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on in the preferences) whether or not --enable-debug was selected. Most
of the information that's printed is useless anyway though; so the
--enable-debug option really doesn't do a whole lot.

This file was last modified by $Author: warmenhoven $ on
$Date: 2000-12-12 07:56:53 -0500 (Tue, 12 Dec 2000) $.


PROGRAM FLOW
============

  initialization stuff, and showing the login window. It's pretty tiny
  and there's not really much to edit in it. This has some of the most
  pointless functions, like gaim_setup, which optionally turns off sounds
  on signon. A lot of this file should actually be part of other files.

away.c:
  This takes care of most of the away stuff: setting the away message
  (do_away_message); coming back (do_im_back); drawing the away window;
  etc.

browser.c:
  Code for opening a browser window. Most of the code is trying to deal
  with Netscape. The most important function here is open_url. Have fun.
  (This file may give you problems with GTK 2.0, because it uses parts

gaimrc.c:
  This controls everything about the .gaimrc file. There's not really much
  to say about it; this is probably one of the better designed and easier
  to follow files in gaim. The important functions are towards the bottom.

gnome_applet_mgr.c:
  This controls most things that are related to the applet. I don't like
  looking at this file because it still has functionsLikeThis. But at
  least it doesn't have many of them anymore. Anyway, this file isn't
  very big because there's really not much difference between the panel
  version and the app version.

gtkhtml.c:
  This is really just one big hack. I recommend not looking at this
  file if you want to save your sanity. (It's going to be replaced
  eventually anyway.)  People have asked why we don't replace this with
  GNOME's GtkHTML, or embed mozilla (yes, they were serious). There
  are two reasons. The first is that doing that would cause gaim to
  require 6 extra libraries that nobody needs or wants or has. The
  second is that we really don't need, or even want, a full-fledged
  HTML viewer. We don't even want a normal HTML viewer because the text
  that gets sent gets parsed and displayed different than normal HTML.
  (Try inserting a newline and you'll see what I mean.) We should only
  support about 12 tags, not the 50 that normal HTML supports.

gtkticker.c:
  Syd, our resident GTK God, wrote a GtkWidget, GtkTicker. This is that
  widget. It's cool, and it's tiny.

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on in the preferences) whether or not --enable-debug was selected. Most
of the information that's printed is useless anyway though; so the
--enable-debug option really doesn't do a whole lot.

This file was last modified by $Author: warmenhoven $ on
$Date: 2001-03-10 04:34:31 -0500 (Sat, 10 Mar 2001) $.


PROGRAM FLOW
============

  initialization stuff, and showing the login window. It's pretty tiny
  and there's not really much to edit in it. This has some of the most
  pointless functions, like gaim_setup, which optionally turns off sounds
  on signon. A lot of this file should actually be part of other files.

applet.c:
  This controls most things that are related to the applet. I don't like
  looking at this file because it still has functionsLikeThis. But at
  least it doesn't have many of them anymore. Anyway, this file isn't
  very big because there's really not much difference between the panel
  version and the app version.

away.c:
  This takes care of most of the away stuff: setting the away message
  (do_away_message); coming back (do_im_back); drawing the away window;
  etc. Away messages work really oddly due to multiple connections and
  multiple protocols; I think there are really only two or three people
  who know it all they work and I don't think any of us know why it works
  that way.

browser.c:
  Code for opening a browser window. Most of the code is trying to deal
  with Netscape. The most important function here is open_url. Have fun.
  (This file may give you problems with GTK 2.0, because it uses parts

gaimrc.c:
  This controls everything about the .gaimrc file. There's not really much
  to say about it; this is probably one of the better designed and easier
  to follow files in gaim. The important functions are towards the bottom.

gtkimhtml.c:
  This is gaim's HTML widget. It replaced the old widget, GtkHtml (which
  was different than GNOME's GtkHTML). It's self-contained (it doesn't
  use any of gaim's code) and is actually a separate project from gaim
  (but is maintained by Eric).

gtkspell.c:
  This controls spell checking. It's not a widget per se but it does have
  some influence over the GtkText widget. It's a separate project from
  gaim; if you have a patch for this file send it to the author (the
  contact info is in the file).

gtkticker.c:
  Syd, our resident GTK God, wrote a GtkWidget, GtkTicker. This is that
  widget. It's cool, and it's tiny.