[Bug 14286] New: winhelp: window size/position changed whenever link or navigation button is clicked

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14286

Summary: winhelp: window size/position changed whenever link or
                    navigation button is clicked
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.0
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: programs
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

For some help files, Wine winhelp moves and resizes the main window whenever
links or navigation buttons are clicked. Windows 95 winhelp does not do that.

To demonstrate, download msdncd.hlp from
  http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=14568

Open the file in Wine winhelp, then move or resize the window. As soon as you
click a link or button, the window is moved to its previous size and position.

[Bug 14286] winhelp: window size/position changed whenever link or navigation button is clicked

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14286

--- Comment #1 from Andrew Nguyen   2008-12-22 02:02:37 ---
Problem seems to be fixed in 1.1.11.

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--- Comment #2 from Andrew Nguyen   2008-12-22 02:06:18 ---
On second thought, the problem remains.

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Jörg Höhle  changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Jörg Höhle   2009-03-04 02:01:20 ---
The following .hlp files restore their original position and size every time a
link, >> or << is clicked in Wine. I have not compared behaviour with
MS-Windows. In the case of Contraptions.hlp, this is particularly annoying as
the window is so large that the close and iconify buttons are outside the
screen.

- Contraptions: The Return of the Incredible Machine
 = (German) Professor Tim: die Rückkehr der verrückten Werkstatt
- SimCity 3000 (German)
- SimCity 2000 Urban Renewal Kit (German)
- Age of Empires 1

Does not affect:
+ WinAce.hlp
+ SimCity 2000 (German)

Perhaps it's not a bug and there's some flag in the .hlp files to control this
behaviour?

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--- Comment #4 from Jörg Höhle   2009-03-09 03:22:08 ---
I can now confirm this misbehaviour, as on a MS-w2k system no click within the
.hlp files causes a change of window size or position.

However the following differences are noteworthy on ms-w2k:
+ SimCity 2000 (German)
: remembers window position and size across invocations of winhlp32 while
- Contraptions (German)
- SimCity 2000 Urban Renewal Kit (German)
: always restart with a fixed windows position and size (full screen and
approx. half screen size respectively).

So it seems like indeed there exists a flag in the .hlp file to say either
"open window with these dimensions" or "don't care", and the bug may be that in
Wine this flag is not consulted once like in MS-Windows, but on every click.

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--- Comment #5 from Jörg Höhle   2009-06-12 03:14:57 ---
The help file from the demo version of Motocross Madness 2, attached to bug
#17681 comment #1, is also affected by this issue. Each click moves the window
half outside the screen.

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--- Comment #6 from Jörg Höhle   2009-11-19 00:04:14 ---
Still present in wine-1.1.33

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--- Comment #7 from Austin English   2010-05-19 16:39:14 ---
Is this still an issue in current (1.1.44 or newer) wine?

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--- Comment #8 from [e-mail]  2010-05-20 05:40:54 ---
Yes, this issue is still present with Wine 1.1.44.

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Eric Pouech  changed:

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--- Comment #9 from Eric Pouech   2010-06-08 14:19:41 ---
should be partially fixed in current git
partially: I didn't fully test the history/search behavior, but << and >>
should be fine

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Alexandre Julliard  changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Alexandre Julliard   2010-06-11 12:49:54 ---
Closing bugs fixed in 1.2-rc3.

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--- Comment #11 from [e-mail]  2010-07-24 13:37:53 ---
This bug should probably be reopened. Testing with Wine 1.2's winhlp32, at
least some help files still have this problem.

Open the attached v3_spc.hlp file in Wine winhlp32. Move, resize or maximise
its window. Click on a link and notice the window gets resized (which doesn't
happen with winhlp32.exe from Windows). The resizing also happens when you
click the << or >> buttons (but not when you click the Back button).

Another thing that might be relevant: after clicking on a link,
resize/move/maximise the window. Click the Summary button. The window is
resized. Resize/move/maximise the window again. Click Summary again. That
doesn't change the document page (already on the front page), and the window
position does not change either.

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--- Comment #12 from [e-mail]  2010-07-24 13:38:21 ---
Created an attachment (id=29814)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=29814)
v3_spc.hlp compressed with bzip2

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--- Comment #13 from Jörg Höhle  2011-01-22 12:06:25 CST ---
With SimCity 2000 and its sc2URK.hlp in wine-1.3.12, I can confirm Mark's
second observation in comment #11 :  Go to a page, *maximize*, press "summary",
"<<" or ">>" and the window restores its last size.

However I cannot confirm Mark's first observation using the file he attached
(nor any other): moving or resizing (not maximizing) the window, then clicking
links, "back", "<<", ">>" or "summary" does not change the size.

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--- Comment #14 from [e-mail] 2013-06-30 09:09:07 CDT ---
This ticket has not been updated for over 850 days.

Is this still an issue in wine version 1.6-rc4 or higher or is this to be
closed as abandoned ?

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--- Comment #15 from Mark K  2013-06-30 13:21:56 CDT ---
With Wine 1.6-rc3 and virtual desktop mode enabled, the "maximised window is
restored whenever you click a link" problem is still present. That seems to be
the only remaining problem of those mentioned (with msdncd.hlp and v3_spc.hlp)
in this bug report.

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Ken Sharp  changed:

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--- Comment #16 from Ken Sharp  ---
Please retest in Wine 1.7.47 or later.

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--- Comment #17 from Mark K  ---
With Wine 1.9.15, the behaviour is the same as described in comment 15.

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--- Comment #18 from [e-mail] ---
This bug is dupe or at least related to bug 14299 which has a patch which seems
to work too. << and >> were mentioned at somepoint of this bug report.