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[Bug 6836] Confusing Windows About Boxes
by Wine Bugs Dec. 6, 2006

Dec. 6, 2006

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6836 ------- Additional Comments From matthew.flaschen(a)gatech.edu 2006-06-12 03:20 ------- Created an attachment (id=4257) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=4257&action=view) Pinball about box on Wine -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.

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[Bug 6836] Confusing Windows About Boxes
by Wine Bugs Dec. 6, 2006

Dec. 6, 2006

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6836 ------- Additional Comments From matthew.flaschen(a)gatech.edu 2006-06-12 03:20 ------- Created an attachment (id=4256) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=4256&action=view) Minesweeper about box on Wine -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.

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[Bug 6836] Confusing Windows About Boxes
by Wine Bugs Dec. 6, 2006

Dec. 6, 2006

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6836 ------- Additional Comments From matthew.flaschen(a)gatech.edu 2006-06-12 03:20 ------- Created an attachment (id=4255) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=4255&action=view) Notepad about box on Windows -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.

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[Bug 6836] Confusing Windows About Boxes
by Wine Bugs Dec. 6, 2006

Dec. 6, 2006

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6836 ------- Additional Comments From matthew.flaschen(a)gatech.edu 2006-06-12 03:19 ------- Created an attachment (id=4254) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=4254&action=view) Pinball about box on Windows -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.

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[Bug 6836] Confusing Windows About Boxes
by Wine Bugs Dec. 6, 2006

Dec. 6, 2006

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6836 ------- Additional Comments From matthew.flaschen(a)gatech.edu 2006-06-12 03:19 ------- Created an attachment (id=4253) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=4253&action=view) Minesweeper about box on Windows -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.

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[Bug 6836] New: Confusing Windows About Boxes
by Wine Bugs Dec. 6, 2006

Dec. 6, 2006

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6836 Summary: Confusing Windows About Boxes Product: Wine Version: unspecified Platform: Other OS/Version: other Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: wine-binary AssignedTo: wine-bugs(a)winehq.org ReportedBy: matthew.flaschen(a)gatech.edu I realized (in the course of researching Bug 6834), that Wine shows its contributors in the about of certain programs that comes with Windows, such as Pinball, the original notepad, pinball, minesweeper, etc. All of these programs (and all the Windows operating system programs I tested) show a Wine credit (scroll bar with Wine contributors) in the about box; this may also be true of other programs using the same about box type. I will attach the about boxes from these three programs on Windows and Wine. In at least one case (original Notepad), there is no indication of the original copyright/authorship at all, and a careless read makes it seem like Wine wrote it! For Minesweeper, the authorship is included, but there is no copyright statement. For Pinball, there's a cutoff statement "3D Pinball Table created for Microsoft by [...]" (if you can't wait to see the attachments, it's Maxis). I really don't know for certain how this came about (and am not prepared to read the source right now), but I'll speculate. There's probably an API call that generates about screens. It seems the Wine version always shows the line after the copyright statement from the original (at least until it gets cutoff); this could be a parameter for the function. Regardless, I don't think this is fair. The Microsoft copyright statement should be generated in good faith. The original about boxes contain the full name of the program, the version, a generic Copyright (C) 1981-2001 (at least on those I tested) Microsoft Corporation. Then, some have more detailed authorship on the next line, such as "by Robert Donner and Curt Johnson". This is the only part that Wine interprets. After that, the Windows versions go on to say "This product is licensed under ... to <NAME>", and for no apparent reason the physical memory available. I'm guessing that this info is passed to an API call, but if not mostly equivalent info is present in the resource file (under Version-1) and could be manually parsed. In short, I think Wine should attempt to reproduce this info and should not take advantage of the API for free advertising. I definitely appreciate the very hard work of the wine developers, but I think the project is out of line here. At the very least, the original authorship and copyright should be displayed (ensuring that nothing's cut off). However, I don't think the contributors should be shown here. It makes it appear to the naive user that they helped write the program; in fact, they wrote a translation layer the program is currently (but was not designed to be) using (some of these people didn't even write any calls the program uses). There may be legal ramifications to this, if wine is viewed as creating a derivative work (doubtful); strict good-faith translation would be fair use, but this might not be. Either way, I don't think it's right. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.

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[Bug 6835] New: update wine 9.9 to 9.26...things go 'bump in the night'!
by Wine Bugs Dec. 6, 2006

Dec. 6, 2006

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6835 Summary: update wine 9.9 to 9.26...things go 'bump in the night'! Product: Wine Version: 0.9.26. Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: major Priority: P2 Component: wine-multimedia AssignedTo: wine-bugs(a)winehq.org ReportedBy: zonger(a)pcez.com Hi... the following is the error message received when starting the famed freeware Synth1 VST. Before updating wine from ubuntu 9.9 to 9.26, this ran stable every time, but now, this and several other vsts are crashdiving... (I renamed the program to s7, but the behaviour is consistant, both as user, and root, regardless of namechange. issue command fst s7.dll yo... lets see... The program 'fst' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)'. (Details: serial 15077 error_code 182 request_code 155 minor_code 7) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) Thi occurs as root and user, and if programs are on separate multiple desktops P3 256 ram mAudio 24/96 soundcard kernel 2.6.15 KDE 3.5.5 latest alsa ,qjackctl, jackd, lashd, fst, and now, Wine -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.

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[Bug 6831] BeginUpdateResource bug
by Wine Bugs Dec. 6, 2006

Dec. 6, 2006

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6831 support(a)softahead.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- URL|http://www.softahead.com/dow|http://www.softahead.com/dow |nloads/VerInfoLib.zip |nloads/UpdateVersion_with_no | |tepad.zip ------- Additional Comments From support(a)softahead.com 2006-06-12 02:44 ------- Hello Mike.. The attachment file is very short and simple. If you run this file with notepad.exe(which is included) on your wine environ, the version info of noptepad.exe will be changed. Type in "wine UpdateVersion" <return key>. Notepad.exe should be in the same directory. If this module displays any message at a runtime, that will be a bug. If no message, the bug is fixed.. Because I don¡¯t know a test environment of wine, so, this file will be compiled with vc++6.0(or vc++7.1) This is really simple and short, I think you can see this straightforwardly. Please :-) Source URL> http://www.softahead.com/downloads/UpdateVersion_with_notepad.zip -- Gordon. P.S.: I got this source from www.codeproject.com -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.

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[Bug 6834] Wine hides native executables completely
by Wine Bugs Dec. 6, 2006

Dec. 6, 2006

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6834 ------- Additional Comments From mike(a)codeweavers.com 2006-06-12 02:20 ------- You need to set the DllOverride for notepad.exe to "native", then it will work. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.

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[Bug 6834] New: Wine hides native executables completely
by Wine Bugs Dec. 6, 2006

Dec. 6, 2006

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6834 Summary: Wine hides native executables completely Product: Wine Version: 0.9.9. Platform: Other OS/Version: other Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: wine-binary AssignedTo: wine-bugs(a)winehq.org ReportedBy: matthew.flaschen(a)gatech.edu Wine implements explorer.exe, notepad, regedit, etc., and makes it impossible to access the original (packaged with Windows) versions of the programs. For example, if I navigate to my real windows partition, then go to windows/system32, I would expect that (/windows is also the mount-point for my windows partition; I set that up before I got wine): matthew(a)matthew-e1505:/windows/windows/system32$ wine ./notepad.exe would open the real notepad.exe. Instead it opens wine's version. I know wine can open the real notepad, because I copied it to the linux partition, renamed it (realnotepad.exe), and it ran fine. Shouldn't it be possible to run/try to run the original file? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.

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