wxpymoo (pronounced "wispy-moo") is a wxPython MOO/MUD client, very work-in-progress. It's intended to run on Windows, MacOS, and Linux/etc.
This is a response to Andrew Wilson's fantastic tkMOO-light MOO client being long abandoned, tk-based, which is ugly, and coded in TCL which ouch. So I thought I'd see if I could reproduce the 75% of it that I use, using Perl which I understand, and Wx which looks at least somewhat modern.
Which I did. And then I started discovering how difficult it is to package and release wxPerl applications.
So I punted, and reimplemented the entire thing in wxPython. And here we are.
- Connects to arbitrary host/port combinations
- Contains a "worlds list" full of ~50 currently-active MOOs/MUDS/etc to choose from.
- ANSI 16, 256, and 24-bit support, as well as FANSI; multiple color themes for core ANSI colors
- Partial MCP/2.1 implementation -- mcp-negotiate is implemented; mcp-cord only partially.
- MCP packages:
- dns-com-awns-displayurl
- dns-com-awns-rehash (partial)
- dns-com-awns-serverinfo
- dns-com-awns-status (partial)
- dns-com-vmoo-client
- dns-com-vmoo-smartcomplete
- dns-org-mud-moo-simpleedit
- A growing number of MUD protocols supported:
- Multiple connections supported via tabbed interface
- SSL support per-world
- Works at least reasonably well on Linux, MacOS, Windows.
- Basic but functional command history.
- Tab-complete, currently fed from dns-com-vmoo-smartcomplete
- fix output pane scroll-to-bottom behavior to dwym.
- More keyboard accelerators; page-up/down etc
- Finish toast-style popups for dns-com-awns-status et al
- Add proper prefs and world/connection handling (85% done)
- Pondering schemes to scrape online MOO lists to offer suggestions. (70% done)
- Start rolling binary packages for all platforms once it's remotely useful to anyone but me.
- Per-world settings? Colors, fonts?
- Finish MCP 2.1 implementation.
- Object browser, like MacMOOSE but hopefully nicer.
- Implement "SSH Forwarding" connection type.
- color theme editor
- Support more MUD protocols
- More complete VT100 support
- HTML help, using jtext?
- MIME-based external apps, ie mplayer for audio/flac etc? MCP package to accept MIME+data? dns-com-vmoo-mmedia?
- inline MOO syntax highlighting? Like, detect the output of "@list $player:tell" and auto-highlight it?
- Character-mode?
- Monospaced fonts and line-based terminal output are not mutually incompatible with intuitive, pleasant UIs.
- There are many wheels out there that have been invented well already. My MOO client doesn't need its own built-in text editor. Lather, rinse, repeat.
- Nobody's living on a shell account on a VMS machine. The MOO doesn't need to be a black-and-white culdesac. There are dozens of interesting things a MOO client could do, connected to the 21st-century Internet, that I haven't thought of yet. Detect chat in a different language and offer to translate? Tweet you when your friends log on? Display Google Maps for a MOO that knows how to host that? Who knows?
wxpymoo contains:
- wxasync (c) 2018 Christian Bodt
- EnhancedStatusBar (c) 2005 Andrea Gavana and Nitro
- The color themes were lovingly lifted from Terminal Sexy by George Czabania
wxpymoo owes a great debt to tkMOO-light by Andrew Wilson.
- Clone this repo
- Go to the Python link above, get the latest version of Python
- Install it
- Open a terminal, type
pip install wxPython - Double-click "wxpymoo.py" inside the wxpymoo directory
Fedora 30 will contain wxPython 4.0.4, so unless you're on Rawhide or 30, we have to install it from source. I know, I hate me too.
- Clone this repo
- (Fedora 29 and below)
sudo dnf install python3-devel gcc gcc-c++ gtk3-devel gtkglext-devel gstreamer-devel gstreamer-plugins-base-devel webkit2gtk3-devel - (Fedora 29 and below)
sudo pip3 install wxPython - (Fedora 30 / Rawhide)
sudo dnf install python3 python3-wxpython4 cd wxpymoo; python3 wxpymoo.py