no keyboard events in ddraw application.

[Oleg Prokhorov]

Hello wine-devel,

I've got a problem with 'Theme Hospital' game application. It requires
  some keyboard input to start.

But the problem is that this application doesn't receive any
  keyboard events.

I've put some checks inside function process_events  (dlls/x11drv/event.c)
  but they show that no keyboard events (KeyPress, KeyRelease)

I don't have any experience in this area and ask for you guidance,
  where to look at.

[Aric Stewart]

I believe this is the same issue i am seeing with IE started in full 
screen mode. It appears that those windows are being created in 
unmanaged mode and thus never generate any of the focus events that wine 
uses to try to track input focus.

if you place them into a desktop then it works fine. I am unfamiliar 
enough with that level of the windowing code that i am unsure how to fix 
it right.

-aric

Oleg Prokhorov wrote:
> Hello wine-devel,
>
> I've got a problem with 'Theme Hospital' game application. It requires
>   some keyboard input to start.
>
> But the problem is that this application doesn't receive any
>   keyboard events.
>
> I've put some checks inside function process_events  (dlls/x11drv/event.c)
>   but they show that no keyboard events (KeyPress, KeyRelease)
>
> I don't have any experience in this area and ask for you guidance,
>   where to look at.

[Mike Hearn]

On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 08:53:01 -0600, Aric Stewart wrote:
> if you place them into a desktop then it works fine. I am unfamiliar 
> enough with that level of the windowing code that i am unsure how to fix 
> it right.

I think the reason we make these windows unmanaged is because they don't
have window borders - if you can figure out a patch to allow them to be
managed that would go some way towards fixing this issue I think (though
fullscreened apps would still require some more work).

The tricky bit is being able to tell the difference between windows
created for toplevel windows by the app and stuff like menu popups,
tooltips etc.

Re[2]: no keyboard events in ddraw application.

[Oleg Prokhorov]

Hello Mike,

Wednesday, January 7, 2004, 12:15:28 AM, you wrote:

MH> I think the reason we make these windows unmanaged is because they don't
MH> have window borders - if you can figure out a patch to allow them to be
MH> managed that would go some way towards fixing this issue I think (though
MH> fullscreened apps would still require some more work).
Where could I look at to find how (unmanaged) window was created ?

Specifically in my case i've got 2 Ddraw applications (games): one
allows keyboard input but another fails. And no idea why does this happen.