WM_MDICREATE failing

[Shachar Shemesh]

Hi all,

I have an application that does "SendMessageA" WM_MDICREATE, and this 
call FAILS. I'm currently running this under crossover office 2.0.1 (the 
only environment that would install it).

I'm quite capable of hunting this down on my own, but I was wondering 
whether anyone has had similar experience in the past. I would also like 
to know who is our "official" MDI maintainer.

Also, I noticed that this application registered two Windows hooks. I 
wasn't aware that these worked, but the app seems happy. Do we or don't 
we have working hooks support?

Shachar
P.S.
I have been a Win32 programmer for five years, and managed to go without 
writing any UI more complicated than a single dialog and a progress bar. 
Since I have been involved in Wine, I have tweaked the Font dialog, 
tracked the Text printing functions, did more OLE than I would normally 
want, keyboard input, and even some Direct X (a little). I find it 
ironic that I had to move my skills to Linux before I had to touch any 
of these.

[Mike Hearn]

On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 16:26, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have an application that does "SendMessageA" WM_MDICREATE, and this 
> call FAILS. I'm currently running this under crossover office 2.0.1 (the 
> only environment that would install it).

Interesting. Another regression :( Maybe write a test case when you fix
it? *looks hopeful*
> I'm quite capable of hunting this down on my own, but I was wondering 
> whether anyone has had similar experience in the past. I would also like 
> to know who is our "official" MDI maintainer.

Is there one? MDI is core window handling, so I guess that falls into
Alexandres area of expertise :)
> Also, I noticed that this application registered two Windows hooks. I 
> wasn't aware that these worked, but the app seems happy. Do we or don't 
> we have working hooks support?

I'm pretty sure we have support for quite a lot of hooks, certainly I've
seen lots of hook related code around. Of course there may be a few
hooks missing here and there....
> Since I have been involved in Wine, I have .... done more OLE than I
> would normally want

Heh, amen brother! Too much OLE messes with the mind :)

[Steven Edwards]

--- Mike Hearn  wrote:
> Is there one? MDI is core window handling, so I guess that falls into
> Alexandres area of expertise :)

If someone is going to work on MDI can you try and split out the Win16
stuff in a another file like mdi16.c? I was going to attempt to port
the MDI support as a hack on to ReactOS user32 but it ended up taking
more time then I thought. If not thats ok it will prob be another month
or two before one of our developers tries to implement it in ROS.

Thanks
Steven

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[Shachar Shemesh]

Steven Edwards wrote:
> --- Mike Hearn  wrote:
> > Is there one? MDI is core window handling, so I guess that falls into
> > Alexandres area of expertise :)
>
> If someone is going to work on MDI can you try and split out the Win16
> stuff in a another file like mdi16.c? I was going to attempt to port
> the MDI support as a hack on to ReactOS user32 but it ended up taking
> more time then I thought. If not thats ok it will prob be another month
> or two before one of our developers tries to implement it in ROS.
>
> Thanks
> Steven

I'm afraid it's unlikely that I'll get around to that. Sorry.

Shachar