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Try to get a hashtable created by the prpl first before joining a chat not in the buddylist. This gets rid of a runtime warning when trying to show the tooltip for a chat not in the buddylist (XMPP).

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the HOWTOs in the
"Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.