What I need is for someone to make me an irc client. I'm not interested in
a full blown application, just the framework. I want the completed project to
look something like the picture linked below. I will be integrating the code into an
application that Im already working on, so the code will need to be clean,
and well documented.

The picture is at http://www.javaspeak.net/images/IrcDemo.jpg

As you can see from the picture, this will just need a couple things.

• Main list where chat takes place
• Another list that displays a list of users that are on the same channel
  as you are.
• A text box to type in commands
• A text box to type in the irc server. (there is no need to specify a channel,
  because that can be changed by using the /join #channel command)

Here are the specifications needed for this project:

• It must be programmed using C++ and MFC (No .NET framework allowed).
• The code must be clean and flexible. I need to be able to add the IRC client
  functionality to my larger application.
• The client must support all IRC command and features with the exception
  of file transfer.
• The code only needs to handle 1 server/channel combo at a time.
• The IRC code must run on it's own thread. Please make sure you understand
  multithreading, and sychronization.

To create this project, you will need to be able to understand and follow the
IRC RFCs. Please take a look at them BEFORE you bid. Im going to be very picky
about the quality of work I accept. Only bid if you are confident in your programming
abilities. The irc RFCs can be found here. http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/rfc/
Please let me know if you have ANY questions at all.

There is some source code at the website http://www.codeguru.com/network/irc.html
which may be of some value to look at. You can get an idea of how it works by
running the demo program on that site. It isnt quite as polished as I would
like, but there is probably a lot of useful information in the source code there.