Comments on: nullprpl: pidgin null protocol plugin

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Hello all, I installed null protocol plugin for gaim but I am not able to send IMs to my null protocol buddies. Please help me out as soon as possible. you can reply me at varun.prakash@gmail.com

Thnaks in advance...

- Varun Prakash Shrivastava

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

hi varun! sorry to hear you’re having trouble. lots of other people have used it successfully, so it might be a problem with your environment or installation. feel free to post more detailed info if you can’t get it to work…

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Ryan. I folllowed d installation procedure as per d README file. After MAKE, libnullprpl.so file was genrated which i copied into ~/.gaim/plugins directory. After d installtion i culd create an account and add buddies as well. but was unable to send m recieve messages. could u point out a few areas regarding installtion or environment dat might have gone wrong. P.S i am using SUSE -10 and gaim-1.5.0 thanks in advance.

- varun

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

i built and tried the prpl with gaim 1.5.0, and it works ok. i can send messages to anyone, and if i IM myself on the nullprpl account, it sends the message back to me, as it should.

when you say you're "unable to send [and] receive messages," what exactly do you mean?

actually, now that i've looked at it again, it is missing true multiple account support. you can create multiple accounts, and they work fine, but if you send messages between them, they don't get delivered. logon signals also don't always happen. neither of those sounds like your problem, though…

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks Ryan for helping us. actually the problem basically is that When I try to send IM to someone on some other comp it never goes there.Probably coz we dont have any server / mechanism for locating our other buddies.

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

and more over we have function which only echos back the message.We check if contact name == buddy.I could not find a function to send message to every one.

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

ah! i think you misunderstood the plugin. from the description above:

You can create accounts with it, sign on and off, add buddies, set away messages and status, and send and receive IMs...all without connecting to a server.

it's not supposed to send IMs across a network. it's only meant for use on a single computer. it's intended to allow gaim developers to work on gaim offline, e.g. on the train or at the beach.

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

hi Ryan,

     Hey here is my problem.We have written our own protocol and registered onto the Gaim as a part of our project. For printing the message onto the chat window i used the same function used in Null Protocol i.e. serv_got_im. But with that function it is printing the the response first and request sent by the user next.We want the other way .        So can you help us in this…

By the way i am varun's team mate.

Thanks in Advance...

PS: u can send to vyshu2112@gmail.com

- vyshnavi

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

sure! the send_im function that you register in the GaimPluginProtocolInfo is called after a user sends an IM, but before it's printed to the chat window.

if you want code to run after it's sent and printed to the chat window, try registering a handler for the sent-im-msg signal.

By: zeegeek

zeegeek — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I was trying to compile it with Gaim 2.0 beta 3 and had an error and a lot of warnings as following:

nullprpl.c: In function ???nullprpl_login???: nullprpl.c:41: warning: implicit declaration of function ???serv_finish_login??? nullprpl.c: In function ???nullprpl_add_buddy???: nullprpl.c:48: warning: implicit declaration of function ???serv_got_update??? nullprpl.c: At top level: nullprpl.c:58: error: syntax error before ???GaimConvImFlags??? nullprpl.c: In function ???nullprpl_send_im???: nullprpl.c:60: error: ???who??? undeclared (first use in this function) nullprpl.c:60: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once nullprpl.c:60: error: for each function it appears in.) nullprpl.c:60: error: ???message??? undeclared (first use in this function) nullprpl.c:62: error: ???gc??? undeclared (first use in this function) nullprpl.c:64: error: ???flags??? undeclared (first use in this function) nullprpl.c: In function ???nullprpl_away_states???: nullprpl.c:73: error: ???GAIM_AWAY_CUSTOM??? undeclared (first use in this function) nullprpl.c:74: warning: passing argument 2 of ???g_list_append??? discards qualifiers from pointer target type nullprpl.c: At top level: nullprpl.c:93: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type nullprpl.c:103: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type

Sorry for flooding here. I don't know other ways to look for support. Thank you.