annotate PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 4770:c4c28874ecd3

[gaim-migrate @ 5088] I want to go to sleep. This is drag-n-drop moving of buddies in the list. I think it works, but I didn't actually test it... I really should have though; I can't imagine it working fine as-is. ;) I'm holding off on the rest of my Edit Buddy List stuff for tomorrow... I love last minute things, don't I? Note: I created gaim_blist_members and gaim_blist_groups to reproduce the effects of the old groups GSList and the members GSList of the group struct that I removed. This is really sub-optimal and should be replaced to iterate the Buddy List directly. If someone wants to do that, please do. Even if you don't want to do that, just review the changes I made and make sure I didn't do anything stupid. It is past 6am and I'm a bit tired and prone to mistake making. Thanks. 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)