Use of libpurple functions

[Eric Polino]

On 7/17/07, Eoin Coffey <ecoffey at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think Eric is broken...

I am broken, that message was meant for another thread.  I forgot to
hit reply-to-all also, so i copied the message, but into the wrong
message of the thread.  GMail conversations are nice, but can be kinda
nasty when you send a reply to the wrong message of a given thread.
My comment was in reply to reloading config files.  Another message
told him to use a PurpleAccount * instead of a char *.

>
> Anyways this is the specific function you want:
> http://developer.pidgin.im/doxygen/dev/html/account_8h.html#a94c49287371e2c59fd781229f7a050b
>
> you pass it a PurpleAccount* not a char*.
>
> -Eoin
>
> P.S. I'm broken 'cause I always forget to hit "Reply to all" in gmail so it
> doesn't get sent to devel :-P
>
> On 7/17/07, Eric Polino <aluink at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/17/07, Markus Zuercher <zuerchermarkus at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I just managed to write a hello-world plugin by using the HowTo on
> > > developer.pidgin.im.
> > >
> > > I tried to use some libpurple functions but when I compile the plugin
> > > and try to start Pidgin (Linux), the client does not start (or, not
> > > the GUI).
> > >
> > > For an example, I wanted to code a little plugin which disconnects my
> > > MSN account. I pasted the code to pastebin [1].
> > >
> > > Do I use it wrong? I just read the account.h file, and as far as I can
> > > see, the purple_account_disconnect() function has just one parameter:
> > > the account.
> > >
> > > What am I doing wrong? :-(
> >
> > I'm not sure about this, but couldn't you just use the prefs module
> > already built into purple?  This is what is used everywhere to keep
> > track of configurations.  I'm not sure on what our practice for
> > storing plugin prefs, another dev will have to confirm this for you.
> >
> > > Many Thanks!
> > > Markus
> > >
> > > [1] http://pastebin.com/m31105072
> > >
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