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PLUGIN_HOWTO@f99d78ac44e9 (annotated)

PLUGIN_HOWTO

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 06:12:17 +0000

author

Daniel Atallah <datallah@pidgin.im>

date

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 06:12:17 +0000

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[gaim-migrate @ 17767]
Ari Pollak traced down a memory leak to the account menuitems not being cleaned up by gtk_container_remove().
It turns out that there is an additional reference somewhere which is preventing the menuitem from being destroyed - deryni tracked it down to gtk_accel_label_set_accel_widget() in gtk_image_menu_item_new_with_label() - we will be reporting the bug to the GTK folks tomorrow.
This fixes the leakage; gtk_widget_destroy() is what really should be used in this situation anyway.

14566 373d653d0733 [gaim-migrate @ 17223] Mark Doliner <markdoliner@pidgin.im> parents: 14253 diff changeset	1	For information on writing a plugin for Gaim, go
373d653d0733 [gaim-migrate @ 17223] Mark Doliner <markdoliner@pidgin.im> parents: 14253 diff changeset	2	http://gaim.sourceforge.net/api/ and see the HOWTOs in the
373d653d0733 [gaim-migrate @ 17223] Mark Doliner <markdoliner@pidgin.im> parents: 14253 diff changeset	3	"Related Pages" section.
93 a62ef5a64629 [gaim-migrate @ 103] Eric Warmenhoven <warmenhoven@yahoo.com> parents: diff changeset	4
14566 373d653d0733 [gaim-migrate @ 17223] Mark Doliner <markdoliner@pidgin.im> parents: 14253 diff changeset	5	You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
373d653d0733 [gaim-migrate @ 17223] Mark Doliner <markdoliner@pidgin.im> parents: 14253 diff changeset	6	doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the Gaim
373d653d0733 [gaim-migrate @ 17223] Mark Doliner <markdoliner@pidgin.im> parents: 14253 diff changeset	7	source tree. The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.
93 a62ef5a64629 [gaim-migrate @ 103] Eric Warmenhoven <warmenhoven@yahoo.com> parents: diff changeset	8
14566 373d653d0733 [gaim-migrate @ 17223] Mark Doliner <markdoliner@pidgin.im> parents: 14253 diff changeset	9	This next paragraph is old and possibly out of date:
373d653d0733 [gaim-migrate @ 17223] Mark Doliner <markdoliner@pidgin.im> parents: 14253 diff changeset	10	Compilation of the plugins is fairly straight-forward; there is a
373d653d0733 [gaim-migrate @ 17223] Mark Doliner <markdoliner@pidgin.im> parents: 14253 diff changeset	11	Makefile in this directory that has a rule for making the .so file
373d653d0733 [gaim-migrate @ 17223] Mark Doliner <markdoliner@pidgin.im> parents: 14253 diff changeset	12	from a .c file. No modification of the Makefile should be necessary,
373d653d0733 [gaim-migrate @ 17223] Mark Doliner <markdoliner@pidgin.im> parents: 14253 diff changeset	13	unless if you simply want to type 'make' to have it made; otherwise,
373d653d0733 [gaim-migrate @ 17223] Mark Doliner <markdoliner@pidgin.im> parents: 14253 diff changeset	14	'make filename.so' will take filename.c and make the .so plugin from
373d653d0733 [gaim-migrate @ 17223] Mark Doliner <markdoliner@pidgin.im> parents: 14253 diff changeset	15	it. If you need to link in with extra libraries, you can set the
373d653d0733 [gaim-migrate @ 17223] Mark Doliner <markdoliner@pidgin.im> parents: 14253 diff changeset	16	environment variable PLUGIN_LIBS to be the libraries you want to link
373d653d0733 [gaim-migrate @ 17223] Mark Doliner <markdoliner@pidgin.im> parents: 14253 diff changeset	17	with.
93 a62ef5a64629 [gaim-migrate @ 103] Eric Warmenhoven <warmenhoven@yahoo.com> parents: diff changeset	18
14566 373d653d0733 [gaim-migrate @ 17223] Mark Doliner <markdoliner@pidgin.im> parents: 14253 diff changeset	19	It should be possible to compile plugins outside of the Gaim source
373d653d0733 [gaim-migrate @ 17223] Mark Doliner <markdoliner@pidgin.im> parents: 14253 diff changeset	20	tree, which is a much cleaner solution.