maximilionus/vectormessenger_zero

Python GUI application for network global chatting through UDP protocol. This repository contains the legacy version of this messenger (both client and server side), written on sockets.

vectormessenger_zero's Issues

Client wont launch on some dists of Win7

Just tested compiled client on Windows 7 Pro SP1 with all Visual C Redistributables 2005-2018 installed and getting this error:

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cx_Freeze: Python error in main script
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\MAXIMILI\.virtualenvs\VectorMessenger-HobLuhkv\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\__startup__.py", line 40, in run
  File "C:\Users\MAXIMILI\.virtualenvs\VectorMessenger-HobLuhkv\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\Console.py", line 37, in run
  File "./VectorMessenger/client.py", line 3, in <module>
  File "c:\program files\python38\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 36, in <module>
ImportError: DLL load failed while importing _tkinter: Параметр задан неверно.

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Compiled client won't send messages

After implementation of AES cipher with several another changes client stopped to send messages while run as a compiled executable file. Messages still can be sent if client run from source code.

This issue may be probably caused by pyAesCrypt, io.BytesIO or bufferSize value.

Problem with UI scaling and placing

UI Widgets in client are placing wrong on different screen res. Widgets are also looks horrible after window resize.

Sent messages can be "lost"

Sent messages can be lost as the title says. This may be caused by UDP protocol usage or Message Polling Thread's sleep()

Messenger core security improvement

Currently, there's all Messenger base functions in ./MessengerCore.py. Encryption core is also included in this file. This means that cx-Freeze will include the encryption core not only in the client build, but in the server too.

Proposal: ./MessengerCore.py contents should be separated to different .py files and moved to new folder ./MessengerCore/.

Linux icon format

Linux does not support .ico format icons. Application will crash with tkinter exception if you try to load .ico in gui.

Switch icon format from .ico to universal .png

Server useless tkinter importing

Server currently imports helpers.py, which contain import tkinter in header. Since server is console-only -- import of tkinter is absolutely useless and may cause an ImportError if package is not installed.

Client - Username not refreshing

class MessengerClient > sendMessage() currently loads username from argument cfg. This behavior creates an issue with changing username via settings. Even if username value will be changed in json it still stay the same in this variable.

Client - Issue with app exit

Issue was noticed on windows build of current version.

Once you exit the application correctly, it still works as a background process. This may be caused by message polling function running in Threading module.