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The status of the wintab dll
by Robert North Dec. 24, 2007

Dec. 24, 2007

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I think after the 10 or more patches to the Wintab dll that I submitted last month, I should say something about it's status... And of course thank Alexandre for applying those patches. P.S. I won't be available from the 15th for about a week or so. So, if you have any questions, I'm afraid you might have to be patient. Hope this is of interest to someone -Rob. ******Applications: Current status*********** ***In Painter 5 *Cursor pressure works. (Therefore is usable by most) *Cursor orientation is a little odd: The orientation maths needs to be re-done. *No eraser. Haven't yet cracked what enables the eraser. *Doesn't work in desktop mode: Need to map to desktop coordinates. *Repeats windows bugs where cursor looses pressure/orientation info almost bug for bug (Is this a feature? ;-) *Cannot detect pressure/orientation int the "Brush Tracking" window: The tablet context is attached to the main window, so no events get to the popup, even if they overlap. This is not how windows wintab functions. ***In Photoshop 6. *Can only get tablet data in desktop mode: This is because the tablet context is attached to the desktop. Which generates/receives no wine events outside desktop mode. * Eraser and pen pressure working. *But* to get them working, you must have 3 XInput devices listed in your XF86Config file, They need to be the last entries in the "ServerLayout" section and the following order: eraser, tablet mouse. This is a far from ideal way of specifying the devices Wintab should use :-/ I'll document this if someone can point me to a good place to put the docs. *******To Do************* 1. Look at X11 errors. There appear to be some errors that deny some users the ability to access Wintab enabled apps. (I think I know how to fix this) 2. Improve orientation data. Orientation comes in as X-Y coords (Implicit Z), and has to leave as spherical coords. This calculation needs to be re-done. 3. When tablet context is on top, let it read XInput events from all the app's top-level windows. (This simulates the fact that the context is usually designed to cover the whole screen) 4. When tablet context is attached to desktop, read XInput events from all the app's top-level windows. 5. Tests ~ --My current philosophy on tests is... ~ Use Photoshop & Painter, any formal tests ~ can be written if anyone else gets involved in patching Wintab, to avoid regressions, and conflict. **********Long term to do (Anyone interested?):********* There's a lot of work that could be done here, but what gets done and who does it probably depends upon whether anyone finds an app that needs these features. I'd love to implement these, but realistically, I don't foresee doing this unless someone hires me to do so ;) 1. Improve configuration of wintab. Wintab could probably do with some information entered into the config file, to avoid the user having to hack their Xfree86cfg file. 2. Handle Z-Order of context properly. This entails *sharing Z-Order between apps. *Working out exactly what role windows have in determining tablet context z-orders. *Allow tablet contexts that don't cover the whole screen/tablet. *Handle inter-application clipping of tablet contexts *Allow all application's windows to receive tablet events when tablet context is on top 3. Implement non-system tablet contexts (Where system cursor not moved by pen or mouse) 4. Unicodify 5. Implement various wintab extensions. 6. Implement wintab manager functions. 7. Tests. *********Unknowns********* 1. How are wintab contexts are raised lowered? Contexts have their own z-order independent of windows, and their own viewport concept, based upon the tablet's coordinate system, not that of the OS. It appears that entering, or clicking on the window the tablet context is attached to will raise/lower the context. But I haven't done much testing on this. In particular, what happens if more than one app request their tablet context is attached to the desktop? 2. How Painter detects the eraser. Have 3 possibilities i. Windows can detect an eraser, and sends specific messages. (I'm sure I've seen this, but can't work out where!) ii. Only works if tablet and cursors are named correctly. (Probably linked to wacom tablets only). iii. I've missed something 3. Requirements of other applications -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCC8zI2vfwxdLxwWYRAsisAJ4q2gAYTgRc6f9wDI+Ruv943eDxOQCfcl3s /ZKMUGwQOuw/SIIbOkIUbd0= =R4M7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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ownerdraw paint recursion in listbox
by Alexander Yaworsky Aug. 4, 2005

Aug. 4, 2005

Hello, recently i tried to install some application and it hung when i tried to select options. It uses listbox with ownerdraw items with checkboxes. When listbox is initially painted everything is ok. But when i try to select other item, an extra WM_PAINT is sent to listbox when application draws item. This causes infinite recursion. I've been implemented a simple workaround adding boolean to listbox structure but i have doubts. I briefly looked at some other controls and had not noticed similar countermeasures. Have somebody ever seen such behaviour? It would be interesting to test other controls sending WM_PAINT from ownerdraw handler but i'm short of time to do it soon. Should this workaround implemented in this way or something is wrong deeper with WM_PAINT handling? Thanks.

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Re: Add new "nrelay" debug channel - useful for debugging GPFs in target applications
by Alexandre Julliard July 14, 2005

July 14, 2005

Troy Rollo <wine(a)troy.rollo.name> writes: > Activate by setting WINEDEBUG=relay,nrelay > > Alternatives considered but rejected: > > - Having a config file option. When the config file options are read it is > already too late to prevent calls by and between kernel32.dll and > ntdll.dll from being logged. This option clearly belongs with the similar ones in the config file, probably even as a special case of RelayFromExclude. The fact that it doesn't work properly on startup is not a reason to invent a new mechanism, the other config options don't work on startup either, and this needs to be fixed. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard(a)winehq.org

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rpcrt4.dll NdrGetUserMarshalInfo() problem
by J. Grant July 2, 2005

July 2, 2005

Hello, I am getting the attached error when running an install of Overnet v0.52. Basically it cannot find NdrGetUserMarshalInfo(), despite it being in the dll at entry point: 77d43452h, order 199. Any ideas what this problem could be? I'm expecting this to be the symptom of some wider problem. Any help appreciated. Kind regards JG p.s. Is there any way to get these mangled function names to be displayed un-mangled please? c:\opt\overnet_0_52>overnet c:\opt\overnet_0_52>err:module:import_dll No implementation for MSVCRT.dll.??_U(a)YAPAXI@Z imported from L"C:\\opt\\overnet_0_52\\MSVCIRT.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef err:module:import_dll No implementation for MSVCRT.dll.??_V(a)YAXPAX@Z imported from L"C:\\opt\\overnet_0_52\\MSVCIRT.dll", setting to 0xdeadbeef -- Homepage: http://jguk.org/ Blog: http://jguk.org/index.html#blog Radio: http://jguk.org/index.html#radio

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lotus notes regression
by Paul R Streitman June 25, 2005

June 25, 2005

Patch 14725, applied 2004/12/07 11:31:53, breaks lotus notes. The symptom is a hang with the CPU at 100%, and it happens immediately if you try to click on a notes 'bookmark', or shortly after you try to do much of anything else if you try to avoid the 'bookmarks'. Sorry that it took me so long to report this, when I decided that it wasn't just a temporary instability I eventually had to iteratively compile (many) CVS snapshots to narrow down when the problem was introduced because I found it impossible to untangle the various patches that went in around that time frame. I also ran afoul of the jack problems near the end. I do not know how to narrow the problem down further. I tried running winedbg (at CVS level a couple of days ago), and that seems to be broken too -- it wanted to run things from the wine build tree? There are no unusual console messages or anything when the problem happens. Thanks, Paul z/OS core components development Internet: prs(a)us.ibm.com

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GetExitCodeProcess always returns 1
by Igor Sysoev May 5, 2005

May 5, 2005

2 years ago I reported that on FreeBSD Wine-20030508's GetExitCodeProcess() always returns 1: http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-devel/2003/06/0100.html It was fixed by patch: http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-devel/2003/06/0381.html and I used the patched Wine-20030508 all the time to run MSVC, OpenWatcom C, and Borland C in a command line. However, when I try to run dmc.exe, sc.exe, or make.exe from Digital Mars C/C++ Compiler, I always see the message: wine: Unhandled exception (thread 0009), starting debugger... I build Wine-20050310, but it has the same two problems: 1) GetExitCodeProcess() always returns 1 on FreeBSD 5.3, 2) and wine could not run Digital Mars C/C++ Compiler. Digital Mars C/C++ Compiler is could be downloaded here: http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html Igor Sysoev http://sysoev.ru/en/

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Re: Status and (nearby) future of wined3d
by Oliver Stieber April 20, 2005

April 20, 2005

--- Paul Vriens <Paul.Vriens(a)xs4all.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > what will happen to the wined3d stuff, now Oliver > has some 'problems' > staying on-line? > Thanks to everyone I should be ok for a while, now. > > If the sole reason for that is that it couldn't be > merged/applied to CVS > I could give it a try. But that's about the only > thing I can do > regarding wined3d stuff. > I've just merged with wine head and am about to resend the patches, and another couple for stateblocks and sampler states. After that there's vertex declarations and resource tracking, pointsprites , non-power2 textures, memory management, D3DPOOL_DEFAULT texture operations and a few more tidyups. Then I should have all the stable work synced with winehead. After that stateblocks need to be refactored to get offscreen textures, swapchains and multiple devices/threads working properly which may take a while to stabalise. A software vertex pipeline also needs writing to fill in the gaps in the hardware support which is faily easy, and d3d8 interfaces need to wrap up wined3d. Shaders needs moving across from d3d8 which is faily simple and shader 2.0 support needs writing which is a little tricker. > Cheers, > > Paul. > > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: Broken cross-build, again.
by Paul Vriens April 16, 2005

April 16, 2005

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 16:59, Paul Millar wrote: > I haven't worked on any of winetest's innards, so this is largely > guess work... > > On Wednesday 09 February 2005 13:22, you wrote: > > If I run winetest-200502091000-paul-mingw manually on my win98 box > > I get several messages "Can't parse subtests output of" for the > > following tests [...] > > just before the tests actually start. > > My guess is that winetest is attempting to run these tests, but that > they are dying straight away, with some error message. This error > message is not the expected output, hence the error messsage. > > [...] > > Does this mean that we have a deeper lying problem? > > Yes, obviously! The tests are failing and we have no mechanism for > detecting this. This, in itself, is a bug. > > > Or just that > > more tests are somehow not correct (in combination with mingw)? > > I've bundled the individual tests in: > http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/paulm/WRT/winetest-bin-20050209.zip > (its some 2.6MiB in size, though) > > I image you should be able to run the shlwapi test individually, which > should help narrow down the cause. > > HTH, > > Paul. Hi Paul, I've included wine-devel again as this must touch others as well. I wasn't able to run the shlwapi tests on my win98 box, by itself. Running this gives an error box: The SHLWAPI_.EXE file is linked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL:PathIsValidCharA and just for completeness sake: dsound: ... linked to missing export DSOUND.DLL:DirectSoundCreate8 mlang: ... linked to missing export NTDLL.DLL:atoi msvcrtd: A required .DLL, MSVCRTD.DLL, was not found ole32: ... linked to missing export NTDLL.DLL:atoi Cheers, Paul Vriens.

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Re: [MSVCRT] implement _mbsbtype
by Juan Lang April 5, 2005

April 5, 2005

Raphael wrote: > + if (!*str) { /** TODO: check *str validity */ > + return -1; /** _MBC_ILLEGAL */ > + } > + if (start == str && MSVCRT_isleadbyte(*str)) { > + return 1; /** _MBC_LEAD */ > + } > + if (start == str && MSVCRT_isleadbyte(str[-1])) { > + return 2; /**_MBC_TRAIL */ > + } > + > + return 0; /** _MBC_SINGLE */ Cool. How about patching mbctype.h with these constants too? --Juan __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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redirecting text to standard out
by Raphael Clifford April 5, 2005

April 5, 2005

Hi, I am running a windows app under wine that prints text to the screen. This can be copied and pasted into wine's notepad. Is there any way to get wine to simply output all text written by the app to standard out? This would save me a lot of hassle :) I don't mind if it outputs far too much (text from buttons etc) as I am planning on filtering the information in any case. It has been suggested to me to edit TextOut (or ExtTextOut) in dlls/gdi somewhere and simply add a printf. I had a look but this is the first time I have ever looked at wine source and I am completely baffled. Any help is very much appreciated. Cheers, Raphael

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