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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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Re: Software patents
by gslink Aug. 24, 2005

Aug. 24, 2005

The whole business of software patents is very likely to explode at any time. There are several software patents on cds and dvds which are so vague that it is impossible to tell exactly what is going on. The licenses to use these patents allow the company issuing the patent to control cd content and to examine it. The first time one of these companies tries to use the license to access DOD classified information there will be a resolution. The easiest way to resolve this business with Borland is to contact Borland. They may also have an interest in Wine. If they have no objection to what Wine wants to do then there is no one else to complain. They might even help Wine. Borland probably doesn't even realize that Wine exists although some of the people in Borland are probably very familiar with it. I think you will find this to be true of all big software companies such as IBM and Microsoft.

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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: Flush serial port
by Alexandre Julliard Aug. 1, 2005

Aug. 1, 2005

Uwe Bonnes <bon(a)elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> writes: > Changelog: > wine/server/file.c: create_file() > If we open a serial device, flush it This should be done in serial.c, but could you please explain why this is necessary? -- Alexandre Julliard julliard(a)winehq.org

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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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Re: shell32: Printers folder
by Martin Fuchs July 8, 2005

July 8, 2005

Is there some problem with this patch? Seems it's not yet committed, and I could not find any answer mail about it. http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-patches/2005/04/0127.html On 12.04.2005 13:13:27 Huw D M Davies wrote: > This depends on 'shell32: Add unicode pidl type' > Huw Davies <huw(a)codeweavers.com> > Add a printers folder. > -- > Huw Davies > huw(a)codeweavers.com

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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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Steam Problems
by Ivan Gyurdiev June 30, 2005

June 30, 2005

I am experiencing two problems w/ Steam: 1) It's always on top of all other windows,on all workspaces of GNOME, which is very annoying, and makes it impossible to try HL2. If clicked while HL2 is on startup screen it will crash the game. 2) If you click on any game, go to Update News, it will crash every time. If there are Update News when Steam is started, it will crash (but it will work after that). Here's the output, although it doesn't look very helpful to me: ALSA lib control.c:739:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL plug:hw:0 err:mmio:MMIO_ParseExtA No . in szFileName: "" err:mmio:MMIO_ParseExtA No . in szFileName: "C:\\Program Files\\Valve\ \Steam\\" fixme:sync:CreateIoCompletionPort (0xffffffff, (nil), 00000000, 00000000): stub. fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID {4955dd33-b159-11d0-8fcf-00aa006bcc59}, hres is 0x80040154 Win32 MiniDump Helper version 1.0.0.0 (c) Copyright 2000-2003 Valve Corporation All rights reserved. Expected argument 'ProcessId'. Usage: WriteMiniDump [@argfile] [/?|h|help] [/v|version] [/Type <value>] <ProcessId> <DumpFile> @argfile Read arguments from a file. /? Show usage. /v Show version. /Type <value> Select dump type values are: normal full ProcessId Select process id for which to generate a dump DumpFile Select path of output dump file Shutting down. . . 1 -- Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2(a)cornell.edu> Cornell University

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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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Re: Translate the WineFAQ to French
by Dimitrie Paun June 17, 2005

June 17, 2005

From: "Francois Gouget" <fgouget(a)codeweavers.com> > [...] here's a patch to translate the > Wine FAQ to French using the new po4a/ directory. OK, I've applied the patch to make your life easier, but it needs a lot of work: A. It doesn't work for me (details below) B. The po-rules need to be moved to Make.rules.in C. We need to get rid of the .posgml and sed hack Let's fix these before we put in more translations. So, in reverse order: C. We can do so by patching po4a-translate to do the replacement itself, from within perl. This should also get rid of the .posgml B. They need to be in the same format as the other rules in Make.rules.in (eg .sgml.txt) A. I think we need to check in the generated .sgml too to make it simple to use, so others don't have to go through the pain. Look: [dimi(a)dimi fr]$ make updatepo cd ../en && PERLLIB=../po4a/lib perl ../po4a/po4a-updatepo -f sgml -m wine-faq.s gml -p ../fr/wine-faq.po perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "fr" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). Can't locate Locale/gettext.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ../po4a/lib /usr/lib/perl 5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5. 8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i386-linux-thread-mul ti /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_pe rl/5.8.2/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-threa d-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/si te_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3 /usr /lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_pe rl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-th read-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/per l5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2/i3 86-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi / usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_pe rl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3 /usr/ lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/vend or_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at ../po4a/lib/Locale/Po4a/Common.pm line 32. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../po4a/lib/Locale/Po4a/Common.pm line 32. Compilation failed in require at ../po4a/lib/Locale/Po4a/TransTractor.pm line 21 . BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../po4a/lib/Locale/Po4a/TransTractor.pm lin e 21. Compilation failed in require at ../po4a/lib/Locale/Po4a/Po.pm line 59. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../po4a/lib/Locale/Po4a/Po.pm line 59. Compilation failed in require at ../po4a/po4a-updatepo line 117. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../po4a/po4a-updatepo line 117. make: *** [wine-faq.updatepo] Error 2 -- Dimi Paun <dimi(a)lattica.com> Lattica, Inc.

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