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[gaim-migrate @ 9242] " 6: Using CTRL+Up to get back a previous line breaks the formatting on any new text entered on that line. Text, while being entered appears extremely small, and when it's sent, the formatting is slightly smaller and may lose other elements of formatting. the problem was that in the key_press_cb in gtkconv.c was using gtk_text_buffer_get_text(gtkconv->entry_buffer, ...); this was not giving us the html tags. So I changed it to gtk_imthml_get_markup(GTK_IMHTML(gtkconv->entry)); Then I added a signal so that the toolbar gets update when gtk_imhtml_append_text_with_images is called so that the toolbar can be updated as well. I also rename the format_functions_update to format_buttons_update since it, to me atleast, makes more sense and because I couldn't think of a better name than format_function_update, which would have been very confusing. theres one issue that I was not able to fix in this. I'm planning on looking into it later, but after ctrl-up/down the closing tag gets added and ends at the last character from the buffer. Which means formatting returns to normal (ie plain text) if you type after you've used ctrl-up/down." --Gary Kramlich 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");

- When writing out paths to .gaimrc, use wgaim_escape_dirsep. This is necessary
  because the Windows dir separator '\' is being used to escape characters, when
  paths are read in from the .gaimrc file.

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)