March 2009 - Wine-devel - list.winehq.org

Call for mentors
by Kai Blin 21 Mar '09

21 Mar '09

Hi folks, looking over the ideas list again, there are quite some projects that don't have a person willing to mentor yet, or list Dan Kegel, who's currently taking a break. If you feel like mentoring a student this summer, please pick one of these projects and put your name in the "Possible mentor" field. Thanks, Kai -- Kai Blin WorldForge developer http://www.worldforge.org/ Wine developer http://wiki.winehq.org/KaiBlin Samba team member http://www.samba.org/samba/team/ -- Will code for cotton.

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GStreamer plugin proposal for GSoC 2009
by Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

Hi, I'm interested in working with you as a student to create a GStreamer plugin for Wine. First, a little background about me. I'm a 2nd year student from Bucharest, Romania; my major is Systems Engineering. Last summer I spent my time developing kmemtrace (a memory tracer for the Linux kernel) under the mentorship of Pekka Enberg <penberg(a)cs.helsinki.fi> from Linux Foundation, that is GSoC 2008. So this would be my second year in GSoC. And I do tend to stick around after the SoC is over, since it's a great opportunity to get comfortable with a code base. You can check out my coding style and performance by looking at these Git repos: Ingo Molnar's -tip tree (my current "upstream"): http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftip%2Flinux-2.6-tip.git&a=s… My repo holding kmemtrace's userspace app: http://repo.or.cz/w/kmemtrace-user.git However, I'm aware of the differences in coding style between Wine and the Linux kernel. Regarding my skills, I'm quite proficient at using Git (managing my own tree and sending patches), coding in C and using autoconf. I also know some very basic concepts about DirectX, OpenGL and Wine's architecture. Also, this isn't my first contact with Wine's source code. Even though I haven't sent any patches to the mailing-list, I've spent some time reading the source code (chasing performance issues in Direct3D, but to no avail). You might have also seen me on IRC, bugging people about those issues. :-) Now getting to the point... I find the GStreamer plugin a very good idea. Glancing over GStreamer docs, I see it's very modular and could solve more issues than those already mentioned on the GSoC ideas page. I'll focus on what hasn't already been told. Firstly, it could also improve GDI+'s handling of images, as GStreamer already handles some image formats. Secondly, I've seen a patch implementing texture handling in d3dx being rejected because there is no general image library support in Wine and FreeImage wasn't a comfortable dependency: http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20080828.215032.87fd785e.en.html So this work could also have a positive impact on the proposal regarding the implementation of d3d9_xx DLLs. Bottom line is this won't "just play movies for DirectShow/Quartz", but it has a much greater potential. I admit, my main interest in developing Wine is improving a few games (e.g. Oblivion). I find this GSoC idea quite achievable for my skills and positive towards this goal. I also hope this experience would make a good introduction to implementing better DirectX support on Wine, generally speaking. Please let me know what you think and whether I've missed something. And please keep me Cc-ed if more people pitch into the discussion, as I'm not subscribed to the mailing-list. Cheers, Eduard

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XInput2 (and relative mouse movements) will be in the next X release
by Scott Ritchie 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

After some chatting in #xorg-devel this week to follow up on the status of the long-awaited relative mouse movements, I have an announcement: Relative mouse movements will be in XInput2, and XInput2 will be in the next x.org release. This new release will be coming out roughly in the same timeframe as Wine 1.2, which makes relative mouse movement support very feasible for our coming release. If you want to test out a GIT version of XInput2 so you can get to work, you can check out the instructions at the bottom of the DInput page in the wiki: http://wiki.winehq.org/DInput whot (from #xorg-devel) told me that if we need any API changes to do this right, we can ask him. Now is the time. Thanks, Scott Ritchie

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Re: setupapi: Indentation fix
by Andrew Talbot 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

Andrew Talbot wrote: > It's a tabs vs spaces thing, but it looks way out on my system. > You might wish to ignore this patch. I had my tab stops set to four spaces instead of eight, which exaggerated the distortion. -- Andy.

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Re: include: Deconstify a variable
by Francois Gouget 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Andrew Talbot wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think MapLS() takes a pointer to const. [...] > --- a/include/winbase.h > +++ b/include/winbase.h [...] > -WINBASEAPI DWORD WINAPI MapLS(LPCVOID); > +WINBASEAPI DWORD WINAPI MapLS(LPVOID); I could not find MapLS declared in winbase.h in any of the SDKs I have here. However I found it in win_me/inc16/thunks.h in an old DDK (Microsoft Windows 2000 DDK) but the declaration was: DWORD WINAPI MapLS(DWORD); But this being what looks like a 16bit include it probably does not mean much. So that leaves the questions of whether my latest SDK is recent enough (6.0.6001.18000.367-20080205), and why Wine declares MapLS in winbase.h. -- Francois Gouget <fgouget(a)free.fr> http://fgouget.free.fr/ A particle is an irreducible representation of the Poincaré Group - Eugene Wigner

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Re: (try 2)advapi32: base implementation of LsaLookupNames2
by Paul Vriens 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

Aric Stewart wrote: > > fix tests for win95 > --- > dlls/advapi32/lsa.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > dlls/advapi32/tests/lsa.c | 82 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > 2 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Hi Aric, Just tested this on W2K. All functions but LsaLookupNames2 are available on W2K. This means now all tests (even though there were only 6) are skipped. Not sure it's worth the effort but maybe it's better to test for the existence of LsaLookupNames2 in the appropriate test only? -- Cheers, Paul.

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[AppDB] Entry for Everquest 2
by Ben Klein 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

I just noticed that the entry for "Everquest II", the sequel to "Everquest", is listed as version 2 under "Everquest" in AppDB. This is incorrect, as the sequel is not a new version of the original game, it is a new game. Can someone help me fix it? I'd delete the version but there's quite a bit of test data there. I've CC'd the version maintainers.

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Re: shell32/tests: Fix a test on Win2k platform and above.
by Paul Vriens 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

Nicolas Le Cam wrote: > Try2: Follow Vincent Povirk's suggestion of removing calls to > SetWindowLongPtr before destroying windows > > Could someone test this patch on Win9x or WinNT ? > > On Win2k (and according to test.winehq.org on above platforms) an > ABN_POSCHANGED message is sent to the last window that is removed. > > This patch change the ok to a win_skip in this case. > > Tell me if you have a better solution. > > Nicolas Le Cam > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Hi, The "got unexpected ABN_POSCHANGED notification" messages I had before are now gone on my Win95 and NT4 boxes. (It was intermittent before on NT4 btw.) -- Cheers, Paul.

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Summer of Code 2009 is on
by Kai Blin 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

Hi folks, Wine has been accepted into the Google Summer of Code 2009. If you're a student interested in working on Wine and getting some money (and a cool t-shirt) for it, consider applying. If there is any project you still want to see on http://wiki.winehq.org/SummerOfCode, add it now. If you're a Wine developer and tou want to mentor, let me know. Cheers, Kai -- Kai Blin WorldForge developer http://www.worldforge.org/ Wine developer http://wiki.winehq.org/KaiBlin Samba team member http://www.samba.org/samba/team/ -- Will code for cotton.

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Re: advapi32: base implementation of LsaLookupNames2
by Paul Vriens 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

Aric Stewart wrote: > --- > dlls/advapi32/lsa.c | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > dlls/advapi32/tests/lsa.c | 75 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 2 files changed, 125 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Hi, LsaFreeMemory and LsaLookupNames2 are not available on at least Win95. Please use GetProcAddress for the second one. LsaFreeMemory is already taken care of and should be prefixed with a 'p'. The tests will not run on Win95 but it avoids those nasty popups and makes sure the rest of advapi32 is tested. -- Cheers, Paul.

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