Quote from NinjasRule34

Sorry for making another help me thread but i suck at Google. So anyways anybody got a good tutorial link on how to make an instant messsenger with flash. Is it even possible? And I need it to be a standalone program and i need it to be able to run a conversation via lan.

For it to be standalone, you'll need to use a language outside of flash, or get everyone to download the SWF, you will also need AS3 not 2 as you will need to do server based stuff, a log-in database will be damn boring to make, if you even figure out how. I suppose you'd need a MYSQL database or something involving php to store the date for accounts and shit. Get this set up and then look into using the database for making an IM.

Quote from Scorpioxxx

For it to be standalone, you'll need to use a language outside of flash, or get everyone to download the SWF, you will also need AS3 not 2 as you will need to do server based stuff, a log-in database will be damn boring to make, if you even figure out how. I suppose you'd need a MYSQL database or something involving php to store the date for accounts and shit. Get this set up and then look into using the database for making an IM.

To add upon this, Coding an IM in Flash is possible, just time consuming and you'll pretty much need to know what to do ahead of time for it to be any good. I think you personally would be better off just googling a free IM creator or something. This sort of thing seems a bit... out of your league.

thanks for letting me down easy you guys... ill take it down a notch. Back the the drawing board