February 2001 - Wine-Devel - list.winehq.org

Re: Strange window message / queue behaviour
by gerard patel Feb. 5, 2001

Feb. 5, 2001

At 12:00 AM 6/2/01 +0100, you wrote: >last paragraph), there's also the possibility that Windows recognizes that >it's a message known to contain pointers, and so just drops the message, >so that EM_GETSEL is simply never dispatched? Indeed under NT4 such a call is discarded by Windows (returns 0, error is set to ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER) Gerard

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Re: annoying EndDialog "feature"
by gerard patel Feb. 5, 2001

Feb. 5, 2001

At 02:38 PM 5/2/01 -0600, you wrote: >Well, examining how Windows does it can be done, >but I don't think it's too useful, as I think that the current approach >with that fix should work fine. > >> Now I think I see : this can only be useful if EndDialog is called from >> another thread, right ? If yes, you really *should* mention this in the >> remark before the code. No need to be mysterious IMHO. >I don't think the "other thread" is important. >What is important is the fact that if we don't get frequent messages, >the dialog will stay open without that fix. Well, if the current thread is active, it's in the dialog code I guess since DialogBox is, well, modal. And if it's in the dialog code, the code run should be in dialog box procedure, so it should be in a message handling. So any EndDialog is followed by a return to the dialog loop. I am not quite sure of that, though. >Windows definitely does NOT do it this way, of course >(well, I'd be surprised if it actually did ;-). >This is just a (crude, if you want) hack to make it work. >And I figured sending WM_NULL shouldn't hurt. >I'm open to suggestions on how to rewrite the whole dialog handling >(e.g. to do it like Windows), but I don't think it matters at all >at the moment. >There are much more important things to do. Possibly, but it's important at least to add a comment saying that it is a hack.... Correct documentation can wait you think ? Wine is full of strange code that nobody knows why it's here already :-/ Gerard

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Corel Draw for Linux
by Uwe Bonnes Feb. 5, 2001

Feb. 5, 2001

Hallo, somebidy fronm the local Linux User Group desperatlly looks for Corel Draw for Linux in Germany. He wasn't able to find anything? Looking araound only brings misleading Corel statements. Does anybody know what is the status of Corel Draw for Linux? Any source in Germany? Bye 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: annoying EndDialog "feature"
by gerard patel Feb. 5, 2001

Feb. 5, 2001

At 10:37 AM 5/2/01 -0600, you wrote: >> I can't see this WM_NULL with Winsight. Maybe it's a bug in >> Winsight :-/, but are you sure it's not some framework that is >> sending it ? >Hmm, what are you talking about ? > >And I don't quite understand what you're investigating here... ;-) *I* don't understand what it is supposed to fix. Using Winsight was a rather brainless attempt to see what is happening under Windows. Now I think I see : this can only be useful if EndDialog is called from another thread, right ? If yes, you really *should* mention this in the remark before the code. No need to be mysterious IMHO. Anyway, I tested your patch with a thread I launched before the DialogBox call; after 15" of sleep the thread is calling EndDialog. To add fun I added a WM_NULL handler in the dialog procedure to display a MessageBox; under Windows the MessageBox does not fire, under Wine with your patch, it does (test app available) So probably Windows does not do it this way (or the WM_NULL message is filtered). It probably does not matter much, granted. Gerard

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wine-patches working?
by Ian Pilcher Feb. 5, 2001

Feb. 5, 2001

Is anyone else not getting stuff that's sent to wine-patches? -- ======================================================================== Ian Pilcher pilcher(a)concentric.net ========================================================================

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Re: annoying EndDialog "feature"
by gerard patel Feb. 5, 2001

Feb. 5, 2001

At 08:52 PM 30/1/01 +0100, you (Andreas Mohr) wrote: <snip> >Just send WM_NULL to unblock the dialog's message loop after setting DF_END. I can't see this WM_NULL with Winsight. Maybe it's a bug in Winsight :-/, but are you sure it's not some framework that is sending it ? Gerard

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recording sound?
by Thomas Flynn Feb. 5, 2001

Feb. 5, 2001

Has anyone tried recording sound? It works fine under Linux (with grecord for example), but I have I windows app that does a pretty simple record and playback. Audio playing is fine, but recording fails (I get a stupid meaningless windows dialog that says recording failed and that the error code was -8602 or something). I was just wondering if perhaps recording hasn't been touched yet, or whether I had run across a special case that isn't handled yet. thanks, tom -- "Mongooses are famous for their snake-fighting ability, and are almost always victorious because of their speed, agility, and timing and also because of their thick coat."

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Re: debugger fix
by Mike McCormack Feb. 5, 2001

Feb. 5, 2001

Hi John, As i understand, Alexandre wants to get rid of the service thread completely. He rejected an async i/o patch of mine that used the service thread on these grounds. The server would also need to wait on the service thread somehow... something else that might be frowned upon. i'm pretty sure that currently there isn't any way to do this except use the service thread though :-( Perhaps it'd be nice to tie up all these memory issues with some kind of kernel patch... a way to read/write and generally mess with another process's memory that was broader and more efficient that p-trace. Mike > Is there any reason _not_ to use the service > thread of the target process to perform cross-process ? > virtualAlloc/Protect etc? > > Jon ------------------------------------------ mailto:Mike_McCormack(a)looksmart.com.au ph +61 2 9427 2196 __________________________________________________________________ Get your own free web email at http://www.looksmart.com.au LookSmart Australia

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Reverse engineering court decision
by Paul E. Merrell Feb. 4, 2001

Feb. 4, 2001

"Hypothetically, similar efforts taken by others to reverse-engineer Microsoft Windows could be deemed justifiable if the aim of those efforts were to make other companies' programs, designed for Windows, run on an operating system other than Windows. This assumes that the 9th Circuit ruling holds up." <http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/security/news/PIT20010123S0001/1?s…> -- Paul E. Merrell, E-Mail: pem(a)televar.com WordPerfect Links: http://www.wpwin.com/links.html WordPerfect Linux Links: http://www.qwkscreen.com/WPLinuxLinks.html WP8 FAQ: http://w3.one.net/~kgibson/wp8faq.htm WP7 Help: http://home.earthlink.net/~tlhuffman/wp7/wp7help.htm Search WP web sites: http://www.wpwriter.com/You_Find_the_Answer/you_find_the_answer.html

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Re: debugger fix
by Jon Griffiths Feb. 4, 2001

Feb. 4, 2001

> So, does anyone have a hint on how to go about supporting > VirualProtectEx/VirtualQueryEx on other provesses? Looking into this, the VirtualEx functions work within the address space of the target process. At user level I can't see any way to support this from the sever or any other process external to the target. What I had in mind was a service thread request that would have the target process preform the call itself. Is there any reason _not_ to use the service thread of the target process to perform cross-process virtualAlloc/Protect etc? Jon -- "Don't wait for the seas to part, or messiahs to come, Dont you sit around and waste this chance ..." -Live tntjpgriff(a)tsnxt.co.uk , jon_p_griffiths(a)yahoo.com

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