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

Re: where do I go to find out who needs help

by Francois Gouget

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Andreas Mohr wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:09:20AM -0700, Sean Callahan wrote: > > Hi, > > I want to do some work for this project who do I mail > > Regards, > > seanie(a)www.com > Well, I'd say that depends on what you're able to do ;-) > > At the moment I could imagine e.g. the following items: > - web server maintenance/update work > - improvement of documentation (this badly needs fixing !!) > - dlls/shlwapi/reg.c: implementation of user-specific registry stuff > (e.g. needed by IE 5) > > Multiple choice time :-) Hmmm, I think I can also find a list of bugs in bugzilla that could easily be fixed by someone new to Wine: Easy: * Builtin msvcrt mishandles the cmdline to argv conversion #234: http://wine.codeweavers.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234 This prevents 'wine /mnt/win/Program\ Files\whatever\foo.exe' from working if you're using the builtin msvcrt! * I'm almost 100% certain that there's another bug in the same function in its handling of the environment variable. * PrgWin95/98: System metrics differ from the Win9x values #48: http://wine.codeweavers.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48 One day I'll fix this one... I swear. Unless you want to work on it first. In that case I'll provide you with my test application and dumps of the metrics for Win95, Win98, NT4, ... * The doc about the command line arguments and the config file is out of date. I'm sure there are plenty of other things that are out of date. * Get the VXCL samples, test them with Wine and report the bugs in the bugzilla database. I know there's lots of them. Then people (or yourself) can start fixing these bugs in a distributed fashion. * PrgWin95: Listbox getting a recessed border instead of a flat one #56: http://wine.codeweavers.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56 (I can provide you with the sample application) * I think it would be nice to add a tool that displays the dlls version information like 'About' does in the windows explorer. I have some code you could use as a starting point and I think it could be merged with winver. In fact this would be almost stabdard windows programming. * There's a bug in the drawing of the border of the common control tabs. Fixing each of the four instances of the code is easy. It would be interesting to find a way to factorize some of this code. Medium (I expect these would take longer or be a bit harder) * Provide a pedump utility #91: http://wine.codeweavers.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91 I know there's sample code that does that already floating around so it should be relatively simple. * wrc fails on preprocessed files #115: http://wine.codeweavers.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115 I believe it's just a grammar problem. You'll need to know (or to get cozy with) lex/yacc... * CreateIcon does not resize bitmaps #175: http://wine.codeweavers.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=175 I did a similar fix somewhere some time ago. I can provide a sample application and I might be able to point you in the right direction. * winemaker: 'winemaker --nomfc' does not have the intended effect #227: http://wine.codeweavers.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227 * winemaker: Ignores the '--with-{mfc,wine}' options once they are cached #225: http://wine.codeweavers.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225 If you're familiar with autoconf and know how configure scripts should behave... * StrokePath ignores PS_JOIN_xxx #11: http://wine.codeweavers.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11 This should not be too difficult to fix but it would certainly help if you are familiar with GDI. * Checking the differences between what's in the Windows dlls and what's in our spec files... and fix the contents of our spec files as appropriate. I already have a list of all the APIs in each of the dlls for Win95, Win98, NT4 and Wine2000, plus a script that can show the differences. * Enhancing the above perl script. But let us know also what kind of work you would like to do and what kind of things you're best at: - C programming - Debugging - Windows programming - tweaking shell scripts - writing/fixing documentation - doing web stuff It also depends on what motivates you: getting an application to work, implementing some new functionality, getting applications to compile, fixing scripts, fixing documentation or writing new documentation... And the last parameter is how much time you have for Wine work. In any case it's probably better to start with something simple to see if you like it. -- Francois Gouget fgouget(a)free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/ The nice thing about meditation is that it makes doing nothing quite respectable -- Paul Dean

May 9, 2001

Re: Add missing newline to WARN messages

by Francois Gouget

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: > "Francois Gouget" <fgouget(a)free.fr> wrote: > > > * I scanned the source for TRACE/WARN/ERR/FIXME statements without a > > terminating newline. There are few cases where this is justified because > > of following DPRINTFs. But most of the time there should be a \n > > otherwise the trace will not be flushed to disk immediately and the logs > > will look bad. > > You forgot to remove redundant ' around %s in the traces when output is made > by debugstr_a or debugstr_w. Actually you removed some of them, but not all. Yes, I was not scanning specifically for that. I may have noticed one or two and fixed as I went, but I probably fixed very very few (just one?). And it's probably not as bad (it doesn't delay the printing of the trace). Also the problem is to find a grep that yields a usable list of places to check. Ah. Found something that could work: $ wg . "'%s'" | egrep "\) *; *$" | grep debugstr_ | wc -l 10 $ wg . "'%s'" | egrep -v "\) *; *$" | wc -l 142 (wg is my recursive grep script) But it's nice to see you volunteer for this work ;-) -- Francois Gouget fgouget(a)free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/ La terre est une bêta...

May 9, 2001

Re: PRESS: CodeWeavers: crossover plugins windows / linux

by Lee Johnson

YES is all i can say :)good work team :) lee -== Marcus Meissner wrote: > Hi, > > The EETimes has an article about CodeWeavers current project, which appears > to bring some Windows Browser plugins to Linux. > > http://www.eet.com/story/OEG20010508S0061 > > Ciao, Marcus

May 9, 2001

Re: where do I go to find out who needs help

by Andreas Mohr

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:09:20AM -0700, Sean Callahan wrote: > Hi, > I want to do some work for this project who do I mail > Regards, > seanie(a)www.com Well, I'd say that depends on what you're able to do ;-) At the moment I could imagine e.g. the following items: - web server maintenance/update work - improvement of documentation (this badly needs fixing !!) - dlls/shlwapi/reg.c: implementation of user-specific registry stuff (e.g. needed by IE 5) Multiple choice time :-) Andreas Mohr

May 9, 2001

Re: Add missing newline to WARN messages

by Dmitry Timoshkov

"Francois Gouget" <fgouget(a)free.fr> wrote: > * I scanned the source for TRACE/WARN/ERR/FIXME statements without a > terminating newline. There are few cases where this is justified because > of following DPRINTFs. But most of the time there should be a \n > otherwise the trace will not be flushed to disk immediately and the logs > will look bad. You forgot to remove redundant ' around %s in the traces when output is made by debugstr_a or debugstr_w. Actually you removed some of them, but not all.

May 9, 2001

Re: Re: Stupid winedbg question

by Mike McCormack

Cutting and pasting in winedbg's xterm only works for me if i hold the shift key down when doing it. Dunno why. i've got more serious problems with winedbg... when exceptions are thrown on critical sections, winedbg starts, but then itself gets stuck on _the same_ critical section. Happens all the time with netscape... i've applied Marcus's patch and i'll see if that reduces the frequency of failures, but it probably won't help winedbg's problems. Mike > > Francois Gouget wrote: > > > > > > A backtrace for instance. Or how do I copy/paste anything to/from any > > > console application for that matter. > > > > > > > Select the text you want to copy and click with your middle mouse button > > (mouse button 2) wherever you want to paste it. > > Nope. I tried that, of course, and it doesn't work. ------------------------------------------ mailto:Mike_McCormack(a)looksmart.com.au ph +82 16 430 0425 __________________________________________________________________ Get your own free web email at http://www.looksmart.com.au LookSmart Australia

May 9, 2001

PRESS: GameSpy: Ports vs. WINE

by Marcus Meissner

Hi, Gamespy has an article regarding whether Games should be ported to Linux or emulated using WINE. Introduces porting Companies and Transgaming, then procedes to give statements from Gavriel, Michael Simms (CEO of TuxGames), Scott Draeker (Loki Games President), ... Except Gavriel (of course) all take on major flaming Wine, WineX and TransGaming. http://www.gamespy.com/articles/may01/wine/ Ciao, Marcus

May 9, 2001

PRESS: CodeWeavers: crossover plugins windows / linux

by Marcus Meissner

Hi, The EETimes has an article about CodeWeavers current project, which appears to bring some Windows Browser plugins to Linux. http://www.eet.com/story/OEG20010508S0061 Ciao, Marcus

May 9, 2001

Re: Add missing newline to WARN messages

by Francois Gouget

Here's the list of weird traces: dlls/comctl32/datetime.c:221 dlls/comctl32/datetime.c:224 It looks like the goal was to print stuff on the same line in multiple steps (one TRACE has a '\n' at the beginning) but no DPRINTF is used. Also I'm not sure we would always end up printing a '\n'. Add '\n's everywhere? objects/region.c:908 objects/region.c:911 objects/region.c:918 objects/region.c:936 The '\n' usage is inconsistent. Put '\n's everywhere? dlls/ole32/compositemoniker.c:340 There's a DPRINTF I'm not sure of but there's also (comment by me): { FIXME("()\n"); /* FIXME: To whoever wrote this code: It's either return or break. it cannot be both! */ break; return E_NOTIMPL; } I would say that it should be a return but I'm not 100% sure. Anyone familiar with this code? -- Francois Gouget fgouget(a)free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/ Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry, he'll be a mile away - and barefoot.

May 9, 2001

Re: Stupid winedbg question

by Francois Gouget

On Tue, 8 May 2001, Ian Pilcher wrote: > Francois Gouget wrote: > > > > A backtrace for instance. Or how do I copy/paste anything to/from any > > console application for that matter. > > > > Select the text you want to copy and click with your middle mouse button > (mouse button 2) wherever you want to paste it. Nope. I tried that, of course, and it doesn't work. More context: Winedbg is configured to open a new xterm, and it gives it a title of 'Wine console'. But if I try to select text like you would do with any self-respecting xterm, nothing happens: - the text is not highlighted in any way - the clipboard is not modified The same goes if I select something in an xterm and try to paste it in winedbg. I can click with the middle mouse button all I want, no text appears in the 'Wine console'. There's another anomaly. When winedbg is started via the 'just-in-time' debugging feature - it displays all lines in a stair-case fashion. It's as if it was missing a CR (no, I cannot copy/paste an example). - The 'Enter' key does not work. All other keys seem to work fine. I can type 'b', I can use backspace to erase it and type 'quit' instead. But typeing 'Enter' has no effect. Pretty limiting. Here is what I have in 'user.reg': [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Wine\\WineDbg] 973626765 [Software\\Wine\\WineDbg] 988436772 "BreakAllThreadsStartup"=dword:00000000 "BreakOnAttach"=dword:00000000 "BreakOnCritSectTimeOut"=dword:00000001 "BreakOnDllLoad"=dword:00000000 "BreakOnFirstChance"=dword:00000001 "ConChannelMask"=dword:00000001 "ExtDbgOnInvalidAddress"=dword:00000000 "StdChannelMask"=dword:00000000 "UseXTerm"=dword:00000001 I'm running Debian testing, xterm: 4.0.2-13 (same for all the other X packages), and I'm using wine from CVS (but older versions have the same problem) -- Francois Gouget fgouget(a)free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/ Computers are like airconditioners They stop working properly if you open WINDOWS

May 9, 2001