annotate PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 11454:201617d49573

[gaim-migrate @ 13693] This commit includes a number of changes: 1. Aliases are now used consistently in chats. If the prpl uses unique screen names for chats (e.g. Jabber), then aliases are not used at all. 2. The chat list is now colorized to match the colors used in the chat itself. 3. Buddies are bolded in the chat user list. 4. Buddies are sorted above non-buddies in the chat user list. 5. The chat user list is ellipsized when possible (i.e. on GTK+ 2.6.0 or above). 6. I've accepted patch #1178248, by Matt Amato to add "buddy-added" and "buddy-removed" signals. These were used in my implementation of #3 and #4, to update the GUI when users are added or removed from the buddy list. 7. I've added a "blist-node-aliased" signal that is emitted when a buddy, contact, or chat is aliased. 8. Since it was hard to separate and I need it at some point, I'm letting it slip in... I've changed GaimConversation.log to be a GList named logs. This way, we can have multiple logs for a single conversation. This will be necessary to implement unnamed chat logging in some reasonable fasion (see my notes in the TODO file). 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)