Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of CHowTo/BasicPluginHowto

Timestamp:

Jul 16, 2007, 1:27:11 AM (17 years ago)

Author:

John Bailey

Comment:

Some tweaking.

CHowTo/BasicPluginHowto

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-= C Plugin How-To =
+= Basic C Plugin How-To =
 
 [[TOC(inline,noheading)]]
 
 == Introduction ==
-This How-To document is designed to provide a basic overview of writing a plugin for Pidgin, Finch, and/or libpurple in our native language, C.  We'll start with a basic "Hello, World!" plugin and go from there.  Let's dig in, shall we?
+This How-To document is designed to provide a basic overview of writing a plugin for Pidgin, Finch, and/or libpurple in our native language, C.  We'll write a basic "Hello, World!" plugin.  Let's dig in, shall we?
 
 As we've already stated, C plugins are native plugins.  They have complete access to all of the API provided by Pidgin, Finch, and libpurple.  This means that a C plugin can do basically anything it wants to do.  All our protocol plugins and our loader plugins (Mono, Perl, and Tcl) are written in C.
@@ -79 +79 @@
     "Hello World Plugin",          
     "Hello World Plugin",          
-    NULL,                          
+    "My Name <email@helloworld.tld>",                          
     "http://helloworld.tld",     
     
@@ -180 +180 @@
                                how much to display). */
 
-    "My Name <email@helloworld.tld">, /* This is where you can put your name and e-mail
+    "My Name <email@helloworld.tld>", /* This is where you can put your name and e-mail
                                          address. */
 
@@ -251 +251 @@
 
 == Compile, Install, and Load the Hello, World! Plugin ==
-Now that we have a complete plugin source file, we need to compile it.  From `~/development/pidgin-2.0.2/libpurple/plugins`, run `make helloworld.so` (if using Windows, `make -f Makefile.mingw helloworld.dll`).  If you copied and pasted the code correctly, this should compile without incident.  You can move the resulting .so file to ~/.purple/plugins (move the resulting .dll file to `%APPDATA%\.purple\plugins` on Windows).  Now when you open the Plugins dialog in Pidgin or Finch, the plugin should show up.  When you load it you should see a message pop up.
+Now that we have a complete plugin source file, we need to compile it.  From `~/development/pidgin-2.0.2/libpurple/plugins`, run `make helloworld.so` (if using Windows, `make -f Makefile.mingw helloworld.dll`).  If you copied and pasted the code correctly, this should compile without incident.  You can move the resulting .so file to `~/.purple/plugins` (move the resulting .dll file to `%APPDATA%\.purple\plugins` on Windows).  Now when you open the Plugins dialog in Pidgin or Finch, the plugin should show up.  When you load it you should see a message pop up.
+
+== Going Beyond Hello, World! ==
+Consider C Plugins 101 complete.  We have more to get to in this tutorial, though, starting with C Plugins 102: [wiki:CHowTo/PluginActionsHowTo Plugin Actions].