I'm a relatively inexperienced programmer looking to make a plugin for the IM client Pidgin as a first major project. I've written a program in Python that has all the functionality I want, but I have not yet integrated GTK funtionality, so it can't affect the UI yet. In searching for how-tos on Pidgin plugins, I came across the C How-t...
Has anyone tried writing a pidgin or libpurple plugin in Vala? From a quick look at the Vala homepage it seems like it would be a great language for it, and make a good opportunity to learn Vala, but learning both Vala and the fine art of pidgin plugins at the same time is a little overwhelming. Anyone have any pointers? ...
Does anyone know of a .NET API (source-code is preferrable of course) that I can access all the common chat clients thru it (GT, Yahoo, MSN, AIM, FB, ICQ, SKYPE and more)? I guess I am looking for a .NET library project that performs something like pidjin. I need it because I hate Pidgin's interface and functionality, and I want to hav...
Recently came across pidgin. Its great, and does what I want, but I am not too keen on the GPL license. Other any alternatives, with less restrictive licenses? I would prefer the library to be C or C++, as I am most familiar with those languages, but a an IM library implemented in python would be interesting too. ...
I downloaded pidgin source code and i don't know where to start from .. Can any one pls ;) point the right way to understand that program ? and also tell how to compile it on windows system .. it has manuals to compile on a Linux system but not windows . ...
Hello, Is there a practical way to set the global status message in Pidgin for Windows from .NET? Dbus is not available in the Windows version of Pidgin. Searching SO and the net has revealed helpful tips such as "rewrite libpurple in C#", which might be a bit beyond my time/enthusiasm level for this project at least... Thanks ...
Hi i am very new to pidgin.Is it possible to do voice/video chat through talk using pidgin on windows??As in bolgs i found that its possible on linux but nor sure about windows.If its possible please tell me how is it possible.I already installed pidgin on windows but no option for voice/video chat is comming. Please help me out thanks ...
I have set up a local jabber server using jabberd14, for development with xmpp on pidgin. I have set up accounts for my team so that they can login to this server and the development can be faster, preventing time consuming login logouts with web xmpp servers like google. But when the accounts are accessed by them it says 1 account was...
Hello, I am trying to script the bringing online (or putting offline) an account, looking at purple-url-handler script I see that simple snippet which looks perfect for me : def bring_account_online(account): if not cpurple.PurpleAccountIsConnected(account): # The last argument is meant to be a GList * but the D-Bus bindin...