Open Source Messaging Application Development Building and Extending Gaim /

• Main Author: Egan, Sean (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley, CA : Apress, 2005.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Software engineering.; Computer Science.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.

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 tho...

Table of Contents:

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