Autochange Buddy Icon

[Mark Doliner]

You should use purple_prefs_whatever() to get and set the preferences.  They
will be saved to ~/.purple/prefs.xml automatically.  You can look through that
file to verify, or you could just change one of the preferences from the
default then exit and restart Pidgin.  The default fields are only used the
first time.  i.e. they're only used if the preference does not exist in your
prefs.xml file.

init_plugin is called only once.  plugin_load is called each time the plugin
is enabled/checked.  plugin_unload is called each time the plugin is
disabled/unchecked.  plugin_destroy is called only once, when Pidgin exits.

-Mark

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:21:17 +0100, Matteo Landi wrote
> 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.