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[gaim-migrate @ 15375] Here's my "I'm staying up all night anyway so I might as well take a stab at the connection error buttons" work on the connection error buttons. I left Mark's comment in since I don't think this is finished. I also left a couple warnings in place because I'm too tired to try to follow failure characteristics and recovery mechanisms for the stuff I'm doing. It works for me. I saturated the prpl icons mostly because it made the error overlay stand out better, but once I saw it I think it works well, and also fits well with our use of saturation in other places to indicate offline. I'm currently using the default status image blocked.png, if that's what we end up wanting to keep we should put a copy of it somewhere else as pulling it from status/default is silly. I had originally tried to get the blocked circle to be larger than the prpl icon, with the prpl icon centered, but couldn't come up with a good way to do that given the gdk functions I had at hand. I'll probably give it a shot again at some other point unless we decide we don't want it or someone else does it before me. I'm done rambling now, I'm tired. 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)