plugins/CRAZY

Sun, 09 Apr 2000 08:25:15 +0000

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Eric Warmenhoven <warmenhoven@yahoo.com>
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Sun, 09 Apr 2000 08:25:15 +0000
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Notes on how to do plugins with gaim (note that this hasn't been
implemented completely yet, this is just how it *should* work).

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1 Figures out the other person's IP address if they also have the same
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2 plugin loaded.
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4 This would be a really interesting and pretty useful plugin. It
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5 could work possibly by sending 'hidden' text in the form of an
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6 HTML tag or something, and if it receives the same hidden text,
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7 it could then pass messages back and forth to send and receive
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8 the IP addresses.
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10 Perform extra HTML-highlighting and HTML-stripping
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12 Ever get annoyed because gaim doesn't support some HTML markup?
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13 Here's a work-around. (Although, if you're this determined, you
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14 might as well just hack gaim and send us the patches ;-) .)
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16 Auto-reply
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18 If someone sends you a message, immediately send them a message
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19 back. Add fun things to the message. Reverse their text, then
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20 send it back to them. Play with fonts and colors and HTML tags.
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21 Really annoy the hell out of them. :-)
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22
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23 Control gaim by monitoring a file
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25 I have to admit, I blatently stole this idea from LICQ. But it
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26 is a really interesting concept. What happens is it watches a
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27 certain file to see if it's empty or not. If it's not, it reads
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28 the contents and executes any commands stored in there (such as
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29 send a message to someone). This can be nice for having remote
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30 control of gaim.
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33 These are just some of the ideas I came up with in about ten minutes. A
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34 really nice thing about having plugins is as long as your code doesn't
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35 segfault, you can keep testing and debugging without having to restart
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36 gaim. Plus the plugins tend to be small, and quick and easy to compile,
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37 so development should be quick. Try to have FUN with these plugins :-).
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38 (BTW, dibs on the 'control by file' plugin. :-) .)

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