annotate PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 12468:6faefbebcd24

[gaim-migrate @ 14778] SF Patch #1372898 from charkins "This patch updates the unseen conversation api in gtkconv to ensure consistancy and avoid code duplication. The ...first_unseen() function is renamed and expanded to return a list of conversations that match the specified criteria. A max_count parameter is used to allow this to short circuit early (using 1 gives old behavior). An additional flag was added to allow this function to only consider hidden conversations (used by the buddy list). The blist is currently inconsistant in which conversations it loops over for showing the menu tray icon, creating the tooltip and the unseen menu. This patch fixes that. The ...find_unseen_list() now handles contact-aware conversations correctly as well (based on sadrul's patches in #1362579 which are obsoleted by this patch). I also included the fix from #1362579 which increments unseen_count only when state>=UNSEEN_TEXT." 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)