annotate PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 9546:ebbe4390f75b

[gaim-migrate @ 10375] " Added the ability to remember your away message if you're disconnected and then reconnected." --Yosef Radchenko Date: 2004-07-14 22:02 Sender: lschiere Logged In: YES user_id=28833 has this been tested with multiple accounts? Date: 2004-07-14 22:49 Sender: jonrad Logged In: YES user_id=1083867 If you asking whether this was tested with multiple accounts logged in at the same time, then yes. If you're asking whether this was tested on multiple protocols, then no. I've tested it on oscar. Also, I compiled it on my FreeBSD machine and didn't get a chance to compile on any other OSes, but conceptually it should work fine on others (But of course, when dealing with computers, nothing works as it is meant to). Date: 2004-07-14 22:54 Sender: jonrad Logged In: YES user_id=1083867 Also, if you comment out lines 119 and 120: if (gc->want_to_die) g_hash_table_remove(awayStates, aaccount); Then it keeps the away information even if you purposesly disconnected (As opposed to now, which only restores your away state if you were kicked off the network or whatever) Thats helpful if you want to test it. 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)