arsho / pychat

Chatting application over LAN using Python.

Chatting application using LAN

Python program to chat using LAN. If you are in a Wifi network, you can chat with the connected devices that support Python using this program.

What is this repository for?

• Quick summary
• Version Controlling
• Issue Tracking

How do I get set up?

• Nothing!
• Add Python to Environment Path when installing

Run the program

• Run as usual python program python main.py
• In one computer click on server then connect and make any wanted port
• In the other computer click on client then connect type in the port then the ip adress of the computer that is the server
• Have fun chating!! extras:
• Change your username by clicking on file then change username

Tested OS

• Tested on Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10

Screenshot of various installation

• See attached screenshot folder in this repository.

Screenshot of two users chatting using Pychat:

Server user (Alice)

Client user (Bob)

Command suggestion

Modification Needed

• Font should be resized.

Future work

• Update GUI
• Add effect
• Show connected devices

Reference

• Socket Programming HOWTO
• Graphical User Interfaces with Tk

Development Status (Current)

• Development Status :: 4 - Beta

Development Status Phases (For understanding)

• Development Status :: 1 - Planning
• Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha
• Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
• Development Status :: 4 - Beta
• Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
• Development Status :: 6 - Mature
• Development Status :: 7 - Inactive

Contribution to Pychat (For developers only)

Step 1: Installing Git Client

The following steps can be done using Git Shell(Windows) or Ubuntu terminal.

• Install Git in Windows: Download and install Github desktop. URL: https://desktop.github.com/
• Install Git in Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install git

Step 2: Clone this repo to your PC

• Open git client (Git shell / terminal).
• git clone https://github.com/arsho/pychat.git

Step 3: Push modification to Github / Bitbucket from your PC?

• Open git client (Git shell / terminal) and do the following steps.
• git pull --all
• git add .
• git commit -m "Commit message"
• git push -u origin master

How this repository is created

• Created a repository in Github.
• CD to a directory in local PC.
• Opened git client and did the following steps.
• git clone https://github.com/arsho/pychat.git
• cd pychat
• git add .
• git commit -m "First commit"
• git push -u origin master