annotate PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 15143:b81e4e44b509

[gaim-migrate @ 17929] User Info and Tooltips now use the GaimNotifyUserInfo object and methods defined in notify.h. GaimNotifyUserInfo objects encapsulate a list of GaimNotifyUserInfoEntry objects, each of which may have a label, a value, and be specified to be a section header. This moves the burden of UI generation of user information from the various prpls to the UI. The UI can choose how to display the information rather than being fenced into a particular HTML formatting. Consistency across the prpls' information presentation is now enforced, as well. gaim_notify_user_info_get_text_with_newline() generates text in the: <b>label</b>: value <b>label</b>: value format as was passed by convention from prpls in the past. 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)