PESTERCHUM 3.41: Updated Pesterchum! New Thread!

[TacticGamer]

Ghostdunk, you should make the animations work like gifs in a browser. As in, the animation stops playing for you if you cant see it.

Because shit gets laggy when I play an animation smiley then 20 minutes later I get lag hell.

EDIT: Also, for some reason memos in the Trollian theme turn into an Altair-esque color scheme when I turn off tabbed memos

[mooseFriend]

Error opening file for writing:
C:\Pesterchum\PyQt4.QTcore.pyd

Retrying does nothing... I think I failed the internet.

[illuminatedwax]

I am having a huge problem.

So, I went to download it, and it seems to of only worked halfway. Getting rid of 3.14, but when it tries to download 3.41, it says error. To everything. I then tried to just download it as if on a new computer, since it already uninstalled the old one, and all the errors popped up again. I downloaded the zip one, since I have worked my way with ZIPs, and moved the things as you said. It works, but I don't have anything on it anymore, like my accounts and quirks, even though I moved all the files from my old folder. And, this may be me just being a derp, but I can't seem to find anything naming where I can change my theme. Is there any way to fix any of this? I really want to experience the new one!

Oh, and as a note, my friend is experiencing the same thing, except the 3.14 for her did not get erased, so it seems it's not just my computer. Is there anything either of us can do? :c

Were you running Pesterchum at the same time as trying to update it? It will definitely break then. If you have errors, it helps to write down what they are verbatim.

Where are you moving your old files to? Are you sure they're the right files? Did you run the "save pesterchum data" program before you started installing?

As for your theme, the theme has been moved to Options -- this is in the FA%. EVERYONE PLEASE READ THE FA%

[Phobic]

It seems to be working fine for me. Well done!

[illuminatedwax]

Error opening file for writing:
C:\Pesterchum\PyQt4.QTcore.pyd

Retrying does nothing... I think I failed the internet.

Turn off pesterchum before you upgrade!!!!

I have added this to the FA% (because a lot of people do this).

[Zarggg]

I also would like the option for when you open a memo to open it from when that memo started as opposed to starting it from blank.

[This] is, to my recollection, impossible using IRC.

As Pesterchum uses IRC as its base, you can't do the latter.

It would be possible if PesterChum kept a rolling log of channels (memos) and loaded them when joining. X-Chat (a common IRC client) contains this feature. However, it would be limited to only messages that you personally have been present for.

[illuminatedwax]

I also would like the option for when you open a memo to open it from when that memo started as opposed to starting it from blank.

[This] is, to my recollection, impossible using IRC.

As Pesterchum uses IRC as its base, you can't do the latter.

It would be possible if PesterChum kept a rolling log of channels (memos) and loaded them when joining. X-Chat (a common IRC client) contains this feature. However, it would be limited to only messages that you personally have been present for.

Yeah, I imagine the feature they are looking for is being able to see what people typed while they were gone.

[illuminatedwax]

Ghostdunk, you should make the animations work like gifs in a browser. As in, the animation stops playing for you if you cant see it.

Because shit gets laggy when I play an animation smiley then 20 minutes later I get lag hell.

EDIT: Also, for some reason memos in the Trollian theme turn into an Altair-esque color scheme when I turn off tabbed memos

I think there's some theme bug that doesn't update your theme when you switch between tabbed and untabbed.

As for the gifs, future plans are to just stop animating gifs after x seconds.

[illuminatedwax]

Ghostdunk, you should make the animations work like gifs in a browser. As in, the animation stops playing for you if you cant see it.

Because shit gets laggy when I play an animation smiley then 20 minutes later I get lag hell.

EDIT: Also, for some reason memos in the Trollian theme turn into an Altair-esque color scheme when I turn off tabbed memos

I think there's some theme bug that doesn't update your theme when you switch between tabbed and untabbed.

As for the gifs, future plans are to just stop animating gifs after x seconds.

[tanoshiibento]

I have an error coming up that reads "cx_Fatal Freeze Error: cannot get zipimporter instance"
Is there any fix for that?
I made sure Pesterchum wasn't open when I installed and I tried restarting the computer.

[Jamon]

Hey man, I'm kind of having a problem. I'm using Windows XP SP3 and I'm new at Pesterchum, it's the first time I downloaded it, it seems to install fine but when I go to my desktop and open it/click it/run as, nothing seems to happen, it doesn't opens or anything, I hope you can help me out here, maybe I'm doing things wrong or something, thanks for your attention!

[fuckass]

I'm not sure if I should ask this here, but I'm having issues with sound on the Mac version? No sounds are playing for me. Other than that, I love it!

Oh, and is there a reason that the regular Pesterchum theme doesn't have Courier in the memos?

And... I wish I could turn anti-aliasing off just for one thing!

[illuminatedwax]

I have an error coming up that reads "cx_Fatal Freeze Error: cannot get zipimporter instance"
Is there any fix for that?
I made sure Pesterchum wasn't open when I installed and I tried restarting the computer.

Are you running on a non-english operating system at all?

Hey man, I'm kind of having a problem. I'm using Windows XP SP3 and I'm new at Pesterchum, it's the first time I downloaded it, it seems to install fine but when I go to my desktop and open it/click it/run as, nothing seems to happen, it doesn't opens or anything, I hope you can help me out here, maybe I'm doing things wrong or something, thanks for your attention!

Try doing this:
* Run the command line by going to Start->Run and then typing "cmd".
* Type cd C:\Pesterchum
* Type pesterchum.exe

and see if it gives you any errors there.

[ninjaMaster]

hey. Umm...this might be a ridiculous question with an extremely simple answer that I'm just not creative enough to figure out, but...
So I'm trying to create a quirk where a bunch of letters get replaced by Enochian symbols, but I can't copy-paste the symbols without them converting back to the normal font...how would I do that?

[fuckass]

oh my glub, i hate to post again, but I'm also curious if someone could help me around with the quirks? I've been trying to capitalize the ends of my sentences... something like tHIS, but i'm not exactly sure how i would go about doing that, even with regexp... ^^ and i'm not sure if it's a bug or not, but when i was trying to add some things to my quirk earlier on, I wasn't able to. For example, I copied & pasted tavros' quirk from the cheat sheet, and instead it showed up with parentheses between e)v)e)ry)letter (something like that lol)! Is there another explanation of regexp somewhere? I may not be comprehending it right :x!!

[ashdenej]

I'm not sure if I should ask this here, but I'm having issues with sound on the Mac version? No sounds are playing for me. Other than that, I love it!

Oh, and is there a reason that the regular Pesterchum theme doesn't have Courier in the memos?

And... I wish I could turn anti-aliasing off just for one thing!

You can edit that by looking in your c:/pesterchum/themes folder and editing the memo/textarea section, to this:

show spoiler

hide spoiler

  "textarea": { "style": "background: white;  font-size: 14px;font:bold; border:2px solid #c48a00;text-align:center; margin-right:10px; margin-left:10px; font-family: 'Courier';" },

And what do you want aliased? Also, I think your quirk problem might be because you got your / and \s mixed up? Not sure, though.

ninjaMaster, you might want to try Unicode - other than that, different fonts aren't allowed.

[kiooeht]

I'm not sure if I should ask this here, but I'm having issues with sound on the Mac version? No sounds are playing for me. Other than that, I love it!

The Mac version has been having some troubles with pygame/sdl_mixer making sound work. We're doing our best to make it work properly.

Then go into the pesterchum directory, where you have three options:

1. Type `python pesterchum.py` to run it
2. Type `./pesterchum` to run it
3. Install it by running `./easyInstall`

The easyInstall program is new and we think it works, but try it out for us and let us know!

Correction: It's './easyInstaller'

Also, new instructions for users of Arch Linux:
Pesterchum is now in the AUR. You can install it via your preferred method.
Example if you have yaourt:

yaourt -S pesterchum-git

This will correctly resolve dependencies on PyQt4 and Pygame for you.

[zyborg]

Darn, the "fix" for school firewalls doesn't seem to work...

Also, are the major changes from 3.14 to 3.41 really noticable? Only thing I really noticed different was the "Random Encounter" and more themes.

[flawvis]

Hey man, I'm kind of having a problem. I'm using Windows XP SP3 and I'm new at Pesterchum, it's the first time I downloaded it, it seems to install fine but when I go to my desktop and open it/click it/run as, nothing seems to happen, it doesn't opens or anything, I hope you can help me out here, maybe I'm doing things wrong or something, thanks for your attention!

Try doing this:
* Run the command line by going to Start->Run and then typing "cmd".
* Type cd C:\Pesterchum
* Type pesterchum.exe

and see if it gives you any errors there.

I use Windows XP too and I'm having the same problem. Doing this doesn't seem to work.

[cardiacAtrophy]

Darn, the "fix" for school firewalls doesn't seem to work...

I'm so glad to see I'm not the only one that this isn't working for. I've been having some bad luck lately.

[LuciferZ]

Geeds, kiooeht (and everyone else who has contributed), I just gotta stop by and say again, thanks for putting so much time into this program. As a man once tormented by Windows Live products, a man once so desperate as to use Skype for text chat, a man who just really really hates Steam... Pesterchum is a huge relief and unquestionably the best chat program I have ever used.

There are some obnoxious bugs, but I have yet to encounter anything as infuriating as what the others offered. I think with sufficient time and a few additions, what you've got here will not only outlive Homestuck but perhaps expand beyond it, to people who don't even know what it is based on.

Seriously. This program is great and I wish I could get all of my friends to use it. Thanks again for all the effort and work and shit like that. You bros be cool.

[ashdenej]

There are some obnoxious bugs, but I have yet to encounter anything as infuriating as what the others offered.

Would you mind listing what bugs you've encountered?

Also, I know of a few people who already use it without actually knowing Homestuck at all, haha. Your thoughts were already achieved!

[Subrosian]

So my entire pesterlogs folder is gone. One of my other friends says that it's still there for them, but mine has just vanished. I downloaded the pesterchum 3.14 backup and made a smooth transition over to 3.41, but now it seems my pesterlog folder has disappeared. The logs in the old pesterchum folder don't seem to update, so I'm wondering what I have to do to get my logs folder back.

Just as a side note, I can just go straight to C:/Pesterchum to access everything Pesterchum related. On the first page it mentions that all the data will be stored in "Local Application Data" folder, so I don't know if that's where I'm going or if I'm not looking in the right place or what.

EDIT: Okay, so I found out where to find it but for the non-computer saavy person (like myself), they probably won't know you have to go through C:/Users/<username>/AppData/Local just to find the new Pesterchum folder with all the logs in it. Nor will they realize that most of the time it's a hidden file and would have to do a search for it to unhide it and find it in the first place.

You might want to make a note on that for computer illiterates.

[illuminatedwax]

So my entire pesterlogs folder is gone. One of my other friends says that it's still there for them, but mine has just vanished. I downloaded the pesterchum 3.14 backup and made a smooth transition over to 3.41, but now it seems my pesterlog folder has disappeared. The logs in the old pesterchum folder don't seem to update, so I'm wondering what I have to do to get my logs folder back.

Just as a side note, I can just go straight to C:/Pesterchum to access everything Pesterchum related. On the first page it mentions that all the data will be stored in "Local Application Data" folder, so I don't know if that's where I'm going or if I'm not looking in the right place or what.

EDIT: Okay, so I found out where to find it but for the non-computer saavy person (like myself), they probably won't know you have to go through C:/Users/<username>/AppData/Local just to find the new Pesterchum folder with all the logs in it. Nor will they realize that most of the time it's a hidden file and would have to do a search for it to unhide it and find it in the first place.

You might want to make a note on that for computer illiterates.

The installer should helpfully install a shortcut in the Pesterchum start menu folder that points to your logs folder in the new location so you don't have to type all that. I'll add that to the FA% so people know to look there. Also you can use the in-program log viewer as well.

[illuminatedwax]

Darn, the "fix" for school firewalls doesn't seem to work...

Also, are the major changes from 3.14 to 3.41 really noticable? Only thing I really noticed different was the "Random Encounter" and more themes.

Darn, the "fix" for school firewalls doesn't seem to work...

I'm so glad to see I'm not the only one that this isn't working for. I've been having some bad luck lately.

Some schools are "hard line" -- they basically block everything that ain't the web or email. There's not much you can do there besides going through a web proxy. That's on the list of future projects but for now...

Hey man, I'm kind of having a problem. I'm using Windows XP SP3 and I'm new at Pesterchum, it's the first time I downloaded it, it seems to install fine but when I go to my desktop and open it/click it/run as, nothing seems to happen, it doesn't opens or anything, I hope you can help me out here, maybe I'm doing things wrong or something, thanks for your attention!

Try doing this:
* Run the command line by going to Start->Run and then typing "cmd".
* Type cd C:\Pesterchum
* Type pesterchum.exe

and see if it gives you any errors there.

I use Windows XP too and I'm having the same problem. Doing this doesn't seem to work.

I don't expect it will work; I'm interested to see if you get any error messages written on the screen when you do this. Those error messages will help me understand why it isn't working.

Also I just noticed: what do you mean by "run as"?