This program is written in Java, you may wish to read this first.

Background:
If you go to a windows command prompt and type

net send <destination> <message>

Where destination is a user or computer on your network, and message is the text you want to send, then a message will appear in a dialog box on the computer <destination>. SkinnyMessenger provides a graphical interface to this utility. You are provided with a box in which to type a message, and a box to type the name of the user or computer that you wish to send the message to. Additionally, you are given a list of all of the computers currently on the network. You also have the option to send the same message to multiple computers/users.

Requirements

Windows NT/2000/XP

How to run:

This program comes in an executable jar file, so you can run it by double-clicking on it (if that doesn't work, read this), or from the command line.

java -jar SkinnyMessenger.jar

To do:

• Auto go-to in the available computers list.
• Auto highlight and focus of the message box.
• Do something usefull when an exception occurs.
• Improve the alphabetic sorting of the lists, so that case is ignored.
• Message sent succesfully confirmation.

Downloads:

SkinnyMessenger.jar (38kb) includes source code and javadocs.

SkinnyMessenger_docs.zip (24kb) javadoc API documentation.

There is also an online version of the javadocs.

Version History

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