January 2003 - Wine-devel - list.winehq.org

RunOnceEx - is it necessary?
by Shachar Shemesh 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

RunOnceEx is a key that is not available "by default" in Windows 95 and in Windows NT. Its processing is installed as part of the "IE integration" (shell integration?). When installing IE 5.5 on systype "nt40", these entries are processed by a rundll entry that was added to "runonce", even with wineboot as it is today. The question that needs to be answered is how important it is to add explicit support for it in wineboot? Shachar

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WINE in CD-ROM
by Jelcyn 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

Hi, I write a book about editing binary files (Hex Workshop, Resource Hacker etc.) to polish Helion publishing (www.helion.pl) Can I add in CD-ROM in my book wine ?? Damian Daszkiewicz

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FHS vs LSB
by Tom Wickline 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

In updating the Packagers Guide I plan to replace FHS with LSB any objections ? FHS = http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ LSB = http://www.linuxbase.org/ Tom

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Help wanted: Implementing Wine dlls that need access to X11 commands.
by Robert North 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

I'm about to start serious implementation on the wintab32 dll. I now need some guidance as to how best to implement it's access to X11 calls. My current thoughts on how to do this are given below. Are they reasonable?? I need to access a number of X11 calls, largely in the XInput extension. None of these are exposed by the x11drv dll. My intention is currently to change nothing in the x11drv dll. The only hints I can find about how to do this are from the direct draw and open gl dlls. These dlls can do the following: Get the X11 Display object of a gdi context. Get the X11 window handle given a win32 window handle. Synchronise with the x11_drv code for multi threading. My wintab code will do the same. The one difference will be that wintab will create it's own X11 Display objects. It will interrogate a gdi's X11 Display object to ensure it talks to the same screen. The wintab code will also require multiple message queues. To implement this I intend to use one display object per queue. (Much as wine uses one display object per thread) Hope I'm on the right track -Rob.

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Re: Add filesytem type NTFS to config
by Andreas Mohr 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:06:28PM -0700, Tony Lambregts wrote: > Some program (VirtualDub) checks the fsname returned by > GetVolumeInformation, to find the name of the file system, when it needs > to write files that are larger than 2GB. It refuses to create the file > when we return FAT but will successfully write the file when NTSF is > returned. > > Change Log: add configuration option to report NTFS as the file system > type for a drive. Hmm, I'm not sure whether we should increase the preexisting Filesystem type mess by doing that. I've hated the "win95", "vfat" etc. syntax almost from the beginning (well, to be fair, I think I'm not too innocent when it comes to its implementation, but at some time I just came to the conclusion that it sucked) After all we're running on *Unix* file systems in many cases, so "win95" does have no place here at all ! (neither does "vfat") Not to mention that "win95" awfully collides with the "win95" winver... And adding yet another "incorrect" "ntfs" setting makes my head want to go bonkey ;-) So I guess that it might be a good idea to think about how to solve this configuration issue in a nicer way (and of course keep the old config capabilities for about 2 years in order to have backward compatibility). We might even want to think of introducing "nameless" filesystem type settings (instead of having "broken" conflicting and "wrong" FS type names). And of course it seems as if we also need a separate FS *name* setting in order to have Wine return "NTFS" instead of "FAT" in your case... So could we start a discussion about that perhaps ? > Files changed: documentation/samples/config > documnetation/configuring.sgml > files/drive.c Finally a beautifully implemented patch ! I hate having to clean up the docu "after the fact". > -;; DON'T use "unix" unless you intend to port programs using Winelib ! > +;; - "ntfs" for ext2fs (some program need this to write files > 2GB) ^^^^^^^^ urks ! a significant portion of unix FS users don't even use ext2fs... > +;; - "unix" DO NOT USE unless you intend to port programs using Winelib ! Somehow that setting is also quite some pain... Andreas Mohr

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Re: Problems install ie5+ie6
by Brian Vincent (C) 15 Jan '03

15 Jan '03

> I downloaded the latest wine cvs tonight and compiled it on my windows-less > system. I ran ie6setup and ie5setup.exe and it downloads the data from the > web but has problems during installation. If your goal is to just run IE, then you may find this helpful: http://frankscorner.org/wine/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index &req=viewarticle&artid=125&page=1 If you're actually trying to hack Wine into getting it to work.. well.. I suppose there's a lot of others on this list that can help you more. --------------- Brian Vincent Copper Mountain Telecom vincentb(a)coppercolorado.com

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'95 and 2000 conformance test results
by Susan Pierce 15 Jan '03

15 Jan '03

Hello, I've attached the results of my Wine conformance testing. I'm sending in my text based Wordpad files because I did not see a recommended format for result submission. Is there one? I briefly considered hacking the html table and returning that as an attachment. Then I gave up and decided you would just like the info. Also, there is a problem on both my machines when I display the nice table of results: ntdll/rtlbitmap, ntdll/rtlstr, oleaut32/safearray, oleaut32/vartest, and rpcrt4/rpc show up in the html source but are not displayed by IE. I stared at the source for a while but I do not know enough html to be dangerous, let alone figure it out. I've downloaded the Wine source and thought I'd try my hand at fixing some of the problems. This has been fun. Thanks, Susan

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RE: The version info patches + d3d question
by Patrik Stridvall 15 Jan '03

15 Jan '03

> Hi, > The patches add version info to directx libraries. > some games(for instance lucasarts games) wont run without > finding a valid > version of the directx files. OK. > the problem is they dont run even with the patches because > they cant get > version info from d3dim.dll and probably other d3d dlls. Yes, there are a lot of them, but don't see we any choice, but to do what I suggest below. > since wine doesnt have these dlls how can wine give these > programs the needed > info or is it planned to split ddraw in a ddraw and a d3d component? We simply have to create one new directory in dlls/ for each DirectX dll with an appropriate .spec file and a version.rc. This would be quite easy to do AFAICS. Are you voluntering?

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New tests failing ...
by Paul Millar 15 Jan '03

15 Jan '03

Hi everyone, Just a quick note to say the new conformance tests (in dlls/winspool/tests/info.c) are failing for Wine running as NT-like OSes. For NT351, the results are: info.c:61: Test failed 1 of 1 time (100%): [test instance 1] info.c:61: Test failed: expected result == 0, got 1 info.c:62: Test failed 1 of 1 time (100%): [test instance 1] info.c:62: Test failed: last error set to 87 instead of ERROR_INVALID_USER_BUFFER info.c:74: Test failed 1 of 1 time (100%): [test instance 1] info.c:74: Test failed: expected result == 0, got 1 info.c:75: Test failed 1 of 1 time (100%): [test instance 1] info.c:75: Test failed: last error set to 87 instead of RPC_X_NULL_REF_POINTER info.c:84: Test failed 1 of 1 time (100%): [test instance 1] info.c:84: Test failed: expected result == 0, got 1 info.c:85: Test failed 1 of 1 time (100%): [test instance 1] info.c:85: Test failed: last error set to 87 instead of RPC_X_NULL_REF_POINTER The others fail in the same way. See http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/paulm/WRT/buildinfo.php?id=292 and http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/paulm/WRT/wrt.php for more details. Cheers, Paul. ---- Paul Millar

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shell - drag&drop
by Jürgen Schmied 15 Jan '03

15 Jan '03

Hi! Since some people recently did work on shell32... Is anybody doing this stuff? juergen -- juergen.schmied(a)debitel.net FAX über T-Online Fax&Fon: 01805 060 334 316 35 (12Cent/Min)

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