April 2008 - Wine-devel - list.winehq.org

no test structure in place for wine programs
by Darragh Bailey 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

I'm been looking at bug 9628 (and duplicate 12222) whenever I get the time to work on wine these days. I've gone through various tests, enough to determine that msiexec on Windows must use some custom command line parsing in order for it to work for the cases listed in those bugs given that the behaviour is replicated by the standard command line API's in windows. So I've got to the stage where I believe the correct fix is to put in some custom handling to make wine's msiexec match the behaviour of windows version. So far so good. At this point I expect that there should be some test cases added since this functionality wouldn't appear frequently enough in most install cases for any future breaks to be picked up if future changes are made. So I expect to try and add some test cases, when I notice there is no test structure to test any of the exe's built by wine. Bit of a problem there... I'm assuming that the original assumption was that the programs just act as entry points to the dll functionality, so there shouldn't be any need to add unit tests for the programs. They will either work correctly once the dll's function, or break really, really noticably. Next step is the question? Should I try to take the dll test structure (mainly just the dlls/Maketest.rules.in file) and port this into the programs area? or is that overboard for that area? -- Darragh "Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool."

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Fwd: SOC 2008 Projects Announced
by Gal Topper 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

> Could the students come forward and say something about themself? Hello everyone. My name is Gal Topper and my goal this summer will be to implement PrintDlgEx* in Wine, so that we'll have support for the newer and more flexible print dialog that was introduced in Windows NT. I am a third year computer science student in York University in Toronto, Canada, and lucky for me, my exams are over! So for now, I can enjoy both the project and the spring. :) I'm excited about this project and plan to keep you all up-to-date when things start moving. :) Cheers, Gal

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MSIME support causing slow setup until explorer.exe paused?
by Dan Kegel 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

I tried installing StarUML (after doing winetricks vcrun6 msxml3, as required), and the setup crept along very slowly... so I got curious and ran top. Most of the cpu time was being used by Explorer and wineserver, and interestingly, if I suspended Explorer by doing strace -p <pid of explorer> and then pressing ^S, the install ran awful darn fast. So, what was explorer doing that was slowing things down so much? writev(3, [{"l\0\0\0\30\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 64}, {"M\0S\0I\0M\0E\0S\0e\0r\0v\0i\0c\0e\0", 24}], 2) = 88 ... writev(3, [{"l\0\0\0*\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 64}, {"M\0S\0I\0M\0E\0R\0e\0c\0o\0n\0v\0e\0r\0t\0O\0p\0"..., 42}], 2) = 106 ... writev(3, [{"l\0\0\0&\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 64}, {"M\0S\0I\0M\0E\0M\0o\0u\0s\0e\0O\0p\0e\0r\0a\0t\0"..., 38}], 2) = 102 ... writev(3, [{"l\0\0\0*\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 64}, {"M\0S\0I\0M\0E\0R\0e\0c\0o\0n\0v\0e\0r\0t\0R\0e\0"..., 42}], 2) = 106 ... This persisted in the app, too, not just in the installer. So it kind of sounds like our msime support is hurting us performance-wise? - Dan

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Text bug in winecfg!
by Warren Dumortier 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Hello everybody! When i use winecfg in english, text in winecfg looks good but in french and some other languages it isn't the case, i made a screenshot to show the (little, little, very little) bug, but i find it annoying! Here is the little window screenshot: http://www.host-img.com/files/fkn8csdlmgvd316z22uq.png Is this a wine bug or not? Thanks, kind regards

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winehq.org redesign
by Evgeny Burzak 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Hello all, some times ago I make design for AppDB (http://buzz.ulx.ru/pf/appdb.png) Folks was delighted with this one, but managers rejected my idea due to needs redesign everything then. But now it may be more actual then ever owing to Wine 1.0 release? I think it may gain attention from professionals who wants to use wine in production environment and improve Wine. I can make design for main pages, xml/xslt template and probably base php5 clasess if you decide to change site engine. -- Evgeny

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New winetricks 20080423: added mono19, removed mono1[12], updated xvid
by Dan Kegel 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Another day, another Winetricks. Changes: r40 Update to latest mono Remove mono11 and mono12 verbs, replace with mono19 Abort properly on network errors r39 Updated xvid As always, get it at http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks or http://code.google.com/p/winezeug

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Re: [3/3] user32:mdi.c Fix processing of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE according with test. [resend]
by Alexandre Julliard 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Anatoly Lyutin <vostok(a)etersoft.ru> writes: > Changelog: > Fix processing of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE according with test. No luck here either: msg.c:4587: Test failed: ShowWindow(SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE) child with invisible parent: in msg 0x0046 expecting wParam 0x8170 got 0x8150 msg.c:4587: Test failed: ShowWindow(SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE) child with invisible parent: in msg 0x0047 expecting wParam 0x8178 got 0x8158 -- Alexandre Julliard julliard(a)winehq.org

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Re: [1/3] user32:msg.c Make two tests clear pass in Win XP SP 2 [resend]
by Alexandre Julliard 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Anatoly Lyutin <vostok(a)etersoft.ru> writes: > Changelog: > Make two tests clear pass. This breaks the test on Vista and on Wine. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard(a)winehq.org

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Re: server: return active window if foreground window is set
by Alexandre Julliard 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Jeff Latimer <lats(a)yless4u.com.au> writes: > The comment in the code indicates that the foreground window is active > window of the active thread. Seems logical the active window handle > should be returned at the same time. No, the active window is per-thread, you can't return the active window of some other thread. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard(a)winehq.org

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What to do about filenames legal in Linux but illegal in Windows?
by Dan Kegel 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Linux users create files with names that are legal in Linux but not in Windows, simply because they can. Eventually they'll try to read those files in a Windows app, either by carrying them on a flash drive over to a real windows system, by dual booting, or by running the app in Wine. Now, normally, Wine should do exactly what Windows does. (I believe that in both Windows and Wine, directory listings will show these illegal chars, but attempts to open the files will fail.) But let's say we're in that happy time in the near future when lots of companies are willing to ship their apps with Wine as a halfway house to native support, and lots of their users start running into this issue. Can/should such apps tell Windows or Wine "Oh, go ahead and let me open those funny files?" On Wine, of course, we could open up a hole if we had to, but it'd be nice to know if there were a method that also worked on Windows. I looked around a bit today for a way to open such files in Windows, and failed miserably (though I did find a nice example of how to use NtCreateFile without the DDK). Anyone know of a way on real Windows to do this?

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