Hello,
I have two favourite games (Diablo II & Ultima Online) and both of them works great under Wine. Unfortunately this is quite hard to play UO without additional tool called "EasyUO" which doesn't work under Wine.
EasyUO generally works fine but it can not detect pressing any key-combination in focued UO window. Possibility of detecting is the main functionality for EUO. This problem is cuased by little bug in support for GetAsyncKeyState function.
I am waiting about 8 months now for fixing this bug and I wonder if I can ask sb to look info this bug. Just to make fixing this little faster.
Bug is quite well decribed in: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5623 but if you don't understand this, I can try to explain more detailed.
So my request is someone try to fix this bug. Anyone have a free moment for this, please?
2007/11/7, Rafał Miłecki zajec5polish@gmail.com:
Really, not a chance for fixing this? I know you are busy, have own life, efc. but... maybe? Anyone, please?
Am Montag, 26. November 2007 12:17:07 schrieb Rafał Miłecki:
The usual way for that is either to offer payment to someone to fix it, or fix it yourself.
Offering bug bounties was tried in the past, but I don't know how well they worked. The issue is that usually affordable bounties are not comparable to usual salaries and the issues involved with handling the bounty and reading into the code. $100 for a bug bounty is quite a lot already, but at codeweavers we have some estimation that fixing a minor bug costs about $1000 to $1500 to fix(http://www.codeweavers.com/services/engagements/) .
So the most efficient way to get a bug fixed is to read into the code yourself.
The bottom line is that while a free software project may be freely downloadable, but it is not a place where one can expect service for free.
2007/11/26, Stefan Dösinger stefandoesinger@gmx.at:
Sure, in a lot of cases the easiest way is to pay and get it done. Unfortunately not every person is able to offer hundreds of $ (as I am not).
So the most efficient way to get a bug fixed is to read into the code yourself.
I tried. I found function implementing GetAsyncKeyState but that's all I was able to do. Improveing this implementation was much over my little skills.
The bottom line is that while a free software project may be freely downloadable, but it is not a place where one can expect service for free.
I understand that and hope there wasn't anything wrong in my request. I tried be kind and ask for help, not demand it.
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Stefan Dösinger