Re: Better test for visible desktop, should be working on all platforms.

Simple qu, since I'm not that familiar with Wine yet.

How can I run a desktop under wine? Is it poss to have two or more apps  
running concurrently in the same wine session?

TIA.

On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 21:11:59 +0800, Dmitry Timoshkov   
wrote:
> "Dmitry Timoshkov"  wrote:
> > > It's not pretty, but I don't have an NT4 to test with, so I didn't
> >
> > want
> > > to change
> > > anything. Later I can refactor it into exactly the failing part.
> >
> > Did you consider implementing the approach Robert Shearman has pointed  
> > out?
>
> Here is another way for testing for a visible desktop which just came
> to my mind (based on the EMF test failure analysis and the description
> from http://www.codeproject.com/gdi/cliprgnguide.asp):
>
> static int running_on_visible_desktop ()
> {
>     BOOL visible;
>     HWND desktop;
>     HDC hdc;
>     HRGN hrgn;
>     RECT rc;
> desktop = GetDesktopWindow();
> hdc = GetDC(desktop);
> hrgn = CreateRectRgn(0, 0, 0, 0);
> GetRandomRgn(hdc, hrgn, SYSRGN);
>
> visible = GetRgnBox(hrgn, &rc) != NULLREGION;
>
> DeleteObject(hrgn);
> ReleaseDC(desktop, hdc);
>
> return visible;
>
> }