Sending custom emoticons with Adium – Part III

For all the lazy fan of my work, I’ve updated my patched version to the lastest Adium 1.4 from hg. It’s tagged Adium 1.4b18 and the build date is today, 30th June 2010.

As before, you can download the binary file, or the patch file:

• Adium 1.4b18 + Emoticon Patch v2 (MD5: 49c02415423704c3323c113f46a5b5b0);
• Emoticon Patch v2 .diff file;

Sending custom emoticons with Adium – Tests

This is the third of three related post documenting my custom emoticon patch for Adium. You can find the others here:

• Patch requirements;
• Class and interface design;
• Performed tests (this post).

The test cases are divided into two categories, depending on the section of the GUI used to interact with the custom emoticon subsystem.

Sending custom emoticons with Adium – Classes and interface

This is the second of three related post documenting my custom emoticon patch for Adium. You can find the others here:

• Patch requirements;
• Class and interface design (this post);
• Performed tests.

As said in the previous post, the library code for sending custom emoticons is already present in Adium thanks to libpurple. What’s left to do is bubble it up from libpurple.framework to Adium’s GUI.

Sending custom emoticons with Adium – Requirements

I’m starting today a review of my custom emoticon patch for Adium 1.4. Together with my informal review, I’d like to write down some formal documentation of the process:

• Patch requirements (this post);
• Class and interface design;
• Performed tests.

Sending custom emoticons with Adium – Part II

I’ve made some enhancements to the first version of my adium patch for sending custom emoticons. There are two main improvements:

Sending custom emoticons with Adium

I’ve published an updated version of the patch here.

When I chat, I rely on the MSN Messenger service. That’s not because it’s the best platform out there, it’s just the most used among my friends. One thing that has always bothered me is the lack of a good, dedicated client for Mac OS X. Of course there is Adium, you’d say. Being a multi-protocol IM client, Adium lacks of some of the most specific features of the msn protocol. Efforts have been made in that direction, but the client still miss the ability to send custom emoticons.