[OTR-dev] how to play nice with gaim-otr

David Everly deckrider at gmail.com
Mon Jun 20 19:14:11 EDT 2005


On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 06:07:57PM -0500, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
> Ick.  Gaim's core offers no way to create a GaimConv without  
> triggering the UI op for it.  It seems like this is a split which  
> would need to be done coreside; the conversation should be created  
> before any of the plugin triggers are made.

Sorry for being dense....but I assume that you mean for working with
existing gaim-1.3.1, there is currently no other option for my plugin?

Or is this some course of action I can take in the plugin (and need help
to understand)?

> On Jun 20, 2005, at 5:55 PM, David Everly wrote:
> 
> >Unfortunately in my case there is not yet a conversation, since
> >gaim_find_conversation_with_account(*sender, account) == NULL
> >
> >The scenario is that a stranger is sending me an IM for the first  
> >time,
> >and my plugin needs to send a few messages to the stranger without
> >opening a conversation (more or less like pop-up suppression).
> >
> >If the stranger answers the question correctly, then a conversation is
> >created.  However, the issue at hand is the time before a conversation
> >is created.
> >
> >On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 05:13:12PM -0500, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>On Jun 20, 2005, at 4:00 PM, Ian Goldberg wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I haven't tested this at all, but you could try using
> >>>gaim_conv_im_send() instead; that function seems to let the  
> >>>plugins do
> >>>their work.
> >>>
> >>
> >>Right, I don't think anything external to the gaim core should ever
> >>call serv_send_im().  gaim_conv_im_send() and gaim_conv_chat_send()
> >>are the way to fly.
> >>
> >>-Evan
> >>
> >
> >
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