November 2002 - Wine-devel - list.winehq.org

RE: Wine 0.8: VB compatibility !!
by Medland, Bill 08 Nov '02

08 Nov '02

> -----Original Message----- > From: wine-devel-admin(a)winehq.com > [mailto:wine-devel-admin(a)winehq.com]On > Behalf Of Andreas Mohr > Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 12:59 AM > To: Wine Devel > Subject: Wine 0.8: VB compatibility !! > > > Hi all, > > I keep encountering people mentioning that VB stuff has lotsa problems > on Wine. > While I really can't say that I like VB, a lot of people seem > to use it > for critical tasks in companies on a daily basis, so it > sounds like perfect > VB compatibility would be utterly important. > IMHO improving that should be a goal of 0.8. > > I agree totally. Bill

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Docu updates question..
by Dustin Navea 08 Nov '02

08 Nov '02

Should I email patches to Jeremy, or just update the pages myself and email those to Jeremy or Alexandre? -Dustin __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2

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notepad and richedit - why?
by Shachar Shemesh 08 Nov '02

08 Nov '02

Hi, I was going over the notepad code, and it is implemented using richedit. My question is - why? There is no functionality there that is not also available through the usual Edit control. The Windows notepad is notoriously implemented via the edit control. Is there a special reason why our notepad is different here? Shachar

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Re: Wine 0.8 TODO v0.2
by Gerald Pfeifer 08 Nov '02

08 Nov '02

(I'm not sure this will get through to the list, as I am not subscribed, so I am Cc:ing you.) You wrote: > 4. Enlist some 'official' distribution maintainers > (at the minimum RedHat, Suse, Mandrake, Debian) Please also include FreeBSD, and feel free to contact me for FreeBSD-related issues, especially concerning this kind of "official" distribution maintainers. Many contributors (including myself) have been providing patches to improve portability or support FreeBSD-specific features which differ from GNU/Linux and the port should be in a decent shape. Thanks, Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer(a)dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/

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Wine 0.8: VB compatibility !!
by Andreas Mohr 08 Nov '02

08 Nov '02

Hi all, I keep encountering people mentioning that VB stuff has lotsa problems on Wine. While I really can't say that I like VB, a lot of people seem to use it for critical tasks in companies on a daily basis, so it sounds like perfect VB compatibility would be utterly important. IMHO improving that should be a goal of 0.8.

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Debian Maintainer
by Dimitrie O. Paun 08 Nov '02

08 Nov '02

We're still missing one. Any takers? -- Dimi.

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Huge speedup to wine ReadFile on small packets
by Hannu Kotipalo 08 Nov '02

08 Nov '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! The only program I use at windows on home is wzebra, a windows based reversi game (http://www.nada.kth.se/~gunnar/othello.html) (linux version coming, but it's binary only :-() Unfortunately current wine version needs over 10 minutes time to start the program! In windows, starting time is just a few seconds. I found out that the source of the delay was a database file (opening book file), which wzebra reads in by a few byte packets. Fortunately wzebra itself measures the time needed for the readout. Since wine has a lot of overhead for opening and closing unix filesystem for every packet, the delay is understandable (but not acceptable!). Of course, buffering helps. I made a Quick-and-dirty 1k buffer for just ReadFile - routine and database readout dropped from over 800 seconds down to 12-13 seconds! (On my 200 Mhz Pentium Pro) I think this should be fixed in a more sophisticated way, so I did not yet post my patch. Also, this patch helps only on this particular problem; reading a file by small packets with ReadFile. However, I noticed that wzebra reads even bitmaps on byte by one... Don't know how usual this is, thought. In addition, I do not have too much time for playing with this. If someone is interested in continuing my work, please mail me, I can reply by sending the patch. Hannu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9ytdIuA3ghgc3fUsRAsrLAJ0T4ZYYmhsGx3XgsrmK/JY9jfqDbwCgqYSw rc2AIWu2A5XahdQw0AnZSmg= =0x+Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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wine.texinfo
by Vincent Béron 08 Nov '02

08 Nov '02

Is it normal that I cannot find a rule to build wine.info from wine.texinfo in the Makefiles? The file seems to still be worked on (last change september 20th), but I must build it with makeinfo manually (or add it to the spec file). Vincent

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Searching mailinglists
by Sam 08 Nov '02

08 Nov '02

I was wondering if it would be possible to add a search feature to the mailing list archives, while we're doing the WineHQ redesign ? I think that would be a very useful feature, for both, new and old developers. Or perhaps there is already a search available, hidden somewhere out of sight? :-) sam(a)pcuf.fi

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Re: [PATCHLET] DeleteFile With Empty Paths
by Ryan Cumming 07 Nov '02

07 Nov '02

> Can you also create a testcase for this problem? Hmm, I've never written a Wine testcase before. Does the following look good? -Ryan ChangeLog: Add test for DeleteFileA with empty paths

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