Problem with "exec shield" workaround

2003-12-17 Thread Troy Rollo
The "exec shield" workaround (loader/main.c, libs/wine/port.c) has a side-effect of leaving a several thousand byte area of memory allocated just after the reserved pe_area. Under Windows, it is possible to fairly reliably map files or allocate memory explicitly using a fixed address of 0x10

Re: winedbg question

2003-12-17 Thread Eric Pouech
Chris Morgan wrote: I did export WINELOADER=`which wine` and it set it to /usr/local/bin/wine I'll check my machine to ensure that I don't have multiple copies of the wine or winedbg binaries. Note that I am getting debug information from wine dlls now, I do not if I don't set the WINELOADER e

Re: winedbg question

2003-12-17 Thread Chris Morgan
I did export WINELOADER=`which wine` and it set it to /usr/local/bin/wine I'll check my machine to ensure that I don't have multiple copies of the wine or winedbg binaries. Note that I am getting debug information from wine dlls now, I do not if I don't set the WINELOADER environment variabl

Re: winedbg question

2003-12-17 Thread Eric Pouech
Chris Morgan wrote: Should winedbg be able to load symbols up for non-wine libraries? After the export WINELOADER idea I've got wine symbols but I'm still trying to debug a bizzare crash in winejack where I get: it should it seems more to me that the wine exec that winedbg is looking at is not

Re: default config file creation

2003-12-17 Thread Bill Medland
On December 17, 2003 07:57 am, Chris Morgan wrote: > >I don't like the idea; I much prefer the idea of copying > >them from somewhere > >in /etc, as redhat does. The default config file in /etc > >can then be > >modified so that it matches the distribution (redhat have > >their cd at > >/mnt/cdrom

Re: default config file creation

2003-12-17 Thread Ivan Leo Murray-Smith
> Trading off configurability with usability seems fine to > me. We aren't as one can tweak things with winecfg if he wants/needs to > The goal is to solve both > the lack of config files for binary installs, fixed by the > patches that Che has in his rpm package and Marcus has for > Suse, an

Re: default config file creation

2003-12-17 Thread Chris Morgan
Trading off configurability with usability seems fine to me. I doubt you'd hear much complaining about the default configuration not being correct and users wanting to edit it. In either case if the same can be accomplished without including the config files in the binary then that of course

Re: Wine Status Page Pre-1

2003-12-17 Thread Brian Vincent (C)
Title: Re: Wine Status Page Pre-1 > 3) Send to Brian V for WWN coverage :)  (Brian if you want you can get a > early start) Hm.  1.7 meters of snow this week at Steamboat and I have the next three days off.  I'm guessing I won't have much done until Monday. --- Brian Vincent

Re: default config file creation

2003-12-17 Thread Ivan Leo Murray-Smith
>The less modification to the install process the better. >If there was a single location the files could be >installed to that would work for all distros I think this >is the route to head in. You can install the files anywhere, as long as the location isn't already used for something else, /e

Re: default config file creation

2003-12-17 Thread Ivan Leo Murray-Smith
> Read documentation/PACKAGING, I had it added to CVS with most ideas already > inside on Jun 27, 1999. I've read this. I also had a look at the recording of your speech about wine packaging at wineconf 2002. I've followed the indications of documentation/PACKAGING at lines 385-404, mainly for usab

Re: default config file creation

2003-12-17 Thread Chris Morgan
I don't like the idea; I much prefer the idea of copying them from somewhere in /etc, as redhat does. The default config file in /etc can then be modified so that it matches the distribution (redhat have their cd at /mnt/cdrom) and it can be modified by the sysadmin The less modification to

Mouse usage when Wine not in focus

2003-12-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Please excuse me for bringing this question here. I'm not a developer. I have asked this in a couple of different forums but to date have received no answers. I will copy a message sent earlier this week to Wine-Users and hope for some insights on how to handle it. I have done some Googl

Re: default config file creation

2003-12-17 Thread Bill Medland
On December 16, 2003 06:39 pm, Chris Morgan wrote: > I was chatting with Rudolf Kastl(che on #winehq) and he was mentioning the > things that he was doing for the rpm package. One of the patches he > applies to wine prior to packaging it is a patch that creates local user > config files if they do

Re: default config file creation

2003-12-17 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:51:42AM +0100, Ivan Leo Murray-Smith wrote: > >I was wondering if it would make more sense during the compile process to take > >the default configuration files, config, system.reg, user.reg and userdef.reg > >and convert these to binary form and compile them into the w

Re: Input Focus problems with IE

2003-12-17 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
"Mike Hearn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isn't this the same bug that kills us in gaming, ie we create unmanaged > windows for fullscreen and X finds it hard to handle? It must be the same bug, if the full screen window was really created as a not managed one. Aric, could you confirm that? > If

Re: Input Focus problems with IE

2003-12-17 Thread Aric Stewart
Yes i do believe this is the same bug. humm, i will investigate more about full screen windows and X although i am no expert with the x level windows in wine. -aric Mike Hearn wrote: On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 03:15, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: That sounds like a bug either in Window Manager you are us

Re: default config file creation

2003-12-17 Thread Ivan Leo Murray-Smith
> If wine-c is stored uncompressed, it's easier for a site admin to modify > it for all its users. True, but this shouldn't be necessary. Also any global configuration should be done via winecfg. > Also, there are a couple places in Wine which are dependant on how the > underlying distribution is s

Re: default config file creation

2003-12-17 Thread Vincent Béron
Le mer 17/12/2003 Ã 05:52, Ivan Leo Murray-Smith a Ãcrit : > >I was chatting with Rudolf Kastl(che on #winehq) and he was mentioning the > >things that he was doing for the rpm package. One of the patches he applies > >to wine prior to packaging it is a patch that creates local user config files

Re: default config file creation

2003-12-17 Thread Ivan Leo Murray-Smith
>I was chatting with Rudolf Kastl(che on #winehq) and he was mentioning the >things that he was doing for the rpm package. One of the patches he applies >to wine prior to packaging it is a patch that creates local user config files >if they don't exist. His patches modify wine/libs/wine/config.

Re: default config file creation

2003-12-17 Thread Ivan Leo Murray-Smith
>I was wondering if it would make more sense during the compile process to take >the default configuration files, config, system.reg, user.reg and userdef.reg >and convert these to binary form and compile them into the wine binary >itself. We could detect the lack of these files at startup and

Re: Input Focus problems with IE

2003-12-17 Thread Mike Hearn
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 03:15, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: > That sounds like a bug either in Window Manager you are using or in > x11drv code not properly initializing XSetWindowAttributes.event_mask > (FocusChangeMask). You need further investigate what happens. Isn't this the same bug that kills us i

Re: Fix for Japanese Font Names

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Stefaniuc
Hi, could you please resubmit your diff using the unified output format? See http://www.winehq.org/site/sending_patches for details. bye michael On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:00:56PM +0900, Vik wrote: > May last patch had some wrong font names for Japanese resource files. > The correct name

Re: Problem with Access-mdb/DAO

2003-12-17 Thread Fabian Cenedese
>> >that got truncated. So I would change it to: >> > >> >return (int)((*bufferPointer+1)/sizeof(WCHAR)); >> > >> >Can anybody comment on this? Is this the right fix? >> >> Actually MSDN says about SysStringLen: >> >> Return Value: The number of characters in bstr >> Comments: For a BSTR all