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[gaim-migrate @ 10426] " This patch provides a configuration page for the Buddy State Notification plugin, allowing you to select whether you want to be notified of buddy Away, Idle or both. The motivation for this is that clients such as Trillian report idle times of 1 minute, leading to lots of idle notifications, when only aways are really of any interest." --Alan Ford Date: 2004-06-06 00:03 Sender: deryni9 Logged In: YES user_id=516184 This should probably be made to use the new plugin pref stuff so that it doesn't add a dependency on gtk for no real reason. Date: 2004-06-27 13:24 Sender: ajf101 Logged In: YES user_id=1028264 Yes, you're quite right. I've got around to updating it now to use this new stuff, see the updated patch. 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)