Roberto Rocco Angeloni

I’m extending the Second Messenger by adding scripting capabilities.

I already have embedded a python engine in it and I’m working on a wrapper of the client object (I can’t give you all the power, sorry ;-).

I’m currently struggling with architectural issues and I hope to have a public version soon…

…maybe so soon that will have at first the ability to automatically answer to ScriptDialog messages. What for? Many camping chairs prompts the user with questions and possible answers: why not letting an automatic script to respond instead?

The next step could be to monitor group messages and automatically ban spamming people from your group.

Nice, huh?

Using Python made me fall in love with XmlRPC. The python xmlrpclib is great and I’m using this protocol with C# and PHP too.

The problem
Any call to an xmlrpc server is stateless, so that you are forced to send state information back and forth through additional parameters.

The solution
So that i dediced to write a transport object that keeps track of the session id cookies sent by the server.

Here’s the code:

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The problem
I’ve tryied to execute a php script containing a dl() call to a .so from the command line and I’ve got the message:

Warning: dl(): Dynamically loaded extensions aren't enabled in /home/roberto/tmp/helloworld.php on line 6

The cause

The web host has not enabled dynamically loaded extensions.

The solution
I asked to the php interpreter where to find the configuration:

php --ini

Configuration File (php.ini) Path: /etc/php5/cli
Loaded Configuration File:         /etc/php5/cli/php.ini
Scan for additional .ini files in: /etc/php5/cli/conf.d
...

So with a simple sudo vi /etc/php5/cli/php.ini I changed the parameter enable_dl=Off to enable_dl=On.

Enjoy,
Rob.

This post is really enlightning of how open source can really change/improve your life.

To keep your wxwidgets up-to-date on your ubuntu, simply add

deb http://apt.wxwidgets.org/ gutsy-wx main

to your /etc/apt/sources.list file. Then run

sudo apt-get update

to get the wx package list. Then type:

sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.8-0 libwxgtk2.8-dev wx2.8-headers wx-common

or open synaptic to update your wx libraries.

Note that also the python bindings will be available for upgrade

Enjoy,
Rob.

I needed to embed IronPython in my Second Messenger project. So i wrote a small interactive console looking like this:

where in the upper section i write my code and sending the output stream on the bottom section.

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A preview of the linux version is out! I’m waiting for feedbacks on it.

Enjoy,
Marte

I’ve tried to use gecko.WebControl on Mono under Ubuntu Linux and I kept on getting:

Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for Gecko.WebControl ---> System.DllNotFoundException: /usr/lib/firefox/libgtkembedmoz.so
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) Gecko.WebControl:gtk_moz_embed_get_type ()
  at Gecko.WebControl.get_GType () [0x00000]
  at GtkSharp.GeckoSharp.ObjectManager.Initialize () [0x00000]
  at Gecko.WebControl..cctor () [0x00000] --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
  at <0x00000> 
  at SecondMessenger.gtk.MainWnd.initAdvertising () [0×00000]
  at SecondMessenger.gtk.MainWnd..ctor (SecondMessenger.SMClient client) [0×00000]
  at SecondMessenger.gtk.GTKClient.initUI () [0×00000]
  at SecondMessenger.SMClientManager.NewClient (System.String clientType) [0×00000]
  at SecondMessenger.SMClientManager..ctor (System.String clientType, System.Collections.Generic.List`1 accounts, System.Stringc) [0×00000]
  at SecondMessenger.Program.Esegui (System.String[] args) [0×00000]
  at SecondMessenger.Program.Main (System.String[] args) [0×00000]

That’s why even if the /usr/lib/firefox/libgtkembedmoz.so library is there is not visible to the LD_PATH.
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