annotate PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 12798:09d4ea834370

[gaim-migrate @ 15145] SF Patch #1389870 from Bleeter, building on work in SF Patch #1114194 from Alex Badea "Following on from #1114194, where I thought that sending audibles is a little twitty because we can't see what's going on, I also noted that it would be nice if we could display the URL wheree the audible swf file lived. The example URL provided only supported US locales, which also needed addressing. I've tested this patch with the Taiwain audible, named within the patch, by confirming that the URL pattern match actually works. Whether it actually works when sent from a Taiwanese YIM native client, I have no idea. It looks like it should. Just to re-iterate: This patch displays the the received audible's URL and text only, not the audible swf file itself, nor does it send anything." 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)