Installing plug-ins is similar to installing themes; plug-ins go in the plugins folder alongside the themes folder. Unlike with themes, you need to restart leafChat to install a new plugin.
Be careful to install plugins only from trusted sources; plugins are computer programs and just like any other computer program, a malicious plugin could damage your computer or do something else you don't want.
If you want to get started creating your own plugin (you'll need Java programming skills), visit Scripting / Create plugin within the program.
If you create a useful plugin and you'd like it to be hosted here, send me a zip file containing the entire project source code. It may take me a while to look at it.
Source code
Source code is available for the following plugins:
- System monitoring: monitor.source.zip
- Encrypted chat: encryption.source.zip
(The encrypted chat plugin is built in to leafChat, but source code is included here so that experts can analyse it for security holes.)
The source code in the above zip files was written by Samuel Marshall and is hereby released to the public domain; feel free to use it as a base for your own plugins (or anything else).