objective-c ichat chat program control

Question

Is it possible to have an objective-c application send and receive iChat messages without iChat? NOT with applescript. I also want to do this to skype, mail, etc.

Is any of this possible? I need this to be in objective-c, not applescript, so it all needs to be within objective-c. If so, can someone post examples, websites, additional info?

Thanks, Elijah

Answer 1

There is the Instant Message Framework that allow to use iChat inside your applications. It even allows to use iChat Theater from your applications.

Answer 2

I would hazard a guess that iChat isn't providing any sort of public API for you to use. That said, you can use AppleScript from Cocoa - check out the NSAppleScript documentation.

Answer 3

Yes it's possible. Check out Adium.