evands wrote:I have no knowledge of Proteus's message style format. Could you detail what is needed to be able to allow such things? If so, I'll work on implementing it to so such styles, and others, can be fully ported.
The way the Proteus views are setup every .html file can have a matching .js file that gets parsed for tags and executed after the .html. That's where the view could watch the icons/name/whatever for changes and do updates. Having mucked around in the code for .8 this would be fairly simple to add.
I know that the Big Icons port to Proteus actually will update images and names if they change as I put the code in to handle that. (oops, I looked, the images will update but not the name)
Here is a page that covers the views, I don't think it's current but it covers the basics.
http://defaultware.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3867
I started to implement the in view typing notifications but gave up when I realized that only incoming notifications get sent and they always appear to be from the local account which messed up the tag parsing. Or maybe I screwed something up... And I never bothered to ask for it becasue it doesn't seem to be important to the devs
which is understandable since the tabs show it and the list shows it. Here is a shot of what my style does when the other end is typing, it would also make the iChat Clone a closer clone
I'm probably the only one that wants to see this so if I ever get the time to really dig into it, I'll do that.
Evan- if you want more info on the Proteus views feel free to ask. I did a bunch of stuff on the view side to handle appending messages (I like the Adium way much better) and the typing notifications.
