so far..

we finished integrating the added packet collector and chat manager to the already existing application features.  we’ve been working on text highlighting and weren’t able to make it work with JTextArea so we decided to switch to JTextPane instead.  we are currently working on the needed changes on the collaboration since the two components have somewhat different functions.  we still have to work on efficient color assignment though, now that the app has a chat manager.   for now, we are thinking of limiting the number of users in a session to a certain number for basic assignment.  we are also done with the display of the typing status of the participants in the session.