On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Stephan Rose kermos@somrek.net wrote:
If you're looking for something better specified, try finishing off gdiplus.
... I'll check into gdiplus missing bits sometime next week. :)
My name's Andrew Eikum, I'm an undergraduate Computer Science student at the University of Minnesota. I contacted a Wine dev a few weeks ago asking for a small project to use to get familiar with Wine. I was pointed towards the gdiplus section and told to begin stubbing out the missing functions, to facilitate debugging. After familiarizing myself with how Wine's DLLs are built, and with Git, I'm now making quick progress. I expect to have a (huge) patchset ready in the next week or two with most of the gdiplus functions stubbed.
Excellent! (And Stephan, there's more than enough work to go around, don't worry that Andrew's going to do it all :-)
After that, I plan to begin work on implementing some of the functions. My degree's emphasis is computer graphics, so working on gdiplus will give me a chance to learn more about the field as well as apply what I already know. I'm looking forward to working with other Wine devs on gdiplus, and other parts of Wine in the future.
That's great to hear. Looking forward to seeing your patches.
BTW, don't forget to look at http://wiki.winehq.org/GdiPlus, which has a few notes that might be helpful. My archive of Lei's notes at http://kegel.com/wine/sweng/2008/project.html from last year might be useful, too - it was tailored for people new to wine who want to contribute to gdiplus. (Though its big list of bugs is mostly all fixed now, I think only four remain.) - Dan