wine-devel August 2001

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Re: Documenting functions
by Alexandre Julliard 02 Aug '01

02 Aug '01

"Bill Medland" <medbi01(a)accpac.com> writes: > Ay, there's the rub. It isn't our function. It';s Microsoft's function. > Now was it Holub or McConnell that complains about functions having weird > behaviour on certain inputs. IMO Microsoft functions need less documentation than internal ones, since there is MSDN and other countless books about Windows. You can assume that people reading your code already know what the various APIs are supposed to do. > The biggest … [View More]

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Re: Prevent excessive clipping in SysListView32
by Uwe Bonnes 02 Aug '01

02 Aug '01

>>>>> "Medland," == Medland, Bill <Bill.Medland(a)accpac.com> writes: Medland,> I am not very comfortable with this one but strange as it may Medland,> seem it solves the problem. I'd love to know why. Medland,> <<diff13.txt>> Bill Medland (medbi01(a)accpac.com) Prevents Medland,> excessive clipping in SysListView32. Medland,> Medland,>-static inline int perfect_graphics(void) Medland,>+static int … [View More]

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Re: Documenting functions
by Alexandre Julliard 02 Aug '01

02 Aug '01

Jeremy White <jwhite(a)codeweavers.com> writes: > I would say that I would rather have 100% of the effort a > particular developer *wants* to put in, rather than only > have his/her coding efforts. Absolutely; I'm not going to discourage anybody from writing doc if they feel like it. But I don't want anyone to feel somehow obliged to spend time on the doc if they'd rather be writing code, which I expect is the case with most developers... > However, I think that there … [View More]

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Re: Documenting functions
by Jeremy White 02 Aug '01

02 Aug '01

[Resend due to exim crash; thanks Ove] >> I'd much rather have developers spend their time writing code. Making >> them duplicate the whole MSDN documentation would be a huge waste of >> their time. Our resources are not infinite, and it's much more useful >> to have 100% API coverage with no docs at all than 50% coverage and >> tons of docs. I think this is a dangerous attitude to take. I think that you cannot (and should not) attempt to force … [View More]

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Re: Documenting functions
by Alexandre Julliard 02 Aug '01

02 Aug '01

Francois Gouget <fgouget(a)free.fr> writes: > So I think the functions implemented in Wine should be fully > documented. And the only place to do that is in the code source because > this is the only place where they have a remote chance of staying up to > date (and also where it's most practical to have it). I have to disagree here. Yes it would be nice to have a free Win API documentation, but it definitely doesn't belong inside the Wine source. First it would be a huge … [View More]

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Dont allow SetSelectorBase to change into an kernel region
by Uwe Bonnes 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

Hallo, galep3 crashes with following sequence: 096c7b38:Call KERNEL.189: SETSELECTORLIMIT(0x0d87,0x0000045f) ret=02e7:6fb5 ds=099f 096c7b38:Ret KERNEL.189: SETSELECTORLIMIT() retval=0x0d87 ret=02e7:6fb5 ds=099f 096c7b38:Call KERNEL.187: SETSELECTORBASE(0x0d87,0xc02924e0) ret=02e7:6fc1 ds=099f 096c7b38:Ret KERNEL.187: SETSELECTORBASE() retval=0x0d87 ret=02e7:6fc1 ds=099f ... Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0xc0292545 Obviously the application trys to reach some kernel … [View More]

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Strange window handle in the trace
by Marco Bizzarri <m.bizzarri＠icube.it> 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

Hi all. I'm working on a no-windows installation. The system is a RH 6.2 system, upgraded to the latest patches. I've installed XFree4 and KDE 2.1 I'm experiencing an unhandled exception when I try to a VC application. The application works (almost) fine until it opens a selection dialog, with a list on it. As you can see from the trace, it is trying to do an RDW_UpdateRgns with a wndPtr of 0xffff Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x08fd506b in 32-bit code (0x406d1771). In … [View More]

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CloseHandle with 0xffffffff parameter
by Marco Bizzarri 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

Hi All. While trying to make an application working under wine, I've stumped into the following trace fragment, obtained with --debugmsg +relay: 081612c8:Call kernel32.CreateFileA(405f6454 "c:\\rs\\project\\apitest\\vc\\32\\apitestvc60\\debug\\ret_dll.pdb",80000000,00000001,00000000,00000003,00000080,00000000) ret=404aa001 081612c8:Ret kernel32.CreateFileA() retval=ffffffff ret=404aa001 081612c8:Call kernel32.CloseHandle(ffffffff) ret=404aa0bd 081612c8:Ret kernel32.CloseHandle() retval=… [View More]

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Documenting functions
by Bill Medland 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

Getting back to what we are and are not allowed to do.. Suppose I am looking at a low-level function that I believe is only 75%-complete (the most important 75% of course and no disrespect meant to those who have got it that far). One of the problems with it is it is not totally clear EXACTLY what the function should do in some of its more esoteric modes. To me the first task is to define what it should do and that should be part of the documentation of the function. The particular … [View More]

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wine-devel August 2001