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The server's ad-hoc commands are now listed in the account's action menu. Note that this requires an additional field in the _PurplePluginAction struct. There's no other way, since there was no way to supply user_data, and dynamically created functions are not supported by C. This should be fine, since that struct is only malloced in purple_plugin_action_new, which is part of the core. Applications have to either pass the struct unmodified, or restore the user_data pointer if the action is recreated when necessary (as is the case in Adium).

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.