March 2001 - Wine-devel - list.winehq.org

Re: Eliminate excessive retries in GetFileVersionInfo(Size) (fwd)
by lawson_whitney＠juno.com 15 Mar '01

15 Mar '01

Oops, I misdirected this to wine-patches before. Sorry. On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: > Hello. > > This patch helps eliminate excessive retries in GetFileVersionInfo(Size). > > Changelog: > Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry(a)codeweavers.com> > Return from GetFileVersionInfo(Size) if specified file found, > but VS_VERSION_INFO resource not. > Good day! Here we go again. This breaks my app (juno 2.0.11) with builtin ole32/oleaut32. Native ole32/oleaut32 are so full of deadbeef they sort of stink. I guess we don't need to panic yet. I can revert it locally until so I can get and send mail until I see if I (or someone) can make some builtin version resources that will satisfy this app. It installs its own oleaut32.dll and with this patch in it thinks the install is busted. Regards, Lawson It is better to be lucky than good. - J. A. Soucy ---

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Re: winedefault patch
by Andreas Mohr 15 Mar '01

15 Mar '01

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:35:17PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote: > Wine won't load builtin dlls if a full path to a nonexistent file is > specified, so the default registry should probably not have a full path to > dplayx.dll. Some guy managed to start Settlers 3 after this was fixed... > > Log: > Removed path from dplayx registry entry, so that the builtin dplayx can be > loaded. Alexandre, please add a comment to winedefault.reg reminding people of this problem for future entries. Thanks ! -- Andreas Mohr Stauferstr. 6, D-71272 Renningen, Germany Tel. +49 7159 800604 http://home.germany.net/100-30936/

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Re: [PATCH] deferred trace
by Alexandre Julliard 15 Mar '01

15 Mar '01

"Rob Farnum" <rfarnum(a)mindspring.com> writes: > I am not exactly sure what you mean by this. Do you mean to put the > code that would be in the dll, into the debugger, or to extend the > debugger in such a way that it can load dll's to enhance its > functionality, or something else? I mean that the code that would have been in the dll and loaded into Wine should be in the debugger instead. So for instance, instead of having a magic key (or X message) to switch tracing on, you'd have a debugger command 'set tracing on' that would poke into the Wine address space to do it. Since you can read/write memory, call functions (I think it's broken now but should be easy to fix), etc. from the debugger you can do everything from here and avoid the need to have any debugging code running inside the Wine process. > This would bypass the objection of intercepting a key, like F12, and > using it to generate a window list dump, and replace it with a > mechanism that uses the debugger own builtin functions to do that. Yes, exactly. > I think it is desirable to use as much of the existing debugger > functionality as possible, and to add an "elaborate mechanism in the > debugger" that allows it to be dynamically extended in > functionality. It would certainly be possible to load dlls inside the debugger itself to extend it; though maybe simply loading a batch file containing debugger commands may allow to do a lot of things already without requiring compiling new code. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard(a)winehq.com

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Re: [PATCH] Version info for comctl32.dll
by Dmitry Timoshkov 14 Mar '01

14 Mar '01

"gerard patel" <gerard.patel(a)asi.fr> wrote: > ChangeLog: > > * dlls/comctl32/rsrc.rc > Add version info. [...] > LANGUAGE LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL > + > +1 VERSIONINFO > +FILEVERSION 4, 72, 0, 0 > +PRODUCTVERSION 4, 72, 0, 0 > +FILEFLAGSMASK VS_FFI_FILEFLAGSMASK > +FILEOS VOS_DOS_WINDOWS16 [...] > + VALUE "FileVersion", "0.01\000" [...] > + VALUE "ProductVersion", "1.00\000" I thought that include/wine/wine_common_ver.rc will serve as the quite reasonable defaults for all built-in Wine dlls. If not, it should be changed for ALL dlls in ONE place. Besides that: 1. I believe that version numbers should be equal in both numerical field and in the string value (0.01 != 4.72 and 1.00 != 4.72). 2. There is no need for excessive \000 at the end of the string value. 3. All well behaving programs do read "VarFileInfo"/"Translation" before retrieving other version information. LANGUAGE does nothing here. 4. Did you try to use my sample application showing version info? 5. Version resources in kernel, user, gdi for both 16 and 32-bit dlls could serve as an example of adding version resources into built-in dlls.

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Re: [PATCH] deferred trace
by Alexandre Julliard 14 Mar '01

14 Mar '01

"Rob Farnum" <rfarnum(a)mindspring.com> writes: > My current design is to have yet another dll that would register > itself as the handler for this XClientMessage, so that on reciept of > the XClientMessage, it is simply passed to this new dll. This dll > would implement whatever application specific debugging tools I > need, with only the bare minimum of support from wine needed. Since > the wine debugger already has quite a bit of the functionality that > is needed, it might be interesting if this method could be used to > effectively open a pipe and drive the wine debugger externally. What you should rather do IMO is to put your dll inside the debugger, and have the debugger drive Wine instead of the other way around. Then you can add all kinds of elaborate mechanisms in the debugger, and do anything you want without needing any cooperation from the running Wine process. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard(a)winehq.com

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RE: Problems with WM_NCHITTEST and HTTRANSPARENT
by Patrik Stridvall 14 Mar '01

14 Mar '01

> I'm currently having problems with this situation: > > Thread 1 owns some controls (modeless dialog box, actually) > > Thread 2 owns a window that covers the dialog (let's say it's like a > "skin" or something...) > > The window procedure for thread 2's window return HTTRANSPARENT in its > WM_NCHITTEST handler, so in theory mouse messages should get > passed down > to thread 1's controls. Now, what happens is this... [snip] > Any ideas on how to solve this, or whether it's supposed to work at all? I > think I could fix some games if this worked... otherwise I'll have to > think of some other way... >From MSDN: < HTTRANSPARENT < In a window currently covered by another window in the same thread < (the message will be sent to underlying windows in the same thread < until one of them returns a code that is not HTTRANSPARENT). Note "window in the same thread". So it seems that you (Wine) shouldn't pass down mouse messages to thread 1 in your example.

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Problems with WM_NCHITTEST and HTTRANSPARENT
by Ove Kaaven 14 Mar '01

14 Mar '01

I'm currently having problems with this situation: Thread 1 owns some controls (modeless dialog box, actually) Thread 2 owns a window that covers the dialog (let's say it's like a "skin" or something...) The window procedure for thread 2's window return HTTRANSPARENT in its WM_NCHITTEST handler, so in theory mouse messages should get passed down to thread 1's controls. Now, what happens is this... -Mouse message arrives at thread 2 -TranslateMouseMsg calls WINPOS_WindowFromPoint -WINPOS_WindowFromPoint sends a WM_NCHITTEST to window -Window procedure returns HTTRANSPARENT -WINPOS_WindowFromPoint finds the controls, and returns that -TranslateMouseMsg wakes owner of controls (thread 1) -Mouse message arrives at thread 1 -TranslateMouseMsg calls WINPOS_WindowFromPoint -Since the transparent window is not owned by the current thread, WINPOS_WindowFromPoint doesn't bother to send it a message, but rather returns HTCLIENT directly -WINPOS_WindowFromPoint returns the transparent window -TranslateMouseMsg wakes thread 2 Repeat. This blocks all further mouse input processing, by the way... Any ideas on how to solve this, or whether it's supposed to work at all? I think I could fix some games if this worked... otherwise I'll have to think of some other way...

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Re: [PATCH] deferred trace
by gerard patel 14 Mar '01

14 Mar '01

At 12:04 PM 14/03/2001 -0500, you wrote: >I remember wishing fondly for something like this when we were working >on WordPerfect, but never having the time to do it myself. FYI someone at Codeweavers has something much more sophistificated than my simple patch but from my understanding it's not ready for general use :-/ Gerard

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Re: [PATCH] deferred trace
by Alexandre Julliard 14 Mar '01

14 Mar '01

Gavriel State <gav(a)transgaming.com> writes: > I disagree - many of the bugs I encounter can happen well into the run > of a program. For example, debugging a dialog box in an app that comes > up only after a specific set of occurances. Having the ability to turn > on -debugmsg +all at will would make this kind of debugging much easier. My reply was more targeted at the dumping of the window handles; I don't deny switching tracing on or off would be useful, but it needs to be done in a more generic way. Also this can be done externally to Wine, so that we don't need to burden the core dlls with extra command-line options or magic key sequences. There are many ways of doing that; an output filter is very easy to do and would work in many situations; if you need more complex stuff you could do it from the debugger, or write a small app that uses the debug API to manipulate the tracing state. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard(a)winehq.com

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Re: [PATCH] deferred trace
by Alexandre Julliard 14 Mar '01

14 Mar '01

gerard patel <gerard.patel(a)asi.fr> writes: > 2) I don't see how I will get the window list I generate with > WIN_WalkWindows if there is no change at all in Wine - I should > have said that to cut in the trace size in not a goal per se, but a > mean to make debugging easier. > If I have to make a first run with full trace that I have to browse to see > what is the meaning of the window handles appearing in the trace, I lose > a lot of time. Having immediately a view of all existing windows is *very* > handy. I don't doubt it's very useful for the specific problem you are tracking; but it's hardly generic enough to be included in the main tree. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard(a)winehq.com

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