[Bug 24779] New: Warlords III: Darklords Rising demo: mouse clicks don't register in the main menu

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24779

Summary: Warlords III: Darklords Rising demo: mouse clicks
                    don't register in the main menu
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.3.5
          Platform: x86
               URL: http://download.cnet.com/Warlords-III-Darklords-Rising
                    -demo/3000-7562_4-10020482.html
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: directx-ddraw
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail]

Created an attachment (id=31330)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=31330)
console log

In the demo of W3:Darklords Rising you cannot click on any of the menu items
since mouse clicks don't register. This affects the demo of Warlords3: Reign of
Heroes, too.

How to reproduce the issue:

Note: you have to install the demo using Wine-1.1.30 or earlier to workaround
bug #24777 (or use a native Windows and copy over the installed game).

Start the demo by DarkDemo.exe. A setup screen is shown first; the mouse works
fine here. Click on Single Player: the game menu will load but you cannot click
on anything. Before the regression the mouse pointer changed its shape when you
hover over a selectable item in the menu. Now it always shows the same (arrow)
shape.

The result of regression testing:

914c8cb8ea1e5cbcfa18558961185dd94313b26d is the first bad commit
commit 914c8cb8ea1e5cbcfa18558961185dd94313b26d
Author: Henri Verbeet 
Date:   Wed Mar 17 21:59:49 2010 +0100

ddraw: Acquire/release the focus window from the correct location.

:040000 040000 7b888e2899b0ce7578c776287fcd5d5597d3625e
db3c70fcea916fc051b1d6b5f19a5e9b4175a6a2 M    dlls
:040000 040000 3fa4b272bdfcdd6f386e8b968a26497aae09d789
31ebd3615f1d2bbbbc991e191c813d77fc16635e M    include

The patch can be reverted cleanly on Wine-1.3.4 and that fixed the issue (mouse
clicks do register again).

There are other bugreports involving the same commit: bug #22948 and bug
#22696.

There's a crash at the end of the attached log: it happens when you quit from
the game by pressing <Ctrl+q> in the menu, that was present before the
regression, too.

Link to the demo added to URL.
Author of the patch added to CC.

Fedora 13
Nvidia 7600 / driver 256.53