toxgui

For-fun Tox client that tries to follow the Tox UI mockup while running on all major systems.
This GUI uses code from @nurupo's ProjectTox-Qt-GUI, in particular the "Core" Toxcore wrapper.
However, it is not a fork.

Features

One to one chat with friends
Group chats
File transfers, with previewing of images
Audio calls
Video calls
Tox DNS
Translations in various languages

Requirements

This client will run on Windows, Linux and Mac natively, but binairies are only be provided for Windows at the moment.
Linux and Mac users will have to compile the source code themselves.

Windows download
Linux download (1st July 2014 01:30 GMT)
Note that the Linux download has not been tested and is not kept up to date.

Screenshots

Note: The screenshots may not always be up to date, but they should give a good idea of the general look and features

Compiling

Compiling toxgui requires Qt 5.2 with the Qt Multimedia module and a C++11 compatible compiler. It also requires the toxcore and toxav libraries.

To compile, first clone or download the toxgui repository and open a terminal in the toxgui folder. Then run the script bootstrap.sh (for Linux and Mac) or bootsrap.bat (for Windows) to download an up-to-date toxcore. And finally run the commands "qmake" and "make" to start building toxgui.

OSX Install Guide

This guide is intended for people who wish to use an existing or new ProjectTox-Core installation separate to the bundled installation with toxgui, if you do not wish to use a separate installation you can skip to the section titled 'Final Steps'.

Installation on OSX, isn't quite straight forward, here is a quick guide on how to install;

The first thing you need to do is install ProjectTox-Core with a/v support. Refer to the INSTALL guide in the ProjectTox-Core github repo.

Next you need to download QtTools (http://qt-project.org/downloads), at the time of writing this is at version 5.3.0. Make sure you deselect all the unnecessary components from the 5.3 checkbox (iOS/Android libs) otherwise you will end up with a very large download.

Once that is installed you will most likely need to set the path for qmake. To do this, open up terminal and paste in the following;

export PATH=/location/to/qmake/binary:$PATH

For myself, the qmake binary was located in /Users/mouseym/Qt/5.3/clang_64/bin/.

Once this is installed, do the following;

git clone https://github.com/tux3/toxgui
cd toxgui
qmake

Do not run make, as we need further modifications to toxgui.

Open up the Makefile in a text editor (TextEdit/TextWrangler, etc).

You will need to modify the Makefile to point to your toxcore libs/includes.

The first change you will need to make is to point the Makefile towards the tox libs installed on your system. (Generally this is /usr/local/libs/).

Look for the line in the Makefile which references /toxgui/lib/libs/ and replace with the above).

The second change to Makefile is to add the location of the includes (On my system these were placed in /usr/local/include/tox/).

To do this, search for the INCLUDES line and add the following to the end;

-I/usr/local/include/tox/

Save the Makefile.

Final Steps

The final step is to run

make

in the toxgui directory, or if you are using the bundled tox core installation, you can use

./bootstrap.sh

Assuming all went well you should now have a toxgui.app file within the directory. Double click and it should open!

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