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Patch from shlomil in ticket #78. This fixes RTL text support in MSN, and lays the framework so it could be supported in other prpls as well. As added pluses, shlomil removed some duplicate code and fixed some small related bugs. committer: Richard Laager <[e-mail]>

/**
 * @file eventloop.h Purple Event Loop API
 * @ingroup core
 *
 * purple
 *
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 * 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
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
 */
#ifndef _PURPLE_EVENTLOOP_H_
#define _PURPLE_EVENTLOOP_H_

#include <glib.h>

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

/**
 * An input condition.
 */
typedef enum
{
	PURPLE_INPUT_READ  = 1 << 0,  /**< A read condition.  */
	PURPLE_INPUT_WRITE = 1 << 1   /**< A write condition. */

} PurpleInputCondition;

typedef void (*PurpleInputFunction)(gpointer, gint, PurpleInputCondition);

typedef struct _PurpleEventLoopUiOps PurpleEventLoopUiOps;

struct _PurpleEventLoopUiOps
{
	/**
	 * Creates a callback timer.
	 * @see g_timeout_add, purple_timeout_add
	 **/
	guint (*timeout_add)(guint interval, GSourceFunc function, gpointer data);

	/**
	 * Removes a callback timer.
	 * @see purple_timeout_remove, g_source_remove
	 */
	gboolean (*timeout_remove)(guint handle);

	/**
	 * Adds an input handler.
	 * @see purple_input_add, g_io_add_watch_full
	 */
	guint (*input_add)(int fd, PurpleInputCondition cond,
					   PurpleInputFunction func, gpointer user_data);

	/**
	 * Removes an input handler.
	 * @see purple_input_remove, g_source_remove
	 */
	gboolean (*input_remove)(guint handle);
	
	
	/**
	 * Get the current error status for an input.
	 * Implementation of this UI op is optional. Implement it if the UI's sockets
	 * or event loop needs to customize determination of socket error status.
	 * @see purple_input_get_error, getsockopt
	 */
	int (*input_get_error)(int fd, int *error);

};

/**************************************************************************/
/** @name Event Loop API                                                  */
/**************************************************************************/
/*@{*/
/**
 * Creates a callback timer.
 * The timer will repeat until the function returns @c FALSE. The
 * first call will be at the end of the first interval.
 * @param interval	The time between calls of the function, in
 *					milliseconds.
 * @param function	The function to call.
 * @param data		data to pass to @a function.
 * @return A handle to the timer which can be passed to 
 *         purple_timeout_remove to remove the timer.
 */
guint purple_timeout_add(guint interval, GSourceFunc function, gpointer data);

/**
 * Removes a timeout handler.
 *
 * @param handle The handle, as returned by purple_timeout_add.
 *
 * @return Something.
 */
gboolean purple_timeout_remove(guint handle);

/**
 * Adds an input handler.
 *
 * @param fd        The input file descriptor.
 * @param cond      The condition type.
 * @param func      The callback function for data.
 * @param user_data User-specified data.
 *
 * @return The resulting handle (will be greater than 0).
 * @see g_io_add_watch_full
 */
guint purple_input_add(int fd, PurpleInputCondition cond,
					 PurpleInputFunction func, gpointer user_data);

/**
 * Removes an input handler.
 *
 * @param handle The handle of the input handler. Note that this is the return
 * value from purple_input_add, <i>not</i> the file descriptor.
 */
gboolean purple_input_remove(guint handle);

/**
 * Get the current error status for an input.
 * The return value and error follow getsockopt() with a level of SOL_SOCKET and an
 * option name of SO_ERROR, and this is how the error is determined if the UI does not
 * implement the input_get_error UI op.
 *
 * @param fd        The input file descriptor.
 * @param error		A pointer to an int which on return will have the error, or 0 if no error.
 *
 * @return 0 if there is no error; -1 if there is an error, in which case errno will be set.
 */
int
purple_input_get_error(int fd, int *error);


/*@}*/


/**************************************************************************/
/** @name UI Registration Functions                                       */
/**************************************************************************/
/*@{*/
/**
 * Sets the UI operations structure to be used for accounts.
 *
 * @param ops The UI operations structure.
 */
void purple_eventloop_set_ui_ops(PurpleEventLoopUiOps *ops);

/**
 * Returns the UI operations structure used for accounts.
 *
 * @return The UI operations structure in use.
 */
PurpleEventLoopUiOps *purple_eventloop_get_ui_ops(void);

/*@}*/

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif /* _PURPLE_EVENTLOOP_H_ */