[Adium-devl] Support for adding new view?

[Colin Barrett]

I'm not sure what you mean by a new view -- where exactly would you  
want said view to show up?

Adding meta-data in a per-user fashion is done with our ByObject prefs  
system.

Chris brings up an excellent point -- we were thinking of adding an  
International area to the get info window (it's getting a facelift  
soon, more on that as I have time to write it) with per-user Spell  
Check prefs and timezone information.

As far as a UI goes, what you would probably want would be to add a  
new item to the  Window menu to "Show Contacts Globe" (it would change  
to Hide when the window is visible, obviously). Then it would bring up  
a window with your cool (xearth-style?) globe. Adding menu item is  
done via our Menu Controller, and then it's just standard NSMenuItem  
stuff to hook that up to a target/action to show/hide you window.

Hope that helps! Let us know if you run into any major snags -- we're  
trying to stabilize and clean up the plugin architecture so plugin  
authors can actually make use of it (What is the status of that  
effort, anyway?).

-Colin

On Nov 10, 2006, at 7:43 AM, Andre-John Mas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any support in the plug-in architecture to be able to add
> new views?
> Also, if I wish to add extra meta-data to a user is that easily  
> doable?
>
> The reason I am asking is because I was thinking of a fun (rather,  
> than
> necessarily useful) view would be a map of the earth, where you could
> indicate where your friends live, and see if its night time or day  
> time.
>
> Andre
>
>
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