annotate PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 4596:7e1591c6d0d8

[gaim-migrate @ 4881] Bjoern Voigt writes: "The patch --------- Some small i18n fixes - some new files in po/POTFILES.in (I hope, there are now all files, with gettext-strings) - a translation for the "boring default" away message (not hardcoded any more) - translations for the Menu Bar during conversations After looking in gconf-editor, I saw, that the static items should be marked with N_(...) = gettext_noop. The strings can now be translated, but unfortunately I still can see them. - Yahoo away messages translation German translation ------------------ 2 strings are untranslated: #: src/gaim-disclosure.c:253 msgid "Expander Size" msgstr "" #: src/gaim-disclosure.c:254 msgid "Size of the expander arrow" msgstr "" File transfer doen't work on my box and so I cannot test the function." 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)