Open Source Messaging Application Development: Building and Extending Gaim (The Expert's Voice in Open Source)

Sean Egan

ISBN 10: 1590594673 / ISBN 13: 9781590594674

Published by Apress 2005-07-27, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Open Source Messaging Application Development: Building and Extending Gaim (The Expert's Voice in Open Source)
• Publisher: Apress 2005-07-27
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1590594673
• ISBN 13: 9781590594674
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Are you infatuated 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 treated to 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. Egan also covers topics such as multi-platform support and internationalization.

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.