XChat plug-in

[techb]

With the help of Kulver's index-of and his examples of XChat plug-ins I came up with my own. It is pretty simple and does make my life easier since I have 2 nicks for away and active.


You can find a breif explanation on my blog.


Anyways here's le plugin:

Code: (python) [Select]


import xchat


__module_name__ = "PyAway"
__module_version__ = "1.0"
__module_description__ = "Changes nick to away, and identifys with the nickserv"


awaynick = "techb_away"
backnick = "techb"
passwrd = "letmein"


def toggleAway(words, words_eol, userdata):
    if xchat.get_info("nick") == backnick:
        xchat.command("nick %s" % awaynick)
        xchat.command("msg nickserv identify %s" % passwrd)


    elif xchat.get_info("nick") == awaynick:
        xchat.command("nick %s" % backnick)
        xchat.command("msg nickserv identify %s" % passwrd)


    return xchat.EAT_ALL


xchat.hook_command("away_", toggleAway)
print "Loaded away.py \nUse /away_ to toggle."


The only thing that's not on my blog is the xchat.EAT_ALL. This is to let xchat know not to regard the new command. Else, in the server window, it will show "away_ is an unknown command".


Place in the .xchat2 dir, located in /home/.xchat in linux, and use /py load away.py to load. Anytime you restart it will load automagically. If you don't see .xchat2 in home, hit ctrl+h to see hidden files. Windows users, sorry I don't use windows, but I would imagine its in C:\xchat2\ or C:\[user]\xchat2 or something.

[Kulverstukas]

Heh

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To use it on Linux, put it into ~/.xchat2 and it will load every time you start xchat
or you can do it manualy with: /py load voiceall.py
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To use it on Windows, install Python 2.5
and put it into "X:/Documents and Settings/USERNAME/Application Data/X-Chat 2/"
or you can do it manualy with: /py load voiceall.py
----http://newage.ql.lt/projects/python/voiceall.py

Not a bad script, even I might use it
It's always a good idea to throw in exception handling as well, because sometimes something fucks up

Another thing I noticed for loading manually - you must escape the chars
So if the script is in C:\script.py, in xchat you would would write C:\\script.py.
That bitch gave me big problems until I debugged the cause...

[techb]

Heh

Code: [Select]

----
To use it on Linux, put it into ~/.xchat2 and it will load every time you start xchat
or you can do it manualy with: /py load voiceall.py
----
To use it on Windows, install Python 2.5
and put it into "X:/Documents and Settings/USERNAME/Application Data/X-Chat 2/"
or you can do it manualy with: /py load voiceall.py
----http://newage.ql.lt/projects/python/voiceall.py

Not a bad script, even I might use it
It's always a good idea to throw in exception handling as well, because sometimes something fucks up

Another thing I noticed for loading manually - you must escape the chars
So if the script is in C:\script.py, in xchat you would would write C:\\script.py.
That bitch gave me big problems until I debugged the cause...

I didn't really worry about error handling because it was a quick script meant for me alone. And the only place I can really think of putting an try/except case would be for the imports?


I haven't gotten into hardcore plug-ins, and might switch to C so I can practice.


I didn't know about the escape problem. I always put the plug-ins in the root of XChat, but I suppose you could load from a path like '/py load user@office:~/Desktop/python_code/away.py'


Yeah, python has escape sequence madness, especially when working with system paths.

[techb]

I had to work on this one a bit longer than planned. I had a few bugs with it in the beginning. This new script will change your nick back to what you want. The reason I use it is because for some reason my name gets changed to EvilGuest##### at times.

Code: (python) [Select]


import xchat


__module_name__ = "PyAutoNick"
__module_version__ = "1.0"
__module_description__ = "Change nick if not yourself and identify. Default check rate is 5 minutes."


rehook = None


def changeTime(words, words_eol, userdata):
    global  rehook
    try:
        minutes = int(words[1])*60*1000
    except:
        print "Invalid argument.\nUsage: /autonick [time in min]"


    xchat.unhook(rehook)
    rehook = xchat.hook_timer(minutes, checkNick)


def checkNick(userdata):
    if xchat.get_info("nick") != "techb" and xchat.get_info("nick") != "techb_away":
        xchat.command("nick techb_away")
        xchat.command("msg nickserv identify elohelz")


    return xchat.EAT_ALL


#300000 == 5 min
rehook = xchat.hook_timer(300000, checkNick)
xchat.hook_command("autonick", changeTime)


The bugs seem to be worked out.