annotate PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 7864:dc80d4e5c3b0

[gaim-migrate @ 8518] "Attached is a patch I wrote last night while trying to play with docklet.c - it turns out that one of the signals doesn't have the right parameter list (probably after Christian changed the signals some time). It has been tested, rather simply with the fact that a debug statement was not reached before, and is now, following the signal specs here: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/api/conversation-signals.html#received-im-msg I don't know if this needs to go through Robot101 (haven't seen him terribly active of late), and if it does, I'll gladly relay it to him. And yeah, I guess this was all inspired by my away msg at the time: [:-P] Well, I'm not that tired right now, and I think I'm going to work some Merlot and coffee off with some coding and Oggs... Oh yeah, and while I'm rambling about stuff irrelevant to the actual code, I somehow dedicate this patch to the wonderful person for whom I would like to be visually aware of their incoming messages..." --John B. Silvestri 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)