Re: Random X errors caused by recent cursor patch?

2007-04-05 Thread John Smith
I was able to reproduce the badpixmap bug on peachtree 2006 right after picking a company from the "open company" dialog. This patch seemed to fix this (or atleast hide it from being as reproducible as it was). I had some trouble applying it to current gitwine, but I typed it in manually and it

Re: So long, and thanks for all the Wine!

2007-04-01 Thread John Smith
April fools? On 4/1/07, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wine was a fine dream, but come on, there's no way a bunch of volunteers could put together an emulator for a real operating system like Windows. Heck, after 14 years, Wine can't even run the average Visual Basic program! So I'm bowin

Re: Nine good SoC propsals!

2007-03-29 Thread John Smith
*ulp* I knew I should of unsubscribed during the interim period, thanks for making me more worried =P On 3/29/07, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/28/07, Bryan DeGrendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you have any idea how many will be accepted? Six, maybe? It's hard to say, they j

Re: Road to 1.0

2007-03-26 Thread John Smith
Better yet to be able to set what version it fakes. On 3/26/07, Hans Leidekker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 16:39:01 Dan Kegel wrote: > Here's a try at a 1.0 wish list: I would like to see Wine 1.0 'fake' some suitable version of Internet Explorer, say 6. -Hans

Re: wine opinion of a user

2007-03-20 Thread John Smith
Interesting that they say that about SAGE software considering Peachtree Accounting 2006 works in some respects (installs and basic operations work, some other things cause crashes). I wouldn't say it would NEVER work. I guess it's not the same program series but I'm optimistic. A list of what

Re: Re: Forum proposal

2007-03-01 Thread John Smith
Perhaps there is some middle ground in that support could be improved to make the mailing list archive a bit more forum like and allow posting to the mailing list from the pages on which the mailing list messages would be published? It wouldn't be that different except perhaps the flow and display

Re: wine and msys rxvt.exe

2007-02-25 Thread John Smith
If I recall correctly, MSYS is the mingw linux environment emulated on windows. rxvt would be the terminal used in the msys environment. Hopefully this will be of some use, John Klehm On 2/25/07, Robert Shearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wesley Parish wrote: > I installed msys a couple of ye

Re: We need a new version numbering scheme

2007-02-16 Thread John Smith
Ack in my previous message I was speaking of 99 minor versions not revisions, sorry for the typo! John On 2/16/07, John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maybe this would be unworkable in git or whatnot but perhaps always making the minor version field double digit would do the trick?

Re: We need a new version numbering scheme

2007-02-16 Thread John Smith
Maybe this would be unworkable in git or whatnot but perhaps always making the minor version field double digit would do the trick? 0.9.03 0.9.09 0.9.10 ... 0.9.30 etc this would fix the sorting problems that arise from going from single to double digit names in most programs too. As long as th

Re: AppDB performance issue

2007-02-14 Thread John Smith
Humm very strange it works well for me, I just tested it myself, seems reasonably fast in firefox 2.0.0.1 on windows 2000, on gentoo x86 with firefox 2.0.0.1, and on gentoo amd64 firefox 2.0.0.1. I added, then removed, then edited a test result. Speed seemed normal. Hope this helps the investi

Re: wineboot: Start items in StartUp folder on boot, includes security measures.

2007-02-12 Thread John Smith
Part of my confusion what usage pattern is contracting malware on wine in the first place On 2/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/12/07, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/11/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2/11/07, Misha Koshelev <[EMA

Re: wineboot: Start items in StartUp folder on boot, includes security measures.

2007-02-11 Thread John Smith
What prevents malicious programs from writing this registry key on their own? On 2/11/07, Chris Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 11 February 2007 06:49:58 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This sounds almost perfect. What would stop the program from adding the registry key itself when

Re: wineboot: Start items in StartUp folder on boot.

2007-02-09 Thread John Smith
I thought wine's goal was "bug for bug" with windows, for good or for ill. On 2/9/07, Misha Koshelev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 21:20 -0700, Vitaliy Margolen wrote: > Misha Koshelev wrote: > > Hi, > > > > As you all may have noticed, I have been making quite a few patches

Re: RasError.h? Where is this or does it not exist?

2007-02-09 Thread John Smith
Right oh! We will see perhaps today. A bit of studying to do first though. Thanks for helping me! Regards, John Klehm On 2/9/07, Francois Gouget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, John Smith wrote: > Hey all, > I cannot find the raserror.h file. I have tried lookin

Re: [GDI32] Fix for GetTextExtentExPointW() and ExtTextOutW() - Fixes Bug 50

2007-02-08 Thread John Smith
Hey Pedro, Was there supposed to be an attachment on your last message? I didn't see one. Regards, John Klehm On 2/8/07, Pedro Araujo Chaves Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Attached is my proposed patch for Bug #50; the test case was attached in my previous message. -- Patch description: This

RasError.h? Where is this or does it not exist?

2007-02-08 Thread John Smith
Hey all, I cannot find the raserror.h file. I have tried looking around the wine directories to no avail. A find ./wine -name raserror.h -type f -print turns up nothing. Am I looking in the wrong spot or in the wrong way? I really want to think that the file isn't there but I can't rule out th

Re: [PATCH] make CarbonPoker (previously Poker.com) client work.

2007-02-05 Thread John Smith
Is the GPL w/ library exception compatible with LGPL? Seems like they could be similair. If so we could utilize the gnu PKCS7 code. Does any one know? John On 2/5/07, Trent Waddington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/6/07, Dmitry Timoshkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please break your patch

Re: It's that time again - time to start thinking about WineConf 2007!

2007-02-05 Thread John Smith
Yeah, I can no longer find them on MSDN. On 2/5/07, Tom Wickline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That would change the critical path... how do you put that requirement > on a Gantt chart? Have a list of requirements that DNF depends on? :

Re: It's that time again - time to start thinking about WineConf 2007!

2007-02-05 Thread John Smith
You mean once wine 1.0 is shipped that will bring about the year of linux on the desktop. =) On 2/5/07, Jeremy White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So we can ask, once again: when will 1.0 ship!?!?! I'd invite anyone with an interest in attending to subscribe to the Wineconf mailing list: http

Re: Reality check

2005-10-15 Thread John Smith
p to increase WINE popularity as of now. In addtion, similar workarounds do exist now, but they are: a) tricky, b) irregular, c) undocumented. From: Dimi Paun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], wine-devel@winehq.org Subject: Re: Reality

Re: Reality check

2005-10-15 Thread John Smith
If you want someone to work for you, for free, I don't. In fact, I don't care about those bugs at all. Once again (for the 3rd time, BTW): I just tried to make Wine a little bit more compatible with 3rd-party applications (by supporting a way for Win programmers to specify WINE config para

Re: Reality check

2005-10-14 Thread John Smith
'backport' bugfixes from CrossOver to WINE, shouldn't they? From: Mike McCormack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: wine-devel@winehq.org Subject: Re: Reality check Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:57:02 +0900 John Smith wrote: THE MOST DIFFICULT

Re: Reality check

2005-10-14 Thread John Smith
obsessed with money? From: René Rebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: wine-devel@winehq.org CC: Marcus Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Reality check Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:58:41 +0200 Hi, [...] > > Welcome to the real world > >

Re: Reality check

2005-10-14 Thread John Smith
saying is "pin-point the problem for us". == "More than a couple of days"? Do "6 weeks" qualify? From: Marcus Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: wine-devel@winehq.org Subject: Re: Reality che

Reality check

2005-10-13 Thread John Smith
There was a discussion here about 2 months ago, where I asked for a way to embed WINE config strings into Win32 executable (for example, as string resources). I was told that it is better to fix the problem rather than to create workarounds, and that fixing bugs is trivial and takes at most 2-3

Re: Throwing in an idea (probably it was discussed before though)

2005-08-22 Thread John Smith
Because it's a tedious and boring task to narrow down those unknown bugs in closed-source apps. And that's exactly why we ask you (since you got access to the sources) to tell us what the application is trying to do which doesn't work in Wine... Ahem. And how long it usually takes to fix the bug

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2005-08-22 Thread John Smith
You can also set it yourselves in in your app. As configuration is in registry, every app can modify it. I like this idea, thanks. There are still 2 issues with such a soultion: a) most likely, it won't work until 2nd start of the application (we will modify it on the first run, and it most lik

Re: Throwing in an idea (probably it was discussed before though)

2005-08-22 Thread John Smith
Then just tell your users to set that in winecfg, AFAIK winecfg allows app specific settings. 1. It is still not 'out-of-the-box' - and from this point of view it doesn't matter much whether it is hacking config file or using GUI; 80% of end-users will try it and throw it away if it doesn't wo

Re: Throwing in an idea (probably it was discussed before though)

2005-08-22 Thread John Smith
-the-box) and thinks that they should wait until bug-free WINE released - we don't care much either. From: Ivan Leo Puoti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wine-devel@winehq.com Subject: Re: Throwing in an idea (probably it was discussed before though) Date: Mon, 2

Throwing in an idea (probably it was discussed before though)

2005-08-21 Thread John Smith
As a Win developer, I want to make a suggestion (sorry if it was already discussed - or if similar mechanism already exists): What if some simple way will be provided for Win developers to say which options they prefer for WINE to use for their application? While it may seem to somewhat contradi

will it?

2003-10-20 Thread John Smith
(B (B (Bnow that windows drivers will work in linux, can (Bwine run directx easy?  with wine on linux, and having windows drivers, the (Bwine shouldn't have any troubles whatsoever acting as (Bwindows