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[gaim-migrate @ 13167] (19:40:07) Peter Lawler (Bleeter): rlaager: CTRL+G? huh? why not CTRL+I? that makes more sense for 'Info'. (And will no doubt conflict with CTRL+G = gaim_buzz if/when it's completed) (19:40:40) Luke Schierer (LSchiere): control-i is italics ... (19:41:51) Luke Schierer (LSchiere): control-g would be the perfect bell keystroke (19:42:02) Gary Kramlich (grim): LSchiere: thats what it is in yahoo... (19:42:03) Peter Lawler (Bleeter): LSchiere: I've been advocating that for months ... (19:47:45) Peter Lawler (Bleeter): rlaager: quick suggestion, go through the .po's and find a common latin letter (19:48:00) Peter Lawler (Bleeter): *letter for that string ... (19:51:02) rlaager: Bleeter: n or o seem to be the best options (19:53:56) rlaager: Bleeter: I'm leaning towards Ctrl-O in case we want Ctrl-N for invite. committer: Tailor Script <tailor@pidgin.im>
author Richard Laager <rlaager@wiktel.com>
date Mon, 18 Jul 2005 01:00:38 +0000
parents da88e2cd5c53
children 83ec0b408926
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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)