RE: [3/13] wineconsole and kernel32: set GetLargestConsoleWindowSize based on screen resolution

[Hugh McMaster]

Eric Pouech wrote:
> Le 08/04/2013 16:03, Nikolay Sivov a écrit :
> > If you need to access registry from kernel32 you'll need to use ntdll calls directly.
> > This functionality belongs to advapi32. Do you really need anything more than ntdll calls provide?
> and on top of that, using registry as a way to exchange information between wineconsole and kernel is not the right thing to do
> the correct way is to:
> - enhance the wine server protocol to grab max win size in kernel32 from wine server
> - enhance wineconsole to set the max wine size into wine server (and to recompute it when there's a screen resize event)

Now I'm starting to understand why very few people have attempted to fix this issue.

There was an attempt to make such a patch a long time ago.  I might have a look at that and see how it goes.