Hi all,

Just FYI:

This issue has been identified and fixed now:

https://twitter.com/reactos/status/1483428198419419136

Thanks to Julen and everyone involved!

Regards,

   Matthias

Am 17.01.22 um 00:02 schrieb Matthias Seidel:
> Hi Julen,
>
> Unfortunately I can't help with the old builds...
>
> But just a quick note:
>
> If the caret (I think we refer to it as "cursor" in our code) is
> switched to "Overwrite" it blinks as desired on ReactOS.
> Switching back to "Insert" (which is default) makes it somehow invisible.
>
> It would be great if this issue can get solved, maybe this is a starting
> point:
>
> http://opengrok.openoffice.org/xref/trunk/main/sw/source/core/crsr/viscrs.cxx?r=5c0a9181
>
> Regards,
>
>    Matthias
>
> Am 16.01.22 um 19:41 schrieb Julen Urizar Compains:
>> Hi:
>>
>> I'm Julen Urizar Compains, a simple tester of ReactOS. ReactOS is a
>> clean reverse engineered NT operative system. The aim is to behave at
>> this moment like Windows2003, or Windows XP SP3, but nowadays the aim
>> also can cover some Vista+ functionalities.
>>
>> The aim I'm trying to find is why current OpenOffice/LibreOffice are
>> not showing the Caret under ReactOS - There have been a ticket under
>> https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-14359 like 4 years, but it's
>> really a 12 years old issue -. I'm sure it's a *ReactOS mistake* under
>> the *Win32ss system*, maybe user32.dll or gdi32.dll issue.
>>
>> I did a retro investigation, and I encountered that OpenOffice once
>> shows the caret without any issue or any problem. *OOO320m18* or
>> earlier shows the caret without issue and *OOO330m20* or later is not
>> showing . I did comparison of the 3.2.1 core source and the 3.3.0 core
>> source that I found in the official release repo, and the differences
>> are impressive: there are a lot of commits between them, excessive to
>> parse all of them. I located at least 800 changes around the caret. *I
>> know that both are pretty old versions!*
>>
>> I want to bisect to find the non working version. I was giving a look
>> to the versioning here
>> https://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/dev_index.html . It
>> says that from DEV300m61 to DEV300m84 are 3.3.0. So I tried to do a
>> bisect. Finally I get that the regression point is between
>> *DEV300m70(9478)* and *DEV300m74(9487)* with the unofficial repo I
>> accidentally found under http://mirror2.unlogisch.ch/ooodev-archive/ .
>>
>> I find that in the past the versions were storaged under
>> http://download.openoffice.org:80/next/other.html .
>>
>> I need to finish my bisection at least this builds:
>> -OOo-_Dev_DEV300_m73__Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe:
>> http://download.services.openoffice.org/files/extended/developer/DEV300_m73/OOo-Dev_DEV300_m73_Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe
>> -OOo-_Dev_DEV300_m72__Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe:
>> http://download.services.openoffice.org/files/extended/developer/DEV300_m72/OOo-Dev_DEV300_m72_Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe
>> -OOo-_Dev_DEV300_m71__Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe:
>> http://download.services.openoffice.org/files/extended/developer/DEV300_m71/OOo-Dev_DEV300_m71_Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe
>>
>>
>> There are none of them, I guess that the server was wiped. If you can
>> provide it to me, thanks you really much.
>>
>> Also, If you suspect what might be the guilty, I will be so grateful.
>>
>> If it's impossible the past two options, I might compile the source
>> code of the important commits that happened between them and find
>> where the behavior changed. Unfortunately some old source repos have
>> been deleted or changed from where they were. I have found something
>> under the libreoffice repo, but I don't know if it's reliable.
>>
>> I do suspect that there is a change related to VCL or the caret code
>> itself, and having some change that makes to ReactOS not to be
>> compatible with the code.
>>
>>
>> Thanks you really much.
>>
>>
>> Julen Urizar Compains
>>
>>

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