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

IMPORTANT WWN ERROR
by Ivan Leo Murray-Smith 03 Oct '03

03 Oct '03

>I'm filing this thread under the topic "Ports", which is rather odd. Originally this thread started about a week ago when >Ivan Leo Murray-Smith dropped a note discussing some work he'd done: I did not write the script, and that email wasn't from me, I just compiled the wine programs and put the binaries on sourceforge, >Its main goal is to recover from last night's bachelor party. Be sure you've recovered 100% before writing WWN!

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Re: Uninstaller uses wrong icon
by Andreas Mohr 03 Oct '03

03 Oct '03

Hi, On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 04:55:17PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Hello! > > programs/uninstaller uses the icon from WineMine. I'm not an artist, but > I drew an icon more appropriate for the uninstaller. Also, the bin2res > tag has been added to make it easier to replace of the icon later. > > ChangeLog: > * programs/uninstaller/rsrc.rc: > Use an icon more appropriate for the uninstaller. Thanks! :-) When faced with the very burdensome task of writing uninstaller, I suddenly grew too lazy to design my own icon, so I just hijacked the very first icon that managed to not move out of my way ;-) -- Express yourself against the .com/.net misspelled domain names insanity NOW! Infamous domain operator VeriSign breaks numerous important internet standards!! http://www.petitiononline.com/icanndns/ http://www.haque.net/verisign_dns_rant.php

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uxtheme.dll
by Kevin 03 Oct '03

03 Oct '03

I started work porting a windows app using winelib, and hit an issue relating to the fact that there is currently no implementation of uxtheme.dll (and more importantly, no headers, of which would be enough to compile the app as it dynamically loads all the uxtheme dlls as needed, and falls back gracefully) Because of this, I've been thinking about beginning an implementation of uxtheme.dll. I am curious if someone has already taken up this task, or if anyone any opinions on this topic. Thanks Kevin

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Re: Wineconf 2004, otherwise known as...
by Ivan Leo Murray-Smith 03 Oct '03

03 Oct '03

Hi list, What about Sorrento, there are good conference facilities, hotel rooms can cost as little as 60 euro per night, it's warm (temperature in between 10 and 20 C°), there a lot to see and to do(For example it's only twenty minutes from Pompei and fifteen from Capri) there is good transport, prices are low (It is south europe), I can get it organized if you don't want to go to siberia.

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Re: Implementation of GetCompressedFileSize[AW]
by Sylvain Petreolle 03 Oct '03

03 Oct '03

> FIXME about GetCompressedFileSizeA was too annoying when running Cygwin > programs, so I implemented it. The code uses st_blocks when possible to > account for sparse files and falls back to st_size if st_blocks is missing > in struct stat. The code uses shift operations so that both systems with > 32-bit and 64-bit off_t will do their best to provide accurate results. Works cool, but you could return INVALID_FILE_SIZE when the function fails. I patched it into win32/newfns.c for long time but never sent a patch. OT : Too bad that we dont have GetProcessMemoryInfo, this is what keeps cygwin programs unable to start into bash. ===== Sylvain Petreolle (spetreolle_at_users_dot_sourceforge_dot_net) ICQ #170597259 Say NO to software patents Dites NON aux brevets logiciels "What if tomorrow the War could be over ?" Morpheus, in "Reloaded". ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com

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Re: Wineconf 2004, otherwise known as...
by Ivan Leo Murray-Smith 03 Oct '03

03 Oct '03

> I think the key factor is not a place, but someone who is willing > to pull it all together. If you're saying you'll do that, Ivan, > I think folks would be interested. * A meeting space for 2 days My idea was a hotel, I understand you want something cheap, but a little conference room for 2 days won't cost too much, no schools here has broadband and I don't have any other ideas for a meeting place. I'll make enquiries tomorrow as hotels here don't have there congress teams in the afternoon, but we have international congresses here all the time. The only thing that may be missing is a wireless hub, but that can be solved easily before January. I hope the idea of a hotel is OK for you. * Arrangements for moderately price hotel rooms Not a problem in low season (And you can't go any lower than January) * Advice on transportation, which should be straightforward Not a problem, but remember this isn't a English speaking country. I can give very detailed indications, or we can have meet at the airport and come to Sorrento as a group * A meal or two, and drinks for at least one evening Not a problem if we're in a hotel * We'll have all CodeWeavers Wine hackers in town for the event You have to get them here * Free buttons for the St. Paul Winter Carnival: We don't have a winter carnival :-( I'm not a wine developer so you must let me know what you want to talk about and for how long, so we can agree on a schedule, let me know what else is needed.

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RE: question about copyright and code, is this legal?
by Patrik Stridvall 03 Oct '03

03 Oct '03

> On October 3, 2003 09:07 am, Patrik Stridvall wrote: > > As far as Wine is concerned though I can't think of > > any Windows API that: > > 1. Returns pure facts (not having any unique expression) > > 2. Would fulfill the requirement of needed a significant > > effort to collect to collect the fact. > > > > So no I wouldn't worry about it as far as Wine is concerned. > > So, you think that: > > For all x,y in Unicode: > print x,y,strcmpiA(x,y) > > is OK? Short answer: Yes. Long answer: In the US, it is clearly legal. See Feist. In the other countries meantioned (Commonwealth etc), well 1. I can't see that any significant effort have made to collect these facts. Each of these facts is very easy to collect for anybody competent in any language that Unicode defines the alphabet for. 2. Unicode comparison order lies more in the area of algoritms and science than any facts about the world that the law have been designed to protected, so courts at least in Sweden would be very reluctant to extend to the law to this since it is doubtful that the lawmakers really intended this.

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Re: Wineconf 2004, otherwise known as...
by Jeremy White 03 Oct '03

03 Oct '03

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 08:41, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: > On October 3, 2003 05:24 am, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > Dimi and Ivan like 6. > > I like 1 (Minneapolis, US) as well. Another option folks > would be Toronto. It will not be hot in Jan, but it's > kind of in the middle (it's almost same distance from > West Coast, as it is from England), it's a major air hub > (so you can probably get direct flights, which is good), > and we have all sorts of conferences going on here. > Good network connectivity, night life, great food, > CN Tower, etc. And I can organize it. I spent months hoping someone will volunteer to help organize this in a place that is centrally located. I finally give up, and announce, and now we have 3 others offers to help!?!?!?!? There is clearly only one appropriate response to this situation: I've decided I'm going to write a DIB engine, here in St. Paul. This is your last chance to stop me...<grin> Anyone else care to volunteer? Why don't we make a deadline for offering to host by Sunday night. I'll get a list of all the folks that are dead serious about being willing to do all the work of being a host, and then we'll put up a quick + dirty survey/voting form, and we'll go to the city that will get the best attendance. How does that sound? If this works, then everyone that is dead serious about being willing to host Wineconf needs to send me an email. I agree with Sachar that we need to resolve this quickly; I think January is a good time for Wineconf, and 3 months is not that much lead time. Cheers, Jeremy

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Re: question about copyright and code, is this legal?
by Ivan Leo Murray-Smith 03 Oct '03

03 Oct '03

I think it depends where you live. If you aren't copying any original code you aren't violating copyright. In the EU (This includes the UK so I doubt that this http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-devel/2003/10/0076.html can apply to the UK), even if you disassemble something to understand how it works and write something that does the same thing, it's legal, so until you aren't doing copy/paste from the original code you're OK, even if you've read it to see how it works. In places where software patents are valid, you may be breaking the law, if that software is patented(DMCA?).

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Re: [dx85] vertex blend fixmes
by MichaelGuennewig＠gmx.de 03 Oct '03

03 Oct '03

Jason Edmeades <us(a)the-edmeades.demon.co.uk> writes: > Michael - This will silence those horrible fixmes about > worldmatrix(0..255) and vertex blend not being supported - We > incorrectly return support since the NVidia drivers dont claim support > for it, but DO return a number for the GL_MAX_VERTEX_UNITS_ARB (which > is only supported as far as I can tell, if arb_vertex_blend is > supported... weird). Does it help with the textures at all? Jeah, it works. Textures are present and it also doesn't crash anymore. Thank you. :-) Michael

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