December 2003 - Wine-Devel - list.winehq.org

Wine/Agent freezes with deadkeys
by Gerhard W. Gruber Dec. 26, 2003

Dec. 26, 2003

I' m running KDE 3.1.4 and as keyboard I have the US w/deadkeys activated to get german umlauts. I noticed frequent freezes in Agent when I typed new messages and now I know when it happens. I have to press the ' or " key in order to get accented chracters or Umlaute. When I press this key Agent freezes, I can see a defunct wine prozess and I have to kill the wineserver. I haven' t seen anything on the console though. No errormessage or nothing. Now I switched to normal US keyboard and, as you can see above, I can use these characters. -- Gerhard Gruber Maintainer of SoftICE for Linux - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pice Fast application launcher - http://sourceforge.net/projects/launchmenu

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dphnpast.dll
by Tom Dec. 26, 2003

Dec. 26, 2003

Hello, Is this a suitable link for dpnhpast docs?? http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/directx9_c… Anyone here care to comment on this? or have a good doc link to dpnhpast :-) Tom

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Using help files of windows programs
by Zimler Attila Dec. 25, 2003

Dec. 25, 2003

Hi, I have a (of course a legal) Borland C++ Builder. Could I use somehow the help files from it? (wo rebooting to windows) Attila

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d3dim.dll
by Tom Dec. 25, 2003

Dec. 25, 2003

Hello, On the Status page should I go with this Doc url: http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article869.asp That has many links and one that points to: http://iki.fi/sol/tut2.html Or just go with: http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/dnardir3d/… Anyone care to say wich of the two are better? Tom

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d3dim.dll
by Tom Dec. 25, 2003

Dec. 25, 2003

Hello, On the Status page should I go with this Doc url: http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article869.asp That has many links and one that points to: http://iki.fi/sol/tut2.html Or just go with: http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/dnardir3d/… Anyone care to say wich of the two are better? Tom

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Re: Easy IE installer script
by Ivan Leo Murray-Smith Dec. 24, 2003

Dec. 24, 2003

>It may be that installing IE under Wine at all is outside the IE license. I've been told by M$ Italy that if I have a windows license for my pc, I can install any M$ windows OS component, such as media player or IE, even if windows is not installed. The important thing is that one must have the license, that's why I think the script should get the files from the windows CD. Ivan.

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Re: Easy IE installer script
by Ivan Leo Murray-Smith Dec. 24, 2003

Dec. 24, 2003

>It may be that installing IE under Wine at all is outside the IE license. I've been told by M$ Italy that if I have a windows license for my pc, I can install any M$ windows OS component, such as media player or IE, even if windows is not installed. The important thing is that one must have the license, that's why I think the script should get the files from the windows CD. Ivan.

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Frustration
by Zimler Attila Dec. 24, 2003

Dec. 24, 2003

Hi, I'm triing to find an error to work on. I was happy that so many people gave me hints on what should be fix. I tried to understand things but, it seems that this is to big thing for me at this moment. Could somebody assign me a little task in a bigger which (s)he is working on? And explain details on that. It seems that I need a "virtual" boss while learning wine hacking. Attila

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Re: Easy IE installer script
by Ivan Leo Murray-Smith Dec. 24, 2003

Dec. 24, 2003

> I have an Idea > > What is the version of VC++ you have? > > What if you write and compile let's say, a small app that uses MFC and > IE, using the VC++ tool-chain. Than you are a legal distributer of M$ > software, end of problem. Do you want that I send you a small windows > app that uses MFC and embeds an IE control that displays an embedded > HTML page. This could be the final step in the installation where you > actually test the installation. It can be a nice HTML with links to the > site and other nice links like winehq.org > > About a windows only platforms. They had such an illegal clause in VC6 > but they fixed it fast in SP3 and up. If you have VC6 than the SP5 is > free (I think). I've never heard of a license fee for a SP, so it should be free. This sound at last like a reasnoble solution, even if it could be kept M$ free by using the users windows CD. > > By the way, I'll check it later, but I think that if you use IE in your > application than you are allowed to also distribute the IE setup, > provided that you use the original M$ setup where the user presses on > the Agree to the M$ EULA You would need a redistributable, but it isn't on the M$ download site, so I'm not sure it exists. This is really not an issue, as the user can download it from M$. You could use the example of the NTFS captive driver, just ask the user if he has a windows license, if he answers yes, download the setup from the M$ web site, and if the user doesn't have a license it's his problem. Also M$ can't claim the download is illegal, as they host it. Ivan.

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Useful document on critical sections
by Mike Hearn Dec. 24, 2003

Dec. 24, 2003

Hi, I found this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/12/CriticalSections/ There are two points of interest that we don't seem to cover: * RtlpWaitForCriticalSection will NOT block if the process is shutting down and the wait is on the loader lock. I've seen a fair few times when an app deadlocks on shutdown on the loader lock - could this be the cause? * The loader lock is stored at offset 0xA0 in the PEB. I doubt this is important, but now the info is published murphies law says one day an app will try and get to it directly. thanks -mike

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