annotate PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 10345:2e01c503aa4f

[gaim-migrate @ 11556] Patch 1078151 from Felipe Contreras to fix some more MSN bugs: "User Dislpay messages, and other less used, did not set an slpcall, so the callback that should not be called, was called (in some very special cases)." ... "Here it goes the real real one, as far as I can tell. Cleaning + organizing + documentation + hard bug fix = big patch." -- Felipe Contreras I also fixed drag-and-drop to conversation window file transfers (which I had broken when I fixed some other dnd thing), made the debug output of the autoreconnect plugin more useful, and stopped the message notification plugin notifying you for messages sent by ignored users. 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)