Getting Mozy to work

[Stefan Dösinger]

Am Mittwoch, 16. Januar 2008 23:37:45 schrieb Christopher:
> I'd like to get Mozy (online backup software, see mozy.com) working under
> Wine. I'm not sure I have all the skills, but I'm willing to try and write
> the necessary patches. In particular I need to fix bug 10932. This appears
> to be a problem with the fonts and/or the way text is rendered in general.
> Can anyone suggest a starting point for me? My programming experience has
> all been on Windows, so I don't know much about Wine and Linux. I tried
> looking through the output of +relay, but besides some WM_SETFONT messages
> there wasn't anything that looked very useful.

Try to look for things like ExtTextOut. Also, if the text is some custom font, 
the app might try to load it from images, or a custom font in its program 
folder.

One other hint: Please consider writing plain text mails instead of HTML 
messages to this mailing list. I almost trashed the mail without reading it 
because the combination of HTML + a superficial look at the sender address 
triggered my spam trigger...

[James McKenzie]

Christopher wrote:
> I'd like to get Mozy (online backup software, see mozy.com) working 
> under Wine. I'm not sure I have all the skills, but I'm willing to try 
> and write the necessary patches. In particular I need to fix bug 10932 
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10932. This appears to be a 
> problem with the fonts and/or the way text is rendered in general. Can 
> anyone suggest a starting point for me? My programming experience has 
> all been on Windows, so I don't know much about Wine and Linux. I 
> tried looking through the output of +relay, but besides some 
> WM_SETFONT messages there wasn't anything that looked very useful.

Christopher:

This may be an extension of the same problem I am having with e-Sword 
and that is you have to use a native copy of riched20.dll.  Might I 
suggest getting a copy of this and placing it in the same directory as 
the Mozy software installs to.  Then use winecfg to create an entry for 
the main executable and then under libraries set riched20.dll to be 
native then builtin.  See if this makes the text visible.

James Mckenzie

[Christopher]

James McKenzie wrote:
> Christopher wrote:
> > I'd like to get Mozy (online backup software, see mozy.com) working 
> > under Wine. I'm not sure I have all the skills, but I'm willing to 
> > try and write the necessary patches. In particular I need to fix bug 
> > 10932 http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10932. This appears to 
> > be a problem with the fonts and/or the way text is rendered in 
> > general. Can anyone suggest a starting point for me? My programming 
> > experience has all been on Windows, so I don't know much about Wine 
> > and Linux. I tried looking through the output of +relay, but besides 
> > some WM_SETFONT messages there wasn't anything that looked very useful.
>
> Christopher:
>
> This may be an extension of the same problem I am having with e-Sword 
> and that is you have to use a native copy of riched20.dll.  Might I 
> suggest getting a copy of this and placing it in the same directory as 
> the Mozy software installs to.  Then use winecfg to create an entry 
> for the main executable and then under libraries set riched20.dll to 
> be native then builtin.  See if this makes the text visible.
>
> James Mckenzie

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I finally tracked the problem down 
to a flaw in user32.LoadStringW. I have sent in a patch, and will check 
user32.LoadStringA as it probably has the same flaw.