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WS_EX_TRANSPARENT bug
by Felipe W Damasio Feb. 10, 2003

Feb. 10, 2003

Hi, First of all, I'd like to thank Tony Lambregts and Sander van Leeuwen for helping me. Tony: Since I tested and saw that Sander's patch fixed, I closed the bug. That patch should definitely enter on mainline! Anyway, I'm here to report another bug: CreateWindow's flag WS_EX_TRANSPARENT doesn't do anything. Cesar Mello did a little example program which uses this flag: Both source and an executable are available here: ftp://ftp.elipse.com.br/pub/transp/transp-exe.tar.gz ftp://ftp.elipse.com.br/pub/transp/transp-source.tar.gz I'll enter this bug on bugzilla right away. Does anyone can help me with this? Thanks, Felipe

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AppDB updated
by Andreas Mohr Feb. 10, 2003

Feb. 10, 2003

Hi all, I just (well, not "just": more like a matter of a whole week or so) committed about 170 or so new entries to the AppDB, thus reaching a count of 1523 distinct applications. I guess I'm feeling really exhausted now... Anyway, have fun browsing the site at http://appdb.winehq.org ! Andreas Mohr

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press: International Herald Tribune review
by Dan Kegel Feb. 10, 2003

Feb. 10, 2003

The review was of a Linux distro, but one of the big failings the reviewer cited was the inability to run "the Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM". http://www.iht.com/articles/86157.html --------- PARIS For several years now I have thought longingly about Linux, the power-to-the-people operating system that is said to be as stable as a rock, open and free and the embodiment of everything good in the world - in short, the exact opposite of Microsoft's Windows, both technically and politically. ... Early on, Lindows had claimed that it would be able to run all Windows programs, and it came with a utility called WINE that was supposed to make this miracle occur. In fact, it can run some Windows programs, Office 2000, for example, but can't run others, like Office XP. In general, the more sophisticated the Windows program, the less likely that WINE/Lindows is going to be able to run it. Lindows has changed its position. They've realized that trying to piggyback on Windows programs is a recipe for frustration, and WINE is no longer part of Lindows. The current view, Schwartzman said, is that "if there's a Linux alternative, you're going to have a better experience." ... I use GotoMyPC all of the time to access my home computer from other places. It doesn't work with Linux. I have the Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM, which I also use all of the time. It, too, does not work with Linux. There are too many programs for which there is no Linux alternative. . Lindows is a bold and commendable effort to challenge the Microsoft hegemony and make computers cheaper. Unfortunately, it fails. ---------- -- Dan Kegel http://www.kegel.com http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=78045

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SW_SHOWMINIMIZED bug
by Felipe W Damasio Feb. 10, 2003

Feb. 10, 2003

Hi, SW_SHOWMINIMIZED has a weird bug: The application, when restored, goes blank and have to be killed and re-started to work again. This looks like an internal loop inside wine, or a wrong XLib flag being set. Cesar Mello (mello(a)elipse.com.br) wrote a little app to test it, and both the source and an executable are available for download here: ftp://ftp.elipse.com.br/pub/showWindow/showWindow-exe.tar.gz ftp://ftp.elipse.com.br/pub/showWindow/showWindow-src.tar.gz Can anybody help me with this? This seems to be critical, because to app does not work anymore untill it is re-started. I'll add an entry to bugs.winehq.com now. Thank you and kind Regards, Felipe

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Started playing with Wineserver on mingw/cygwin again
by Steven Edwards Feb. 10, 2003

Feb. 10, 2003

well I made it serial.c before I had to run to work. I'm having good luck getting alot of the objects to compile so far I've only had to kill file.c, ptrace.c, request.c and select.c. Getting this to build and run on Windows is going to be a bitch =) gettimeofday, fork and all of fd and networking is going to be the hard part. I've started a tempory header to see what will need to be implemented in libwine if we want to get wineserver up and running on Windows without cygwin. Cygwin still really needed get/setthreadcontext (hint, hint) Thanks Steven /* I kill'd file.c, ptrace.c, request.c, select.c * * get/set thread context still needs to be done for Mingw and Cygwin * * main.c needs a lot of work */ /* object.h and async.h */ struct timeval{ int tv_sec; int tv_usec; }; /* debugger.c */ #define SIGTRAP NULL /* file.c - doesnt work */ #define O_NONBLOCK 0 #define POLLIN 0 #define POLLOUT 0 #define POLLIN 0 #define POLLOUT 0 /* main.c */ #define SIGPIPE NULL #define SIGHUP NULL #define SIGQUIT NULL /* named_pipe.c */ #define PF_UNIX NULL #define SOCK_STREAM NULL /* object.c */ #define POLLERR 0 #define POLLHUP 0 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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Re: SMATCH: add missing LeaveCriticalSection
by Dan Kegel Feb. 10, 2003

Feb. 10, 2003

Michael Stefaniuc wrote: > on some error path the critical section wasn't released. > Found with smatch's help. I'm impressed. Didn't know smatch could detect this kind of thing in Wine code. For those who haven't heard of smatch, see http://smatch.sf.net - Dan -- Dan Kegel http://www.kegel.com http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=78045

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IPCWorkshop
by Dan Kegel Feb. 10, 2003

Feb. 10, 2003

There's a fun little test app (with source) called IPCWorkshop at http://www.codeproject.com/threads/ipcworkshop.asp I noticed it probably needs a Sleep(500) in its Mailslot receive loop, and a lot of its stuff doesn't seem to work on my Windows Me system, but its "filemapping" and "mailslots" modes do seem to work on Windows Me. (Oddly, "Clipboard" doesn't work for me on Windows Me. This app is fairly new, maybe it's still a bit buggy.) None of its modes seem to work on Wine. Not sure why. In server mode, it never redraws, so the GUI is messed up somehow. I'm sure this app triggers several Wine bugs. Anyway, if anyone's looking for simple test apps that exercise various IPC methods, this one might be worth checking out. - Dan -- Dan Kegel http://www.kegel.com http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=78045

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visual studio 6 not happy?
by Dan Kegel Feb. 10, 2003

Feb. 10, 2003

wine cvs doesn't run visual studio 6 especially happily. Building a simple app fails with "Error executing rc.exe". I wonder if this is another example of that named pipe failure... it certainly is calling PeekNamedPipe to beat the band, and http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0698/win320698.htm says that vcspawn.exe (used to run external processes) probably uses named pipes to communicate with msdev. Guess it's back to the commandline for me. Yep, exporting a makefile and building with nmake works better. - Dan -- Dan Kegel http://www.kegel.com http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=78045

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Windows API (What I have so far)
by David Miller Feb. 9, 2003

Feb. 9, 2003

I thought a few of you might be interested in the current status of this script, so here is an update. I will attach a copy in case anyone wants to test it, or add functionality or fixes. I'd be interested in the results of any tests, especially if you discover any parsing errors. It is far from complete, but at this stage does the following: - Scan a given path, locating all dll files - Generate an HTML map of dll imports only (sorted, lowercase, stripped of paths) - dumpbin /import and dumpbin /export on all dll files and save the results in imports.txt and exports.txt respectively - parse imports.txt as follows, and save the results in imported_api.txt: DLL name imported DLL imported API - parse exports.txt as follows, and save the results in exported_api.txt: DLL name exported API Future plans: - Create a matrix of data currently in HTML map - Generate HTML cross reference of all imported/exported API - Implement dumping of data into a database (Something queryable, but what?) - Detect and report unimplemented APIs in wine

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More on the Treeview
by Drew "DanteAliegri" Ogle Feb. 9, 2003

Feb. 9, 2003

also, when I replaced the comctl32 with a native, it didn't fix the problem, so I'd think its safe to say that the error is occuring outside comctl32.. -Dante

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