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[Matteo Landi]

well well well
it seems i created my first pidgin plugin! Thumbs up!
Now i'm asking you some informations about how the settings of a plugin
are stored, and mainly, if i have to write a configuration file for
them!
I 've got three fiels: one for the path, one for the refresh rate, and
the last for the use of a recursive scan!
I think all my doubts walk around one question! Is the init_plugin
function called only one time, or everytime pidgin is runned? Are the
default fields used only the first time?
Tnx in advance
M@


On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 01:09 +0100, Matteo Landi wrote:
> well
> first of all thanks for the answer! now the things i gonna do are more
> clear that yesterday!
> Actually the plugin i developed does nothing interesting, but the fact
> that it simply "runs" is just a goal!
> I implemented the scandir function, and before i was lookink in the
> account.h file in order to find the functions for catching the current
> account; here is the plan:
> 1)purple_accounts_get_all for a list of all the accounts registered
> 2)purple_account_get_active_status or purple_account_is_connected (which
> one is better?) for the discovering of the account which activated the
> plugin
> 3)purple_buddy_icons_set_custom_icon for the renewal of the buddy icon.
> 
> what do you think about that? tomorrow i'll try it, now it's better for
> me to go to sleep!
> Tnx in advance
> 
> M@
> 
> Ps. what about the second and the third params fo the
> purple_buddy_icons_set_custom_icon (guchar *icon_data, size_t icon_len)?
> how could i discover them from the pathname? .. well using the stat lib
> the size is not so hard to discover, but what about the GUCHAR *? 
> 
> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 02:41 -0500, Mark Doliner wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:38:56 +0100, Matteo Landi wrote
> > > Hi all 
> > > i'm trying to develope a simple plugin that ask the user for a path,
> > > and 
> > > every 10secs (it could be dynamically set), change the buddy icon!
> > > 
> > > 1) the first approach was to modify the config file located in 
> > > ~/.purple; no usefull solution; in fact i imagine that the file is 
> > > used @ startup, so changing something inside of it, will not 
> > > generate any change!
> > 
> > That is correct.
> > 
> > > 2) so i decided to take a look at the pidgin source, and maybe i 
> > > found the function i gotta use: 
> > > purple_account_set_buddy_icon_path(PurpleAccount *account, const 
> > > char *path)! Is this the correct function? If so, i have also to 
> > > find the current account id isn't it?
> > 
> > There are two functions that deal with setting the icon for an account. 
> > purple_account_set_buddy_icon_path() saves the path to the icon in your
> > ~/.purple/accounts.xml file.  The other function,
> > purple_buddy_icons_set_account_icon(), actually sends the icon data to the
> > appropriate protocol plugin so that all your buddies will see it.
> > 
> > You probably want to call the latter function.  You may or may not want to
> > call the former function.  See pidgin/gtkaccount.c for example usage, and see
> > http://developer.pidgin.im/doxygen/ for some documentation.  You can use
> > purple_accounts_find() to look up the appropriate PurpleAccount.
> > 
> > -Mark
> 
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