September 2007 - Wine-devel

Weekly Newsletter
by EA Durbin 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

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Wine application compatibility
by Roderick Colenbrander 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

Hi, Every Wine release more and more programs start to work on Wine. A serious problem is that not all programs can work out of the box. Some games for instance need the windows version to be set to Windows 95 or it will crash. Other games like Medal of Honour need their OpenGL extension string trimmed to get it to work on cards which support a lot of OpenGL extensions. There are dozens of more examples like that. Microsoft is having similar troubles and since Windows 2000 they provide appcompat stuff for windows (in WinXP/Vista it is a default feature). It basically works on a database which is used somehow at program startup and which then applies 'fixes' like 'setting the windows version', patching function calls and more. See for instance http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457032.aspx for more info and pay attention to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457032.apcpxp06_big(en-us,tech… which shows a part of the list and the scope of it. I think we have reached a point in Wine where we might need something similar :( Our compatibility seems to be bigger than XP/Vista so we might not need much. Perhaps we need to maintain some file which applies really needed fixups. It should be merged into the registry using wineprefixcreate and the database can be checked using winecfg. It would use normal AppDefaults. What do you guys think about such a thing? I don't like it at all but I fear it is really needed. If we would add such I'm not sure if we are allowed to dump microsoft their database, looking at it might be something differently. It might be a good topic for WineConf. Regards, Roderick Colenbrander -- Ist Ihr Browser Vista-kompatibel? Jetzt die neuesten Browser-Versionen downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/browser

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[PATCH] Fix Ugly borders around undecorated windows in Gnome
by Matthew D'Asaro 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

This is my first attempt at submitting a patch to WINE, so please excuse me if I have broken any conventions or am going through the wrong channel. As it currently stands, wine is setting the 'MWM_DECOR_BORDER' hint on managed but undecorated windows, such as iTunes, or Winamp. This does not cause problems in KDE, but in Gnome it puts a gray border around such windows. Not setting this hint does not seem to cause problems in KDE and fixes the problem in Gnome. A patch to do just that is attached. Comments? -Matthew D'Asaro

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New winetricks: 'volnum' command to work around bug 5351, new gecko
by Dan Kegel 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

Another month, another winetricks. This updates the gecko installed by winetricks to 0.1.0, and adds a 'volnum' verb to let you run installers that complain "Unable to find a volume for file extraction." And it has a few other cleanups. As usual, it's at http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks - Dan revision 1.33 date: 2007/09/30 02:47:13; author: dank; state: Exp; lines: +18 -0 Added volnum verb to work around bug 5351 ---------------------------- revision 1.32 date: 2007/09/30 02:30:33; author: dank; state: Exp; lines: +15 -12 Minor janitorial cleanup ---------------------------- revision 1.31 date: 2007/09/30 02:26:40; author: dank; state: Exp; lines: +11 -9 Detlef Riekenberg reported that gecko was using old version. This fixes it. ---------------------------- revision 1.30 date: 2007/09/30 00:03:03; author: dank; state: Exp; lines: +14 -0 Sanity checking by Lei ---------------------------- revision 1.29 date: 2007/09/30 00:00:55; author: dank; state: Exp; lines: +1 -1 Fix typo introduced by last change ---------------------------- revision 1.28 date: 2007/09/29 23:21:33; author: dank; state: Exp; lines: +19 -38 Localized paths cleanup from Detlef Riekenberg -- Wine for Windows ISVs: http://kegel.com/wine/isv

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Re: winex11.drv: possible fix for thick border around utility window in DatePicker
by Dmitry Timoshkov 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

<a_villacis(a)palosanto.com> wrote: > It seems that, when presented with a combination of WS_POPUP and WS_BORDER > without any extended style, the window is supposed to be shown with a thin > border (a 1px border in Windows). I still have not found a window style that > makes a X window show a thin border, and the nearest thing in looks is no > border at all. Please comment on this patch, as I don't think it is exactly > sane. > > Changelog: > * Deactivate WS_BORDER when present with WS_POPUP > - else if (style & WS_BORDER) mwm_hints.decorations |= MWM_DECOR_BORDER; > + else if ((style & WS_BORDER) && !(style & WS_POPUP)) mwm_hints.decorations |= MWM_DECOR_BORDER; This looks like a bug in Metacity, I don't see why it adds "(disabled) decorations" when only asked for MWM_DECOR_BORDER. On the other hand we already check for WS_CHILD|WS_POPUP and don't add MWM_DECOR_BORDER if any of that styles present, so perhaps your change is in that direction, and should be made to also check for both WS_CHILD|WS_POPUP. Probably it's also worth to file a bug to metacity bugzilla. -- Dmitry.

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The Spouse Test
by Dan Kegel 29 Sep '07

29 Sep '07

When will Wine be good enough for the average person to use? One test is, "Is it good enough to let your spouse migrate to Linux from Windows?". My wife's must-have app list is roughly Microsoft Office '97 Adobe Photoshop Elements 1 Ulead PhotoImpact Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Musicmatch Jukebox 8 FamilyTreeMaker 2006 And you know what? All of those basically work except for Photoshop Elements. They need some cosmetic work, and a native DLL or two, and probably a few obscure bugfixes, but I think that's it. (I didn't test Office '97, since I expect she'll be using Crossover for that, as Codeweavers tests that app pretty well.) It's possible that by this time next year Wine will pass this test for me. - Dan

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Broken patches since 0.9.45 (problem with missing binary files)
by Victor 29 Sep '07

29 Sep '07

Hello! It looks like last two patches - wine-0.9.45.diff.bz2 and wine-0.9.46-diff.bz2 are broken. It is not possible to compile wine-0.9.45 (if sources were created by patching 0.9.44 with wine-0.9.45.diff.bz2) due to missing notepad.ico :) : --- make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/erv/distr/wine/wine-0.9.45/programs/net' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/erv/distr/wine/wine-0.9.45/programs/notepad' ../../tools/makedep -C. -S../.. -T../.. -I../../include/msvcrt dialog.c main.c rsrc.rc notepad.ico: No such file or directory notepad.ico was first included from rsrc.rc:47 make[2]: [Makefile] Error 1 (ignored) ../../tools/makedep -C. -S../.. -T../.. -I../../include/msvcrt dialog.c main.c rsrc.rc notepad.ico: No such file or directory notepad.ico was first included from rsrc.rc:47 make[2]: *** [depend] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/erv/distr/wine/wine-0.9.45/programs/notepad' make[1]: *** [notepad/__depend__] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/erv/distr/wine/wine-0.9.45/programs' make: *** [programs/__depend__] Error 2 Compilation failed, aborting install. --- and it isn't possible to compile wine-0.9.46 (created by patching complete 0.9.45 sources with wine-0.9.46.diff.bz2) due to missing c1.bmp in cards.dll: --- make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/erv/distr/wine/wine-0.9.46/dlls/capi2032' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/erv/distr/wine/wine-0.9.46/dlls/cards' ../../tools/makedep -C. -S../.. -T../.. cards.c cards.rc c1.bmp: No such file or directory c1.bmp was first included from cards.rc:23 make[2]: [Makefile] Error 1 (ignored) ../../tools/makedep -C. -S../.. -T../.. cards.c cards.rc c1.bmp: No such file or directory c1.bmp was first included from cards.rc:23 make[2]: *** [depend] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/erv/distr/wine/wine-0.9.46/dlls/cards' make[1]: *** [cards/__depend__] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/erv/distr/wine/wine-0.9.46/dlls' make: *** [dlls/__depend__] Error 2 Compilation failed, aborting install. --- And here is a script I've been using to unpack patches (it should be placed in dir containing wine-0.9.30.tar.bz2 and patches (0.9.31, 0.9.32, etc) in *.diff.bz2 format : --- #!/bin/sh echo unpacking wine BUILD=30 BASE=$BUILD WINE='wine-0.9' tar -xvvjf $WINE.$BUILD.tar.bz2 && cd $WINE BUILD=$(($BUILD+1)) cd "$WINE.$BASE" while [ -f ../$WINE.$BUILD.diff.bz2 ]; do echo $WINE.$BUILD bzcat ../$WINE.$BUILD.diff.bz2|patch -p1 && BUILD=$(($BUILD+1)) done cd .. mv $WINE.$BASE $WINE.$(($BUILD-1)) --- Can someone fix this problem? (It looks like problem is related to binary files) It would be great if both patches were fixed and re-uploaded. Thanks. -- Victor Eremin (ErV2005(a)rambler.ru)

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Re: version resource for ole2nls.dll
by Dmitry Timoshkov 29 Sep '07

29 Sep '07

"Stefan Leichter" <Stefan.Leichter(a)camline.com> wrote: > Ok, looks like i picked a bad example from the wine tree. > +#define WINE_FILEVERSION 2,1,3050,1 > #define WINE_FILEVERSION_STR "2.10.3050.1" Shouldn't it be 2,10,3050,1 ? Also, could you please also fix the place(s) which you took as an example? -- Dmitry.

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Solidworks Update
by Stephan Rose 29 Sep '07

29 Sep '07

I tested Solidworks with 0.9.46 today and fonts seem to be ok now. No more screwed up texts like in the previous versions. So that's a definite improvement. =) Everything else seems to have remained unchanged though. Stephan

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Re: Revert "mshtml: Return wine: URI for protocols handled by MSHTML."
by Jacek Caban 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

Vitaliy Margolen wrote: > I do not know what author wanted to archive here. But what he did > archive is broken Wine and all other programs that use their own > "protocol:". > > This reverts commit 718b771f2a57d0c762d24c6ef62f070eb3647e8a. > > mshtml: Revert commit that broke steam and most other apps. This patch fixed some apps that use pluggable protocols and reverting it is a step backward. I've sent a correct fix. Thanks, Jacek

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