annotate PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 4243:eae97ca4bbea

[gaim-migrate @ 4493] Guess what? Another SSI patch! This one fixes the automatic deletion of empty groups upon signin. The problem was that apparently WinICQ handles empty groups slightly differently than WinAIM. It's all good now. Uh, I fixed some comments. Oh, and moving a buddy that you've requested authorization from to a different group. I don't know if that used to give you the dialog that prompted if you wanted to send another auth request, but it shouldn't anymore (as long as you have sent 1 auth request). I also changed the button title for ICQ's receive contacts. I changed it from "Deny" to "Decline." Thanks to Nathan for pointing that out. I am to Time Warner as spiders are to the bottom of my shoe. 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.

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)