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[gaim-migrate @ 15565] fix sf bug #1413457 Having the horizontal scrollbar set to NEVER was causing weird bugs with the new status dialog where typing into the imhtml would cause the window to grow in width and the text would not wrap (well, it would eventually). I know having the horizontal scrollbar set to AUTOMATIC was causing problems in the past, but I played around with it and everything seems ok to me. If this becomes a problem I'm thinking we can set it to the horizontal policy to NEVER for editable imhtmls when using GTK < 2.4.0. I think maybe our use of GTK_WRAP_WORD_CHAR might be a partial cause of the bug mentioned in the comment that I'm removing. 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)