Now, per each account, there is a read-only chat view associated with
it, accessible through its item in the conversations list. This can be
used to place system messages, MOTDs, insignificant errors, etc.
Protocols can send text to this buffer by specifying no "chat_id" in
an IM_MESSAGE_RECEIVED message.
The IRC add-on previously used libircclient, which is becoming inactive,
and newer versions don't compile on Haiku easily. A fresh rewrite seems
to be a better option.
So far it only supports basic connection and receiving the MOTD. :p
Some chat protocol messages' names have been changed to more fitting or
consistent names― e.g., "IM_AVATAR_SET" to "IM_USER_AVATAR_SET", or
"IM_CONTACT_LIST_*" to "IM_ROSTER_*" (to agree with Cardie's usage of
the word).
The API version has been bumped― for the forseeable future (at least
several months, I promise!) no compatibility-breaking changes will be
introduced. Until then, any new feautures or message slots will be
additive and optional.
Seperate UserItems are now created for each list, too, rather than a
single one being created per-user. This functionally works a lot nicer.
But onto more important things… now setting the user's own nick should
work quite well. Finally. =w=
This has given me a good bit of trouble over the past couple of days―
setting the user's nick *worked*, but it wouldn't propagate to its
corresponding UserItem nor its UserInfoDialog. It would, however, work
with the StatusView.
These are all registered Observers of the User itself, so if one works,
they *all* should, them all being registered to the same User.
Now, if a given User isn't found in the ProtocolLooper's user-list,
the Conversation class will take it upon itself to create a new
one and add it to both of their respective lists.
So the user's own contact would be set in the ProtocolLooper― but it
*wouldn't* be added to the user-list.
Hilarity ensues as two seperate objects for the user's own contact would
be created.
Since the StatusView is registered to the ProtocolLooper's "real" own contact
slot, it would receive all updates… but since Conversations' user-lists and
items would be registered to the Conversation-created "fake" user, they
would be borked.
Simple oversight, but wow it hecked with me. :P
Now the StatusView (bottom-left corner, right below the room list) can
be used to set the nickname and status not only for all accounts at
once, but for managing the status/nick of individual accounts.
AccountManager now can set details of a single account, too.
MainWindow is no longer an Observer (as it just passed the information
along to StatusView― now StatusView manages that itself).
NicknameTextControl was removed, not being in use.
Now all account menus will have the pretty protocol icons to go with
them. :)
The icons are scaled to text-size so that they might be displayed in a
corresponding MenuButton, or maybe BMenuField at some point, and put
into the ImageCache.
The menu items do not have ownership of the bitmaps.
Jaidyn Ann