Favorite Undocumented Features

[Chris Biagini]

What are your favorite undocumented features of Adium? I figured we could, you know, document them. I'd steer clear of things that are only partially implemented or features that are only in SVN builds.

Things like:

• Sending LaTeX-formatted messages with Equation Service installed
• Press option-up to cycle through previous messages
• Press control-down to temporarily store a message

If this thread is successful, I wouldn't mind writing up the documentation.

[Tipo 61]

hmm, Mine would have to be holding down 'option' during startup, to choose which user you are

[stevek]

[*] Sending LaTeX-formatted messages with Equation Service installed

Could you talk more about this feature? I know nothing of LaTeX or the Equation Service

[TheSilverFox06]

• Press option-up to cycle through previous messages
• Press control-down to temporarily store a message

!!!

I did not know about these features. It seems that every week I learn something new about this program, no matter how long I've been using it for. I'd say that my favorite undocumented feature, while not extremely functional, is the ability to drag tabs into different windows, and combine them again. It just looks so cool that I do it back and forth while having multiple conversations.

[sdh]

• Press control-down to temporarily store a message

hmm, i do this with ctrl+s.
ctrl+down didnt do anything for me.

[Adam Iser]

Holding shift at launch prevents auto-connect

[Tipo 61]

Holding shift at launch prevents auto-connect

oooooh. Nifty!

[The_Tick]

Holding option at lunch I think is fun too.

So is push/pop.

[troplin]

Holding option at lunch I think is fun too.

Yeah, cool. Online food. Do I need a new modem/router for this feature?

[Catfish_Man]

Holding option at lunch I think is fun too.

Yeah, cool. Online food. Do I need a new modem/router for this feature?

AIPizza is running into some into some issues with accidentally deallocating its topping array, but it's progressing.

[Chris Biagini]

I did not know about these features.

Good! Then the thread is working

Could you talk more about this feature? I know nothing of LaTeX or the Equation Service

LaTeX is a typesetting language, and it's especially useful for math. For example, this:

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$$-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4ac} \over 2a$$

makes the quadratic equation, but real pretty-like:



Once you've installed LaTeX and a GUI front-end called Equation Service, Adium can use these to automatically create the equations. So if you asked me what the quadratic equation was, I could type the code, and you'd see the equation. I'm pretty sure everything is done locally, so your copy of Adium would do the translating. No need to worry about firewalls and such. Really neat feature.

[stevek]

Holding option at lunch I think is fun too.

Yeah, cool. Online food. Do I need a new modem/router for this feature?

AIPizza is running into some into some issues with accidentally deallocating its topping array, but it's progressing.

Y'all are joking, right? Forgive me, I'm new here. (again. seems these forums change every few months)

[David Munch]

Über c00lness! 8)

[wunderwood]

Could you talk more about this feature? I know nothing of LaTeX or the Equation Service

LaTeX is a typesetting language, and it's especially useful for math. For example, this:

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$$-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4ac} \over 2a$$

makes the quadratic equation, but real pretty-like:



Once you've installed LaTeX and a GUI front-end called Equation Service, Adium can use these to automatically create the equations. So if you asked me what the quadratic equation was, I could type the code, and you'd see the equation. I'm pretty sure everything is done locally, so your copy of Adium would do the translating. No need to worry about firewalls and such. Really neat feature.

So both people need to have adium and LaTeX installed? I can think of a lot of times I would have liked to use this. Wow

Y'all are joking, right? Forgive me, I'm new here. (again. seems these forums change every few months)

Welcome to the forums!! We make a lot of jokes here, and the forums change every day.



Ok the feature I think people need to be educated about is everything connected to meta contacts. Both AB integration and option+drag. A lot of people don't know option-drag makes meta contacts.

[Catfish_Man]

Yeah, cool. Online food. Do I need a new modem/router for this feature?

AIPizza is running into some into some issues with accidentally deallocating its topping array, but it's progressing.

Y'all are joking, right? Forgive me, I'm new here. (again. seems these forums change every few months)

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#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
#import "Adium/AIAbstractFood.h"
#import "Adium/AIDeliverableFood.h"
#import "Adium/AICookableFood.h"

@interface AIPizza <AIEating, AICooking, AIDelivering>
{
    NSArray * toppings; //pepperoni, etc...
    float temperature;
    BOOL cooked; //note: should only be set through the cookAtTemperature:forTimeInterval: method
    float radius;
}

- (id) initWithToppings:(NSArray *)toppings cooked:(BOOL)flag;

@end

...and yes, I'm joking

[Chris Biagini]

So both people need to have adium and LaTeX installed? I can think of a lot of times I would have liked to use this. Wow

Check out this thread.

I tried it a while back, and it seemed that all the transformations were done locally on the receiving side, but it looks like I was mistaken. According to the thread, it tries to send the actual PDF, so it may work if only the sender has Adium/LaTeX/Equation Service installed.

[evands]

Really, if you're not worried about the order of the toppings, it should be an NSSet :-)

[The_Tick]

AIPizza would be cool, but we should fork it out into another app

[evands]

AIPizza would be cool, but we should fork it out into another app

Whatever! Make it a plugin!

Let's see, my favorite undocumented feature? I think the fun ones have already been listed... we natively support Proteus emoticon packs and nobody knows it?

[Catfish_Man]

Really, if you're not worried about the order of the toppings, it should be an NSSet :-)

Hmm... excellent point.

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#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
#import "Adium/AIAbstractFood.h"
#import "Adium/AIDeliverableFood.h"
#import "Adium/AICookableFood.h"
#import "Adium/AIAbstractTopping.h"

@interface AIPizza <AIEating, AICooking, AIDelivering>
{
    NSMutableSet * toppings; //pepperoni, etc...
    float temperature;
    BOOL cooked; //note: should only be set through the cookAtTemperature:forTimeInterval: method
    float radius;
}

- (id) initWithToppings:(NSSet *)toppings cooked:(BOOL)flag;
- (void) addTopping:(AITopping *)topping;
- (void) removeTopping:(AITopping *)topping;

@end