Re: [Wine] Re: Sum-up: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-24 Thread deedee
On Monday 24 April 2006 04:50 am, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) wrote: > n0dalus wrote: > > In a way this holds for mailing lists as well, but I think > > the difference is that forums usually have: > > - Large sections containing non-technical discussion > > - 'Post counts', often used

Re: HTML e-mails

2006-04-24 Thread KGJ
Vitaliy Margolen wrote: > Monday, April 24, 2006, 8:32:14 PM, Segin wrote: > >> Vitaliy Margolen wrote: >> > > >>> I'm sure that everyone of us really enjoys seeing influx of these >>> wonderful HTML messages. >>> >>> People please don't send HTML e-mails to the mailing lists. Tey are a

Re: HTML e-mails

2006-04-24 Thread Vitaliy Margolen
Monday, April 24, 2006, 7:49:37 PM, Molle Bestefich wrote: > Vitaliy Margolen wrote: >> People please don't send HTML e-mails to the mailing lists. > All mailers send a text/plain MIME alternative also. > So we could just have the wine mail servers strip the HTML > alternative, et voila? Or send

Re: HTML e-mails

2006-04-24 Thread Vitaliy Margolen
Monday, April 24, 2006, 8:32:14 PM, Segin wrote: > Vitaliy Margolen wrote: >>I'm sure that everyone of us really enjoys seeing influx of these >>wonderful HTML messages. >> >>People please don't send HTML e-mails to the mailing lists. Tey are a pain >>to read. And if some one about to say that's n

Re: HTML e-mails

2006-04-24 Thread Segin
Vitaliy Margolen wrote: I'm sure that everyone of us really enjoys seeing influx of these wonderful HTML messages. People please don't send HTML e-mails to the mailing lists. Tey are a pain to read. And if some one about to say that's not their fault because they use gmail - then DON'T use gmai

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-24 Thread Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)
Joseph Garvin wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 17:30 +0200, Molle Bestefich wrote: I'd like to know exactly what it is that people find so convenient about forums. A lot. If forums are made, they should be user, not developer, targeted. Normal users, as opposed to power hackers, prefer fo

Re: HTML e-mails

2006-04-24 Thread Molle Bestefich
Vitaliy Margolen wrote: > People please don't send HTML e-mails to the mailing lists. All mailers send a text/plain MIME alternative also. So we could just have the wine mail servers strip the HTML alternative, et voila?

RE: HTML e-mails

2006-04-24 Thread Robertino Benis
Hi, Very often, I read my email on the run, on the wireless device. It's really painful to read HTML mail on an email client which doesn't support it, and wait for GPRS connection to download all unnecessary HTML stuff... Just another 2c against HTML emails. r. -Original Message- Fro

Re: HTML e-mails

2006-04-24 Thread Tony Lambregts
Vitaliy Margolen wrote: > I'm sure that everyone of us really enjoys seeing influx of these > wonderful HTML messages. > > People please don't send HTML e-mails to the mailing lists. Tey are a pain > to read. And if some one about to say that's not their fault because they > use gmail - then DON'T

HTML e-mails

2006-04-24 Thread Vitaliy Margolen
I'm sure that everyone of us really enjoys seeing influx of these wonderful HTML messages. People please don't send HTML e-mails to the mailing lists. Tey are a pain to read. And if some one about to say that's not their fault because they use gmail - then DON'T use gmail for this mailing list. Or

Re: First patch: Regedit Multi-String Value

2006-04-24 Thread Segin
Hedos wrote: Hello folks! I'm new to Wine development, and I've just completed my first patch. I  hope I could get some advices to make sure I'm heading in the right  direction. Just a bit myself now to clear up a few things: I'm a first year college  student who realized this week-

Re: Web forums - simple suggestion

2006-04-24 Thread Brian Vincent
On 4/23/06, Jeremy White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay, so I've followed this thread, and I havea range of thoughts and what I think is a simple solution.mod +1: InformativeI'm just going to agree with the whole post since you usually don't hear from people who agree. Third, I think the biggest p

Re: KERNEL: [2/2] changed test for FindFirstFileEx (Edited)

2006-04-24 Thread Vitaliy Margolen
Monday, April 24, 2006, 2:23:31 AM, Konstantin Petrov wrote: > (Patch edited) > There were the problem while I advert to dosdevices through WINE. I made the > test (Windows vs Wine), which shows that in Windows there are available > dosfiles (such as NUL, COM1, COM2,.., LPT1, ..), and in Wine aren'

Re: Web forums - simple suggestion

2006-04-24 Thread Molle Bestefich
Eric Pouech wrote: > my 0.02€ on the longuest thread of the year. I think we ought to have some sort of a phpBB forum. That way you wouldn't get all this crap in your inbox - you could just selectively choose the topics that interest you :-)..

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-24 Thread Segin
n0dalus wrote: On 4/24/06, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fine whatever.. Personally I dont like having to keep an irc client open, but i would be more inclined to do so if we had our own server... Then we could do java irc from one of the websit

Re: [WINED3D] Use shorter lines in drawprim.c (whitespace)

2006-04-24 Thread H. Verbeet
On 24/04/06, Stefan Dösinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /* Do a function call: */ That's a bit excessive, don't you think? :-) The main problem I have with the wined3d code style isn't so much the formatting or the comments, but rather the fact that functions are too long / do too much. At s

Re: question regarding dibsections

2006-04-24 Thread Dimi Paun
On Mon, April 24, 2006 3:44 pm, Marcus Meissner said: > We do not do this, for us HBITMAP is a regular 16bit GDI > handle. GlobalLock will not work on it :/ Not sure if its related, but this thread: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2006-April/thread.html#46804 In particular Alexan

Re: [WINED3D] Use shorter lines in drawprim.c (whitespace)

2006-04-24 Thread Stefan Dösinger
Hi, > +void primitiveDeclarationConvertToStridedData( > +    IWineD3DDevice *iface, > +    BOOL useVertexShaderFunction, > +    Direct3DVertexStridedData *strided, > +    LONG BaseVertexIndex, > +    DWORD *fvf, > +    BOOL storeOrder, > +    INT arrayUsageMap[WINED3DSHADERDECLUSAGE_MAX_USAGE]) { I

question regarding dibsections

2006-04-24 Thread Marcus Meissner
Hi, While debugging twain, I came across the nativexfer method, used by 60-70% of all twain using programs. It has some very unfortunate programming logic. Here is a sample snippet from: http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA011973/prg_twain.htm TW_UINT16 rc; TW_UINT32 hBitma

Re: Web forums - simple suggestion

2006-04-24 Thread Molle Bestefich
Jeremy White wrote: > > Of the problems mentioned at: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.wine.devel/41377 > > > > your idea provides a solution for 1, 2, 3 and 4. That's of course really > > nice. > > It doesn't have a solution for 7, which is something I think will be missed. > >

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-24 Thread Molle Bestefich
Joseph Garvin wrote: > 1. They can bookmark forum posts. > > 2. Webmail interfaces are very popular but often suck at threading > mailing lists. Good points. > 3. phpbb has become so widespread that signing up for a forum is > something that they know how to do and are familiar with. > > 4. phpbb

Bug when using FlashFXP still exists

2006-04-24 Thread liefie diefie
FlashFXP (and other programs might as well) crash when trying to list. There was a patch submitted but that patch doesn't work unfortunately. Here you can see the details of it: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2005-April/035687.html   I hope there will be somebody who is willing to give

Re: NetUserGetInfo and unsupported levels

2006-04-24 Thread Aidan Thornton
James Hawkins wrote: On 4/23/06, Aidan Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Is there any particular reason why NetUserGetInfo returns success if it's called with a valid but unsupported value for level? This seems to cause problems for at least MSYS (part of MinGW), as it assumes this means

Re: KERNEL: [2/2] changed test for FindFirstFileEx (Edited)

2006-04-24 Thread Eric Pouech
Konstantin Petrov wrote: (Patch edited) There were the problem while I advert to dosdevices through WINE. I made the test (Windows vs Wine), which shows that in Windows there are available dosfiles (such as NUL, COM1, COM2,.., LPT1, ..), and in Wine aren't. The characteristic property of these

Re: KERNEL: [1/2] fixed FindFirstFileExW; support for dosdevices (NUL, LPT[1-9], COM[1-9]...) (Edited)

2006-04-24 Thread Eric Pouech
Konstantin Petrov wrote: (Patch Edited) There were the problem while I advert to dosdevices through WINE. I made the test (Windows vs Wine), which shows that in Windows there are available dosdevices-files (such as NUL, COM1, COM2,.., LPT1, ..), and in Wine aren't. The characteristic property

Re: What version of freetype are we requiring these days

2006-04-24 Thread Bill Medland
On April 21, 2006 06:58 pm, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) wrote: > Bill Medland wrote: > > I have just noticed that configure is telling me > > "Warning: Freetype or Fontforge is missing" > > > > Why does it think that? > > > > (freetype-devel version 2.1.9 is installed) > > Is fontforge

Re: [WINED3D] Use shorter lines in drawprim.c (whitespace)

2006-04-24 Thread H. Verbeet
On 24/04/06, Francois Gouget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote: > [...] > > 80-characters is a more difficult goal - this is pretty much exceeded by > > every second line in that file. > > Maybe that means it's badly structured (too much nested ifs or some > such

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-24 Thread Joseph Garvin
On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 17:30 +0200, Molle Bestefich wrote: > I'd like to know exactly what it is that people find so convenient about > forums. A lot. If forums are made, they should be user, not developer, targeted. Normal users, as opposed to power hackers, prefer forums for a variety of reason

Re: riched20: Implement conformance tests for EM_SETUNDOLIMIT()

2006-04-24 Thread Mike Hearn
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:48:23 -0500, Matt Finnicum wrote: > My first patch, comments are welcome. Looks good Matt! Try leaving space between local variable declarations and the start of statements, it just makes things easier to read. Also send the mails as plain text only in future - AJ feeds them

Re: First patch: Regedit Multi-String Value

2006-04-24 Thread Mike Hearn
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 02:59:40 -0400, Hedos wrote: > Just a bit myself now to clear up a few things: I'm a first year college > student Cool! Let us know how you get on. Wine can be a slightly intimidating codebase at first but I found (back when I was about to enter my first year and started on

Re: [WINED3D] Use shorter lines in drawprim.c (whitespace)

2006-04-24 Thread Francois Gouget
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote: [...] 80-characters is a more difficult goal - this is pretty much exceeded by every second line in that file. Maybe that means it's badly structured (too much nested ifs or some such). The wrap-around point on my screen was at 125 chars with vi, wh

Re: Web forums - simple suggestion

2006-04-24 Thread Eric Pouech
Perfect is the enemy of good (or something like that, I forget theexact quote :-/).   Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. Oops, excuse my French : Better is the enemy of good. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/v/voltaire109643.html   my 0.02€ on the longuest thread of the year. A+-- Eric Pouec

Re: [WINED3D] Use shorter lines in drawprim.c (whitespace)

2006-04-24 Thread Ivan Gyurdiev
Goal: prevent wraparound of lines on 1024x768 resolution using standard fonts Hmm, if wrapping lines you must, then wrap them at the standard 80 characters, rather than some ill defined length (whose 'standard fonts'? xemacs'? gedit's? eterm's (vi)? using which display dpi?). 80-characters

Re: [WINED3D] Use shorter lines in drawprim.c (whitespace)

2006-04-24 Thread Francois Gouget
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote: Goal: prevent wraparound of lines on 1024x768 resolution using standard fonts Hmm, if wrapping lines you must, then wrap them at the standard 80 characters, rather than some ill defined length (whose 'standard fonts'? xemacs'? gedit's? eterm's (vi)?

Re: Web forums - simple suggestion

2006-04-24 Thread Jeremy White
> Of the problems mentioned at: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.wine.devel/41377 > > your idea provides a solution for 1, 2, 3 and 4. That's of course really > nice. > It doesn't have a solution for 7, which is something I think will be missed. And 5, and 6, and 8. And at the b

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-24 Thread Jonathan Ernst
Le lundi 24 avril 2006 à 06:55 -0500, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) a écrit : > How do you propsose I access the NNTP threads? My ISP's news server has > been down forever, and as far as I can tell, google only lets you access > the newsgroups thru the browser thru their site.. Just u

Re: Sum-up: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-24 Thread Mike Hearn
> I don't see developers (well, except me sometimes) going onto these forums Should have read everything first I should have said developers except me and Scott :) thanks -mike

Re: Sum-up: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-24 Thread Mike Hearn
> Now, I'm not high on crystal meth or anything, but I'll just assume > for a moment that we all want better accessibility for the newcomers > (even with the rise in volume that they bring), and that all agree to > go with solution 3 :-). Thus I'll try to outline a battle plan: Well, my own opini

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-24 Thread Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)
Jonathan Ernst wrote: Le dimanche 23 avril 2006 à 12:41 -0500, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) a écrit : But I still want to get certain threads delivered to my mailbox, so I suffer thru all the ones I don't read. Where if I subscribe to a forum thread, then I get all posts to that

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-24 Thread Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)
n0dalus wrote: On 4/24/06, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fine whatever.. Personally I dont like having to keep an irc client open, but i would be more inclined to do so if we had our own server... Then we could do java irc from one of the website's servers

Re: [Wine] Re: Sum-up: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-24 Thread Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)
n0dalus wrote: On 4/24/06, deedee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Forums can tend towards cliques. So-called "popular" forums, especially, can have this quality -- because popularity frequently equates to regulars who always show up and post. In a way this holds for mailing lists as well, b

Re: Sum-up: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-24 Thread Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)
Molle Bestefich wrote: Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) wrote: If solution 3 ever takes off, I will gladly contribute with coding. Realistically, though, i cannot implement something like this all by myself, especially not in any kind of a timely fashion. I can contrib some cod

Re: Summer of Code Project: DirectPlay

2006-04-24 Thread Francois Gouget
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Adam Luchjenbroers wrote: [...] With the way DirectPlay works, we could provide our own provider and a compatible provider if we so wanted (at least, to the extent of my knowledge). IMHO we should saves ourselves some work and only do the compatible provider since it will

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-24 Thread Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)
Jeremy Newman wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 11:40 -0500, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) wrote: It doesn't make sense to not have a universal login for the entire site, and even you complain about it.. Just curious, but why are we not able to fix that? Nobody has taken up the

Re: [shell32,shlwapi] Implement the IShellLinkDataList interface

2006-04-24 Thread Mike McCormack
Thomas Weidenmueller wrote: P.S.: Please let me know if there's something wrong with this patch or tell me why it was rejected. Otherwise I'm going to assume the fixes aren't appreciated or necessary because the implementation is considered mature and stable. ../../../tools/runtest -q -P wine

Re: First patch: Regedit Multi-String Value

2006-04-24 Thread Mike McCormack
Hedos wrote: It is quite simple and definitly not concerning Wine's core code, but I thought it'd be a good start. Hi Philippe, I had a quick look at your patch, and here are my comments: +if( !(newString = (TCHAR*)HeapAlloc(GetProcessHeap(), 0, lenbytes)) ) +return

Re: Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-24 Thread Jonathan Ernst
Le dimanche 23 avril 2006 à 12:41 -0500, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) a écrit : > But I still want to get certain threads delivered to my mailbox, so I > suffer thru all the ones I don't read. Where if I subscribe to a forum > thread, then I get all posts to that thread in my mailbox