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Re: Use IsWindowVisible instead of GetWindowLong(GWL_STYLE) & WS_VISIBLE as a test for desktop visibility
by Ferenc Wagner March 3, 2005

March 3, 2005

Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry(a)baikal.ru> writes: > let's see if IsWindowVisible() better detects a not visible desktop. Ah, fine, this may put some momentum into the situation! -- Feri.

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Printing in Wine (using "ttydrv" device)...
by Juergen Hammelmann March 3, 2005

March 3, 2005

Hi All, we are developing a windows/wine app for automation of MS Word (serial printing in background to PS files with the WINEPS driver on SuSE 9.2 platform, wine-20050211). We want to run this application and Word in background as server, no graphical output should occur in this environment, we don't like to install a X11-/VNC-Server on the server: Using "ttydrv" device I found out that all graphical output is disabled and wine can run without a X11 Server / VNC Server, this is prefered: but here graphical output of printing is disabled, too! The PS files created are blank! Is there any way to configure functioning printing with "ttydrv" device? Ferenc Wagner told me, that printing and graphical output is done through GDI both, so ttydrv as GDI backend disable this all!? Is this the right explanation? Is there any way to enable this for printing again? Best Regards, Jürgen

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Visual C++ 6.0 as a Winelib IDE?
by Ira Krakow March 3, 2005

March 3, 2005

I have Visual C++ 6.0 running under Crossover Office 4.1, which of course means it's running under Wine. For one of the examples in the Wine/Winelib book, I decided to take the code produced by the VC++ Win32 "Hello World" wizard and see how to port it to Wine. Turns out, it's almost trivial. Create an empty directory, copy the *.c, *.rc, *.h, and *.ico files to it. VC++ produces tons of other files, but they're either used to maintain the Visual Studio environment, or are intermediate compilation files that aren't needed. Then run: $ winemaker . The Makefile that Winemaker generates _almost_ works. You need to delete the references to the mfc library and mfc.dll. After doing that, running make generates the .so file. Wine runs it flawlessly. I got to thinking - can I convert the code from the MFC application as easily? Seems like it's doable, because the generated code runs in VC++/Crossover Office 4.1. I tried the same steps as before, with Winemaker, but I couldn't figure out what Makefile modifications were needed. All of this got me to thinking - could Wine running Visual C++ be a viable IDE for porting? Maybe just linking VC++ with the Winelib libraries would do it. Maybe after tweaking Winemaker and publishing a HOWTO we could show that this is a viable path? It's certainly easier than for Visual Studio developers and could help attract them to Wine. Another benefit - we could use the Visual C++ sample programs as tests for Wine. The programs might exercise areas that haven't been tested thoroughly. What do you think? Ira

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wine-user.pdf feedback
by Dan W. March 2, 2005

March 2, 2005

I think I have the answer why feedback to the wine-user.pdf has so far been disappointing: It's too well written. No questions to ask, almost. Actually, probably 90% of users try to get by without reading it. I saw a posting somwhere today, someone advising someone else about running the wine install, without mentioning uninstalling any old versions. The blind leading the blind. You need to put a big README!!!.TXT file somewhere, where it should say: "You choose: Spend 1 day reading wine-user.pdf, and another day setting it up; or spend a week trying to set it up, a month asking questions at the forums, a year in depression, then finally a day reading wine-user.pdf, and another day setting it up." But probably, the lucky 10% who read it never have any questions, so you don't hear from them. In my case, though, combining a high IQ and being a complete helpless newbie to Linux, is a powerful combination that produces questions out of nowhere. In the chapter about installing and un-installing, one small detail got left out: "How does one KNOW whether wine is installed, and if so what version it is?" I'm sure it must sound like typical newbie crap questions to you, but to me it's a solid and tangible one. Well, I do know that I do have wine installed, because when I installed Fedora Core 2, I said "install everything". Besides, I tried.. "wine /mnt/C/windows/notepad.exe" and it worked!!!! :-) :-) :-) But as for the version of wine I have, I have no idea how to find out. In Windows, I'd check the Add/remove programs, to see if it mentions the version, or I'd look in the installation folder for a readme.txt file. In Linux, not so easy: Even after doing a file search for "wine", I still can't tell what folder it is installed in, if indeed it is installed in ONE folder, and not many. Looks like many, by the looks of it... Or at least two: One under /usr/local, which only contains two files, another for documentation, elsewhere, and I saw a folder somewhere with alotof.dll.so files. Anyways, thank you for the great work you've done and are doing. Some day Historians will remember you like today we remember Leonardo, or whoever: How Humanity rid itself of a great monopoli threat. As newbie as I am in Linux, I'm the expert here at work. If I can get our Windows apps to run on Linux, I might succeed at having the company switch over. Wish me luck.

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vartest.c - major pain in the build process
by Krzysztof Foltman March 2, 2005

March 2, 2005

Is there any reason for gcc 3.3.1 to spend several minutes on compiling dlls/oleaut32/tests/vartest.c ? I guess it can be explained by optimization stage going nuts on compiling long functions with many branches (contained in the macros), but there must be a way to speed this up. It's barely tolerable now, and upgrading gcc is not an option for everyone. Krzysztof

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user/tests/sysparams.c : test_SPI_SETKEYBOARDPREF on win98
by Paul Vriens March 2, 2005

March 2, 2005

Hi, I saw this test was recently added. It fails partly on my win98 box as this registry has the values in a different place. WinXP: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Accessibility\Keyboard Preference] "On"="0" Win98: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Accessibility] "Keyboard Preference"="0" What's the best(tm) way to cater for both? Just use: SPI_SETKEYBOARDPREF_REGKEY and SPI_SETKEYBOARDPREF_WIN98_REGKEY for example and have the test check the windows version? Or change test_reg_key to cope with 2 different sets? Cheers, Paul.

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Re: Dump HeapWalk entries
by Dimitrie O. Paun March 2, 2005

March 2, 2005

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:52:45PM +0100, Uwe Bonnes wrote: > + if ((entry->wFlags & PROCESS_HEAP_ENTRY_BUSY ) > + && (entry->wFlags & PROCESS_HEAP_ENTRY_MOVEABLE)) > + { > + /* Treat as block */ > + DPRINTF( "BLOCK->hMem\t\t:%08lx\n", (DWORD)entry->u.Block.hMem); > + } Please don't introduce _another_ style of brackets, just use the one that's used in the file. Should be either: if (....) { .... } or if (....) { .... } -- Dimi.

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DPLAYX_ConstructData error during tools/wineinstall
by Paul Vriens March 2, 2005

March 2, 2005

Hi, I don't know when it started and if found I wasn't able to reproduce, but this is the message I sometimes get during a tools/wineinstall on a clean cvs install: Configuring Wine for a no-windows install in /data/wine-c... err:dplay:DPLAYX_ConstructData : unable to map static data into process memory space (487) /home/paul/.wine updated successfully. I can only say that I noticed this the last few (3?) weeks or so and haven't before. The first time I saw it, I did some regression testing, but as said, I wasn't able to reproduce at will. Is this a problem or can it be ignored (although it's an err). Or better yet, what could be the cause. Cheers, Paul.

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CVS SERVER OUT OF SPACE?
by Oliver Stieber March 2, 2005

March 2, 2005

Hi, It looks like cvs server has run out of diskspace. cvs update reports. cvs server: Updating . cvs server: failed to create lock directory for `/home/wine/wine' (/home/wine/wine/#cvs.lock): No space left on device cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/home/wine/wine' cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [winedbg] Get expressions working again.
by Pouech Eric DMI AEI CAEN March 2, 2005

March 2, 2005

I don't think this patch should go in as it is: - I don't think it's a good idea to have two ways to express a pointer type in the debugger (one being the standard dbghelp's SymTagPointerType, the other one the new deref count you've introduced). It would be better to add dynamic winedbg types (in the contrary to the static one's we already use dbg_itype_*), when we cannot find one in a module. - the returned string (for internal types' name) should be HeapAllocate:d, not a static buffer - please, use the current style for parenthesis, braces... and don't add a new one A+ > Message du 01/03/05 18:28 > De : "Oliver Stieber" > A : wine-patches(a)winehq.com > Copie à : > Objet : [winedbg] Get expressions working again. > > Hi, > This patch starts to get expressions working again and > also allows derefrencing where there is no explicit > type for that dereference. e.g. > > (short)0x12356 now returns the correct value instead > of an error > > *((int *)0x23467) is now a valid expression. > and > ***((int ***)0x23467) should also work properly. > > This should also fix watches with expressions but I > haven't given it much testing. > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > > [ winedbg_expressions_os_1.patch (18.4 Ko) ]

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