Where does richedit20.dll fit in the to-do list?

[Dan Kegel]

I keep running into apps that won't run without
richedit20.dll, yet I can't see any mention of
that DLL in the wine 0.9 or wine 1.0 tasklists.
Surely it's important enough to merit at least
a mention in the wine 1.0 tasklist?
- Dan

[Mike Hearn]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:47:44 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> I keep running into apps that won't run without
> richedit20.dll, yet I can't see any mention of
> that DLL in the wine 0.9 or wine 1.0 tasklists.
> Surely it's important enough to merit at least
> a mention in the wine 1.0 tasklist?
> - Dan

Nooooooooo, Wine 1.0 is ethereal enough as it is. The last thing we need
is to be piling even more work onto it :) 0.9 has already suffered serious
feature creep it seems, how did the WM rewrite get in there? 1.0 should be
about libwine API stability IMHO, there will always be new DLLs that can
be added.

Having said that I expect it would not be too hard to write a
riched20.dll, I think it mostly forwards/wraps to our current
implementation. The richedit is a huge bag of pain though as especially
the later versions are basically miniature word processors. Currently we
bodge the lack of this badly. We're going to need to look at this at some
point.

thanks -mike

[Steven Edwards]

Hi Dan,
--- Dan Kegel  wrote:
> I keep running into apps that won't run without
> richedit20.dll, yet I can't see any mention of
> that DLL in the wine 0.9 or wine 1.0 tasklists.
> Surely it's important enough to merit at least
> a mention in the wine 1.0 tasklist?

I have been thinking about creating a stub recently for this as we have
the same problem in ReactOS. Richedit20 is a lot more advanced than the
standard richedit (which we have hardly anything of) but I guess we
could do the same thing we do now and make it a dummy wrapper around
the edit control.

Thanks
Steven

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[Dan Kegel]

Steven Edwards wrote:
> > I keep running into apps that won't run without
> > richedit20.dll, yet I can't see any mention of
> > that DLL in the wine 0.9 or wine 1.0 tasklists.
> > Surely it's important enough to merit at least
> > a mention in the wine 1.0 tasklist?
>
> I have been thinking about creating a stub recently for this as we have
> the same problem in ReactOS. Richedit20 is a lot more advanced than the
> standard richedit (which we have hardly anything of) but I guess we
> could do the same thing we do now and make it a dummy wrapper around
> the edit control.

I guess it depends.  Is it better for an app to load and
look like crap (e.g. the help screen in http://www.grc.com/wizmo/wizmo.htm ),
or to refuse to load?  I guess I vote for "looks like crap".
Please keep us posted on your efforts so we don't both end
up writing that dummy wrapper...
- Dan