[Bug 21497] New: ElsterFormular 11.1.1: program window disappears, app keeps running in the background

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21497

Summary: ElsterFormular 11.1.1: program window disappears, app
                    keeps running in the background
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.37
          Platform: x86
               URL: https://www.elster.de/elfo_down1.php
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

The latest release of ElsterFormular doesn't work on Wine anymore. It is the
official app to submit tax statements to the german administration and can be
downloaded here: https://www.elster.de/elfo_down1.php (topmost entry)

The behaviour is as follows:

The installer runs fine (it also installs Virtual C++ Redistributable 2008)

It doesn't install vcrun6, although it claims to need it (could be fixed with
winetricks, but doesn't change anything about the bug here)

When I start the app with 'wine elfostarter.exe', the main window appears. When
I select a new tax statement, it loads the forms, but when it is done and
should show the input form, the window disappears. That is, the window where
the form would usually be shown appears for a short time, with the form area
empty, then it disappears. The app keeps running in the background, though.

So, when I subsequently run 'wineboot -e', a popup window from ElsterFormular
appears, asking me to save the tax statement data. I can then save it.

When I try to open the saved statement instead of creating a new one, the
behaviour is the same as with a new statement.

btw. ElsterFormular uses Qt4 for the GUI

How to debug this? Which logs would be helpful? There's no crash, so there's no
backtrace :(

[Bug 21497] ElsterFormular 11.1.1: program window disappears, app keeps running in the background

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21497

--- Comment #1 from Austin English   2010-01-26 09:55:28 ---
Please attach plain terminal output.

[Bug 21497] ElsterFormular 11.1.1: program window disappears, app keeps running in the background

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21497

--- Comment #2 from Andreas Hermann Braml   2010-01-26 10:21:14 ---
Created an attachment (id=25899)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=25899)
console log up to when the application window closes itself

[Bug 21497] ElsterFormular 11.1.1: program window disappears, app keeps running in the background

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21497

--- Comment #3 from Andreas Hermann Braml   2010-01-30 08:25:48 ---
Created an attachment (id=25964)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=25964)
tail -n 200 of WINEDEBUG=+relay when the window has disappeared

The program goes into a loop. I let it run several hours, but it never exits
the loop again.

I killed it with 'wineserver -k'.

[Bug 21497] ElsterFormular 11.1.1: program window disappears, app keeps running in the background

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21497

Bernhard Übelacker  changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Bernhard Übelacker   2010-01-31 12:55:32 ---
The application only hides the main window.
First looked with WinSpy. There was a process pica.exe with 3 "ElsterFormular"
windows. For the last one you add in the Styles tab "WS_VISIBLE" to get it
visible again.

[Bug 21497] ElsterFormular 11.1.1: program window disappears, app keeps running in the background

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21497

--- Comment #5 from Bernhard Übelacker   2010-01-31 12:58:28 ---
Created an attachment (id=25988)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=25988)
program to show the hiding ElsterFormular window

This is a source file for a program that searches the right "ElsterFormular"
window and sets this style "WS_VISIBLE".
It works only if the starting screen of ElsterFormular is maximized first.
You have to compile it yourself by one of following:
  i586-mingw32msvc-gcc showelster.c -o showelster-mingw.exe
or
  winegcc showelster.c -o showelster-winegcc.exe

[Bug 21497] ElsterFormular 11.1.1: program window disappears, app keeps running in the background

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21497

--- Comment #6 from Andreas Hermann Braml   2010-02-01 13:18:46 ---
I can confirm that showelster from #5 is a valid workaround (thanks a lot!).
It would still be nice to have a proper fix for this, though, not least because
you have to call showelster on every page change in the forms, which is very
annoying.

[Bug 21497] ElsterFormular 11.1.1: program window disappears, app keeps running in the background

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21497

--- Comment #7 from Bernhard Übelacker   2010-02-01 17:34:26 ---
Created an attachment (id=26018)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=26018)
Patch to change SetParent behaviour when hwnd and newParent are equal

Can you test attached patch?

[Bug 21497] ElsterFormular 11.1.1: program window disappears, app keeps running in the background

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21497

--- Comment #8 from Andreas Hermann Braml   2010-02-01 19:09:46 ---
(In reply to comment #7)

Your patch fixes the issue. Thanks a million times, Bernhard! (Now I can
happily proceed paying my taxes...)

As an aside: Switching through the pages of a form is really slow when the form
page hasn't already been loaded earlier in the session (in the realm of ~20s
delay). Since there is a setting that defines how many form pages to cache in
ElsterFormular, this might as well be an issue with the app, not with Wine. Can
anyone test this on MS's implementation of the Windows API?

[Bug 21497] ElsterFormular 11.1.1: program window disappears, app keeps running in the background

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21497

--- Comment #9 from Bernhard Übelacker   2010-02-02 09:06:50 ---
Seems like a duplicate of:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16566

A Patch was already sent to wine-patches but not comitted:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2008-December/066427.html

And here the discussion on wine-devel:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2008-December/thread.html#71305

But I searched for similar bugs after sending to wine-devel:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2010-February/081489.html

[Bug 21497] ElsterFormular 11.1.1: program window disappears, app keeps running in the background

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Wolfgang Schweer  changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Wolfgang Schweer   2010-02-03 06:33:41 ---
Hi,
setting Windows Version to win98 avoids crashing.

Everything works o.k., even printing (with FoxitReader version 2.0 installed).
Only drawback: slow opening of new forms.

Wolfgang

[Bug 21497] ElsterFormular 11.1.1: program window disappears, app keeps running in the background

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--- Comment #11 from Wolfgang Schweer   2010-02-03 11:10:56 ---
"wintricks allfonts" makes text better looking ...

Wolfgang

[Bug 21497] ElsterFormular 11.1.1: program window disappears, app keeps running in the background

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21497

--- Comment #12 from Andreas Hermann Braml   2010-02-03 18:00:24 ---
(In reply to comment #9)
Bernhard, perhaps you should send the patch to wine-patches and hope that it
get's commited. The one from December 2008 most likely never got commited
because it came without a test. Yours includes the test, so it's worth a try
I'd say.

@Wolfgang: I wrote a HOWTO over at AppDB describing your workaround(s). Thanks
for your hints. Now lets hope the patch gets accepted soon.

[Bug 21497] ElsterFormular 11.1.1: program window disappears, app keeps running in the background

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21497

--- Comment #13 from Bernhard Übelacker   2010-02-04 19:08:12 ---
Patch sent:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2010-February/084591.html

[Bug 21497] ElsterFormular 11.1.1: program window disappears, app keeps running in the background

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21497

--- Comment #14 from Andreas Hermann Braml   2010-02-05 10:25:25 ---
Since the patch has been commited today, this bug has disappeared with current
git and is now fixed (at least for me).

[Bug 21497] ElsterFormular 11.1.1: program window disappears, app keeps running in the background

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Alexandre Julliard  changed:

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         Resolution|                            |FIXED

--- Comment #15 from Alexandre Julliard   2010-02-05 10:33:16 ---
Fixed.

[Bug 21497] ElsterFormular 11.1.1: program window disappears, app keeps running in the background

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Alexandre Julliard  changed:

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--- Comment #16 from Alexandre Julliard   2010-02-05 11:39:22 ---
Closing bugs fixed in 1.1.38.

[Bug 21497] ElsterFormular 11.1.1: program window disappears, app keeps running in the background

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Anastasius Focht  changed:

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