Comments on: How to Block AIM’s Annoying ‘AOL System Msg’ in Pidgin

By: Andrew S

Andrew S — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:39:07 +0000

Thank you! This was exactly what I was looking for and it worked perfectly.

By: Shoku

Shoku — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:55:39 +0000

This is such a huge frustration among people using anything but a desktop with a stable landline internet connection- why isn’t an already compiled file readily available?

I’m not a programmer but I might be able to figure out how to make a dll file in a couple of days during spring break when my assignment load temporarily lightens up. I’m cruising along at a really high stress level though so having to close the system message a few more times might end with my throwing a fit.

I would greatly appreciate it if someone that actually knows their way around this stuff could help me avoid that by a wider margin.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:01:56 +0000

This works! Thanks so much, that msg was driving me nuts.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:44:35 +0000

the above commenters are correct that the perl code has been altered by HTML encoding

i wrote a C plugin to do this

code is here: http://www.pidgin.im/nopaste/104

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:58:32 +0000

No, you can’t compile a perl script to a DLL. You just need to install perl (the interpreter) in order to allow Python to run the script.

By: James Tavares

James Tavares — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:33:06 +0000

… the blog even screwed up my post! You need to search and replace the following, removing the spaces I have intentionally inserted:

& g t ; with >
& l t ; with <
& a m p ; with &

By: James Tavares

James Tavares — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:30:50 +0000

The code is screwed up as posted. If you want this to work on your system (windows or linux), then you need to search and replace on:

> with >
< with <
& with &

After doing that in WordPad and saving as a Text Document to c:\program files\pidgin\plugins\blockaolsystemmsg.pl, I was able to get the plugin working on Pidgin 2.5.5 on Windows Vista.

Good luck.

By: operat0r

operat0r — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:06:34 +0000

can somebody compile this as a dll some how thanks

By: Isam

Isam — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:14:07 +0000

The .dll plugins are written in C but Pidgin also supports plugins written in perl (.pl). You will need to install perl on Windows and to make sure your Pidgin installation supports loading perl plugins.

See http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Scripting%20and%20Plugins for more info.

I completely forgot about AOLSystemMsg until seeing this comment ;)

By: Dunvi

Dunvi — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:30:13 +0000

Does this work in Windows as well? I checked, and inside program files\pidgin\plugins they’re all .dll files instead of .pl, so I suspect not. Is there a way to make it work, if so, or do you not know?

Thanks
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