Character Counting in new posts.

[leip]

I'm looking for a way to count characters within new posts. I hunger for that capability so I can easily ensure that I am staying within character limits when sending to an IM to any micro-blogging service such as Twitter. Anyone have a suggestion as to how that can be accomplished by hook or by crook? Thanks.

[zac]

This has been in since Adium 1.3, but it's only enabled for twitter@twitter.com on Jabber. This is enabled for the Twitter support coming in 1.4, as well. You'd have to write an admittedly simple plugin to enable it for anything else.

[leip]

I really was hoping to use this type of capability with Ping.fm, which can be used to update Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Jaiku, Plurk, Identi.ca, etc.

[serversurfer]

There's still no general-use plugin for this? Hmm. Maybe I'll have to try to write one. It would be handy for sending SMS messages, which is my intended use.

I'm thinking a toolbar icon which shows a running character count for outgoing messages. Any other suggestions?

[trac]

There's still no general-use plugin for this? Hmm. Maybe I'll have to try to write one. It would be handy for sending SMS messages, which is my intended use.

I'm thinking a toolbar icon which shows a running character count for outgoing messages. Any other suggestions?

Not another toolbar icon. Display it inline in the text input.

[zac]

There's no need to add any extra display code, all you need to do is set a property on the contact to tell Adium to display a count. Check out the twitter counter plugin in the source.