[Bluebomber21XX]

Well, I released the patch tonight. You can find it through its normal channels:

http://www.bluebomber.com/misc/AIMX_...nner_Patch.sit

For those of you that can't make the patch work (and this happens every single time), there's also a pre-patched version of AIMX in the /misc directory, ready to go. I'm not sure how in the world it made it in there, though ;)

Everyone enjoy their new de-bannered AIM client!


ALSO: One more thing. Who here can tell me where the information for the version number is stored in AIMX? Like, on the Get Info window, it'll say. I know for Classic apps, it was stored in a TEXT, but I'm not sure about Carbon software....

Much thanks to anyone that can help!

[King Bob On The Cob]

Thank you so much. I can now use the new AIM as my full time client again.

[tkmd]

Works like a charm... I love it. So does the sightly reduced cpu load on my Pismo 400.

[Alex00087]

Thank you!

[Justin W. Williams]

Anyone else have trouble getting people to show up idle on their buddy list in this new version?

[WinsOBoogi]

Excellent

I was waiting for this before installing the new version of AIM.

I can't live with the banners anymore, after using this on the last version.

-Brad

[mikebat]

Originally posted by Bluebomber21XX:
ALSO: One more thing. Who here can tell me where the information for the version number is stored in AIMX? Like, on the Get Info window, it'll say. I know for Classic apps, it was stored in a TEXT, but I'm not sure about Carbon software....

In Mac OS X, the "info.plist" file is used
Contents/Info.plist
...and the version string that you see in the "Get Info" window is at the "CFBundleGetInfoString" key:

<key>CFBundleGetInfoString</key>
<string>AOL Instant Messenger (SM) 4.5.794 for Macintosh. Copyright 1994-2002 America Online, Inc.</string>

In Classic, the Finder gets it from the 'vers' resource inside the application file itself... which is located inside the package at:
Contents/MacOS/AOL Instant Messenger (SM)

[daimoni]

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[Bluebomber21XX]

Originally posted by daimoni:
Bluebomber: Thank you for your time and effort.

Call me paranoid, but would you please tell us exactly what your patch binary does? :)

Be as technical as you like.

Sure, no problem.

Although my patch is for an OS X application, the patch itself has to be Classic because I don't know of any other application that can create native patches. I used ResCompare 2.6 to make the patch, then edit a few resources of the patch, like the icon, and some of the version information (do a Get Info on the patch itself).

Once the patch is run, you select the "AIM Resources" file in AIMX, then it takes my hacked AIM Resources file I made, and replaces the bannered file with my de-bannered one. The original is then moved to the Trash, but not deleted. The installer then throws out a message saying something like, "Enjoy your new client."

That's it. My patch doesn't do anything else besides its intended purpose. Rest easy, I'm just a college student that hates ads :)

[daimoni]

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