annotate PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 4109:4efc492cf16f

[gaim-migrate @ 4324] (21:14:00) Robot101: although I just had a thought.... before you commit it, change this: (21:14:11) LSchiere: ugh (21:14:24) Robot101: trust me, it's far harder for me to re-diff it :P (21:14:30) LSchiere: not now it isn't (21:14:34) LSchiere: what line? (21:14:53) LSchiere: of the file not the patch (21:15:05) Robot101: buddy.c 2479 (21:15:22) LSchiere: kay (21:15:36) LSchiere: gint x, y, width, height; (21:15:47) Robot101: remove width and height, then remove the call to gtk_window_get_size, and change the 4 occurences of width and height to event.width and event.height (21:16:13) Robot101: size is not dependent on gravity, so we don't need to get it via gtk. (21:17:03) LSchiere: any other thoughts? (21:17:33) Robot101: yes. I'm an idiot. (21:17:42) LSchiere: you said it, not me. (21:17:53) deryni: I smell commit message 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.

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)