Action Links

[Ralf Kistner]

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.