"Black" Text

[Ian Bartelds!]

Hey guy's my first time asking for support on wine so I will try
and make it a quick one. Now I am having troubles with colours 
in text and behind text. I am trying to get a game to run correctly
it's a MMORPG called legend of mir, now everything runs fine but 
the text box where you send and recieve messages all the "colors"
behind the text is black all of the text is black is this a bug in wine?

Thanks
Kozuka

P.S. Here's a screenshot so you can see what I am talking about
wine doesn't return any errors..

http://img222.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img222&image=images049iv.jpg

[Andreas Mohr]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:32:14AM -0700, Ian Bartelds! wrote:
> Hey guy's my first time asking for support on wine so I will try
> and make it a quick one. Now I am having troubles with colours 
> in text and behind text. I am trying to get a game to run correctly
> it's a MMORPG called legend of mir, now everything runs fine but 
> the text box where you send and recieve messages all the "colors"
> behind the text is black all of the text is black is this a bug in wine?

Most likely.

Best thing to do is
WINEDEBUG=+relay
and search for the call that outputs a familiar phrase of text.
Once we know which function is being used to do the text output
(is it some kind of game-embedded edit control?), then it should be possible
to fix it.

Andreas Mohr

[Paul van Schayck]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 01:32:14 -0700, Ian Bartelds!  wrote:
> Hey guy's my first time asking for support on wine so I will try
> and make it a quick one. Now I am having troubles with colours
> in text and behind text. I am trying to get a game to run correctly
> it's a MMORPG called legend of mir, now everything runs fine but
> the text box where you send and recieve messages all the "colors"
> behind the text is black all of the text is black is this a bug in wine?

It's very unlikely that wine does not report any error. I think you
are using either a wine package without debug output or gentoo who
compiles without that per default.
You can check that by doing 'WINEDEBUG=+all wine [program.exe]'. It
should output, let's say, alot.

Paul

[Ian Bartelds!]

Hey it's me again I try and do a WINEDEBUG=+all and it does nothing, I am
using the gentoo linux version that I downloaded and compiled through portage

Thanks
Ian Bartelds

On March 11, 2005 02:32 am, Paul van Schayck wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 01:32:14 -0700, Ian Bartelds!  wrote:
> > Hey guy's my first time asking for support on wine so I will try
> > and make it a quick one. Now I am having troubles with colours
> > in text and behind text. I am trying to get a game to run correctly
> > it's a MMORPG called legend of mir, now everything runs fine but
> > the text box where you send and recieve messages all the "colors"
> > behind the text is black all of the text is black is this a bug in wine?
>
> It's very unlikely that wine does not report any error. I think you
> are using either a wine package without debug output or gentoo who
> compiles without that per default.
> You can check that by doing 'WINEDEBUG=+all wine [program.exe]'. It
> should output, let's say, alot.
>
> Paul

[Jonathan Ernst]

Le vendredi 11 mars 2005 à 16:08 -0700, Ian Bartelds! a écrit :
> Hey it's me again I try and do a WINEDEBUG=+all and it does nothing, I am
> using the gentoo linux version that I downloaded and compiled through portage
>
> Thanks
> Ian Bartelds

recompile wine using debug USE flag:

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 USE=debug emerge wine

[Ian Bartelds!]

I am compiling the cvs tree with --enable-debug so I will try it like this..

Peace
Ian Bartelds

On March 11, 2005 05:09 pm, Jonathan Ernst wrote:
> Le vendredi 11 mars 2005 à 16:08 -0700, Ian Bartelds! a écrit :
> > Hey it's me again I try and do a WINEDEBUG=+all and it does nothing, I am
> > using the gentoo linux version that I downloaded and compiled through
> > portage
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ian Bartelds
>
> recompile wine using debug USE flag:
>
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 USE=debug emerge wine

[Ian Bartelds!]

Ok here's where I am at.. I get these errors when I just do wine program.exe

err:wave:wodDsCreate DirectSound flag not set
This sound card's driver does not support direct access
The (slower) DirectSound HEL mode will be used instead.
fixme:mmtime:timeBeginPeriod Stub; we set our timer resolution at minimum
fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDraw_SetCooperativeLevel 
(0x403e7db8)->(00010024,00000053)
fixme:x11drv:X11DRV_desktop_SetCurrentMode Cannot change screen BPP from 32 to 
8
fixme:x11drv:X11DRV_desktop_SetCurrentMode Cannot change screen BPP from 32 to 
8
fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDrawClipper_Initialize 
(0x403e86b0)->(0x403e7dc4,0x00000000),stub!
fixme:x11drv:X11DRV_DDHAL_CreatePalette stub
fixme:ddraw:DIB_DirectDrawSurface_Blt dwFlags DDBLT_WAIT and/or DDBLT_ASYNC: 
can't handle right now.
fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDraw_WaitForVerticalBlank 
(0x403e7db8)->(flags=0x00000001,handle=(nil))
fixme:mmtime:timeEndPeriod Stub; we set our timer resolution at minimum

Now when I go WINEDEBUG=+relay wine legend.exe I get this huge list
which basicly has :

0009:Call ntdll.RtlLeaveCriticalSection(40360db0) ret=404f714f
0009:Ret  ntdll.RtlLeaveCriticalSection() retval=00000000 ret=404f714f
0009:Call ntdll.RtlFreeHeap(40360000,00000000,40360db0) ret=404cd2fd
0009:Call ntdll.RtlDeleteCriticalSection(40360db0) ret=404f71ad

Now I don't really see anything to do with text.

Thanks
Ian Bartelds

On March 11, 2005 05:26 pm, Ian Bartelds! wrote:
> I am compiling the cvs tree with --enable-debug so I will try it like
> this..
>
> Peace
> Ian Bartelds
>
> On March 11, 2005 05:09 pm, Jonathan Ernst wrote:
> > Le vendredi 11 mars 2005 à 16:08 -0700, Ian Bartelds! a écrit :
> > > Hey it's me again I try and do a WINEDEBUG=+all and it does nothing, I
> > > am using the gentoo linux version that I downloaded and compiled
> > > through portage
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Ian Bartelds
> >
> > recompile wine using debug USE flag:
> >
> > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 USE=debug emerge wine

Steam again (Re: "Black" Text)

[Scott Ritchie]

On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 18:31 -0700, Ian Bartelds! wrote:
> Ok here's where I am at.. I get these errors when I just do wine program.exe
>
> err:wave:wodDsCreate DirectSound flag not set
> This sound card's driver does not support direct access
> The (slower) DirectSound HEL mode will be used instead.
> fixme:mmtime:timeBeginPeriod Stub; we set our timer resolution at minimum
> fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDraw_SetCooperativeLevel 
> (0x403e7db8)->(00010024,00000053)
> fixme:x11drv:X11DRV_desktop_SetCurrentMode Cannot change screen BPP from 32 to 
> 8
> fixme:x11drv:X11DRV_desktop_SetCurrentMode Cannot change screen BPP from 32 to 
> 8
> fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDrawClipper_Initialize 
> (0x403e86b0)->(0x403e7dc4,0x00000000),stub!
> fixme:x11drv:X11DRV_DDHAL_CreatePalette stub
> fixme:ddraw:DIB_DirectDrawSurface_Blt dwFlags DDBLT_WAIT and/or DDBLT_ASYNC: 
> can't handle right now.
> fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDraw_WaitForVerticalBlank 
> (0x403e7db8)->(flags=0x00000001,handle=(nil))
> fixme:mmtime:timeEndPeriod Stub; we set our timer resolution at minimum
>
> Now when I go WINEDEBUG=+relay wine legend.exe I get this huge list
> which basicly has :
>
> 0009:Call ntdll.RtlLeaveCriticalSection(40360db0) ret=404f714f
> 0009:Ret  ntdll.RtlLeaveCriticalSection() retval=00000000 ret=404f714f
> 0009:Call ntdll.RtlFreeHeap(40360000,00000000,40360db0) ret=404cd2fd
> 0009:Call ntdll.RtlDeleteCriticalSection(40360db0) ret=404f71ad
>
> Now I don't really see anything to do with text.
>
> Thanks
> Ian Bartelds
>
> On March 11, 2005 05:26 pm, Ian Bartelds! wrote:
> > I am compiling the cvs tree with --enable-debug so I will try it like
> > this..
> >
> > Peace
> > Ian Bartelds
> >
> > On March 11, 2005 05:09 pm, Jonathan Ernst wrote:
> > > Le vendredi 11 mars 2005 à 16:08 -0700, Ian Bartelds! a écrit :
> > > > Hey it's me again I try and do a WINEDEBUG=+all and it does nothing, I
> > > > am using the gentoo linux version that I downloaded and compiled
> > > > through portage
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Ian Bartelds
> > >
> > > recompile wine using debug USE flag:
> > >
> > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 USE=debug emerge wine

http://tuzakey.com/~scott/steam.png

Is this the same problem in Steam?  I can't figure out how to make the
text readable in the latest release.  This is with a standard Wine +
Winetools base setup install, and added "Managed"="N" to the config
(since otherwise Steam breaks.)

Help would be much appreciated by us all :)

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie

[Glenn Wurster]

> Ok here's where I am at.. I get these errors when I just do wine program.exe
> err:wave:wodDsCreate DirectSound flag not set
> This sound card's driver does not support direct access
> The (slower) DirectSound HEL mode will be used instead.
> fixme:mmtime:timeBeginPeriod Stub; we set our timer resolution at minimum
> fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDraw_SetCooperativeLevel 
> (0x403e7db8)->(00010024,00000053)
> fixme:x11drv:X11DRV_desktop_SetCurrentMode Cannot change screen BPP from 32 to 
> 8
> fixme:x11drv:X11DRV_desktop_SetCurrentMode Cannot change screen BPP from 32 to 
> 8

I notice it's trying for 8 bit mode.  I posted a patch a while ago to
do with palette colours that was not been accepted (I'm busy right now
but should get back to modifying it eventually).  Try applying that
and see if it fixes the problem.  I've attached it.  Failing that, I'd
be interested in the portion of debug statements dealing with the
SetTextColor call and the ExtTextOut call (if there are those calls
for that particular string of text).

Glenn

[Ian Bartelds!]

Hey and thanks for your help! But This doesn't work i applyed the patch and
recomplied but it still gives me the the same error's

and I compiled strait from the cvs yesterday!

Peace
Ian Bartelds

On March 12, 2005 01:54 pm, you wrote:
> > Ok here's where I am at.. I get these errors when I just do wine
> > program.exe
> >
> > err:wave:wodDsCreate DirectSound flag not set
> > This sound card's driver does not support direct access
> > The (slower) DirectSound HEL mode will be used instead.
> > fixme:mmtime:timeBeginPeriod Stub; we set our timer resolution at minimum
> > fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDraw_SetCooperativeLevel
> > (0x403e7db8)->(00010024,00000053)
> > fixme:x11drv:X11DRV_desktop_SetCurrentMode Cannot change screen BPP from
> > 32 to 8
> > fixme:x11drv:X11DRV_desktop_SetCurrentMode Cannot change screen BPP from
> > 32 to 8
>
> I notice it's trying for 8 bit mode.  I posted a patch a while ago to
> do with palette colours that was not been accepted (I'm busy right now
> but should get back to modifying it eventually).  Try applying that
> and see if it fixes the problem.  I've attached it.  Failing that, I'd
> be interested in the portion of debug statements dealing with the
> SetTextColor call and the ExtTextOut call (if there are those calls
> for that particular string of text).
>
> Glenn

[Lauri Tulmin]

> I notice it's trying for 8 bit mode.  I posted a patch a while ago to
> do with palette colours that was not been accepted (I'm busy right now
> but should get back to modifying it eventually).  Try applying that
> and see if it fixes the problem.  I've attached it.  Failing that, I'd
> be interested in the portion of debug statements dealing with the
> SetTextColor call and the ExtTextOut call (if there are those calls
> for that particular string of text).
>
> Glenn

I can't find anything on this SYSPALETTEINDEX you are using, but I
know that colors created with DIBINDEX macro have 0x10 in their high
byte. So you probably need to add some tests to get this patch
applyed.

[Glenn Wurster]

> > I notice it's trying for 8 bit mode.  I posted a patch a while ago to
> > do with palette colours that was not been accepted (I'm busy right now
> > but should get back to modifying it eventually).  Try applying that
> > and see if it fixes the problem.  I've attached it.  Failing that, I'd
> > be interested in the portion of debug statements dealing with the
> > SetTextColor call and the ExtTextOut call (if there are those calls
> > for that particular string of text).
> >
> > Glenn
>
> I can't find anything on this SYSPALETTEINDEX you are using, but I
> know that colors created with DIBINDEX macro have 0x10 in their high
> byte. So you probably need to add some tests to get this patch
> applyed.

Thanks very much for your comments.  I'll be sure to change things
when I do get a chance to work on the patch.

I'll take a look at fixing Ian Bartelds original problem when I get a
chance too, but it's going to take time.

Glenn.

[Lionel Ulmer]

> fixme:x11drv:X11DRV_desktop_SetCurrentMode Cannot change screen BPP from 32 to 
> 8
> fixme:x11drv:X11DRV_desktop_SetCurrentMode Cannot change screen BPP from 32 to 
> 8

Hmmmm, a DDraw game that displays only black text in 8 BPP mode.... That
looks suspiciously like the problem we have in AoE.

Could you do a +ddraw trace and see if it uses GetDIB DDraw calls. If yes,
it may be the same issue.

Basically what I found out debugging AoE was that the game created a
paletted surface without a palette attached, drew to it using the GetDIB
calls and then standard ExtTextOut calls.

Apparently, it was as if Windows has a default palette when doing this
code-path. Wanted to test it in 'real' Windows but never had the time.

Lionel (still in catch-up mode for old emails :-) )

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 00:08:01 +0100, Ian Bartelds!  wrote:
> the gentoo linux version

what version would that be ?

try posting a wine version number it would mean more.

You could also look in the gentoo mm forum , there is a post there with an  
ebuild for wine-cvs

HTH