Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Howe
2009/5/27 Roderick Colenbrander > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Vit Hrachovy > wrote: > > would it be possible to craft a wikipage on Wine Wiki, that would > encompass > > * official DIB implementation requirements > > * high level description of Huw's solution > > * description of Your s

Re: /. wants a fork

2009-05-25 Thread Chris Howe
2009/5/25 Remco > Oh great, now there is poison on slashdot: > > http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/24/2044239 > > Let's not fork, shall we? > > Remco > > > Well, this is awkward. For the record: I didn't intend to ambush anyone on here with my frustrations, and I certainly wouldn't h

Re: DIB Engine : passing all tests

2009-05-24 Thread Chris Howe
2009/5/24 Massimo Del Fedele > I'm looking forward to this hitting upstream :) Have the architectural >> issues been solved yet? >> >> Nope, and I think they will not be solved soon. Not by me, anyways. > I made my engine because I was needing it, but Alexandre don't like > its architecture, so

Re: DIB Engine : Almost 100% working

2009-05-11 Thread Chris Howe
2009/5/11 Joerg Mayer > Hello (mostly wine package maintainers), > On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 05:07:55PM +0200, Massimo Del Fedele wrote: > > James McKenzie ha scritto: > >> Good work. Have you started to think about how to get this into Wine > >> where AJ will approve? > > > > Ah, I'm not very opt

Re: The DIB engine... does anyone know how to get it into Wine?

2009-04-29 Thread Chris Howe
2009/4/29 Roderick Colenbrander : > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Luke Benstead wrote: >> It would be nice to see what Alexandre's opinion of the options >> discussed in this thread is, as he's ultimately the one who will >> decide. > [Huw] would document how the DIB engine should be implement

Re: The DIB engine... does anyone know how to get it into Wine?

2009-04-28 Thread Chris Howe
I think it's time that a definitive framework for it was agreed upon, because as people have said, this isn't the first time that someone has tried to implement the DIB engine. It's been on the todo list of improvements to Wine for as long as I can remember, but it seems as if every time someone tr

Re: [2/3] ntdll: don't treat DOS paths starting with / as Unix paths

2009-04-08 Thread Chris Howe
2009/4/8 Ben Klein > > This is what I meant about magic translation. It *shouldn't* work, but > I'm aware that it does. DOS/Windows uses backslash as the delimiter > when reporting and storing paths. Is the behaviour of magic > translation from foreslash to backslash documented (by Microsoft) > an

Re: Microsoft Office 2007 error

2009-04-02 Thread Chris Howe
2009/4/2 Robert Lunnon > I Get the following unimplemented call in Wine 1.1.16 when using the word > 2007 file-selector > wine: Call from 7fbb155b to unimplemented function shdocvw.dll.IEILIsEqual, > aborting > Hints anyone > >From the name, and the DLL it resides in, something to do with Image

Re: search path redux - if office 2007 always uses a private riched20, why does wine interpose its own global one?

2009-02-17 Thread Chris Howe
2009/2/17 Alexandre Julliard > Dan Kegel writes: > > > See http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14980 > > > > Essentially, to run Office 2007, you have to set an override > > for riched20. Since Office installs a new, spiffier version > > of riched20 in its own private directory, and expects

Re: ntdll: add a warning about running wine as root (resend)

2009-02-09 Thread Chris Howe
It would seem to me that the right place for this to go would be not in Wine itself but in the likes of Crossover and Cedega - the "distributions" and value added apps built around Wine. I can't reconcile in my head the case where you have a newbie running the latest GIT of Wine needing this kind

Re: AppDB: Rating / Patching

2009-01-07 Thread Chris Howe
Forgive me for bringing this up again, but could this be another argument for some kind of WineTricks-like Wine application launcher that would exist as a separate project to Wine, but would apply patches, particular settings, &c in order to get particular applications to work better with the curre

Re: Windows version autodetection

2008-12-22 Thread Chris Howe
2008/12/22 Roderick Colenbrander > Basically microsoft ships its own 'appdb' which contains the windows > version an app wants to see and in general much, much more things. For > instance their appdb allows windows to override the return values of > functions, it can fake the presence of certain

OFN_ENABLESIZING support in standard dialogs

2008-06-29 Thread Chris Howe
Bugs 5034, 10284 and 10394 relate to un-resizable file open dialogs in various programs - to be honest I came across this discrepancy running native NOTEPAD.EXE. The file open dialogs are implemented in comctl32, specifically filedlg.c and the templates live in cdlg_xx.rc In Windows, to make them

Re: What to do about filenames legal in Linux but illegal in Windows?

2008-04-21 Thread Chris Howe
Would the right way to handle such files be to use the FUSE filesystem (when it's done) to hide them from apps? On the one hand it sidesteps the problem, but as a recent blog post by Microsoft's Raymond Chen http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2008/04/14/8389268.aspx shows, it IS possible to

Re: Feature Request: Registry / winecfg entry for launching an application in a wineexplorer window

2008-04-14 Thread Chris Howe
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Austin English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There was a similar request in a bug a few weeks ago. Someone made > the comment that since Windows's explorer doesn't support this, we > can't, even though running it on a per-app basis with the 'wine > explorer /d

Re: WineHQ should discourage the use of cracks

2008-03-04 Thread Chris Howe
I totally get why you want to make it look like Wine isn't encouraging cracks, but if that's all that's keeping an app from plat status, one notch should be enough. How about Gold: Application works flawlessly with some DLL overrides or other settings etc. Application may not work correctly due to

Re: #winehq admin troubles

2007-11-05 Thread Chris Howe
On Nov 5, 2007 11:51 AM, Stefan Dösinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I absolutely agree. Helping people in #winehq is a really bad job. Many people > who go there seem to expect you to wave your magic wand to make their problem > go away with zero effort from their side, and to make that instant

Re: Moving the wine status pages to the wiki

2007-10-08 Thread Chris Howe
I think that's a great idea but would it be cheeky of me to suggest that at the same time, the general state of the to-do information be updated as well? Just as a somewhat newbie diving in, there's a lot of stuff spread out over various places in both www.winehq.org / wiki.winehq.org that describ

Re: Direct3D 10 design considerations

2007-08-20 Thread Chris Howe
For what it's worth, although the idea of not starting with a clean state has its advantages (not in the least being able to support D3D10 software in a short time frame) I think that the clean slate argument wins out for me overall. Yes, it's more work in the short term, but I can't help thinking

Re: illegal characters in file names

2007-07-03 Thread Chris Howe
True. A friend of mine accidentally created a file called * in his home directory on the first day of university and was afraid to delete it for 3 years. On 7/1/07, David Laight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 02:57:58AM +0200, J?r?me Gardou wrote: > > All I know is that wine

Re: mentoring

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Howe
Can I just chime in here as a newbie Wine developer working on his first patch and say that I find this kind of discussion invaluable? I've lurked on wine-devel for a while and tried to gauge the answers to these questions before, and personally bothered some of the devs with a few questions that

InternetCanonicalizeURLA / W - Missing some flags?

2007-05-06 Thread Chris Howe
I noticed a FIXME cropping up in the logs when working on EQ2, related to InternetCanonicalizeURL not fully parsing the flags that it is called with. Looking a bit closer, it offloads the grunt work to UrlCanonicalize anyway, and the missing flags seem to have analogs defined for UrlCanonicalize t

CreateScalableFontResource - a few questions

2007-03-12 Thread Chris Howe
ce into doing what it's supposed to do. Again, is it enough to go that far for now as the FOT format seems to be unsupported in WINE? Advice on these points would help me help you :) -- Chris Howe