Hoikas's Hole

For the past month or so, I’ve been working on an application called WhoM. It’s a pretty nifty little tool; it connects to Myst Online: Uru Live game servers and shows whether or not your buddies are online, and if so in what age. It includes some basic management features like adding buddies, deleting buddies, and clearing the recents list.

Anyway, after about a week and a half of public beta on the MOUL Forum, I’ m releasing WhoM 1.0 final. It is written in C#, so you will need the .NET Framework 3.5 if you wish to run it on Windows. I cannot say how well it will work in Mono on linux; however, I do know that it will not work on Max OSX. Mono doesn’ t implement a required component on the Mac, it seems.

Maybe eventually, I will blog about some of the challenges I had in getting this monster to work. The .NET DataGridView control gave me lots of grief. It’s a terrifyingly powerful and complex component. Of course, MSDN’s documentation sucks, so I had to learn how to do some things (like sorting by an image) via Google. Even then, it took some creative thinking. Still, it was a fun program to build, and I do plan on releasing a WhoM 1.1 eventually.

Now let’s see how long I can procrastinate blogging again.