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I have updated the CoreWitness Plugin. This version has two new features called DAccEvents Wizard and Symbol Lookup.

The DAccEvents Wizard helps you generate the code needed to handle Open AIM events in your own clients and plugins. It can generate code in C++ and JavaScript. The latter is useful for developing AMO plugins.

The Symbol Lookup window lets you quickly find the value of a particular constant. You can search by entering a partial name to see all the symbols containing that name. Or, you can do a reverse look up by entering a numeric value to see all the symbols with that value. You can click on any of the static text elements under the list box to copy the text to the clipboard. Clicking on the symbol’s name will copy an assignment statement to the clipboard.

You can find more information including screen shots and a download link here.

I just released an updated version of the CoreWitness plug-in.

This version adds support for the AIM SDK version 1.3.0 while maintaining backwards compatibility to prior versions. AIM 6.1 uses the AIM SDK Version 1.2.4 while the latest AIM 6.2 beta uses version 1.3.0.

I also added support to dump the contents of the buddy list via the “bl” command. Just open an IM to yourself and send it to see the data in the log window.

IMHO, this is a must have plug-in for developing Open AIM clients and plug-ins. I wouldn’t write a plug-in or develop a client with out it.

Your comments and suggestions are always welcome.

Enjoy.

Just a quick post to let you know that I have updated my IM Control Panel and CoreWitness plugin. Basically, the IM Control Panel now supports AIM 6.1 and I added more details in the logging for secondary sessions in my CoreWitness plugin. See the respective links for more details.

I want to thank you all for your privately sent comments and suggestions for my RX-Plugin. I am prioritizing my list of new features to add and will be working on them soon. No ETA on when this will be out.

Finally, plugins 3 and 4 (as I am calling them) are in the early stages of development they should be interesting when they are done later this year.

While I have not posted on this plug-in since I announced it back in December, I have been uploading minor improvements as soon as they were working. This plug-in is a great way to visualize how the Open AIM SDK works by observing the sequence of events it receives.

I highly recommend the CoreWitness plug-in if you are planning on developing your own custom AIM clients and plug-ins. You can register and download the latest version here.

Feel free to leave any comments on questions you may have about the plug-in or the traces it produces.

This plug-in is a visualizer of sorts—in a “green-matrixy” sort of way. It logs all the calls that come from the IAccSession event source interface in the Open AIM SDK. This is a great way to learn about the Open AIM API and see how it works. It is also a great tool to help you debug your own clients and plug-ins.

All the enumerated types are decoded and shown using their symbolic names. The current state of some of the relevant objects like: BART items, messages, users, alerts and plugin information are also shown under certain conditions.

You can open the plug-in’s settings window from your client’s plug-in manager. It can also be opened it from the right-click context menu of the plug-in’s log window which is available in the actions menu on the buddy list as “Open CoreWitness Window”.

Here are two screen shots (click to see larger images):

You can download this plug-in here. Please give it a try and let me know if you have any suggestions on how I could improve it. Thanks.