Sample code for programming Paltalk for Desktop

I’m including 2 things here. A greeter program for Paltalk for Desktop (a demo with limited functionality) and my Visual Studio project directory for the program.

The greeter works by interacting with an intermediary program ReadRoom. The greeter code is in greeter.vb. The code that interacts with ReadRoom is in PaltalkModule.vb. PaltalkModule is kind of a messy as it has evolved over years starting when I didn’t know what I was doing. But I treat it as a black box, so concentrate on greeter.vb.

There are 2 functions used in greeter.vb.

GetNextLine(nextLine), which gets the next unread line in the Paltalk window (via ReadRoom) and sticks it into “nextLine”. GetNextLine will return false if there was no next line.

PrintInRoom(msg), prints the string msg in the Paltalk room.

There is a Timer that calls GetNextLine once a second to read lines.

So what can you do with this? You could write an insult program that insults people when they type certain things in the room, or you could warn people if they use certain language. Or you could write your own trivia bot as I wrote one.

If you want to distribute ReadRoom with anything you write I have no problem with that. If I knew how to write a DLL I’d write it as a DLL. And if I was more comfortable with C I’d use that instead of Visual Basic.