view PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 3912:e73c48cf1645

[gaim-migrate @ 4071] Little touchups in the "admin" family. Not much has changed, but I moved some functions around because I'm weird. (This is the stuff in "protocol actions" for oscar accounts.) Some of the dialogs should look a little more, I dunno, uniform or something. Change password, format screenname, and change current registered screen name should give you some slightly userfriendly error messages now. Also "confirm account" will pop up that little message that says you should be expecting an email... I think that was one of those brain mistakes, where something was backwards, or something. Uh, so let me know if you see any problems with any of that. Why did I work on this instead of ssi? I don't know. This is funner, I guess. I'll get to ssi eventually... Meow. committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

Notes on keeping GAIM OS independant
------------------------------------

General
-------
- 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.

PLUGINS & PROTOS
----------------

- 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)