Monday, November 08, 2010 at 12:06 AM.

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system.verbs.builtins.tcp.im.builtinDrivers.aim.start

on start () {
	<<Changes
		<<If we're already connected, return false. Close invalid streams before trying to start.
	if defined (system.temp.im.aim) { //JES 7/30/02: Handle start calls if we're already connected.
		if defined (system.temp.im.aim._socket) {
			try {
				local (bytes = 0);
				case tcp.statusStream (system.temp.im.aim._socket, @bytes) {
					"OPEN";
					"DATA" {
						return (false)}} //already connected
				else { //try to close an old stream
					try {tcp.closeStream (system.temp.im.aim._socket) }}}
			else { //most likely invalid stream error -- delete the table and start over
				delete (@system.temp.im.aim)}}};
	tcp.im.builtinDrivers.aim.init ();
	tcp.im.builtinDrivers.aim.code.core.__init__(@system.temp.im.aim, user.im.aim.username, string (user.im.aim.password), @tcp.im.builtinDrivers.aim.code.responderCallbacks);
	tcp.im.builtinDrivers.aim.code.core.go (@system.temp.im.aim)}
<<bundle //test code
	<<start ()

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This listing is for code that runs in the OPML Editor environment. I created these listings because I wanted the search engines to index it, so that when I want to look up something in my codebase I don't have to use the much slower search functionality in my object database. Dave Winer.