annotate src/core.h @ 12116:e75ef7aa913e

[gaim-migrate @ 14416] " This patch implements a replacement for the queuing system from 1.x. It also obsoletes a previous patch [#1338873] I submitted to prioritize the unseen states in gtk conversations. The attached envelope.png is ripped from the msgunread.png already included in gaim. It should be dropped in the pixmaps directory (Makefile.am is updated accordingly in this patch). The two separate queuing preferences from 1.x, queuing messages while away and queuing all new messages (from docklet), are replaced with a single 3-way preference for conversations. The new preference is "Hide new IM conversations". This preference can be set to never, away and always. When a gtk conversation is created, it may be placed in a hidden conversation window instead of being placed normally. This decision is based upon the preference and possibly the away state of the account the conversation is being created for. This *will* effect conversations the user explicitly requests to be created, so in these cases the caller must be sure to present the conversation to the user, using gaim_gtkconv_present_conversation(). This is done already in gtkdialogs.c which handles creating conversations requested by the user from gaim proper (menus, double-clicking on budy in blist, etc.). The main advantage to not queuing messages is that the conversations exist, the message is written to the conversation (and logged if appropriate) and the unseen state is set on the conversation. This means no additional features are needed to track whether there are queued messages or not, just use the unseen state on conversations. Since conversations may not be visible (messages "queued"), gaim proper needs some notification that there are messages waiting. I opted for a menutray icon that shows up when an im conversation has an unseen message. Clicking this icon will focus (and show if hidden) the first conversation with an unseen message. This is essentially the same behavior of the docklet in cvs right now, except that the icon is only visible when there is a conversation with an unread message. The api that is added is flexible enough to allow either the docklet or the new blist menutray icon to be visible for conversations of any/all types and for unseen messages >= any state. Currently they are set to only IM conversations and only unseen states >= TEXT (system messages and no log messages will not trigger blinking the docklet or showing the blist tray icon), but these could be made preferences relatively easily in the future. Other plugins could probably benefit as well: gaim_gtk_conversations_get_first_unseen(). There is probably some limit to comment size, so I'll stop rambling now. If anyone has more questions/comments, catch me in #gaim, here or on gaim-devel." committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

/**
 * @defgroup core Gaim Core
 *
 * gaim
 *
 * Gaim is the legal property of its developers, whose names are too numerous
 * to list here.  Please refer to the COPYRIGHT file distributed with this
 * source distribution.
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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 *
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 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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 *
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 */
#ifndef _GAIM_CORE_H_
#define _GAIM_CORE_H_

typedef struct GaimCore GaimCore;

typedef struct
{
	void (*ui_prefs_init)(void);
	void (*debug_ui_init)(void); /* Unfortunate necessity. */
	void (*ui_init)(void);
	void (*quit)(void);

} GaimCoreUiOps;

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

/**
 * Initializes the core of gaim.
 *
 * This will setup preferences for all the core subsystems.
 *
 * @param ui The ID of the UI using the core. This should be a
 *           unique ID, registered with the gaim team.
 *
 * @return @c TRUE if successful, or @c FALSE otherwise.
 */
gboolean gaim_core_init(const char *ui);

/**
 * Quits the core of gaim, which, depending on the UI, may quit the
 * application using the gaim core.
 */
void gaim_core_quit(void);

/**
 * Calls gaim_core_quit().  This can be used as the function 
 * passed to gaim_timeout_add() when you want to shutdown Gaim 
 * in a specified amount of time.  When shutting down Gaim 
 * from a plugin, you must use this with a timeout value of 0: 
 *   gaim_timeout_add(0, gaim_core_quitcb, NULL);
 * This is ensures that code from your plugin is not being 
 * executed when gaim_core_quit() is called.  Otherwise you 
 * would get a core dump after gaim_core_quit() executes and 
 * control returns to your plugin because gaim_core_quit() frees 
 * all plugins.
 */
gboolean gaim_core_quit_cb(gpointer unused);

/**
 * Returns the version of the core library.
 *
 * @return The version of the core library.
 */
const char *gaim_core_get_version(void);

/**
 * Returns the ID of the UI that is using the core.
 *
 * @return The ID of the UI that is currently using the core.
 */
const char *gaim_core_get_ui(void);

/**
 * Returns a handle to the gaim core.
 *
 * This is used for such things as signals.
 */
GaimCore *gaim_get_core(void);

/**
 * Sets the UI ops for the core.
 *
 * @param A UI ops structure for the core.
 */
void gaim_core_set_ui_ops(GaimCoreUiOps *ops);

/**
 * Returns the UI ops for the core.
 *
 * @return The core's UI ops structure.
 */
GaimCoreUiOps *gaim_core_get_ui_ops(void);

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif /* _GAIM_CORE_H_ */

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