ChangeSet ID: 21678 CVSROOT: /opt/cvs-commit Module name: lostwages Changes by: jnewman@winehq.org 2005/12/05 10:41:54
Modified files: wwn : wn20011212_110.xml wn20051125_299.xml
Log message: Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr Assorted spelling fixes
Patch: http://cvs.winehq.org/patch.py?id=21678
Old revision New revision Changes Path 1.10 1.11 +1 -1 lostwages/wwn/wn20011212_110.xml 1.1 1.2 +17 -17 lostwages/wwn/wn20051125_299.xml
Index: lostwages/wwn/wn20011212_110.xml diff -u -p lostwages/wwn/wn20011212_110.xml:1.10 lostwages/wwn/wn20011212_110.xml:1.11 --- lostwages/wwn/wn20011212_110.xml:1.10 5 Dec 2005 16:41:54 -0000 +++ lostwages/wwn/wn20011212_110.xml 5 Dec 2005 16:41:54 -0000 @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ replied with some concerns:</p> <p>Patrik Stridvall had some thoughts as well:</p> <quote who="Patrik Stridvall"><p> What is perhaps more realistic to require IMHO that Office and other - Microsoft applications shouldn't crash or behave in an inconsistant + Microsoft applications shouldn't crash or behave in an inconsistent way just because some odd feature in some API call is not available. Instead it should say, sorry can't do that not supported in the OS. </p><p> Index: lostwages/wwn/wn20051125_299.xml diff -u -p lostwages/wwn/wn20051125_299.xml:1.1 lostwages/wwn/wn20051125_299.xml:1.2 --- lostwages/wwn/wn20051125_299.xml:1.1 5 Dec 2005 16:41:54 -0000 +++ lostwages/wwn/wn20051125_299.xml 5 Dec 2005 16:41:54 -0000 @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ For those of you who don't speak italian They included some technical bits to illustrate using Wine.</p>
<p>Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols -<a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1886920,00.asp">reviewed</a> u +<a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1886920,00.asp">reviewed</a> CrossOver Office 5 for eWeek and had a lot of positive comments. Interestingly, Steven included a link to a CrossOver mailing list post which shows he's more familiar with the product than just being a casual reviewer. From his @@ -257,8 +257,8 @@ support for permanent objects. There wil for ntoskrnl for that to work. I'm just about finished integrating new OM into ntoskrnl tree and almost ready to give it a try. </p><p> -As far as OM goes it's mostly finished and passes all but two of om -tests. Also it don't see any side-affects from it either. All the +As far as OM goes it's mostly finished and passes all but two om +tests. Also it don't see any side-effects from it either. All the programs I've tested work in the same way as they were before. All named object moved to directories and using RootDirectory part of OBJECT_ATTRIBUTES for create/open. @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ can mail the current code too). himself:</p> <quote who="Stephan Dosinger"><p>
-I have sorted that texture problem out now(Incorrect Loading and the +I have sorted out that texture problem out now(Incorrect Loading and the TEXTUREHANDLE render state was missing), and to my eyes Tomb Raider 3 runs correct now with WineD3D. </p><p> @@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ what he was doing:</p> <quote who="Oliver Stieber"><p> I've put together a Direct3D 8 wrapper for wined3d which should hopefully replace the current Direct3D 8 code. The patch needs a little bit of tidying, -some work of vertex declarations and a hell of a lot of testing before it +some work on vertex declarations and a hell of a lot of testing before it can go into Wine. </p><p> So far I've tested Rail Road Tycoon 3, Celebrity Death match, Madden NFL 2004 @@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ https://sourceforge.net/project/shownote posts="7"
<topic>Documentation</topic> -<p>Wine has documented the Win32 similar to how Microsoft has done with +<p>Wine has documented the Win32 similarly to how Microsoft has done with MSDN. While it's definitely a work in progress, it does provide an alternative source of information for various API's. Robert Shearman mentioned WineHQ was out of date regarding it:</p> @@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ screen. Next time I booted with grub-floppy and then restored the MBR with grub-install /dev/hda. Please let me know what additional information you need. -It's happend on Slackware 10.2 system, 2.6.14 kernel with ck-3 patches. +It's happened on Slackware 10.2 system, 2.6.14 kernel with ck-3 patches. </p></quote>
<p>A bunch of people asked for different output to try to figure out @@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ Also part of the problem, though I don't far as its impact, is that our architectures are different. For example, the code obfuscation tools (securom, safedisk et al) depend on device drivers being loaded by ntoskrnl.exe. This is related to the hidden -assumpmtions problem I described already, but sometimes we have to +assumptions problem I described already, but sometimes we have to implement a large amount of silliness that we didn't anticipate having to do, or reimplement stuff that was already working for some apps. ReactOS can potentially avoid some of these issues, since they're copying much @@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ deep interwoven dependencies. </p><p> So, to summarize, the punishment to Microsoft for illegally pushing IE and destroying Netscape is...the continued -use of IE as an monopolistic lever. Nice.</p></quote> +use of IE as a monopolistic lever. Nice.</p></quote>
<p>From there the thread went in different directions.</p> </section> @@ -632,10 +632,10 @@ use of IE as an monopolistic lever. Nic <p>Charles A wanted to know how to go about using Wine on a machine without X running, specifically running a cron job:</p> <quote who="Charles A"><p> - I'm not able to use wine command in crontab it giving following error + I'm not able to use wine command in crontab due to it giving the following error <tt>"Error opening terminal: unknown"</tt> </p><p> -I'm using wine 0.9, i have added following command in crontab +I'm using wine 0.9, i have added the following command in crontab <ul><code> 20 10 * * * /home/Maven/test.sh </code></ul> @@ -762,7 +762,7 @@ winebrowser to handle sending email:</p> <quote who="Hans Leidekker"><p> Modeled after winebrowser. Local testing found that thunderbird (know as mozilla-thunderbird on Debian-based systems) and evolution -accept a mailto: url on the command line. kmail however has it's +accept a mailto: url on the command line. kmail however has its own interface. Any other GUI-based mail client of interest that handles these urls? Test it like so: <ul><code> @@ -945,7 +945,7 @@ out of FD.O scope (and for which work-ar <=> one context rule).</li>
<li> GLX extension that would export the 'clip-list' functionnalities of cards - (or at lest the one which is in the X code itself). Would help on + (or at least the one which is in the X code itself). Would help on applications (like Wine) that do their own in-window clipping.</li>
<li> same point as before but for Xv the day we will re-add this code for @@ -958,14 +958,14 @@ Some 'misc' stuff that is really in the X setting (resolution, mouse acceleration, ...), as soon as this client exits, restore the previous configuration. Would be useful to prevent having people restarting X because Wine crashed after having changed the - resolution using XRand.</li> + resolution using XRandR.</li>
<li> have a non-connection limited mouse-grab. To explain better, this would enable one to grab the pointer into a window (i.e. the mouse would never leave this window) while still sending events to all connections and not only to the connection which started the grab. This could be nice to simulate 'full-screen desktop mode' or for DXGrab. No idea if with Wine's - current event model this is still usefull though.</li></ul> + current event model this is still useful though.</li></ul> </p><p> Another 'let's dream' possibilities: <ul> @@ -1079,10 +1079,10 @@ explained what some of the likely proble
I do not know what special needs the VB database apps have but for sure they need a good oleaut32.dll. At least the variant arithmetic functions -aren't good enough for your requirements. With good enough I mean is +aren't good enough for your requirements. With good enough what I mean is that they do not handle all the input variants that native oleaut32 are handling. That isn't hard to implement but requires a lot of tests as -this functions are very poorly documented and are designed specificaly +these functions are very poorly documented and are designed specifically to support only the variants they get passed down by the VB runtime. Good examples of such tests and implementation are VarMul, VarAdd and 1-2 other functions (from which I adapted the tests for VarMul and