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[Ralf Kistner]

On Friday 30 November 2007, Kevin Stange wrote:
> Ralf Kistner wrote:
> > On Friday 30 November 2007, Kevin Stange wrote:
> >> Ralf Kistner wrote:
> >>> On Friday 30 November 2007, Andreas Monitzer wrote:
> >>>> On Nov 30, 2007, at 15:18, Ralf Kistner wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> For the protocol plugin I'm developing, there are bots that send a  
> >>>>> list of
> >>>>> commands to the user. I want the user to be able to click on the  
> >>>>> commands,
> >>>>> which will perform a protocol action. Is this possible at all?
> >>>> The XMPP/Jabber plugin has support for this feature under the name "ad- 
> >>>> hoc commands". I added this to libpurple on SoC 2007. You might get  
> >>>> some hints there on one way to implement this.
> >>>>
> >>>> andy
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> Thanks for the info.
> >>>
> >>> Although the idea of the commands are similar, I want it to be implemented 
> > in 
> >>> a different way. The user needs to be able to click on the commands inside 
> >>> the conversation window, similar to http links.
> >>>
> >>> Example conversation with a bot:
> >>>
> >>> Tradepost: What can we supply u with today?
> >>> 1) Tradepost Treasure
> >>> 2) Videos
> >>> 3) Games
> >>> 4) Companions
> >>>
> >>> User: 3
> >>>
> >>> Tradepost: Games
> >>> 1) The Battle
> >>> 2) Trivit
> >>> b) Back
> >>>
> >>> User: 2
> >>>
> >>> etc.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I want the user to be able to click on the text (like a link), instead of 
> >>> typing in the number of the command.
> >>>
> >>> Is this possible?
> >>>
> >> This isn't necessarily always going to work (depending on your client's
> >> capabilities), but if you have your URL handlers enabled with
> >> purple-uri-handler (or a client's equivalent), you could use links like
> >>
> >> aim:goim?screename=<user> ....
> >>
> >> There are similar URIs for XMPP, etc.
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks, this seems like what I want.
> > 
> > Is there a way to do this without going through an external browser, or is 
> > this done inside gtk? In other words, when a user clicks on a link (inside a 
> > conversation) with the mxit protocol 
> > (eg "mxit:messsage?user=bot at mxit.co.za&message=command"), I want my protocol 
> > to handle the url instead of the browser.
> > 
> > I tried:
> > 
> > static void mxitprpl_uri_handler_cb(const char* proto, const char* cmd, 
> > GHashTable *params) {
> > 	purple_debug_info("mxitprpl", "uri_handler: %s, %s\n", proto, cmd);
> > }
> > 
> > 
> > purple_signal_connect_priority(purple_get_core(), "uri-handler", plugin, 
> > PURPLE_CALLBACK(mxitprpl_uri_handler_cb), NULL, 
> > PURPLE_SIGNAL_PRIORITY_LOWEST);
> > 
> > but the function is never called.
> 
> You need to configure your desktop environment to recognize the specific
> URI protocol name to run the purple-uri-handler utility.  Once the
> necessary association is configured, it will launch that, rather than a
> browser, to load the protocol.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 

Is it possible to bypass this so that it doesn't use any external desktop environment or browser?

I only want to do this for links that are clicked on inside Pidgin (I want to intercept the call so that it never goes outside of Pidgin).

Ralf