Assitance on chat room preferences/plugins

[Ian Jones]

I have run through the instructions and have managed to compile the dll.
Thanks again for your help.

Regards,
Ian

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-----Original Message-----
From: daniel.atallah at gmail.com [mailto:daniel.atallah at gmail.com] On Behalf
Of Daniel Atallah
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 1:59 PM
To: Ian Jones
Cc: support at pidgin.im
Subject: Re: Assitance on chat room preferences/plugins

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 13:24, Ian Jones <i.jones at iontrading.com> wrote:
> Ahh okay, I just noticed that the issue appears to have been reported
> before: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/5507
>
> It seems like mino posted the code to ensure you get a popup:
> http://custardsource.com/scratch/chatpop.c
>
> Can you explain how I take this .c file and load it as a plugin so I can
> use this functionality?

The C source file would first need to be compiled.

Doing that requires a fair amount of work and is covered in the FAQ:
http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Scripting%20and%20Plugins#HowdoIcompileapl
uginWindows