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750 | 1 This is really the wrong place for a HOWTO on writing perl scripts for gaim, |
2 but there didn't seem to be a much better place. | |
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4 If you've ever written a perl script for X-Chat then you've basically written | |
5 one for gaim as well. perl.c in gaim's source is basically an exact copy of | |
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6 X-Chat's perl.c file, with small modifications to suit GAIM rather than IRC. |
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8 Basically the reason for including perl is based on the experience with the | |
9 plugins. X-Chat's docs on Perl Scripting sums it up nicely: | |
10 it's not quite as simple to stick a module together in C and make it | |
11 stable compared to the development time of perl code | |
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13 Plugins are more powerful as they can directly access gaim's functions and | |
14 variables; as such they should be used for things like modifying the UI or | |
15 when something takes quite a bit of trickery not offered by perl. But for | |
16 the most part things should be written in Perl. It's more stable than | |
17 plugins. | |
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19 There's a really quick simple perl script in this directory, gaim.pl, that |
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20 should show most of the functions. Most things should be self-explanatory. |
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22 There's one thing you need to be aware of in perl scripts for gaim. Gaim |
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23 supports multiple connections, and perl deals with them by using a unique |
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24 identifier for each of them (that's a fancy way of saying that perl scripts |
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25 use the memory address of the connection). |
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750 | 27 Everything available in normal perl scripts should be available in gaim's |
28 perl interface, so I'm not going to bother describing that. The important | |
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29 things are the functions provided by gaim's internal GAIM module, which is |
750 | 30 what most of this document is about. So, onto the functions. |
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32 GAIM::register(name, version, shutdownroutine, unused) |
750 | 33 Just like X-Chat. This is the first function your script should call. |
34 shutdownroutine is a function that will be called when the script | |
35 gets unloaded (like when gaim gets closed). This function returns | |
36 gaim's version number. | |
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38 GAIM::get_info(integer, ...) |
750 | 39 This function returns different information based on the integer passed |
40 to it. | |
41 0 - the version of gaim you're running ("0.10.0" for example). | |
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42 1 - the list of connection ids |
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43 2 - given a connection index, the protocol it uses (as an int) |
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44 3 - given a connection index, the screenname of the person |
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45 4 - given a connection index, the index in the users list |
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46 5 - the list of names of users |
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47 6 - the list of protocols of the users |
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48 7 - given a connection index, the name of the protocol (as a string) |
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50 GAIM::print(title, message) |
750 | 51 This displays a nice little dialog window. |
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54 GAIM::buddy_list(index) |
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56 for the specified connection. |
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58 GAIM::online_list(index) |
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59 This returns the list of online buddies for the specified connection. |
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62 GAIM::command(command, ...) |
750 | 63 This sends commands to the server, and each command takes various |
64 arguments. The command should be self-explanatory: | |
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65 "signon" - the second arg is the index of the user to sign on |
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66 "signoff" - the optional second arg is the connection index to sign off. |
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67 if no args are given, all connections are signed off. |
750 | 68 "away" - the second arg is the away message |
69 "back" - no args. | |
70 "idle" - the second arg is how long (in seconds) to set the idle time | |
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71 (this sets the idle time for all connections) |
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72 "warn" - the second arg is the name of the person to warn. this is |
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73 especially evil since it warns the person from every |
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74 connection. The third argument is 1 if you want to warn |
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75 anonymously. If 0 or ommitted, it will warn normally. |
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76 "info" - the second arg is the connection index whose info you want to set, |
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77 and the third arg is what you want to set your profile to. |
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79 GAIM::user_info(index, nick) |
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80 Returns 8 data items: |
750 | 81 the screenname of the buddy |
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82 the alias of the buddy |
750 | 83 "Online" or "Offline" |
84 their warning level | |
85 signon time, in seconds since the epoch | |
86 idle time, in seconds (?) | |
87 user class, an integer with bit values | |
88 AOL 1 | |
89 ADMIN 2 | |
90 UNCONFIRMED 4 | |
91 NORMAL 8 | |
92 AWAY 16 | |
93 their capabilites, an integer with bit values | |
94 BUDDYICON 1 | |
95 VOICE 2 | |
96 IMIMAGE 4 | |
97 CHAT 8 | |
98 GETFILE 16 | |
99 SENDFILE 32 | |
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100 Since buddy lists are per-connection this goes through the connections |
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101 until it finds a matching buddy name. |
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103 GAIM::write_to_conv(to, wflags, what, who) |
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104 This displays a message into a conversation window. <wflags> is the |
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105 message-style and works like that: |
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106 wflags==0: display message as if received by <who> |
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107 wflags==1: display message as if sent by <who> |
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108 wflags==2: display system message |
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110 GAIM::serv_send_im(index, who, what, auto) |
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111 Sends what from the connection index to who. :) |
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113 GAIM::print_to_conv(index, who, what, auto) |
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114 Convenience function; combination of write_to_conv and serv_send_im. |
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116 GAIM::print_to_chat(index, room, what) |
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117 Room is actually an int. Read SIGNALS to find out why. |
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119 GAIM::add_event_handler(event, function) |
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120 This is the most important of them all. This is basically exactly like |
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121 gaim_signal_connect for plugins. You pass which event you want to connect to |
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123 string with the name of the function you want called. Simple enough? |
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127 yourself with split. (Sounding exactly like X-Chat yet?) The arguments are |
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128 the exact same as those passed to the plugins, and are passed after the |
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129 plugins have had their way with them. Perl scripts cannot modify the values |
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130 so that gaim knows what the changes are. |
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132 Perl scripts can short-circuit certain events (namely event_im_send, |
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133 event_im_recv, event_chat_send, and event_chat_recv). To short-circuit an |
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134 event simply return a non-0 value. This will cause all subsequent scripts |
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135 and the event itself to never happen (i.e. the user won't see it happen, |
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136 and _send events won't actually send). |
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139 values (like text messages) will not be. (Watch the debug window to get a |
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140 better feel for this, or better yet, look at the bottom of plugins.c.) |
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