comctl32.dll: Running siap and modules under wine, first steps

[Maximiliano Curia]

Hi,

I'm trying to use a program called "siap"[1] under wine. It's the required 
program to pay taxes that the Argentinian government uses.
So, it's quite important for the free software community in Argentina to be 
able to use it in a free software environment. However, I haven't heard 
of any real success on it, so far.

I've been trying to make it run using winetools[2], and differents versions of 
wine. The furthest I've gone, has been with version 20050310 and all the 
"plugins" that winetools provides, installed.

Only then, could I install the application, run it, switch between the 
different modules (although it worked only sometimes), but I can't really use 
it.

There are a couple of important widgets that seem to be incompatible with 
wine. But as I'm not an expert neither in Windows nor in wine, the one I could 
really track down is a TreeView widget (from comctl32.dll) (from the main 
window of the program), that is not fully implemented in wine, and by using a 
native comctl32.dll (I tried using the win98, winme, win2k libraries) the 
widget would work but some of the other stuff, like switching 
to one of the modules wouldn't.

I made a screenshot to make this clearer, the wine version[3] and the w2k 
version[4].

So, what should I do next?

Is there some documentation of how to implement a certain Windows widget in 
wine?

Is anybody working in this dll, or has worked on this widget?

I'd appreciate any comments.

Thanks,

[1] http://www.afip.gov.ar/programas/siap_main.asp (spanish only)
[2] http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/
[3] http://gnuservers.com.ar/~maxy/wine/siap-wine.png
[4] http://gnuservers.com.ar/~maxy/wine/siap-w2k.png

[Andreas Mohr]

Hi,

On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 08:20:29PM -0300, Maximiliano Curia wrote:
> So, what should I do next?

I'm afraid I cannot give much technical advice how to proceed here, but what you
should do soon is to protest loudly against *FORCING* a Windows-only program
on the public in this day and age of multi-platform use, despite those
cross-platform toolkits such as Qt, wxWidgets, GTK and Java having been
available for long times already (not to mention that several of those should
actually be superiour to the single-platform toolkit that may have been used
here!).

This is "§$%"§(%" incredible ignorance and malvolence.

But I'm confident that many of you have already been doing this.

Good luck with this major annoyance,

Andreas Mohr