Gaim newlines

Napalm Llama · 06-30-2005, 03:15 PM

Hi there.

Does anybody know if there's a way in Gaim of making the message start on the next line down from your name? Here's what it does at the moment:

(20:43:13) Napalm Llama: This is the message.

And here's what I'd like it to do:

(20:43:13) Napalm Llama:
This is the message.

Fairly simple, but annoying when my name is longer and the first few words of the message get stuck on the name line, while the rest of the message appears where you'd expect it.

(20:43:13) Napalm Llama has a much longer name now: Do you see
the problem? It's very irritating.

Is there a plugin or a hack to change this behaviour?
Thanks.

Centinul · 07-02-2005, 06:47 PM

what about pressing "Shift+Enter" before you start typing the message? I think it starts a new line

ThorRune · 07-02-2005, 07:17 PM

I think he wants it to happen automatically, also when other people says things to him without doing that. I don't know any way to do this, but i'd imagine it (From my knowledge of PHP, i know no C++ what-so-ever) not to be much else then adding a /r/n in a syntax somewhere in the source file, and compiling it?

Napalm Llama · 07-03-2005, 08:40 AM

That's what I thought, but the HACKING file in the source package itself admits the code to be a twisted and tangled mess - I did look through the it, but as I recall I couldn't find where to put it either.

C/C++ has a funny sytax that I'm not familiar with, either. I think I was trying to tweak Ctorrent to do something I wanted, but it was all weird - 3 quotes enclosing a string, with one up in parentheses somewhere else...

I'm a PHP guy myself, and it confused the hell out of me.

If there are no plugins to alter the behaviour, do you think I'd have more luck asking this to be moved to the Programming forum?

exvor · 07-03-2005, 09:02 AM

in C and i think in C++ a new line charecter in a text string is the keboard special charecter \n

like this small program

Code:

#include<stdio.h><-- Header file used for input and output

int main ()
{
    printf("Hello linux questions\n");<-- this is the function that creates the text string

return 0; 
}

Napalm Llama · 07-04-2005, 02:09 PM

Kinda like in your sig

Thanks, but I already know about the \n newline special character - I use it in PHP and Javascript. I just need to know where to write it!

Quote:

Originally written by Eric Warmenhoven
A lot of people have tried to hack gaim, but haven't been able to because
the code is just so horrid.

Well, having had another look at the code, it appears that they've cleaned it up somewhat. I decided to track the function calls back to the one that actually deals with writing to the window... and lost the scent in gaim_conversation_write() in conversation.c. I'm in the latest version (1.3.1) - if anybody's any better at C, or knows the Gaim code at all... it'd be really cool if you could give me a point in the right direction?

Please?