Sounds for XMPP and IRC

[Luke Schierer]

If you use libpurple calls to play the sound, and to deal with any  
preferences, the resulting plugin will work in windows and unix.

luke

On Feb 13, 2008, at 11:16 EST, Matt Heidsick wrote:

> Are these suggestions for Linux only? How easy is it to make a  
> plugin for Windows ?
>
> Luke Schierer wrote:
>> no, just that you could use the functions it provides in your  
>> plugin to play the sounds.  That'd make your plugin do the right  
>> thing on any given platform, without having to learn gstreamer and  
>> without using system() calls.
>>
>> luke
>>
>> On Feb 12, 2008, at 15:51 EST, Matt Heidsick wrote:
>>
>>> So would it be easier to modify the sound.h file to include the  
>>> sounds and triggers I need ? As you can tell I am pretty new with  
>>> this, though i have been using Pidgin ever since it was GAIM  
>>> several years back.
>>>
>>> Matt
>>>
>>> Casey Harkins wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 14:42 -0500, Luke Schierer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I do not know of one, but it really ought not to be hard.  You  
>>>>> could
>>>>> hackishly do it in either C or perl with system() calls to play  
>>>>> your
>>>>> sounds, or you could do it more correctly by linking against  
>>>>> gstreamer
>>>>> and using it to play the sounds.
>>>>>
>>>> Actually, libpurple provides API for playing sounds which would  
>>>> use the
>>>> appropriate mechanism for the platform. (see libpurple/sound.h)
>>>>
>>>> -casey
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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