Hi all!
I'm Shuai Meng, a student from software school of Beihang University,
China, GMT+08:00. I'm pursuing a master degree and now in grade one.
You can call me shuaimeng, that's my nickname used in irc. Now I'm
here to apply for GSoC to work for Wine. I'm familiar with C, and I
can code with python as well. Besides, I know a little about html and
vbscript. From May to August, I have plenty of free time.
About one year ago I started my way to linux, it's not smooth for a
person who had got used to windows then embrace linux. Soon I got a
problem: QQ(the most popular IM software in China) doesn't support
linux, but I really need it. Fortunately I knew wine through searching
google, it helped me solve this problem.Since then I have become a
wine user.
In the past three months, I had focused on dlls/vbscript/global.c,
searching MSDN for related documents[1]~[4]. Accordding those
documents, I added more tests in dlls/vbscript/tests/api.vbs, then got
some similar bugs and only reported one[5]. In order to fix them, I
read wine source code in dlls/vbscript/global.c, again and again.
Finally I finished a few draft patches[6] and I will send them to
wine-patches later.
As I have made so much effort in this module and gain a little
experience, during GSoC this part will go on to occupy most of my
attention. On the basis of difficulty to be implemented, I divide all
the functions in dlls/vbscript/global.c into four groups as following:
1: Abs ScriptEngine ScriptEngineBuildVersion ScriptEngineMajorVersion
IsArray IsDate IsNumeric IsObject Sgn TypeName VarType
These are the easiest to implement, I will take about one week to
finish the unimplemented.
2: FormatCurrency FormatDateTime FormatPercent Hour FormatNumber Join
Minute Month Oct Rnd Second Space TimeValue Year
The second group will occupy two weeks of the whole GSoC time. They
are not as easy as the first group and there are more to be
accomplished. Most of them are involved in time functions while a few
is about strings.
3: Asc Ant Cos DateAdd DateDiff DatePart DateSerial Day Exp LBound Log
Replace Sin Sqr String Tan TimeSerial UBound Weekday CBool CByte CCur
CDate CDbl CInt CLng CSng CStr InStrRev Int Fix StrComp Timer
These are more difficult. However a large part is conversion functions
and they have been implemented or improved by me. You can find the
details in attchment. Optimistically speaking, I need at least three
weeks to complete all of them. When I finish that, this bug[7] will be
fixed.
4: Array Date DateValue Escape Eval Filter GetLocale GetRef InputBox
LoadPicture Now RGB SetLocale
Split Time Unescape
Here come the most difficult ones. I am not so sure whether I can fix
or even understand them, but I will try my best. Maybe after I have
finish the above three groups, I can gain a little confidence to face
them. This group would cost me four weeks or even longer. If I have a
good luck, maybe I can fix this bug[8].
To be prudent, I'll spare at least one week to do a review on all my
codes. Write a summary as a guidence for my work to be continued after
GSoC.
Though I have a rough plan now, as a greenhand to wine, I hava too
much to learn and I badly need advice from all of you. I hope I can
make a proper schedule after communicating with my mentor.
Any comment or advice is greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
[1]http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9e7a57cf(v=vs.84).aspx
[2]http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/t7zd6etz(v=vs.84).aspx
[3]http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3ca8tfek(v=vs.84).aspx
[4]http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/10wcf65z(v=vs.84).aspx
[5]http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35441
[6]In the attachment
[7]http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34913
[8]http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35472