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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