Re: xchat-2002-02-24 snapshot / New plugin interface

[Christoph Hohmann <reboot@gmx.ch>]

Peter Zelezny <zed@linux.com> wrote:

> I've put up a new 1.9.x snapshot here:
> http://xchat.org/files/source/1.9/
> 
> It now contains the new plugin interface, and the start of the 
> new serverlist.
> 
> The start of a API reference manual is here:
> http://xchat.org/docs/plugin20.html
> 
> Let me know of any probs, the interface isn't set in stone yet.

The new interface looks much simpler than the old one, but
it's still not possible to do some input or output
preprocessing, to do things like translation, code
conversion or encryption. I would like to have a hook that
gets any input or output line and can modify it, and the
result is then send to the server or processed by x-chat
like any line that is received from the server.

I tried to write an encryption plugin but just to make the
decrypted text look like any received text i nearly had to
copy the hole x-chat privmsg function. The standard print
function is not good, because it can not open new query
windows and the output format is probably not the same as
the user setup.

And for the output this is not possible at all, because as
far as i know, it's only possible to set a hook for
commands, and not for simple user input. This may be wrong,
because i have not tested if a non command input triggers
the /MSG command hook. But if not, a plugin can not process
the user input before sending.

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