Well, here we go with another project, this time I decided to replicate Furcadia's Pounce. Well, not really. What this started out was a means to watch the messages between Pounce and the client back when VERSION 28: "Tied with a String" was being released. Since then I've been working on making a more usable interface for that, which just sort of grew into this project.

I'm fairly happy with the result, it doesn't do everything Pounce does, but it comes mighty close. What needs to be done is minor however. Well, one part is, the other is going to be a bit trickier. The easy part is simple, the current release does not pop up a message box if you close the program while there's any clients open.

The other part is the custom colors for entries in the list. That's going to require me to learn and understand how custom-draw works with TreeView's.

And yes, to understand one of the things about Faux Pawn, as the project is actually called, is that Furcadia's Pounce uses what is called a ListBox for the name list. While I decided to use a TreeView for the name list, which has different behavior. Which required a different approach to making it work.

For example, rather than tackle the coding required for making "Root" entries, or UnGrouped entries, to be always on the top of the list, with the Groups following, I went with just making a Root group in the list. This has the added benefit of being collapsible just like any of the groups in the list.

There's various features which need expanding and modification in the program, one of which is that like the original behavior of Pounce, new entries go into the root. One of the modifications I want to make is to have the user create a couple of rules for this, like putting unknown whispers into "Recent Whispers" or what ever they want to use as the target folder as well as "Visited Dreams".

Name entry editing also will be expanded, from not just being able to control what sounds are heard when someone comes online or goes offline, and whether or not to have a sound associated with those events, but being able to use custom sounds for any particular entry as well as controlling what notification rules are applied to each entry.