC(the name "Dec" still comes from the discord times) is a WIP c++ client for IRC written to directly target OpenGL, it has a very very basic but working GUI framework for rendering: rectangles, text, images and so on. Doing that anything relating to the UI is custom implemented, which means its very rudimentary but also fast. The controls are entirely keyboard based for now.
You will need a c++17 capable c/c++ compiler and cmake.
On Gnu/Linux you will need glib2, gio2 and gdk-pixbuf since libnotify uses them.
Dec vendors all its dependencies through submodules, so building will take a moment.
Dec should build natively on all 3 big platforms with clang, gcc and msvc.
git submodule update --init
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
# un*x / mac
make -j4
# windows
cmake --build . --config Release
**Note: : Currently you need to start the executable from the folder its in as it uses relative paths.
run the executable!
(as of now)
- Adding and connecting to networks, no SASL support yet.
- Query, names, list, msg, join, part, whois are the commands which have basic implementations, most of which come with ui abstractions.
- a raw mode which is basically telnet with the ircd for everything missing(a lot).
- native integration with Mac and windows and Gnu/linux(freedesktop notification over libnotify) notification centers
/addserver - add a network to the list, the syntax is "/addserver host" followed by a list
of key=value pairs for settings, values can be enclosed with " to include spaces. keys are
- name: required, network display name
- nick: required, nickname to send to ircd, currently theres no fallback logic
- username: Username
- realname: Realname to use
- pass: Login password
- port: specify port, defaults to 6697
- ssl: "true" or "false", set if a tls connection should be established, false by default
- verify-ssl: "true" or "false" whether to verify certificates with local CAs, false by default
- auto-connect: "true" or "false", whether to connect on open
A example could be: /addserver host.tld name="My Network" nick=liz3 username=liz3 realname=liz3 ssl=true
/delserver - delete active server
/disconnect - close connection, currently also resets channels and users states
/raw - switch between normal "rendering" and "raw buffer"
/notify - Toggle notifications in current channel. this does not give feedback rn.
The /raw command will toggle into a buffer which when you type a message will be send 1:1 to the Ircd and received message will, besides being normally processed also be appended to that buffer.
Generally navigation is done with the arrow keys and enter. C = CTRL
C-d - Focus channel list(if network active)
C-g - Focus Networks list
C-m - focus text-field again
C-k - clear input
C-p - Scroll up active buffer
C-n - Scroll down active buffer
C-e - Scroll active biffer to bottom
C-shift-p - focus message above
C-shift-n - focus message below
C-c Copy focused message content
d-[1-9] - if focused message has links open the respective link
C-u - open channel users
Since this is a bare bones project there are a couple of deps used, here they are credited:
- freetype2 - Used for font rendering
- glfw - Window host and Input controller, this is vendored because i added functionality in regards to getting non text from the clipboard
- IXWebSocket - very very easy abstraction for http requests and websockets, I only use its TLS socket api.
- boringssl - Used on windows and linux as a TLS layer for IXWebSocket to use.
- nlohmann/json - easily the best json library available for c++, used for work with json!
- libjpeg - jpeg decoder
- libwebp - webp decoder.
- lodepng - PNG decoder
- wintoast - small api wrapper around windows notifications.
- libpng - Yes, its a second png decoder. I needed to include this because freetype2 requires it for png fonts, freetype please add a option to use lodepng...
- libnotify - Wrapper around freedesktop Notifications. I ported this lib to cmake.
The source of dec is free software under GPL 2.0, the deps might have own licenses.