annotate PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 7166:e6b01bd8d6cd

[gaim-migrate @ 7733] I fixed the notify_added function, Chip had two of the variables swapped :-) I changed the way tlvlists are done in ssi.c a little bit. You can alias ICQ buddies that you don't have authorization for yet, and when you alias a buddy you will no longer lose any Buddy Alerts that may be set. Why is this? Previously tlvlists (data associated with each server stored item) were just deleted and recreated when you set an alias, or changed your permit/deny setting. Now the lists are modified and TLVs that libfaim doesn't know about are just left in place. Why did I wait so long to do this? I'm lazy, it's not really all that fun, and I don't consider it all that important. 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)