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[gaim-migrate @ 11044] (20:18:34) sanmarcos: remember the patch to show if somebody blocked you in msn?, well I just found out it breaks the display of the away icon on your buddy list (20:18:46) sanmarcos: meaning, a user is away in msn, and the msn dude appears without an away icon overlayed (20:19:43) LSchiere: lovely (20:19:43) sanmarcos: only in the small buddy list though, I might be wrong and maybe it is not the patch (20:19:57) LSchiere: the small list should only show one overlay at a time (20:20:04) LSchiere: so if its showing some other... (20:20:05) sanmarcos: yep (20:20:21) sanmarcos: no, I just trying setting myself away (I dont have mobile or anything setup), and it doesnt show it (20:20:50) sanmarcos: besides setting the mobile number is pretty broken, afaik (20:21:45) sanmarcos: s/trying/tried 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)