Open Source Messaging Application Development
Building and Extending Gaim
Published on 3. November 2006
XXVI, 392 pages
978-1-4302-0047-5 (ISBN)
Description
Are you enamored with instant messaging? Would you like to learn how to create your own messaging application? This book shows you how, by dissecting Gaim-the world's most popular open source instant messaging application. Authored by the Gaim maintainer, Sean Egan, you are presented with a thorough overview of Gaim architecture and application programming interface.
You'll learn how to make the most of the popular GTK+ graphical user interface toolkit. Egan guides you through the creation and installation of plug-ins, and discusses strategies involved in supporting messaging protocols like MSN Messenger, AIM and IRC. He also covers topics such as multi-platform support and internationalization.
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Sean Egan is employed by Google on the Google Talk team, where he is working to improve compatibility with Gaim and other open-source messaging applications.
Content
Getting Started.- The Open Source Development Process.- Development Tools.- Programming Gaim.- GTK+ Basics.- Advanced GTK+.- Sockets.- Protocol Plug-Ins.- Internationalization.- Portability.
