Pebble

Pebble stands for the Perl Babel Linux Client, although, theoretically it should work on any system which can support Perl and the modules I'm using (fat chance!)

It uses Curses to generate a full screen client interface, complete with scrollable userlist, scrollable message window and BBS browser. The BBS browse uses the XML files generated by the Xurble server in order to create its pages.

Pebble is currently in version 2. Version 1 was orignally developed for Babel1, but was pretty much completely rewritten in a psuedo (Ie, nearly, but not quite) object-oriented style for the new Xurble protocol.

Screen Shots

• The Userlist - Featuring a message!
• Replying - Featuring multiline replies!
• The Main Menu - Generated by the Xurble server in XML
• A Discussion - Again generated from XML. Spot the bug?

Downloads

• The Pebble README
• pebble-2.tar.gz - Gzipped Tar of the Pebble install

Modules

Pebble uses a number of Perl modules which will be required to be installed before use. These are:

• Curses - Provides access to the Curses libaries for full screen applications.
• Term::ReadKey - Allows reading of the screen size after a sigwinch event. Curses doesn't seem to provide this support.
• XML::Parser - XML Parser module. Used for parsing the bbs section and discussion files.

Support

Get any bug notifications or requests for support to me and I'll do my best to help. I can't guarantee any fixes for compiled versions of Pebble using Perl2Exe.

• Babel: Jester
• Email: kelly@boreworms.com
• ICQ: 38994129
• Yahoo IM: delanthear
• MSN Messenger: kelly@boreworms.com
• Snail: Are you kidding?