annotate PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 13875:eb20e674ccf2

[gaim-migrate @ 16349] Three changes: 1. When you try to sign on with an oscar screen name that is not valid ("123abc" for example), the PRPL will set gc->wants_to_die to TRUE so that the account will not be auto-reconnected. 2. When we get an AIM userinfo packet about someone in our buddy list, if the person has some kind of screen name formatting set ("Mark Doliner" instead of "markdoliner") then we set the buddies server_nick to that formatted name. 3. Add a "Get AIM Info" to the context menu for ICQ buddies who are in the buddy list of an ICQ user. 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)