Re: WinelibVersion() [was: bit-blit ops]

2005-06-19 Thread Mike Hearn
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 22:01:11 +0200, Alexandre Julliard wrote: > Of course checking for the actual bug would have worked, and would > have continued working once the bug was fixed. That's the right way to > handle that sort of problem, and it doesn't require any version info at > all. Sure, that's

Re: WinelibVersion() [was: bit-blit ops]

2005-06-17 Thread Felix Nawothnig
cdr wrote: Now... would you tell us what the misbehaviour in Wine is your application suffers from? It is on my "todo" list. But you must understand our difference in perspective: Alright then, I don't think anyone cares if your app has a workaround for a bug which is no longer present in cur

Re: WinelibVersion() [was: bit-blit ops]

2005-06-17 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's one side of the coin, the other is that perfect is the enemy of the > good. We already lost/pissed off one project, the VST Wine plugin stuff, > because we released new versions that broke their software and they > couldn't even programmatically chec

Re: WinelibVersion() [was: bit-blit ops]

2005-06-17 Thread Alexandre Julliard
cdr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wine used to be almost exclusively for end users who had win32 > applications (binaries), and wanted to run them under Linux, > not only without any help, bu almost "againt the will" of the > developers of those applications. I am, on the other hand, > a different

Re: WinelibVersion() [was: bit-blit ops]

2005-06-17 Thread cdr
Felix Nawothnig wrote: cdr wrote: much appreciated, cdr Now... would you tell us what the misbehaviour in Wine is your application suffers from? Since bitblt isn't exactly rocket science this one should be easy to fix... (no?) It is on my "todo" list. But you must understand our diff

Re: WinelibVersion() [was: bit-blit ops]

2005-06-17 Thread Felix Nawothnig
cdr wrote: much appreciated, cdr Now... would you tell us what the misbehaviour in Wine is your application suffers from? Since bitblt isn't exactly rocket science this one should be easy to fix... (no?) Felix

Re: WinelibVersion() [was: bit-blit ops]

2005-06-17 Thread Dimi Paun
From: "Mike Hearn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Realistically, not everybody can fix Wine even if they wanted to. Once you > get into the swing of it, it's easy to forget what the learning curve is > like. In this case I think a wine_version symbol really would be useful > and wouldn't hurt the project mu

Re: WinelibVersion() [was: bit-blit ops]

2005-06-17 Thread Mike Hearn
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:19:27 -0400, Dimi Paun wrote: > We don't support such a thing officially because it will hurt the project: > it's always easier to work around stuff rather then fix it properly. And > the result will most likely be crippled and people will hate it. That's one side of the coi

Re: WinelibVersion() [was: bit-blit ops]

2005-06-17 Thread cdr
Dimi Paun wrote: if you *really* want to do it: -- at compile time: #ifdef __WINE__ #endif -- at runtime: if( GetProcAddress(LoadLibrary("kernel32"), "wine_get_unix_file_name") { . } much appreciated, cdr

Re: WinelibVersion() [was: bit-blit ops]

2005-06-17 Thread Dimi Paun
From: "cdr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (int WinelibVersion(); that returns nn - Please, please...) We don't support such a thing officially because it will hurt the project: it's always easier to work around stuff rather then fix it properly. And the result will most likely be crippled and people w

Re: WinelibVersion() [was: bit-blit ops]

2005-06-17 Thread Jonathan Ernst
Le vendredi 17 juin 2005 à 14:13 +, cdr a écrit : > Andreas Mohr wrote: > > ... > >>>I have a need to detect - from within my application - that > >>>it is running under wine. What is the correct way - if any - > >>>to perform such test? Do it the Microsoft genuine downloads'way, even if

WinelibVersion() [was: bit-blit ops]

2005-06-17 Thread cdr
Andreas Mohr wrote: ... >>>I have a need to detect - from within my application - that >>>it is running under wine. What is the correct way - if any - >>>to perform such test? >> >>This is something that we strongly discourage. You can just >>add a simple hack for now in your code, while we try

Re: bit-blit ops

2005-06-17 Thread Andreas Mohr
Hi, On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 09:55:13PM -0400, Dimi Paun wrote: > On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 01:39 +, cdr wrote: > > While testing my Win32 application under wine, I came to the > > conclusion that some bit-blit ops behave differently from > > when the same code is running

Re: bit-blit ops

2005-06-16 Thread Dimi Paun
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 01:39 +, cdr wrote: > While testing my Win32 application under wine, I came to the > conclusion that some bit-blit ops behave differently from > when the same code is running under native Windowds. While > the subject will be researched further, as a stop-gap

bit-blit ops

2005-06-16 Thread cdr
While testing my Win32 application under wine, I came to the conclusion that some bit-blit ops behave differently from when the same code is running under native Windowds. While the subject will be researched further, as a stop-gap measure I have a need to detect - from within my application