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[gaim-migrate @ 12521] sf patch #1185449, from Richard Laager "As the comment in gtkconv.c says, saving a duplicate copy of the entire conversation is completely bogus. Saving a copy of a conversation is a UI thing (if the UI is only showing the last five messages, for example, that's all the user would expect to be saved). Therefore, there's no problem having the UI save its own buffer. The GTK+ UI is already doing this with the imhtml object. This patch removes the history from GaimConversation and uses the buffer in the imhtml object when saving a conversation. It also adds <html>, <head>, <title>, and <body> tags to the file to make it a bit more valid. This patch is extremely likely to break plugins because it changes the size of the GaimConversation struct. As such, if this is committed, I recommend the developers recompile non-default plugins. This broke Gaim-Encryption for me, hence the warning." committer: Tailor Script <tailor@pidgin.im>
author Mark Doliner <mark@kingant.net>
date Tue, 19 Apr 2005 04:21:39 +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)