[Adium-devl] Change buddy icon

Nils Friedman wosiho at gmail.com
Mon Jul 28 14:23:51 UTC 2008


Hi ,  Could i please be removed from the asdium mailing list ?

thanks,





On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Daniel Wolfertshofer <
danielwo at student.ethz.ch> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> [If you are not expecting questions on plugin development on this list
> please forgive and educate me]
>
> I am fooling around with writing a Adium plugin and want my code to
> change the buddy icon once in a while.
>
> So far i only found the way through the preference controller.
> Is there a better way?
> My problem with the preference controller way is that my buddy icon
> change should be only temporary so i would prefer not to touch the
> preferences.
>
> Another thing i could not quite grasp:
> If i want to have some GUI elements -- say for configuration -- i
> apparently can create a .nib file. But i did not quite understand how to
> inject the .nib file then in the Adium dialog(s). Any docs on this subject?
>
> Even worse: Is it possible to (ex-)change an existing GUI part (e.g. add
> additional elements to it) or would i then have to alter the main Adium
> sources?
>
> BTW: is there any other (more thorough -- of course i found MapOfAdium
> and other high level stuff on the wiki) development docs besides the
> source code?
>
> Thanks for your help and congratulations to your cool IM client!
>
> Daniel.
>
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