Sometimes a protocol's commands are dynamic, or change based on certain
events― and it's necessary in these cases that commands be reloaded.
The IM_PROTOCOL_RELOAD_COMMANDS message is now added to the API, which
will force Cardie to reload commands from the protocol.
The "room" template has been split into two seperate
templates― "join_room" and "create_room". Before, "room" was used in the
room creation window, but now that's delegated to "create_room".
"join_room" is used with the join window― so now, the add-on has total
control over the slots used to join/create rooms generally, if they
specify the templates. Even a "/join" command could be overriden by the
add-on.
Also, default templates are now in use. Rather than add-ons being
required to specify templates, there are sensible defaults included with
Cardie for each one.
The settings file-hierarchy has been changed a bit:
* Cardie/
* preferences
* Accounts/
* Cache/
* Accounts/
* Add-Ons/
`Cardie/Protocols` is now `Cardie/Accounts`, and the cache directory
has been split into two. `Cache/Accounts/` is for account-specific
cached data (e.g., cached roster icons, data, etc.), and
`Cache/Protocols` is for protocol-wide settings/data.
For purple, this will be used as the user's libpurple directory,
which has been moved from the default of `~/.purple` (yikes!)
Some plugin search-paths have been given to purple, too― lib
directories + "/purple2/", and Cardie/Cache/Add-Ons/purple/plugins/.
Now the purple add-on's starting to come together with a clear
structure:
* Add-on sends IM_MESSAGES etc to the server for processing
* Server sends all (reply/etc) messages to add-on, which sends
to app
It's worth noting that on the add-on's side, no looper or handler is
used for receiving messages, it's all through sending serialized
BMessages to the add-on's connect_thread buffer.
PurpleAccounts are now reliably associated with Cardie's account names
and the thread ID of their respective connect_thread.
The GLib main-loop is gone over regularly thanks to a message runner.
Now, the add-on can log into/create accounts, connect to them, and send
the IM_PROTOCOL_READY notification to Cardie as appropriate.
The libpurple add-on has been split into two parts― a background process
that will actually interface with libpurple, and an add-on that acts as
intermediary between Cardie and the process. This helps prevent
redundancy, and is giving me a lot less trouble that directly loading
libpurple.
The protocol amount and names are now returned by the add-on (through
protocol_count() and protocol_at() respectively)― you can see them in
Preferences' protocol list.
Jaidyn Ann