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Trigger error callbacks when receiving a malformed-ish packet.
Clean up a few pieces of code. Use G_GSIZE_FORMAT like KingAnt showed me.
Don't crash if an iq packet doesn't contain the seq attribute.
Error check g_fopen()
Don't unref the PurpleXfer until after we've called some functions with it.
Not sure that could ever actually crash it (I didn't bother to run through
the ref-counts in my head to see if it would fail).
committer: Marcus Lundblad <ml@update.uu.se>
| author | Paul Aurich <paul@darkrain42.org> |
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| date | Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:16:10 +0000 |
| parents | afee8b840d91 |
| children | 0edd1e140b6e |
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nullprpl -------- OVERVIEW -------- Nullprpl is a mock protocol plugin for Pidgin and libpurple. You can create accounts with it, sign on and off, add buddies, and send and receive IMs, all without connecting to a server! Beyond that basic functionality, nullprpl supports presence and away/available messages, offline messages, user info, typing notification, privacy allow/block lists, chat rooms, whispering, room lists, and protocol icons and emblems. Notable missing features are file transfer and account registration and authentication. Nullprpl is intended as an example of how to write a libpurple protocol plugin. It doesn't contain networking code or an event loop, but it does demonstrate how to use the libpurple API to do pretty much everything a prpl might need to do. Nullprpl is also a useful tool for hacking on Pidgin, Finch, and other libpurple clients. It's a full-featured protocol plugin, but doesn't depend on an external server, so it's a quick and easy way to exercise test new code. It also allows you to work while you're disconnected. ----------------------- BUILDING AND INSTALLING ----------------------- To build, just run ./configure as usual in the root directory of the pidgin source distribution. Then cd libpurple/protocols/null and type make. To install, copy libnull.la and .libs/libnull.so into your ~/.purple/plugins directory. Then run Pidgin. To build nullprpl on Windows (with Cygwin/MinGW), use Makefile.mingw. ----- USAGE ----- To add a nullprpl account, go to the account editor window and click Add. Select Nullprpl from the protocol drop-down list, and enter any username you want. Now, use Pidgin like normal. You can add buddies, send IMs, set away messages, etc. If you send IMs to your own username, they will be echoed back to you.