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Sending formatted IMs from a UCMA application

Posted: January 29th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: UCMA 3.0 | Tags: , , , | 2 Comments »

I can’t honestly say that I’ve run into a lot of situations where I’ve said to myself, “If only I could send an HTML formatted instant message right now, my problems would go away.” But adding formatting to IMs can definitely help with some specialized communication applications such as bots where you want to distinguish different types of messages, or emphasize certain parts of a conversation. So, to make those nice visual touches easier, and for anyone out there who is in a tight spot by virtue of not knowing how to send an IM with special formatting, I thought I’d write up a quick post on it. Continue reading “Sending formatted IMs from a UCMA application” »