Fwd: character count [GishPuppy]

[Dossy Shiobara]

OK, in a spurt of inspiration I whipped together a plugin for Pidgin
2.2.2 that puts the current number of characters in the input box in the
GtkIMHtmlToolbar on the right-hand side.

Here's the patch:

    http://static.panoptic.com/pidgin/pidgin-convcharcount-plugin-patch.txt

Try it out, let me know if it works/doesn't work for you, etc.

-- Dossy


On 2007.10.30, Dossy Shiobara <dossy at panoptic.com> wrote:
> On 2007.10.30, gmane.p6m at gishpuppy.com <gmane.p6m at gishpuppy.com> wrote:
> > I'd prefer if there was an optional setting for displaying the total
> > character count - not the amount of characters remaining.
> 
> Without actually experimenting, can the "insert_text" signal be used to
> trigger the update for displaying the character count?  Or the
> "key_press_event" signal?
> 
> It would be nice if in the menubar above the entry widget in the gtkconv
> window, on the right-most side, was the character count of the entry
> widget.
> 
> If that sounds reasonable, I'll grab the latest Pidgin source and
> implement it and submit the patch.

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