annotate PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 11111:f03dce7ea408

[gaim-migrate @ 13163] Patch #1234440, from sadrul "Mark blocked users in the buddy-list" Patch #1234197, from sadrul "New API fn gaim_privacy_check" Plus changes by me. (Read as: blame me if it's busted, thank sadrul if it works) Basically, all this stuff boils down to the following: We composite a new blocked.png onto the prpl icon in the buddy list if the user is blocked. MSN was the only prpl that used the old blocked.png. However, it looks bad to overlay both icons, so I removed the use of blocked.png from the MSN prpl. As an MSN user, I think the result is intuitive. 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)