March 2007 - Wine-devel - list.winehq.org

A Reminder : A Study on Free/Open Source Software
by Anu Gupta DCSA 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Dear Wine Contributors, I seek help from designers, developers, testers,defect fixers,project managers or playing any other key role in Free/Open Source software development or maintenence in carrying out a study on practices and problems of defect management in various Free/Open Source Software projects. The insights gained from the study can further help us to extract publicly accessible defect data and determine impact of defect management practices on software quality. Please spend a few minutes of your precious time to fill up the Questionnaire. The most of the questions follow multiple choice formats and are quite easy to answer. To have the Online Questionnaire, please visit: http://anu.puchd.ac.in/phpESP/public/survey.php?name=FOSS_Defect_Survey (You can also copy and paste this link into your browser, and hit the 'Return' key.) I hope you will find all the questions interesting and thought-provoking. Your answers will be kept anonymous.The data thus collected will only be used for research purpose.It would be nice if you may further refer this mail to others actively engaged with Free/Open Source Software development. If you have any query or suggestions then feel free to contact. Thank You With regards, Anu Gupta Senior Lecturer Department of Computer Science and Applications, Panjab University, Chandigarh. INDIA In case of any problem in accessing/using the above mentioned link please contact: E-mail: anugupta(a)pu.ac.in anugupta98(a)gmail.com

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Time for an advapi category in bugzilla?
by Dan Kegel 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

I just filed a bug related to wine's advapi implementation ( http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7690 ) and noticed there wasn't an advapi category in Bugzilla. Should there be? - Dan

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Re: mapi32: Add DebugInfo to critical sections.
by Uwe Bonnes 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Zerebecki <jan.wine(a)zerebecki.de> writes: Jan> --- If this patch is rejected from inclusion, please tell me why, Jan> as I would have to ask anyway. Nice disclaimer ;-) I wonder if it works? -- Uwe Bonnes bon(a)elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt --------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------

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Re: wined3d: Implented signed texture formats via NV_TEXTURE_SHADER
by Frank Richter 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

On 10.03.2007 15:02, Fabian Bieler wrote: > +static const PixelFormatDesc NV_texture_shader_formats[] = { > + {WINED3DFMT_V8U8 ,0x0 ,0x0 ,0x0 ,0x0 ,2 ,FALSE ,GL_SIGNED_HILO8_NV ,GL_HILO_NV ,GL_BYTE }, Are you sure this is right? From the NV_texture_shader spec it looks to me like HILO is for high-precision data, and that DSDT (described as offset data) would be more appropriate for V8U8. -f.r.

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Re: Alexandre Julliard : ntdll: Fixed a compiler warning for size_t/ unsigned int mismatch.
by Francois Gouget 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Alexandre Julliard wrote: [...] > void * __cdecl _lfind( const void *key, const void *base, unsigned int *nmemb, > - unsigned int size, int(*compar)(const void *, const void *) ) > + size_t size, int(*compar)(const void *, const void *) ) > { > - return lfind( key, base, nmemb, size, compar ); > + size_t n = *nmemb; > + return lfind( key, base, &n, size, compar ); > } The problem is that Microsoft's _lfind() takes an 'unsigned int' and not a size_t. Or, more precisely, the msvcrt one declared in search.h does. There's no official prototype for the ntdll implementation that I know of, but I'd expect it to have the same prototype. So my understanding is that replacing this parameter type with a size_t could be a problem on 64bit systems. -- Francois Gouget <fgouget(a)free.fr> http://fgouget.free.fr/ Stolen from an Internet user: "f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng !"

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DIB Engine & GSoC
by Benoit Pradelle 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

Hi, I would like participate to the Google Summer Of Code with Wine by implementing a DIB Engine. I've searched a lot of informations about the DIB Engine but i still got one question : for you, how important is a DIB Engine in Wine ? Ben. ___________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail réinvente le mail ! Découvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail et son interface révolutionnaire. http://fr.mail.yahoo.com

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Tackling gdiplus?
by Dan Kegel 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

An increasing number of apps need gdiplus.dll. Seems like it's time for Wine to include it. Since Mono has implemented much of gdiplus already ( http://www.mono-project.com/Libgdiplus ), we ought to be able to just slurp that into Wine and get quite a ways. Any objections? I'm thinking of asking a summer intern to try this. - Dan

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Memory checking?
by Giles Cameron 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

Ok. I am just entering the WINE development crowd, and have very very little experiance with the Windows API (The first time I saw it, I was terrifyed!) Anywho. It would appear that some programs decide there isn't enough free memory available for their tasks (EG, Train Simulator's CAB extaction process, I have yet to look further into this to see if I even have the slightest clue what I am talking about, however) so I was wondering if we could hack in an option to allow the API to tell a little fib on the free memory, since (From what I understand) Linux is so much better with memory. Sorry if I am randomly babbling, my brain is off around 02:30. ;) (Thats my current local time.)

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0.9.32 hangs UltraVNC Viewer after a while
by Dieter Rogiest 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

Mandriva Linux 2007.0 here. With wine 0.9.30 ultravnc_viewer.exe (remote access) works perfect. I installed wine 0.9.32 (wine-0.9.32-1.SoS.2007.0.i586.rpm). Using ultravnc_viewer.exe I saw immediately that the fullscreen title bar that should appear when you move your mouse to the top of the screen was now allways visible also in windowed mode. After a while (4 minutes) ultravnc_viewer stopped working, I could still see the remote desktop but my mouse clicks didn't happen. I went back to 0.9.30. Dieter

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Known desktop migration projects and their "must have" Windows apps
by Dan Kegel 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

I'm putting a list together at http://wiki.winehq.org/DesktopMigrationProjects listing organizations who are migrating their users from Windows to Linux. I only list projects that have come out and said which Windows applications they really want to run on Linux. Since these migration projects, if they end up using Wine, will be very good publicity for the project, it might behoove us to look carefully at whether we can get the apps they need running. I know Banco do Brasil's folks are quite happy at the effort put into Lotus Notes 5.x recently, so it is possible for us to make a difference. - Dan -- Wine for Windows ISVs: http://kegel.com/wine/isv

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