flobby

flobby is a spring lobby client written in C++.
flobby is developed and tested on archlinux, use AUR package flobby-git for easy install and update.

Dependencies worth noting

• FLTK 1.4 dependencies (FLTK is a submodule and linked to statically)
• jsoncpp
• libxpm
• libxss
• GraphicsMagick
• curl
• boost
• C++11 (gcc 4.6 should be enough)

Ubuntu Instructions

• see script: ubuntu/flobby_installer.sh
• essential build packages:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y apt-utils git cmake build-essential pkg-config libboost-system1.67.0 libboost1.67-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-chrono1.67-dev libboost-regex-dev libboost-thread1.67-dev libjsoncpp-dev libjsoncpp1 libgraphicsmagick++1-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libminizip-dev clang-format libxpm-dev libxcb-screensaver0-dev libxss-dev libqt5opengl5-dev
cmake .
make -j 4 ( depends on your CPUspeed, use -j 12 for very fast compiling )
sudo make install

• to build on docker use:

cd ubuntu
docker-compuse up --build
# grep some coffee...
# finished build should plop up after a while in $(pwd) e.g.: flobby-u19.deb_20200521-1_amd64.deb

Build and run

git clone --recursive https://github.com/cleanrock/flobby.git
cd flobby
cmake .
make
src/flobby

Directories and files

~/.config/flobby/  # can be changed with -d argument or XDG_CONFIG_HOME
    flobby.prefs  # flobby settings, delete this file to reset all settings to default 
~/.cache/flobby/  # can be changed with -d argument or XDG_CACHE_HOME
    flobby.log  # flobby debug log
    flobby_script.txt  # spring script file, written on spring launch
    flobby_process_pr-downloader.log  # pr-downloader output
    map/  # map cache files
    log/  # logs of all chats, logging to files can be disabled in flobby

Command line arguments

$ flobby -h
usage: flobby [options]
    -d | --dir <dir> : use <dir> for flobby config and cache instead of XDG
    -z | --zerok     : use zero-k lobby protocol, uses server address lobby.zero-k.info:8200 by default
    -v | --version   : print flobby version
    -h | --help      : print help message
plus standard fltk options:
    -bg2 color
    -bg color
    -di[splay] host:n.n
    -dn[d]
    -fg color
    -g[eometry] WxH+X+Y
    -i[conic]
    -k[bd]
    -na[me] classname
    -nod[nd]
    -nok[bd]
    -not[ooltips]
    -s[cheme] scheme
    -ti[tle] windowtitle
    -to[oltips]

Non-obvious features

• user name tab completion (case-insensitive), matches first "starting with" then "containing", cycles through multiple matches
• Alt+[1-9,0] - go to chat tab #, 0 will go to last tab
• Alt+[Left|Right] - go one chat tab left/right, works when in a chat tab
• supports watching replays from Zero-K website