anyone familar with  how to display graphics and how to connect to servers via sockets

iago is :D

I tried, but had limited succes, so I might be of help or I might not.

I am, too.

awesome i will keep you guys in mind although it might become complex that you will need to have a very good understanding of it.

iago's server is down right now, but when it comes back up, I'll give you a link to my old Java binary bot, which used iago's async socket framework.

http://bnubot.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/BNUBot/src/net/bnubot/core/bncs/BNCSConnection.java

I'm sorry i should have made myself more clear. This will have nothing to do with battle.net. Nor any type of bot. It is for a game that some of us are creating.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/net/Socket.html
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It is something along those lines except a bit more complex when the time comes i will get back to you guys with some more details. I'm going to see if i can get around without using java.