[Adium-devl] potential idea / rfe: write-protect switch for tabs?

[Peter Hosey]

On Sep 22, 2007, at 23:34:36, Alec Muffett wrote:
> Are there any Adium/GAIM third-party plugins which exist, which  
> already:
>
> 	- provide one toggle button
> 	- don't do much else
>
> ...and are therefore ripe to use as a reference/starting point?

Pidgin plug-ins don't work in Adium. Adium plug-ins are few and far  
between, and I don't know of any like that.

> Basically I am envisioning:
>
> 	- checkbox or other button on screen for each tab, somewhere not
> eating too much real-estate
> 	- while button is "on" and tab is at front, attempt to type/paste in
> tab is rejected and beep is sounded
> 	- per-conversation-tab button state is preserved until program exits

I recommend implementing it as a toolbar item. That makes it easy for  
the user to enable and disable it.

> In an ordinary C program, that logic would be about 10 or 15 lines  
> of code to express, plus a per-tab-structure boolean, so I am  
> assuming that for a GUI tool like Adium it will be, what, 40,000  
> lines of code plus graphics, and a bunch of class definitions and  
> templates ? :-)

Clearly, you've never used Cocoa.

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