Vector Messenger

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• Information
• Features
• Client
  • Information
  • Startup Args
  • Debug Console Commands
• Server
  • Information
  • Startup Args
• Preparing Source
  • For Development
  • For Building
• Special Thanks

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Information

Simple python-based ui application for network global chatting through UDP protocol. Source code can be launched and built only on python 3.7. This project was made just to understand how it all works, so don't expect it to be an awesome piece of software.

Features

• Cross platform GUI client
• AES256-CBC message client-side encryption

Client

Information

Main File: ./VectorMessenger/client.py
Run From Source: poetry run client

Startup Args

Argument	Description
--disable-updater	Disable VM Updater start

Debug Console Commands

Command	Description
clear	Clear debug window output
clear-chat	Clear all messages in chat widget
refresh-theme	Read config .json values and update theme
polling-stop	Will stop message polling thread
test-raise	This command will raise test exception that will crash this app
version	Print app version
updates-check	Check for available updates
eval <COMMAND>	Execute <COMMAND> in python interpreter

Note, that all commands are case sensitive!

Server

Information

Main File: ./VectorMessenger/server.py
Run From Source poetry run server

Startup Args

Argument	Description
--localhost	Run server on localhost

Preparing Source

• First of all you need to install the poetry dependency manager with pip.
• If you're on Linux, you will have to install python3-tk to your system. Tkinter currently used as the base of cross platform gui for client.

For Development

# Install all dependencies, including development
$ poetry install

For Building

# Install all base dependencies
$ poetry install --no-dev

# Build client and server
# Run script with argument --help 
# or read build.py docstring for more information
$ poetry run python build.py

Special Thanks

Closed Alpha Testers
Dmitry
Max "Forzz" Bannov
Nikita "CrazyFearka" Stepanov