Open Source Messaging Application Development: Building and Extending Gaim

by Sean Egan

Overview

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 prools like MSN Messenger, AIM and IRC. He also covers topics such as multi-platform support and internationalization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590594674
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	07/27/2005
Series:	The Expert's Voice in Open Source Series
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.86(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Getting Started.- The Open Source Development Process.- Development Tools.- Programming Gaim.- GTK+ Basics.- Advanced GTK+.- Sockets.- Prool Plug-Ins.- Internationalization.- Portability.