XChat Portable 2.8.6 Pre-Release 1

Submitted by Patrick Patience on October 1, 2008 - 8:06pm

Application: XChat
Category: Office
Description: XChat is an advanced and very customizable IRC client. It features support for various servers, chat logging, and attractive interface similar to Pidgin's (GTK+ & Tango!), and much more.

Download XChat Portable 2.8.6 Pre-Release 1 [7.6MB download / 37MB installed] (I do recommended you delete your previous installer, preserving the Data directory if you wish)
(MD5: 0c1d0ee0263e480e82cec6622a3c24da)

Release Notes:

Pre-Release 1 (2008-10-01):

Initial release of 2.8.6

To-Do:

I just realized the language files are 17+ megs, they will be optional for sure next release.

Few more tweaks are needed with some file handling in the launcher

Splash screen must be rebranded "XChat" as that is the official name and the only place that says X-Chat anymore is the local installer.

Change YChat to XChat (I did that, but I guess I threw in the wrong binaries).

Add support for Perl, Python, and the like.

( categories:

Beta Testing

)

Thanks Patrick :D

Zach Thibeau (Homepage) - October 1, 2008 - 8:26pm

Thanks Patrick
Uhmmm some how your installer got corrupted :S

The day Microsoft produces something that doesn't suck is
probably the day they start producing vaccuum cleaners. (author unknown)

Pshh

Patrick Patience (Homepage) - October 1, 2008 - 8:45pm

Outrageous. But thank you, I'll try to fix that.

Edit: The upload is too slow here. I'll try to fix it and make it multilingual tomorrow. Sorry.

Oh dear! and i downloaded

Mir (Homepage) - October 2, 2008 - 2:31pm

Oh dear! and i downloaded that for a friend. hope you get it fixed dood!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

OliverK (Homepage) - October 2, 2008 - 2:55pm

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are you ging to support an addition of %PATH% for perl? I have mine set as App\Perl\bin.

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

Yes

Patrick Patience (Homepage) - October 2, 2008 - 3:24pm

I can do that.

Sweet! :D

OliverK (Homepage) - October 2, 2008 - 3:38pm

Sweet!

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

Fixed

Patrick Patience (Homepage) - October 2, 2008 - 4:06pm

Links is fixed and active now.

404 Not Found

OliverK (Homepage) - October 2, 2008 - 4:08pm

404 Not Found

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

yeah it's definetly not

Zach Thibeau (Homepage) - October 2, 2008 - 4:18pm

yeah it's definetly not working

The day Microsoft produces something that doesn't suck is
probably the day they start producing vaccuum cleaners. (author unknown)

I've thought about and agree

OliverK (Homepage) - October 2, 2008 - 4:22pm

I've thought about and agree with myself- It's busted

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

Gosh

Patrick Patience (Homepage) - October 2, 2008 - 4:37pm

You all like to complain a lot, eh?

Anywho... the difference an s makes. It's fixed now.

Yes We are complainers Hear

OliverK (Homepage) - October 2, 2008 - 4:43pm

Yes

We are complainers

Hear us ROAR!
Thanks Patrick, I'm looking forward to trying out the upgrade\using it

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

FINALLY!

gluxon (Homepage) - October 4, 2008 - 9:59pm

Finally! Pre-Release is out.

I can't wait until this is official.

People are overrated.

Me too!

kai.inouye - October 5, 2008 - 10:39am

Me too!

Windows XP Home Edition SP3
Developing: Lincity-NG, LMarbles, WinHTTrack, Gourmet, and NVDA Portable

There's something wrong with

OliverK (Homepage) - October 13, 2008 - 4:21pm

There's something wrong with XChat- its not accepting the use of a background image

I've tried different sizes, multiple file formats. It says that it cannot access read the file.

This doesn't happen with the official build, but the official build appears to have switched to minigtk.dll.

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

Another problem is that it

scriptdaemon - October 24, 2008 - 12:47am

Another problem is that it won't let me move the channel switcher to the "right (upper)" position. Like the post before mine, it works as it should in the official build, so I'm not sure why it's bugged now.

This is a confirmed bug.

OliverK (Homepage) - October 24, 2008 - 9:19am

This is a confirmed bug. XChat Portable Fails to load a background picture.

Behavior occurs properly in the installed (Silverex) version of XChat.

It is not due to compression, as I have decompressed it.
I have put SetOutPath $PROGRAMDIRECTORY, but this has not corrected the problems either.
It is not due to the perl plugin, as I have removed it. I have set the %PATH% for perl to $EXEDIR\App\perl\bin

202970	9:01:08.5033797 AM	xchat.exe	2276	CreateFile	E:\PortableApps\XChatPortable\App\XChat\xchat_background.jpg	SUCCESS	Desired Access: Generic Read, Disposition: Open, Options: Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Non-Directory File, Attributes: N, ShareMode: Read, Write, AllocationSize: n/a, OpenResult: Opened
202971	9:01:08.5050434 AM	xchat.exe	2276	CreateFile	E:\PortableApps\XChatPortable\App\XChat\xchat_background.jpg	SUCCESS	Desired Access: Read Attributes, Synchronize, Disposition: Open, Options: Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Non-Directory File, Complete If Oplocked, Random Access, Attributes: N, ShareMode: Read, Write, Delete, AllocationSize: n/a, OpenResult: Opened
202972	9:01:08.5066000 AM	xchat.exe	2276	QueryFileInternalInformationFile	E:\PortableApps\XChatPortable\App\XChat\xchat_background.jpg	SUCCESS	IndexNumber: 0x90840240
202973	9:01:08.5077243 AM	xchat.exe	2276	QueryStandardInformationFile	E:\PortableApps\XChatPortable\App\XChat\xchat_background.jpg	SUCCESS	AllocationSize: 102,400, EndOfFile: 99,480, NumberOfLinks: 1, DeletePending: False, Directory: False
202974	9:01:08.5088467 AM	xchat.exe	2276	CloseFile	E:\PortableApps\XChatPortable\App\XChat\xchat_background.jpg	SUCCESS	
202976	9:01:08.5104757 AM	xchat.exe	2276	ReadFile	E:\PortableApps\XChatPortable\App\XChat\xchat_background.jpg	SUCCESS	Offset: 0, Length: 4,096

It is mentioned later,

202996	9:01:08.5197649 AM	xchat.exe	2276	CloseFile	E:\PortableApps\XChatPortable\App\XChat\xchat_background.jpg	SUCCESS

The exact error of the text is:
Cannot open:

E:\PortableApps\XChatPortable\App\XChat\xchat_background.jpg

Silverex's XChat will luanch/load the picture correctly via a bat file with the following contents:

set PATH=%PATH%;lib
"xchat.exe" -d "settings"

Which assumes the bat file is within /XChat 2 directory.

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

Would my problem also be a

scriptdaemon - October 24, 2008 - 10:14am

Would my problem also be a bug in the portable version? As I haven't tried the decompressed Silverex version yet. If you'd prefer I check on my own, I will.

Did you check to make sure

OliverK (Homepage) - October 24, 2008 - 12:19pm

Did you check to make sure you moved the user list?

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

Ah crap!

scriptdaemon - October 24, 2008 - 1:30pm

I'm an idiot, I didn't even think that trying to move only the channel switcher would conflict with the position of the user list. Nevermind.

Would it be possible to have

scriptdaemon - October 24, 2008 - 5:52pm

Would it be possible to have scrollback disabled by default in the portableapps version as to prevent a lot of writes to the USB/etc. drive?

XChat

kai.inouye - November 7, 2008 - 9:43am

XChat works great! doing it now and it doesnt look like anythings left behind that I see

Windows XP Home Edition SP3
Developing: Lincity-NG, LMarbles, WinHTTrack, Gourmet, and NVDA Portable

link dead :(

TaffinFoxcroft (Homepage) - December 27, 2008 - 3:39am

link dead

Twoflower: Rincewind, I think there's a broomstick in this cupboard.
Rincewind: Well, what's so unusual about that?
Twoflower: This one's got handlebars.

patrick is changing a few

Zach Thibeau (Homepage) - December 27, 2008 - 9:19am

patrick is changing a few things around with his server. link should be back soon

The day Microsoft produces something that doesn't suck is
probably the day they start producing vaccuum cleaners. (author unknown)

The hash doesn't match what I downloaded.

crux - January 8, 2009 - 5:50pm

Mine was: 731e48c286187e8a14fa81e221d4fdd6

EDIT: The download aborts after 1.79 MB. This has happened thrice already, both when clicking and right-click > Save as. The Firefox Download tools expects 1.8 MB.

Confirmed. If you'd like, I

OliverK (Homepage) - January 13, 2009 - 7:22pm

Confirmed. If you'd like, I can upload a copy elsewhere for you.

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

I downloaded this program and

cmillermo - January 13, 2009 - 7:51pm

I downloaded this program and when i clicked the setup file I got this error

NSIS Error
Installer integrity check has failed. Common causes include incomplete download and damaged media. Contact the installer's author to obtain a new copy

just like the message said

Zach Thibeau (Homepage) - January 13, 2009 - 8:42pm

just like the message said your download wasn't complete. compare the file size with the one in the first post and you should see the difference

The day Microsoft produces something that doesn't suck is
probably the day they start producing vaccuum cleaners. (author unknown)

I downloaded on a connection

OliverK (Homepage) - January 13, 2009 - 8:50pm

I downloaded on a connection that never fails and it failed

I don't know why, but it did.

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

is their any chance u can

cmillermo - January 13, 2009 - 8:56pm

is their any chance u can upload it else where??

yeah, I'll upload it for you

OliverK (Homepage) - January 13, 2009 - 8:57pm

yeah, I'll upload it for you tommorrow, as its at home and I don't have a way to get at it

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

ok, sounds good!

cmillermo - January 13, 2009 - 8:58pm

ok, sounds good!

beat you to it :P

Zach Thibeau (Homepage) - January 13, 2009 - 9:00pm

beat you to it http://zachthibeau.com/XChat_Portable_2.8.6_Pre-Release_1.paf.exe

The day Microsoft produces something that doesn't suck is
probably the day they start producing vaccuum cleaners. (author unknown)

I still got the same error

cmillermo - January 13, 2009 - 9:12pm

I still got the same error

then there is something wrong

Zach Thibeau (Homepage) - January 13, 2009 - 9:15pm

then there is something wrong with your network.

The day Microsoft produces something that doesn't suck is
probably the day they start producing vaccuum cleaners. (author unknown)

hmmm. thats odd, i tried on

cmillermo - January 13, 2009 - 10:06pm

hmmm. thats odd, i tried on two different wireless networks on ff and on ie, maybe its my comp for some reason, ill try it later on a different comp
EDIT: hmm, i tried on 2 different comps, 3 different browsers (ie7, ff3, chrome) and 3 different networks...any idea wat the problem could be??

Fresh install?

horusofoz - January 14, 2009 - 2:54am

Have you tried a completely fresh install? IE New folder, or delete old copy and reinstall afresh. Another possibility is to try another USB to see if issue is hardware related.

"The key feature of developer days is flexibility; one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day - literally. And more often the former than the latter." Horusofoz and Chris Morgan

I just downloaded it to my

cmillermo - January 14, 2009 - 4:23pm

I just downloaded it to my desktop and when i click it i got that error i wrote down before. I tried downloading straight onto my usb but it still doesn't work. Does it work for you?

Corrupt

Patrick Patience (Homepage) - January 14, 2009 - 10:29pm

Yes, it's corrupt... I can verify that. I'm working on fixing it. May be a bit. I'll post back when it's fixed.

F1x0r3d

Patrick Patience (Homepage) - January 14, 2009 - 11:44pm

I'm fairly sure the file is no longer corrupt... but who's gonna be the first to find out? The choice is yours! I apologize for the inconvenience, a full refund will be offered if you return your product at the desk over there or you can cut the mail-in rebate off the back of the executable on your new download.

Still corrupted

MaurizioB - January 15, 2009 - 6:32am

I tried to download it again, still getting a corrupted installation file on two different computers and networks (MD5: a9b6dded040a7250c9d613164bb2900c ).

Thanks in advance

looks like someone already

TaffinFoxcroft (Homepage) - January 15, 2009 - 6:44am

looks like someone already took the back off my download, it was only 2MB. don't have an md5 tool on me at the moment, but it still phails to run.

Twoflower: Rincewind, I think there's a broomstick in this cupboard.
Rincewind: Well, what's so unusual about that?
Twoflower: This one's got handlebars.

still doesn't work for me :(

cmillermo - January 15, 2009 - 6:49pm

still doesn't work for me

jep, it is still broken

mecki77 - January 17, 2009 - 4:19am

the downloaded installer is still broken,...

Wow....

Bensawsome (Homepage) - January 18, 2009 - 1:17am

Patrick even after I gave you a good version it still fails :S Maybe something with your server that is corrupting it?
Anywho here is a MediaFire link for everyone. I have verified using multiple methods that this is NOT corrupt. I even did a fresh install and it worked FINE.
http://www.mediafire.com/?ejeqmkzgqdy
Thanks,
Bensawsome

 iLike Macs, iPwn, However you put it... Apple is better ^_^ 
"Claiming that your operating system is the best in the world because more people use it is like saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world..."

thx, Ben...

mecki77 - January 18, 2009 - 1:32am

The file from Mediafire works pretty fine,...

Regards Marc

Download Fixed!

Patrick Patience (Homepage) - January 22, 2009 - 2:33pm

I finally fixed the download, and I swear it works. Don't even lie to me this time, I downloaded it myself. ;-P

=_=

Bensawsome (Homepage) - January 22, 2009 - 11:03pm

It better work this time

I can't help but notice

Zach Thibeau (Homepage) - January 22, 2009 - 11:56pm

I can't help but notice references to pidgin in the help file I just found that tonight as I copied the help file from xchat to use for QtWebPortable I released for testing

The day Microsoft produces something that doesn't suck is
probably the day they start producing vaccuum cleaners. (author unknown)

2 X icon in Systray

sm6gqw - March 10, 2009 - 6:16pm

Can not understand what I doing wrong, I get double SysTray icon.
If I click on left xChar crasch, right is okay.

Yeah, it happens to

scriptdaemon - March 10, 2009 - 8:20pm

Yeah, it happens to everyone.

Update

Patrick Patience (Homepage) - March 11, 2009 - 10:22pm

I just wanted to provide an update on the status of this for everyone. It looks like as of 2.8.7 and above, the application is no longer open source, that is, the source is not available.

SilvereX has updated to 2.8.6-2 (I believe) which provides update to Perl and Python and all those other good scripting dependencies.

Despite the fact XChat is unstable in a couple areas, I will be updating to SilvereX's new build possibly next week when I have some time off and in the update I'm planning to add support for custom paths for Perl and such and fixing the tray icon (I /swear/ I already did that).

This will likely never be released seeing as it is now no longer developed (as an open source project), so the only reason I'm updating it is we don't have too much alternative for IRC clients on Windows and people seem to like this.

Thanks for keeping up with

scriptdaemon - March 11, 2009 - 11:02pm

Thanks for keeping up with this anyway, Patrick.

Too bad :(

Gizmokid2005 (Homepage) - March 13, 2009 - 12:45am

I was going to comment along with Zach T on the help file thing.

I'm going to work on KVIrc though, so hopefully we'll have a true IRC client for PA - of course you'll be the one I'll go to for help

Have you looked at

dragonmage - March 13, 2009 - 1:37am

Have you looked at Bersirc?

Doesn't look like it's being developed anymore but the source is apparently available...

Alrigth, a few

MaienM (Homepage) - April 5, 2009 - 6:21am

Alrigth, a few comments.
First, and I find it strange noone has noticed this before, it shows up a "Pidgin Portable" in the menu.
Second, and I'm not sure whether this is a silverx issue, when you set gui_tweaks to 64, which will make the userlist icons change to @+ and such instead of the colored dots, the names of non-voiced (or opped) people will not show up in the userlist. I can still right-click the names, and thus find out who they are, but I cannot see the nicks normally.

I made screenshots of both bugs, The "Pidgin Portable" bug and The userlist bug.

Behold, the DutchLander has arrived.
Grammatical errors are copyrighted.

installs and runs on w2000sp4 - two seperate installations

richard.a (Homepage) - April 5, 2009 - 7:11pm

Thank you for making this. I prefer XChat to KSirc and KVirc (tried them all over some years since working on PC-BSD beta testing) - I think - but that's usually what you have got used to imho.

A small problem with the installer. It doesn't add a menu item but you can go into the app's directory and click on the executable to run it.

Probably not the right place to ask, but is it possible to manually change the menu in any way to fix such a problem? Or to customise? Perhaps a link would be helpful.

Thanks again for your hard work.

I discovered portableapps by accident and think it's a great concept for those who insist on running MS Windows when there are better systems out there

Ozzie Richard
who lives where the crows fly backwards to keep the dust out of their eyes

Have you noticed editing is always needed for the inevitable typos that weren't there when you hit the "post" button?

Try Options > Refresh App

scriptdaemon - April 5, 2009 - 8:12pm

Try Options > Refresh App Icons.

Tried that. Tried it again

richard.a (Homepage) - April 5, 2009 - 8:45pm

Tried that.

Tried it again (twice) after your post.

Still isn't there.

Have you noticed editing is always needed for the inevitable typos that weren't there when you hit the "post" button?

As I posted right above you,

MaienM (Homepage) - April 6, 2009 - 1:39am

As I posted right above you, it is for some reason called "Pidgin Portable", not "XChat Portable".

Behold, the DutchLander has arrived.
Grammatical errors are copyrighted.

Ah thank you. I renamed the

richard.a (Homepage) - April 11, 2009 - 12:33am

Ah thank you.

I renamed the menu item and it's as good as gold

Have you noticed editing is always needed for the inevitable typos that weren't there when you hit the "post" button?

Fixed

richard.a (Homepage) - April 12, 2009 - 8:58pm

Thank you, edited the name in the menu. Didn't realise that you could do that, but it seems to work.

Richard

Have you noticed editing is always needed for the inevitable typos that weren't there when you hit the "post" button?

The previous menu didn't get

OliverK (Homepage) - April 6, 2009 - 8:14am

The previous menu didn't get its info from AppInfo.ini.

I mentioned this to Patrick Patience (who can correct me if I'm wrong) and the reply was basically, orly?.

The user list bug is probably a XChat bug.

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

Status?

App Guy - April 12, 2009 - 8:29pm

I was wondering the status with this. This is the client I use and is an awesome application to be portable.

May the Shwartz be with you

It's likely not going to be

scriptdaemon - April 13, 2009 - 1:41am

It's likely not going to be made official for reasons previously mentioned, but the update would be very nice.

need to adjust sound.conf in

OliverK (Homepage) - April 29, 2009 - 6:25pm

need to adjust sound.conf in data\settings. Are you still actively doing this program?

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

to update just download the

mcbelisle - June 14, 2009 - 8:13am

to update just download the version on the official website and use uniextract and copy the folder into the apps directory

Still active?

TaniToson - July 14, 2009 - 7:39am

Hi guys!

Is XChat still active? Anyone doing work on it?

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