[Gaim-plugins] [ gaim-Plugins-1121139 ] Enhanced IM history plugin

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Plugins item #1121139, was opened at 2005-02-11 23:56
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Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: VHockey86 (vhockey86)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Enhanced IM history plugin

Initial Comment:
I'm not entirely sure on the legalities of this.. so
someone let me know if I've done something wrong.

I modified the default "History" plugin that comes
packaged with gAIM, such that it shows up to 7 previous
conversations instead of just the previous one.

I'm pretty much a newb with C, so I'm not sure why it
was capping at 7, but anything higher and it crashed
gaim everytime.

Future Plans:
  - Fix the max of 7
  - Added a preferences thing so that users can control
the number of           
    previous messages that will be displayed.

Files:

http://www.andrewpangborn.com/projects_gaim.php

Andrew,
an...@an...

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>Comment By: VHockey86 (vhockey86)
Date: 2005-03-14 23:31

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At one point I had thought about making it read in only a
certain amount of data, but the # of lines is much
friendlier from the user's perspective. I'll look into it,
although I'm not exactly sure on the method yet (I find the
gaim API to be a pain to understand implementation wise). 

The function I'm calling to print, just prints out the whole
log, I'm not parsing line-by-line, thus limiting the # of
lines could be moderately difficult (at least for a newb
like myself).

Thanks for the feedback.

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Comment By: Raccoon (Eric) (agvulpine)
Date: 2005-03-14 23:00

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Please add the following feature.

"Display up to [N] lines of log history, from up to [N] logs."

This should suppliment or replace the current ability to
display N full logs, by allowing the user to specify the
number of lines from up to N (or all) logs instead.

This would offer a balance of history displayed between
users who we have extremely long and extremely short
conversations with.  (ie.  7 logs may be several thouand
lines, or only 7 lines.)

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Comment By: VHockey86 (vhockey86)
Date: 2005-02-12 06:07

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Updates:
   -Added a GUI for changing the number of previous chats
that are displayed.
   -Changed name from "history" to "Enhanced History"

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Comment By: Stu Tomlinson (nosnilmot)
Date: 2005-02-12 02:43

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Plugin ID's are covered here :
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/api/plugin-ids.html

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Comment By: VHockey86 (vhockey86)
Date: 2005-02-12 00:48

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Fixed the code so the limit of 7 doesn't exist... I think
the problem was with my array instantiation not being
correct (Files on site are already updated)

Could you explain the "plugin id" thing a little more? 

Thanks.

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Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere)
Date: 2005-02-12 00:04

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the nice thing about the gpl is that this sort of
modification is entirely legal so long as (as you have done)
you release the source. 

on a side note, to avoid potential conflicts if someone
installs this to a separate path, you do want to change the
plugin id (if you have not done so)

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