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[Eric Polino]

On 7/18/07, Eric Polino <aluink at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/18/07, Markus Zuercher <zuerchermarkus at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > You may have figured this out already, but are you changing accounts.xml and
> > > then you want Pidgin to reload it?  If so, that's not really a good idea.  You
> > > should just tell Pidgin to create a new account (or modify an existing
> > > account, or whatever) and let Pidgin take care of writing it to accounts.xml.
> >
> > I'd love to, but I don't know yet how to use the libpurple functions.
>
> > In buddyicon.h, I found the following function:
> >
> > purple_buddy_icons_set_for_user(PurpleAccount *account, const char *username,
> >                                 void *icon_data, size_t icon_len,
> >                                 const char *checksum);
>
>
> I'm assuming you've already fgrep'ed the source for
> purple_buddy_iscons_set_for_user and read the docs found at [1].  In
> that case I would figure out how the buddy icons work from how they
> are set originally.

[1] http://developer.pidgin.im/doxygen/dev/html/group__core.html

> >
> > Can anyone pls give me an example so I can understand how it's made? I
> > don't know what *account is, I thought it was like
> > "mymsnaccount at hotmail.com", but why the username?
>
> If you don't understand why *account isn't "mymsnaccount at hotmail.com".
> then you need to take a quick trip to a C tutorial.  The declaration
> for *account is 'PurpleAccount *account', making it a pointer to a
> PurpleAccount, not a string.
>
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