Custom emoticons receiving future ...

[Jorge Villaseñor]

On 11/8/07, Mauro Sérgio Ferreira Brasil <mauro.brasil at tqi.com.br> wrote:
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>  I had a first look up on this component and it seems to accept normal gif images, but I don't know how it process and handle it.
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>  Anyway, I agree with Richard that this custom emoticons, inside the libpurple boundaries, should be handled as the stream (or image data) that are received by the already existent API.
>  I don't know for sure whether your doubts are how to handle the image data of the custom emoticon (libpurple side), or how to present it on the UI (Pidgin side).
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>  Please let me know whether you want example codes to handle the custom emoticon image data inside libpurple, because I have already done this on the per session cache of emoticons developed here using default C commands "fopen", "fwrite", etc.

Yes on the libpurple side the patch use fopen, etc I was talking on
the Pidgin side.

>  But, if you want help on GDK api and components I'll be probably useless because our customer interface is built using WTL and I don't know anything about GDK.
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>  Best regards,
>  Mauro.
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>  Jorge Villaseñor wrote:
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>    On 11/7/07, Richard Laager <rlaager at wiktel.com> wrote:
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>      On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 13:17 -0600, Jorge Villaseñor wrote:
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>        Here I need to say that now we are able to save on disk a received
> custom smiley but we can not save the animated ones, as I understand
> that's a feature missing in gdkpixbuff.
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>           libpurple doesn't depend on GDK, which is part of the Pidgin UI. This
> code won't be anywhere near GdkPixbuf. You'll have the image data
> somewhere and you can just fwrite() it to disk.
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>       Yes I'm talking on the UI, it would be great to be able to save the
> custom emoticon that my buddies send to me. Y know is something
> different, I commented this on this thread because is realted to
> custom emoticons. If there is some way I can code it, but I don't know
> how to do it.
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>      Richard
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