November 2006 - Wine-devel - list.winehq.org

What happened to the Fedora packages?
by Neal Gompa 02 Aug '14

02 Aug '14

What happened to the Fedora packages? They have not been updated since 0.9.2!!!! Right now it is at 0.9.10!!! Nearly every other Linux distro supported has the up to date packages!!! And why does the Red Hat packages site not go to the SourceForge site as it does for SUSE packages and the others?? I have not really had the guts to ask until now, because I thought that maybe there was a slump, but now, its getting annoying!! And Fedora just released Fedora Core 5 yesterday!!! Please tell me new packages will be ready soon!!! Compiling WINE always crashes my computer, so I prefer to use the RPMs...

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winspool: ERROR_INVALID_NAME in GetDefaultPrinter() ?
by Detlef Riekenberg 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

Hi. >From which configuration does the "ERROR_INVALID_NAME" came from, when calling GetDefaultPrinter(NULL, &size) and no Printer is installed? This Test is Present in the current "dlls/winspool/tests/info.c". MSDN told us, that we receive an "ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND", if no Printer is installed: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/gdi/prntspol_0hma.asp I get the "ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND" on win98se, winme, w2k and win2003 in this Situation. -- By By ... ... Detlef

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The status of the wintab dll
by Robert North 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I think after the 10 or more patches to the Wintab dll that I submitted last month, I should say something about it's status... And of course thank Alexandre for applying those patches. P.S. I won't be available from the 15th for about a week or so. So, if you have any questions, I'm afraid you might have to be patient. Hope this is of interest to someone -Rob. ******Applications: Current status*********** ***In Painter 5 *Cursor pressure works. (Therefore is usable by most) *Cursor orientation is a little odd: The orientation maths needs to be re-done. *No eraser. Haven't yet cracked what enables the eraser. *Doesn't work in desktop mode: Need to map to desktop coordinates. *Repeats windows bugs where cursor looses pressure/orientation info almost bug for bug (Is this a feature? ;-) *Cannot detect pressure/orientation int the "Brush Tracking" window: The tablet context is attached to the main window, so no events get to the popup, even if they overlap. This is not how windows wintab functions. ***In Photoshop 6. *Can only get tablet data in desktop mode: This is because the tablet context is attached to the desktop. Which generates/receives no wine events outside desktop mode. * Eraser and pen pressure working. *But* to get them working, you must have 3 XInput devices listed in your XF86Config file, They need to be the last entries in the "ServerLayout" section and the following order: eraser, tablet mouse. This is a far from ideal way of specifying the devices Wintab should use :-/ I'll document this if someone can point me to a good place to put the docs. *******To Do************* 1. Look at X11 errors. There appear to be some errors that deny some users the ability to access Wintab enabled apps. (I think I know how to fix this) 2. Improve orientation data. Orientation comes in as X-Y coords (Implicit Z), and has to leave as spherical coords. This calculation needs to be re-done. 3. When tablet context is on top, let it read XInput events from all the app's top-level windows. (This simulates the fact that the context is usually designed to cover the whole screen) 4. When tablet context is attached to desktop, read XInput events from all the app's top-level windows. 5. Tests ~ --My current philosophy on tests is... ~ Use Photoshop & Painter, any formal tests ~ can be written if anyone else gets involved in patching Wintab, to avoid regressions, and conflict. **********Long term to do (Anyone interested?):********* There's a lot of work that could be done here, but what gets done and who does it probably depends upon whether anyone finds an app that needs these features. I'd love to implement these, but realistically, I don't foresee doing this unless someone hires me to do so ;) 1. Improve configuration of wintab. Wintab could probably do with some information entered into the config file, to avoid the user having to hack their Xfree86cfg file. 2. Handle Z-Order of context properly. This entails *sharing Z-Order between apps. *Working out exactly what role windows have in determining tablet context z-orders. *Allow tablet contexts that don't cover the whole screen/tablet. *Handle inter-application clipping of tablet contexts *Allow all application's windows to receive tablet events when tablet context is on top 3. Implement non-system tablet contexts (Where system cursor not moved by pen or mouse) 4. Unicodify 5. Implement various wintab extensions. 6. Implement wintab manager functions. 7. Tests. *********Unknowns********* 1. How are wintab contexts are raised lowered? Contexts have their own z-order independent of windows, and their own viewport concept, based upon the tablet's coordinate system, not that of the OS. It appears that entering, or clicking on the window the tablet context is attached to will raise/lower the context. But I haven't done much testing on this. In particular, what happens if more than one app request their tablet context is attached to the desktop? 2. How Painter detects the eraser. Have 3 possibilities i. Windows can detect an eraser, and sends specific messages. (I'm sure I've seen this, but can't work out where!) ii. Only works if tablet and cursors are named correctly. (Probably linked to wacom tablets only). iii. I've missed something 3. Requirements of other applications -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCC8zI2vfwxdLxwWYRAsisAJ4q2gAYTgRc6f9wDI+Ruv943eDxOQCfcl3s /ZKMUGwQOuw/SIIbOkIUbd0= =R4M7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Updated version of Wine-0.9.18 RPMs with ntoskrnl for SuSE 10.1
by Vitaliy Margolen 19 Feb '07

19 Feb '07

Same as before. Just recompiled with new version. http://www.kievinfo.com/wine-0.9.18-1.2.i586.rpm http://www.kievinfo.com/wine-0.9.18-1.2.src.rpm -- Best regards, Vitaliy

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Font issue - workaround found
by Timm 17 Feb '07

17 Feb '07

My one win app that makes me a devotee of WINE is TablEdit (demo at www.tabledit.com/download/tabled32.exe) has a custom font , tef260.ttf, that has failed to display since somewhere after ver 9.6. The program installs the font into c:\windows\font, but can not display it within the program, instead displaying for the most part, empty squares. I tried putting/removing tef260.ttf into /usr/local/share/wine/fonts, /usr/local/share/fonts, and the wine windows/fonts directories in all permutations. The only way I got it to display was to remove ALL fonts from these three directories and install tef260.ttf into an X11 font directory along with other win ttf fonts. This forces WINE to build a cachedmetrics file like it used to, and the font is displayed properly in the program. Hope this is a clue for some developer, as I merely lurk here, looking for clues about wine behavior. I can't do a regression back to ver 9.6 (the version I was using that last worked) because my upgrades to freetype cause it to complain of missing functions. current (pertinent ? ) specs libfreetype.so.6.3.7 ] built from source libfontconfig.so.1.0.4 ] built from source fontforge 20060715 ] built from source WINE 0.9.20 ] built from source kernel 2.6.17.11 Slack current (10.2, with upgrades from "current" tree) -- Timm

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windows web server app fails to send more than 11680 bytes !?
by [IDC]Dragon 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Hello, I'm testing a windows app I'd very much like to run under Wine (using v0.9.22), being in touch with the author. This is a small web server app based on a Microsoft MFC sample app. It happily works under Windows, but that'd be the wrong thing for running it 24/7. ;-) It's not yet working under Wine, fails to serve larger files, but we've pretty much narrowed down the problem by adding logs to the app and using ethereal. For example, the app tries to write 25017 bytes to the socket, but the socket only allows 11680 bytes at a time, and the TCP stack fragments this in 8 packets of 1460 bytes, presumably because it only has 8 buffers reserved. So far so good. We see them being sent on the Ethernet and the ACK's are coming in, but after these 8 packets there should be a signal to trigger the OnSend function of the app so it can send the next part of data, but this never happens... The reselection of the socket did not return an error. Given the reselection is ok, and at the Ethernet level messages are consistently sent and ACK's received, the conclusion is that there might be a bug in Wine. So here we are stuck. Given that Wine successfully runs real big application such as MS Internet Explorer, I can't imagine it to have such a fundamental problem. Is there something I overlooked, like a configuration issue? If it really gets interesting, I can ask the developer for a more detailed report, including the Ethereal log snippet, in case somebody wants to actually look into it. First I'd like to find out if this is the right place, or if I should "bury" it into bugzilla. Thank you for your time and help, Jörg -- GMX DSL-Flatrate 0,- Euro* - Überall, wo DSL verfügbar ist! NEU: Jetzt bis zu 16.000 kBit/s! http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl

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A wine success story
by Dan Kegel 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

I admit, I cruise new blog posts just to see what people are writing about Wine. Today I saw one ( http://www.ubuntux.org/shockwave-player-ubuntu-linux ) that says "I have discovered a way to get Shockwave working under Linux. I am using Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake), Wine 0.99.22, Firefox 1.5.0.7, and Shockwave 10.1.4.020. 1. Install Wine. ... Wine will automatically associate .exe files with itself. More information on Wine is available at http://www.winehq.com . 2. Download the Windows version of Firefox and install. Wine will ensure the installer functions correctly. 3. Install the Windows version of Shockwave for Mozilla. I downloaded and installed it manually (slim install). After these steps, I had a working Shockwave player from within Firefox. " Now that's the kind of user story I like to see! - Dan

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Call to all packagers (especially Debian)
by Vitaliy Margolen 16 Dec '06

16 Dec '06

It seems there is no end to how far will packagers go to brake Wine by trying to make it better I thought it's been fixed a long time ago, but it seems not. Wine packages for Debian split important Wine parts into separate packages: - wine - fonts, few not essential programs, symlinks and _premade_ content of ~/.wine directory (with ~/.wine/c as default c: drive)!!! - libwine - all the builtin dlls - wine-utils:(explorer, winecfg, winepath, cmd.exe, iexplore, winedbg) and many other packages. Also as default it's using "winelauncher" instead of standard "wine" binary. That makes it that much more complicated to troubleshoot any problems that users might have. So in case anyone having problems with Debian or Debian based distro, please check that all the "*wine*" packages installed. Also is there a way we can request packagers to follow some standard to how they package Wine? Can we ask packagers to package all parts of Wine into one single package? If they prefer, they can package optional sound drivers separately (arts, esd, jack, nas). Same for documentation, and development headers. However everything else is essential to Wine and most programs that ran under it. Also can packagers keep default method of starting Wine the same without using any additional scripts for starting Wine? And of course, if any alterations has been made, state so in the distro specific readme file. Of course I realize that this is open source and anyone can do whatever they pleased. But please, that's make it more supportable. It's such a huge PITA to waste several hours trying to find the reason why something doesn't work to realize that person doesn't have explorer. Needless to say that lots of things won't work right. Vitaliy.

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Re: oleaut32: use setlocale() around sprintfW to force use of period as decimal separator (RESEND)
by Alexandre Julliard 14 Dec '06

14 Dec '06

Alex Villacís Lasso <a_villacis(a)palosanto.com> writes: > @@ -4159,7 +4161,9 @@ > { > WCHAR buff[256]; > > + setlocale(LC_ALL, "C"); > sprintfW( buff, szFloatFormatW, fltIn ); > + setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); > return VarDecFromStr(buff, LOCALE_EN_US, 0, pDecOut); You can't do that, setlocale() affects the whole process. In any case we shouldn't need to go through a string to convert a float to a decimal. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard(a)winehq.org

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Re: OpenAL32.dll thunk and OpenAL winmm driver
by Stefan Dösinger 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

Am Sonntag 26 November 2006 00:25 schrieb Nick Burns: > dlls/openal32/openal.c: main thunk file > dlls/openal32/Makefile.in: simple thunk makefile > dlls/openal32/openal32.spec: openal+alut spec file > dlls/winmm/wineopenal/audio.c: main winmm driver file > dlls/winmm/wineopenal/Makefile.in: simple winmm makefile > dlls/winmm/wineopenal/openal.c: simple interface > dlls/winmm/wineopenal/openal.h: simple header for simple interface > dlls/winmm/wineopenal/wineopenal.drv.spec: winmm spec file I think you should send the thunk and winmm driver in 2 seperate patches

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