for whoever maintinas winrash

[Ivan Leo Puoti]

We've had the following complaints on wine-users.
> I installed this on a windows 98se box. I can't say I like having the DOS
> window open all the time (it's ugly). Can this not be written as a windows
> programme, and sit in the system tray?
>
> Also, during the installation process, after I entered my email address, the
> installer removed what it called 'invalid characters' - i.e., underscores.
> All my main email addresses contain underscores, so I was forced to enter an
> old one that is not very reliable.

Ivan.

[Chris Morgan]

Thanks for the bug report.

On Friday 30 July 2004 12:46 am, Ivan Leo Puoti wrote:
> We've had the following complaints on wine-users.
> > I installed this on a windows 98se box. I can't say I like having the DOS
> > window open all the time (it's ugly). Can this not be written as a
> > windows programme, and sit in the system tray?

I'm not really sure what the user means.  I don't have anything other than an 
xp machine to test on and services are supported there.  Anyone know what the 
issue is?  Maybe adding some code to the non-service path that was added to 
support win9X machines would let us hide the window?
> > Also, during the installation process, after I entered my email address,
> > the installer removed what it called 'invalid characters' - i.e.,
> > underscores. All my main email addresses contain underscores, so I was
> > forced to enter an old one that is not very reliable.

We could support underscores but Feri tells me that they aren't supported by 
winetest so I strip them out both during the install and when the email 
address is being used.  

Feri, anyway we can add support for underscores in winetest and remove this 
requirement?

Chris

[Kevin Koltzau]

On Friday 30 July 2004 12:25 pm, Chris Morgan wrote:
> I'm not really sure what the user means.  I don't have anything other than an 
> xp machine to test on and services are supported there.  Anyone know what the 
> issue is?  Maybe adding some code to the non-service path that was added to 
> support win9X machines would let us hide the window?

Win9X does not support multiple window stations as NT does, so the terminal window
is visible on screen (where on NT the terminal window is on a non-visible window station)
The only solution to this is to make winetest a GUI app that does not create any visible
windows.

[Chris Morgan]

So this isn't winrash's window, this is the winetest window?

Chris


On Friday 30 July 2004 3:02 pm, Kevin Koltzau wrote:
> On Friday 30 July 2004 12:25 pm, Chris Morgan wrote:
> > I'm not really sure what the user means.  I don't have anything other
> > than an xp machine to test on and services are supported there.  Anyone
> > know what the issue is?  Maybe adding some code to the non-service path
> > that was added to support win9X machines would let us hide the window?
>
> Win9X does not support multiple window stations as NT does, so the terminal
> window is visible on screen (where on NT the terminal window is on a
> non-visible window station) The only solution to this is to make winetest a
> GUI app that does not create any visible windows.

[Kevin Koltzau]

On Friday 30 July 2004 03:15 pm, Chris Morgan wrote:
> So this isn't winrash's window, this is the winetest window?

My mistake, its winrash that would be causing the window to open
in the first place..but if it didnt winetest would end up doing it anyway
at the moment
Under win9x its always going to act as tho you just ran the application
normally as a regular user

[Ferenc Wagner]

Chris Morgan <cmorgan(a)alum.wpi.edu> writes:
> > > Also, during the installation process, after I entered
> > > my email address, the installer removed what it called
> > > 'invalid characters' - i.e., underscores. All my main
> > > email addresses contain underscores, so I was forced to
> > > enter an old one that is not very reliable.
>
> We could support underscores but Feri tells me that they
> aren't supported by winetest so I strip them out both
> during the install and when the email address is being used.
>
> Feri, anyway we can add support for underscores in
> winetest and remove this requirement?

Hmm, I suspect some misunderstanding here.  I told winetest
didn't allow underscores in the Tag (which is given by the
-t option).  On the other hand, winetest doesn't even know
about email addresses, therefore it doesn't require anything
in this respect.  I will add support for them, and only
require that they don't contain newline characters, ok? ;)
-- 
Feri.