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wineboot: Start items in StartUp folder on boot, includes security measures. [with the patch]
by Misha Koshelev 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

I forgot to include the patch, so here it is. Misha --- Hi everybody, Thanks for your suggestions. I just posted a new patch on wine-patches where I tried to incorporate these and now it does the following (in addition to my previous patch which just started items in the StartUp folder): - When wineboot finds a file that it wants to start in the StartUp folder, it asks the user whether he wants to run the program. His options are: Always, Yes, No (default), and Never. - If he selects Yes the program is run, if he select No it is not. - If he selects Always or Never, I create a registry key in: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\StartupItems with the full pathname of the program and the value "always" or "never." When wineboot sees this program in the StartUp folder it checks this key, and if it is set it performs the appropriate action. What do you guys think? If you like the system, it would be pretty easy to incorporate this into the run key running as well (which are currently just run without any user confirmation)? Thanks Misha

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Re: wineboot: Start items in StartUp folder on boot, includes security measures.
by Joris Huizer 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

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Re: First implementation of a directplay service provider
by Kai Blin 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

On Saturday 10 February 2007 19:39, Alessandro Pignotti wrote: > I'm working to implement a service provider compatible with the protocol > used by directplay over TCP/IP. > Currently i've implemented the lobby code and tested it against > simpleconnect.exe and chatconnect.exe from the DirectX 7 SDK. At the very end of the patch, you missed a C++ style comment. (+ data->dwReserved1=0x1f4; //Values taken from registry (are they useful at all?)) Btw, I think you should set that data to NULL for now, rather than any random magic value. You shouldn't need the +#define LOBBYINFORMATIONFLAG_CLIENTSERVER 0x00000001 +#define LOBBYINFORMATIONFLAG_MIGRATEHOST 0x00000004 +#define LOBBYINFORMATIONFLAG_NODPSRV 0x00000040 +#define LOBBYINFORMATIONFLAG_PASSWORD 0x00000080 +#define LOBBYINFORMATIONFLAG_NOENUMS 0x00000100 +#define LOBBYINFORMATIONFLAG_FASTSIGN 0x00000200 +#define LOBBYINFORMATIONFLAG_FULLSIGN 0x00000400 +#define LOBBYINFORMATIONFLAG_ENCAPSULATE 0x00002000 stuff, as dplay.h defines that already, iirc. + inf->lobbyID=0x01020304;//Just a fixed Id now, will randomize someday There is some pattern to the DPIDs after the first. They're not random. I just didn't quite figure out how it works yet. Btw, you missed a C++ style comment there.. A few lines over that line, too. You're not sending a dplay version in your header so far. Is that intentional? Why are you declaring dummy functions and then comment out setting them in SPInit()? Good work, anyhow. Kai -- Kai Blin, <kai Dot blin At gmail Dot com> WorldForge developer http://www.worldforge.org/ Wine developer http://wiki.winehq.org/KaiBlin/ -- Will code for cotton.

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Re: Some thoughts about the ominous DIB Engine
by Rolf Kalbermatter 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

Felix Nawothnig wrote: >I suggested to do all the work server-side a while back: > >http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2005-July/038695.html > >Especially see: > >http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2005-July/038703.html Well, this would mostly mirror the Windows architecture nowadays where almost all of this is in win32k.sys and GDI32 is mostly a user space wrapper around that. A bit like ntdll does for kernel operations. But I would be a bit concerned about performance if most calls have to be passed to the server side to be handled but maybe that is not really an issue? Didn't MS put part of the GDI somehow back in user space when going from NT4 to 2K just because of performance concerns? Would still remain the question where and how to hook this into dib handling but I think GDI would be better. Basically call the dc driver and if that fails branch into the local dibeng API for apropriate functions. Rolf Kalbermatter

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signedness/WINAPI changing question
by Joris Huizer 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

I have a small question: I find some function LONG WINAPI AVIStreamSampleToTime(PAVISTREAM pstream, LONG lSample) (in the avifil32 dll), the second parameter should really be an ULONG instead of a LONG. It'd fix the signedness problems. My question is, is such a change allowed? And what should I do to update for such a change (except for the header gcc warns about) In case such change must not be performed, I'll just add a local variable which is a casted version. I thought this needs asking; adding in unnecessary variables doesn't seem the best fix to me. regards, Joris ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html

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doc: Add a Quick start to the Wine User Guide
by Jeff L 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

This change came about when a friend described his problems in getting wine going to see if it would help him with making a Windows app run under Linux. He did not want to get into the details of wine as his was a opportunistic need and his comment that hit home was "that many a newbie expects software to just install but wine seems too complicated and there is not a cheat sheet". It seems that there is nowhere where the basics are described step by step for the first time casual user. Jeff Latimer Index: en/wineusr-introduction.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/wine/docs/en/wineusr-introduction.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.4 diff -u -u -r1.4 wineusr-introduction.sgml --- en/wineusr-introduction.sgml 12 Dec 2006 04:11:06 -0000 1.4 +++ en/wineusr-introduction.sgml 11 Feb 2007 08:04:31 -0000 @@ -52,6 +52,50 @@ </para> </sect2> + <sect2> + <title>Quick start</title> + <para> + The process of installing and running wine can be summarised as + follows: + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para> + Get a distribution as indicated in <link + linkend="getting-wine">Getting Wine</link> and see + the <ulink url="http://www.winehq.org/site/download">Wine + Downloads</> page. For the casual or new user the simplest + is to get an rpm distribution. + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + Configure wine using the <link + linkend="config-wine-main"><emphasis><filename>winecfg</></> + </link> command. For most people wine should now be usable. + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + To test your installation run wine's Windows 3.1 like file + manager using the <filename>wine winefile</> command. + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + Run wine using the <link + linkend="running"><emphasis><filename>wine</> + <filename>filespec/appname.exe</></></link> command. + </para> + <para> + The first command you will run will be to install a package. + Typically something like <filename>wine + /media/cdrom/setup.exe</> or the equivalent. + </para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </para> + </sect2> + </sect1> <sect1 id="what-is-wine">

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wineboot: Start items in StartUp folder on boot.
by Misha Koshelev 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

Hi, As you all may have noticed, I have been making quite a few patches within the last two weeks (or at least quite a few when compared to zero before then) because I had figured out that the Vector NTI program that is quite important in molecular biologThis patch makes sure that wine will start items in the StartUp folder (Programs) just like Windows. The reason this is necessary, well #1 this is something Windows does that Wine doesn't do, but #2 this is required by the Vector NTI installer (bug #7384), which installs necessary dependencies (MDAC and about 6 other things) by installing one, then placing a link to itself in StartUp, then rebooting. With this patch, it will actually restart correctly, and in fact just running wine installer.exe will actually successfully do the install from start to finish (for the alternative to install this prior to this and a few other patches, see my shell script http://misha680.googlepages.com/InstallVectorNTI10.sh) There is still the lack of JScript support which fails to install some things, but that's about it.y (and freely available to academic researchers) can be installed on Wine and run with quite little problem with a quite complicated install script I made http://misha680.googlepages.com/InstallVectorNTI10.sh) There was one pretty significant bug, but after that I wanted to try to track down and patch other bugs that forced the above script to be required. With the exception of a pretty significant lack of JScript support in wine/MSI which causes installation of quite a few files to fail (and thus still require native jscript.dll and native MSI), this final patch I just sent out makes the install work from start to finish, which is quite a change from before. I posted two patches earlier (a conformance test and a fix) that adds path searching to shell link creation (which the conformance test shows exists in Windows for a file like rundll32.exe that is not found in the current directory), and if anyone has comments about those patches please send them to me. My last patch ensures that this shelllink that the Vector NTI installer creates every time it tries to restart (about six or so times after every Microsoft component it installs that it needs and comes with) will be executed, and in fact is meant to reproduce the Windows behavior of starting items in the StartUp program group on login that occurs in Windows. I am new to the whole IShellFolder thing, though, and I tried to make it as proper as I could. But I certainly feel that I would like to have someone more experience to look at it. Oh, and I just wanted to say a big thanks to Dan Kegel, James Hawkings, Mike McCormack, and others who have helped me so far (not to mention Alexandre Julliard for committing some of my patches). Misha

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Re: wineshelllink: disable startup notification
by Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

Fredag 09 februar 2007 18:25, skrev Tijl Coosemans: > Wine doesn't support startup notification afaict and endlessly bouncing > cursors are annoying. Wine does support startup notifications, but not if the 'enable window manager to control windows applications' is disabled in winecfg. Regards, Alexander N. Sørnes > > --- tools/wineshelllink.orig Fri Feb 9 17:46:58 2007 > +++ tools/wineshelllink Fri Feb 9 17:59:14 2007 > @@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ > [Desktop Entry] > Name=$linkname > Exec=wine "$path" $args > +StartupNotify=false > Type=Application > EOF > [ -z "$descr" ] || echo "Comment=$descr"

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Handling of EXCEPTION_BREAKPOINT
by Vitaliy Margolen 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

It seems Wine has problems with correct return address for the int3 brakepoint exception. It's covered in bug http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7063 There is even a test case with a proposed fixes. Can anyone with knowledge of the debugger events take a look at it? If the patch can be committed Wine will get that much closer to the supporting more unti-debugger protection schemes. Vitaliy Margolen.

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Fullscreen broken in XVidMode
by Vitaliy Margolen 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

For about a month now Wine is completely unusable for fullscreen games when using XVidMode instead of XRandr extension. Worse, this is a regression, caused by this patch: f6702ec4afb4098cbb67d6bd670a9f0527191f80 is first bad commit commit f6702ec4afb4098cbb67d6bd670a9f0527191f80 Author: Dmitry Timoshkov Date: Tue Jan 9 23:57:33 2007 +0800 winex11.drv: Force the fullscreen state update once the window is mapped. :040000 040000 f83b3a76eeecd52a04ed04201c49ac15244b0a25 d57c3162633300eabdb9fea65d530eb91cd929f5 M dlls Can we get some ideas going about why this is happening and how to fix it? Vitaliy Margolen.

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