Dogcows Code - chaz/openbox/blob - HACKING

   1 dirs:
   2         openbox - core of the WM
   3         render - librender, rendering routines for the WM and for apps
   4         parser - libparser, for parsing config files
   5
   6 Beware the Client.transient_for. It can be set to a !NULL value of TRAN_GROUP,
   7 which is not a valid pointer. You must ALWAYS check for TRAN_GROUP before
   8 following transient_for. However if it is transient for the group, this
   9 excludes other windows whom are transient for the group, and windows which
  10 are children of the window (infinite loops would result)!
  11
  12 When using coordinates/sizes of windows, make sure you use the right area. The
  13 Client.area rect is the reference point and size of the *CLIENT* window. This
  14 value is not what you see in any shape or form, and gravity is applied to it to
  15 translate it into what you see. The Client.frame.area is the actual position
  16 and size of the entire frame. This is usually the value you want to use, unless
  17 you are in client.c (probably) and adjusting/using the position or size from
  18 the client's perspective.
  19
  20 Indentation
  21 -----------
  22 For openbox, we aim to have consistent coding style. Some, but surely
  23 not all, guidelines:
  24  * use 4 space indents
  25  * tabs should not appear in source files
  26  * functions should have the opening and closing braces on their own
  27    lines
  28  * most other constructs should have braces on the same line as the
  29    statement
  30  * when in doubt look at the rest of the source
  31  * vim users can use "set expandtab tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4
  32    softtabstop=4" for some of this
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