PRESS: run windows viruses with wine ...

2005-01-26 Thread Marcus Meissner
Hi, Fun article ... author tests various viruses with WINE. http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/25/1430222&from=rss Ciao, Marcus

Re: [Fwd: Wine-Wiki.org]

2005-01-26 Thread Tony Lambregts
Francois Gouget wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] As far as things go until we go to a "Stable release" system then we will always have this problem. That the problem: a "Stable Wine release" has been six months away since 1998 and even before. But we still don't have one

Re: shdocvw: properly implement DllCanUnloadNow

2005-01-26 Thread jacek
HRESULT WINAPI SHDOCVW_DllCanUnloadNow(void) { -FIXME("(void): stub\n"); - -return S_FALSE; + return SHDOCVW_refCount != 0 ? S_FALSE : S_OK; } I think you should try to call Mozilla's DllCanUnloadNow before returning S_OK. Your patch may cause unload of mozilla while some instances

Re: [Fwd: Wine-Wiki.org]

2005-01-26 Thread Francois Gouget
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] As far as things go until we go to a "Stable release" system then we will always have this problem. That the problem: a "Stable Wine release" has been six months away since 1998 and even before. But we still don't have one, have no idea when the

Re: more d3d9

2005-01-26 Thread Raphael
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 15:17, Oliver Stieber wrote: > Hi, Hi, > I've been tinkering for a week or so and D3d9 is > almost their (well except for shaders) good news :) > Along with Pirates I can now run Axis and Alies and > Myst4 is looking promising > > Most of the demos from here > http:

NPTL and Wine threads

2005-01-26 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
it's come to my attention that NPTL cannot cope with jumping out of a cancellation handler. i thought you might like to be made aware of this in case you weren't already because this has been discovered to have an impact on the way that FreeDCE operates. there is some code in FreeDCE which expect

Re: Does wine have a posix threads "emulation" with which TRY/EXCEPT/CATCH will work?

2005-01-26 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
thank you rob. i'm attaching some example code - it's from client/perf.c. after looking at these closely, i believe it would be straightforward to #define CATCH to __EXCEPT etc. and to rewrite the FreeDCE __EXCEPT argument as a function rather than a structure. dcethreads provides a CATCH macro

Re: Does wine have a posix threads "emulation" with which TRY/EXCEPT/CATCH will work?

2005-01-26 Thread Scott Ritchie
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 20:19 +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > 2) a program that uses posix threads to also at the same time > be able to use Wine Exception routines/macros, try/except/catch? > Check out the exception.h file for the macros, but be warned that I couldn't get it to co

Re: [winecfg] Show detected audio systems, and offer selection

2005-01-26 Thread Mike Hearn
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:37:53 +0100, Paul van Schayck wrote: > Would it be better to add some info to the audio drivers available in > that dialog. Like "Preferred" or "Works best" for example? Basically it just involves making each audio driver load in turn and the first one which loads succeeds t

Does wine have a posix threads "emulation" with which TRY/EXCEPT/CATCH will work?

2005-01-26 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
hi, i would like to check something which, if it is the case, may make porting FreeDCE to wine a no-brainer. i notice that there exists pthread emulation in Wine: it says so at the top of wine/dlls/kernel/pthread.c can i therefore expect the following things: 1) the attached test program to com

Re: [winecfg] Show detected audio systems, and offer selection

2005-01-26 Thread Paul van Schayck
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:55:14 +, Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think we want to do this, to be honest. The idea for a while has > been to just delete that tab entirely and have the driver detected at > runtime automatically. An attempt was made before but Alexandre wasn't > hap

Re: [Fwd: Wine-Wiki.org]

2005-01-26 Thread tony_lambregts
Francois Gouget wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] How is that really different than this. http://appdb.winehq.org/help/?topic=maintainer_ratings The Maintainer rating system is meant for "supported" applications. That's the thing. There is no such thing as a 'supported appl

Re: PerformanceCounterFrequency fix

2005-01-26 Thread Michael Ost
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 23:58, Rein Klazes wrote: > On 25 Jan 2005 14:22:40 -0800, you wrote: > > > > > I'm quite certain that many programs use that function for extremely time > > > critical code > > > (games, anyone??), and that thus the Windows function is equally highly > > > optimized, > >

Re: [OLE #50] IRemUnknown Proxy/Stub Implementation

2005-01-26 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Vincent Béron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are? Only dlls/kernel/lcformat.c contain easily spotted UTF-8 sequences > in a source file. It (in Julio César Gázquez's name) comes from the old > ole/ole2nls.c. Alexandre moved some functions to their current location, > and while copying over the auth

Re: [Fwd: Wine-Wiki.org]

2005-01-26 Thread Robert van Herk
That's the thing with numbers (stars) and medals: it's not clear what they mean. It might be clearer to just state: Not tested Does not install Installs Starts up Usable Perfect On the other hand: some applications don't install but do run, after you installed them manually. Robert

[WINETEST] How is a visible desktop detected

2005-01-26 Thread Paul Vriens
Hi, I was just wondering. I have a Win98/WNT/W2K (on VMWare) and a XP Home system. All are running the winrash service. All were started when I was logged in but only the W98 and WNT were considered running on a visible desktop. What's the criteria for 'running on a visible desktop'? Cheer,s Pa

Re: [Fwd: Wine-Wiki.org]

2005-01-26 Thread Francois Gouget
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] How is that really different than this. http://appdb.winehq.org/help/?topic=maintainer_ratings The Maintainer rating system is meant for "supported" applications. That's the thing. There is no such thing as a 'supported application' in Wine, at le

Re: Disable antialiasing in palette mode (updated)

2005-01-26 Thread Glenn Wurster
> I'm just a peon but wouldn't it be better for the ReactOS project if > you put the code in gdi instead? I tried that and sent a patch in, but it required a function prototype change on every ExtTextOut driver function. It looked ulgy to me, and (suprise) it was not accepted. If someone can gi

Re: [winecfg] Show detected audio systems, and offer selection

2005-01-26 Thread Mike Hearn
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:21:28 +0100, Paul van Schayck wrote: > Never thought a simple popup with a few radio boxes would be this hard... Welcome to Win32 :( > Changelog: > Show the detected audio systems in a popup dialog and offer selection. I don't think we want to do this, to be honest. The id

Re: Disable antialiasing in palette mode (updated)

2005-01-26 Thread Jakob Eriksson
I'm just a peon but wouldn't it be better for the ReactOS project if you put the code in gdi instead? They have to solve it someplace else anyway, since they don't have x11drv. Glenn Wurster wrote: This is an updated patch based on Alexandre's comments. It uses GetObjectW instead of GDI_GetObjPtr.

Re: [Fwd: Wine-Wiki.org]

2005-01-26 Thread tony_lambregts
Scott Ritchie wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 22:28 +0100, Jonathan Ernst wrote: Le mardi 25 janvier 2005 à 21:13 +0100, Michael Drüing a écrit : Here's something I noticed when I last wanted to find some info in the AppDB. Browsing through the database is really well organized, but what I find a bit

Re: [Fwd: Wine-Wiki.org]

2005-01-26 Thread tony_lambregts
Francois Gouget wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Scott Ritchie wrote: [...] Also, I eagerly anticipate the maintainer ratings patches, as those will be much more important for getting useful information about how well a program works than the voting. AFAIU the votes are not meant to carry any informati

Re: [Fwd: Wine-Wiki.org]

2005-01-26 Thread tony_lambregts
Francois Gouget wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Jonathan Ernst wrote: [...] "Rating with Windows" mean rating when using a real windows partition. This rating might have good reasons to be here in the past (when most apps needed many native dlls) but is now regarded as a bad feature by some of AppDB ha

Re: [winecfg] Show detected audio systems, and offer selection

2005-01-26 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
"Paul van Schayck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:33:01 -0600, Rob Shearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Instead of generating the dialog box manually, why don't you store it in > > a resource? It will then be easier to localise and should be easier to > > use. You could al

Re: [winecfg] Show detected audio systems, and offer selection

2005-01-26 Thread Rob Shearman
Paul van Schayck wrote: Hey Rob, On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:33:01 -0600, Rob Shearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Instead of generating the dialog box manually, why don't you store it in a resource? It will then be easier to localise and should be easier to use. You could also disable the radio boxe

Re: Q GUIDS

2005-01-26 Thread Rob Shearman
Oliver Stieber wrote: Hi, I've had to generate some GUIDs for wined3d is there a wine policy on internal GUIDs or should the ones I've generated be ok. How did you generate them? secondly, nothing to do with GUIDS, what's the 'best' thread safe IUnknown enumerate to use for storing a heap of un

Re: [winecfg] Show detected audio systems, and offer selection

2005-01-26 Thread Paul van Schayck
Hey Rob, On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:33:01 -0600, Rob Shearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Instead of generating the dialog box manually, why don't you store it in > a resource? It will then be easier to localise and should be easier to > use. You could also disable the radio boxes of drivers that ca

Re: [winecfg] Show detected audio systems, and offer selection

2005-01-26 Thread Rob Shearman
Paul van Schayck wrote: Hey, Never thought a simple popup with a few radio boxes would be this hard... Instead of generating the dialog box manually, why don't you store it in a resource? It will then be easier to localise and should be easier to use. You could also disable the radio boxes of

more d3d9

2005-01-26 Thread Oliver Stieber
Hi, I've been tinkering for a week or so and D3d9 is almost their (well except for shaders) Along with Pirates I can now run Axis and Alies and Myst4 is looking promising Most of the demos from here http://www.codesampler.com/dx9src.htm Swap Chains only runs in one window, Shadow Volume is stil

RE: [Fwd: Wine-Wiki.org]

2005-01-26 Thread Francois Gouget
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Scott Ritchie wrote: [...] Also, I eagerly anticipate the maintainer ratings patches, as those will be much more important for getting useful information about how well a program works than the voting. AFAIU the votes are not meant to carry any information about how well an ap

Re: [user32/tests/sysparams.c] Check for availability of SPI_GETICONTITLEWRAP

2005-01-26 Thread Paul Vriens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yeah, you can't go wrong there (adding a trace after the call). I am > more interested in finding out why a call isn't implemented in one copy > of Windows 98SE but is in another. Currently in the tests a fair number > are executed without checking for an error code.

Re: [user32/tests/sysparams.c] Check for availability of SPI_GETICONTITLEWRAP

2005-01-26 Thread Justin Chevrier
Paul Vriens wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It appears that for whatever reason that call isn't implemented there. I did a clean install of Windows 98SE here from CD to make sure my install wasn't tainted and the test passes fine (save for the non existant Registry value). I have not done an

Re: PerformanceCounterFrequency fix.

2005-01-26 Thread Lionel Ulmer
> I'm not sure why you'd want to base it on gettimeofday(). > This is a terrible idea IMHO. > I'm quite certain that many programs use that function for extremely time > critical code > (games, anyone??), and that thus the Windows function is equally highly > optimized, > certainly much less slow

Inconsistent test visualization

2005-01-26 Thread Paul Vriens
Hi, I just had a look at http://test.winehq.org/data/200501251000/. When you look at the main overview it shows that shlwapi:path has a yellow box (144) under Win98. If you however jump to the Win98 overview, there is no shlwapi:path? The same is true for shlwapi:clsid, winmm:capture, winmm:wave

Q GUIDS

2005-01-26 Thread Oliver Stieber
Hi, I've had to generate some GUIDs for wined3d is there a wine policy on internal GUIDs or should the ones I've generated be ok. secondly, nothing to do with GUIDS, what's the 'best' thread safe IUnknown enumerate to use for storing a heap of unique elements that will be searched for by the IUnk

Re: PerformanceCounterFrequency fix

2005-01-26 Thread Andreas Mohr
Hi, On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 08:58:13AM +0100, Rein Klazes wrote: > On 25 Jan 2005 14:22:40 -0800, you wrote: > > The application is an embedded audio plugin player. The audio is > > processed with SCHED_FIFO and needs to be as deterministic and fast as > > possible. > > > > I hope this fix/change

Re: PerformanceCounterFrequency fix

2005-01-26 Thread Rein Klazes
On 25 Jan 2005 14:22:40 -0800, you wrote: > > I'm quite certain that many programs use that function for extremely time > > critical code > > (games, anyone??), and that thus the Windows function is equally highly > > optimized, > > certainly much less slow than a gettimeofday() call. > > > >