PChat Portable 1.5 (IRC chat client) Released

Zach Thibeau's picture
Submitted by Zach Thibeau on June 2, 2012 - 11:13am

logoPortableApps.com is proud to announce the release of PChat Portable 1.5. PChat™ is an IRC chat client packaged as a portable app. PChat is a fork of XChat made free from shareware issues the official XChat client has, so you can chat with your friends on PChat wherever you go. Lua, Perl, Python and TCK are also available as add-ons to add more functionality to PChat. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Platform. And it's open source and completely free.

Update automatically or install from the portable app store in the PortableApps.com Platform.

Features

Screenshot

  • DCC Transfers and chats
  • Plugin System to extend PChats features
  • CTCP
  • Choice of tabbed document interface or tree interface
  • Support for multiple servers either through normal connection or via SSL

Learn more about PChat

PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format

PChat Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Platform including the Menu and Backup Utility.

Download

PChat Portable is available for immediate download from the PChat Portable homepage. Get it today!

Story Topic:

Comments

PChatPortable 1.5 is not keep settings. Sad

I deleted data folder just encase there was a glitch with and there was no changes, I also made a new manual install to see if something ells was wrong and also the same problem.

I finally had to revert to PChatPortable 1.4 and it works like a charm! Smile

bobsterco

June 15, 2012 - 11:51pm

I decided to install the non-portable version for the time being so that my settings get reloaded at startup.

Willing to help / test / debug the issue for the portable version.

ruh roh ... most settings are not remembered. Nicknames, channel switch choice, etc. are lost on Exit. Curiously, network edits are remembered.

There is certainly a gross difference in the number of files installed - PChat 1.4 had far more DLLs ... and a license.txt ... than PChat 1.5

Oh, also today was my third try to install with PortableApps Updater in as many days ... it finally worked. The prior two attempts at upgrading to PChat 1.5 resulted in a "downloaded file corrupt. Unable to install update" error message.

Hope y'all can figger this out and correct it. I do like PChat very much.

Ah ha! I see on pchat-irc.net that there was perfectly good reason for the apparent lack of DLLs, compared to PChat 1.4. Thanks for spelling out the details of the release in the blog.

But, alas, I'll just patiently await an update to fix the settings-forgetting

Zach Thibeau's picture

Zach Thibeau

June 4, 2012 - 11:21pm

I'll have a quick looksie in the code, but in all my testing both production machines, virtual environments etc worked with clean configs and saved them, could be something small I introduced unknowingly that affected saving... I guess I'll have to post pone revision 1 for now until I dig a little deeper into it.

your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau

But this version, just like the prior, does not recognize most of the settings I have in PChat 1.4

I have no idea why my system doesn't work like your test machines Mr. Thibeau, but I am going to revert back to PChat 1.4 again.

I run XP Pro and run Portable Apps almost exclusively, including OpenOffice, and Mozilla products. I have protections that include Avira, Norton and SpyBot. I avoid changes like the plague ... and it's my same system that worked with PChat 1.4 that does not work well with PChat 1.5 (dot one or dot two).

I'll keep hanging in there as long as I can - bets of luck with all your endeavours.

justcurious

June 6, 2012 - 1:34pm

I'm having a weird issue with 1.5 where I cannot copy and paste hyperlinks from IRC into any web browser. The text is clearly in my buffer, I can copy/paste it to anywhere else, but if I try to paste the URL into any browser (I've tried Chrome, Firefox and IE) I get nothing. This problem happens whether I do text selection or right click -> copy URL. This issue was not present in 1.4.

Another question: Is there a way to modify the right click -> Open URL in Browser behavior? I am using Chrome portable, and when I use Open URL in Browser, it opens a new Chrome window instead of sending the URL to a new tab in the current window which is what I want. Is there a way I can change this?

Thank you for your continued hard work!