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[gaim-migrate @ 6596] Fix 2 compiler warnings. Make auto-login for IRC accounts without passwords work. Thanks to Luke for finding this and making a kick-assingly correct guess as to the cause. Fix the MSN sign-off-infinite-loops-after-getting-info-about-mail bug. Fix "Yahoo smilies for the "angel" smiley are incorrect" http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=728663&group_id=235&atid=100235 Fix a bug that I introduced yesterday freaking afternoon. I would have commited the fix yesterday, but SF CVS was not working. <faceprint> KingAnt: you just broke the ticker <KingAnt> faceprint: How so? <KingAnt> Oh, event_signon? <faceprint> the ticker is what needs event_buddy_signon to get called twice <faceprint> i don't know what is the right behavior, but i'm in bootloader hell, just thought i'd alert you <KingAnt> faceprint: So that it doesn't always show people with the open door? <faceprint> KingAnt: right I just added an ugly little timeout that updates the icon after 11 seconds. The icon in the blist gets updated after 10. 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)