[Bug 10404] New: Wineconsole fails to display text or change color for Renegade FDS

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10404

Summary: Wineconsole fails to display text or change color for
                    Renegade FDS
           Product: Wine
           Version: 0.9.49.
          Platform: PC
               URL: http://www.game-
                    maps.net/index.php?action=download&id=520
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-console
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Created an attachment (id=9093)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=9093)
Renegade FDS server.ini

The Renegade Free Dedicated Server is a program that enables the hosting of a
C&C Renegade server. When launched, it should start a separate console, change
color, and display text, while reading in input which is interpreted as
commands. When running the Renegade FDS under Wine via wineconsole
--backend=user server.dat, a separate console is launched, but the color does
not change, and no text is outputted. No output in the terminal where the
wineconsole command was invoked is present. To install the FDS, download the
installer, and when prompted for user/password/serial, the user/password can be
made up, and the serial can be made up, but must start with 0669. Use this
particular server.ini, which should be placed in the installation directory's
Server directory, for testing purposes. The actual binary that launches the
server is server.dat, in the Server directory.

[Bug 10404] Wineconsole fails to display text or change color for Renegade FDS

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10404

--- Comment #1 from H. Verbeet   2007-11-11 16:47:44 ---
While this doesn't change anything wrt the bug, there is of course also the
Linux FDS, even though it has some limitations.

[Bug 10404] Wineconsole fails to display text or change color for Renegade FDS

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10404

--- Comment #2 from scguy318   2007-11-11 23:07:31 ---
I'm aware, but it's exactly those limitations that prompted me to test running
the Windows FDS on Wine :).

[Bug 10404] Wineconsole fails to display text or change color for Renegade FDS

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10404

Reijo Sund  changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Reijo Sund   2007-12-18 07:09:10 ---
The problem is due to the failing AllocConsole() function, that occurs
because wineconsole has already started a console for the server.dat
process.

Actually that is not a bug. Because server.dat does not call FreeConsole()
to drop the existing console, the AllocConsole function should fail, because
a process can be associated with only one console:
(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms681944.aspx).

Try running server.dat (or RenegadeServer.exe) with a standard wine. The
starting console gets a correct title, and something happens in the screen.
There seems to be problems with the output, but that is an issue for 
another bug..

[Bug 10404] Wineconsole fails to display text or change color for Renegade FDS

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10404

--- Comment #4 from scguy318   2007-12-20 02:24:13 ---
I ran server.dat with plain Wine (wine server.dat) with same apparent results
from what I saw.

[Bug 10404] Wineconsole fails to display text or change color for Renegade FDS

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10404

James Hawkins  changed:

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          Component|_obsolete_console           |programs

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Benny  changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Benny   2008-01-13 07:31:36 ---
When you run the program with plain wine in a terminal, with shell output
(enabled), what happens?

[Bug 10404] Wineconsole fails to display text or change color for Renegade FDS

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10404

--- Comment #6 from Kirill K. Smirnov   2008-01-13 13:26:43 ---
Created an attachment (id=10218)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=10218)
hack to get it working

My investigations:

1) Use "wine start" instead of "wine", "wineconsole" or "wineconsole
--backend=user"

$ wine start RenegadeServer.exe

Otherwise this will not work.

2) For unknown reason this application always use 0xa3 as a console output
handle. Use the attached hack to work around this problem.

3) So I managed to get the following text in wineconsole:
[QUOTE]
Renegade Free Dedicated Server v1.037 BH-838 01/23/2003 - 10:59:26
Console mode active
File svrcfg_cnc.ini - Error:
         Max player count must be greater than 0

Error - server settings file 'svrcfg_cnc.ini' contains errors - aborting
** Press any key to continue **
[/QUOTE]

[Bug 10404] Wineconsole fails to display text or change color for Renegade FDS

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10404

--- Comment #7 from scguy318   2008-01-13 22:56:25 ---
I've tested this patch, and I'm afraid to report that it does not work. Are
there any traces you wish for me to obtain?

[Bug 10404] Wineconsole fails to display text or change color for Renegade FDS

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10404

--- Comment #8 from scguy318   2008-01-13 23:04:06 ---
Oh, I should have mentioned with my earlier comment that doing anything with
the created (and non-functional) console like Properties or using the scrollbar
causes an X BadAlloc error:

X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  53 (X_CreatePixmap)
  Serial number of failed request:  1427
  Current serial number in output stream:  27459

[Bug 10404] Wineconsole fails to display text or change color for Renegade FDS

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10404

--- Comment #9 from Austin English   2008-06-04 14:27:15 ---
Is this still an issue in 1.0-rc3?

[Bug 10404] Wineconsole fails to display text or change color for Renegade FDS

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10404

scguy318  changed:

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED

--- Comment #10 from scguy318   2008-06-05 14:41:38 ---
Original console issues seem to be fixed, there is still a problem that will be
described in a different bug.

[Bug 10404] Wineconsole fails to display text or change color for Renegade FDS

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Alexandre Julliard  changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #11 from Alexandre Julliard   2008-06-06 10:39:23 ---
Closing bugs fixed in 1.0-rc4.