annotate PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 4738:34fdf9e313d5

[gaim-migrate @ 5053] I combined some hash tables in oscar.c to make things a bit neater. Funtionality-wise, I made "online since" show up in the oscar per-buddy tooltip thing, fixed the buddy selection file browser dialog thing so the default file is blank and it puts you in the correct directory (it is more similar to how gtkft.c does it), and I made it so buddy icons will only be requested/advertised when needed, rather than for every single message. Hopefully this will make it so the icon is not re-sent for every message. And hopefully I didn't break anything. HEY YOU Find out why "Capabilities" is not indeded like "Online Since" in the tooltip. committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

Notes on keeping GAIM OS independant
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General
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- Use G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S and G_DIR_SEPARATOR for paths

- Use g_getenv, g_snprintf, g_vsnprintf

- Use gaim_home_dir instead of g_get_home_dir or g_getenv("HOME")

- Make sure when including win32dep.h that it is the last header to
  be included.

- Open binary files when reading or writing with 'b' mode.

  e.g: fopen("somefile", "wb");

  Not doing so will open files in windows using defaut translation mode. 
  i.e. newline -> <CR><LF>

Paths
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- DATADIR, LOCALEDIR & LIBDIR are defined in wingaim as functions.
  Doing the following will therefore break the windows build:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s\n", DATADIR G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S "pic.png");

  it should be:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s%s%s\n", DATADIR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S, "pic.png");

PLUGINS & PROTOS
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- G_MODULE_EXPORT all functions which are to be accessed from outside the
  scope of its "dll" or "so". (E.G. gaim_plugin_init)

- G_MODULE_IMPORT all global variables which are located outside your
  dynamic library. (E.G. connections)

  (Not doing this will cause "Memory Access Violations" in Win32)