annotate PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 7011:4375bf2d9020

[gaim-migrate @ 7574] The user-visible changes? Gaim now shows peep's away messages in their tooltip for AIM over oscar. Things to do: -Make sure this doesn't screw up with huge buddy lists -Replace %n with your screen name, etc. in the tooltip -Leave in b, i, u tags in the tooltip -Fix the 2 8 byte memleaks in locate.c Client authors that aren't me will want to read the following pretty closely... I made some internal libfaim changes. I desire to make libfaim cleaner. I don't know if this really helps or not. Here's what I've done: Changed all the SNAC-sending functions in info.c to NOT take a conn argument. The connection is looked up from the session. I'm trying to make oscar.c less-aware of connections. Added aim_locate_finduserinfo() - Use for getting the aim_userinfo_t for the given screenname. Added aim_locate_getinfoshort() - Use this to request that the servers send you profile info, away message, caps, or a combination of the above. It's like aim_locate_getinfo() but less rate limited. Renamed aim_bos_reqlocaterights() to aim_locate_reqrights() Renamed aim_getinfo() to aim_locate_getinfo() Renamed aim_setdirectoryinfo() to aim_locate_setdirinfo() Renamed aim_0002_000b() to aim_locate_000b() Renamed aim_setuserinterests() to aim_locate_setinterests() Removed aim_userinfo_sn() Removed aim_userinfo_flags() Removed aim_userinfo_idle() Removed aim_userinfo_warnlevel() Removed aim_userinfo_createtime() Removed aim_userinfo_membersince() Removed aim_userinfo_onlinesince() Removed aim_userinfo_sessionlen() Removed aim_userinfo_hascap() Renamed info.c to locate.c Made locate.c keep a static, linked list of nodes of sn, away message, available message, user info. This list is maintained by libfaim automatically. Now clients don't have to keep track of all this stuff themselves, and users won't have to wait for away message/info retrieval if the person is in your buddy list. libfaim uses the iChat way of retrieving stuff, which is not nearly as rate limited as the old way. I actually have a feeling WinAIM uses the same SNAC now (although I didn't check), but I like pluggin iChat because it's innovative. Moved sess->emailinfo to a static variable inside email.c. Removed evilhack from oscar.c I think that's about everything... 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)