Now that I got that working... here's what I was thinking...
1. you would have to build a simple aim client. "simple" meaning it doesn't need alot of the features like file transfer and stuff. I know this can be done, but I'm not sure as to the degree of difficulty ( see
http://www.trillian.com and
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ for examples of alternate clients)
2. the client would monitor the notes.txt file for user input. EQ commands could be adapted. some command examples to type at the EQ prompt would be:
Code:
/notes /who all buddies
/notes /tell somedude00 what's up?
My old guild had something similar to this in which the officers ran a program that watched their log file, and every time the /guildmotd was displayed it sent the message to our website so offline people knew what was going on.
3. recieving messages... this is the hard part. I was thinking the best way for this would to be adding an extra link to the help page. As far as I know, this is the only way to change UI content without reloading the skin (yuck) since the html files are read in everytime you click the link and not stored in memory like the rest of the UI files. When the client recieves new messages it appends them to a (possibly different per contact) html file. You would still be recieving messages in real time, but you would need to refresh the page manually to read your new messages.
Anyway... just my thoughts... I believe it would work, but I'm not gonna spend my time writing it
I'd be interested to know if someone else tries to implement it.
Enjoy,
-Windaen