RE: [DQSD-Users] DQSD and Windows XP SP2

[Paul]

I really think the ball is in Microsoft's court. They should have provided a line item veto instead of a buckshot protection on/off choice. If we all make enough noise about it, perhaps they'll soon release a patch to fix that. If not, there's an opportunity for a 3rd party developer. -- Paul > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:dqsd-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Kim Gräsman > Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 3:05 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [DQSD-Users] DQSD and Windows XP SP2 > > Hi James, > > > Thanks for the reply. I know I'm going to feel awkward about > > making this suggestion since I can't code it up, but... I've > > got a feeling that the only way to get DQSD working properly > > under XP SP2 (even taking into account the available registry > > hack) might be to wrap up (i.e. host) DQSD in a Windows executable. > > Yes, I thought about that too, and it does have some appeal (unless you > count the amount of work involved ;)). > > However, doing this would involve re-architecting (if you can use such a > word for something like DQSD) the entire application. > > If I understand things correctly, DQSD currently pulls some tricks to embed > IE into the task bar, which gives us ample opportunity for skinning using > HTML and CSS, and to preserve that functionality, we'd have to do the same. > Explorer.exe would still need to be excluded from local machine lockdown. > > Then there's the problem with DQSD needing to execute local content (where > IExplore.exe needs to be excluded from local machine lockdown) in order to > display the help window or pop up IE windows or launch searches > (maximized.htm). We could potentially build another exe for that, but then > it'd have to look and feel pretty much just like IE. > > As if that wasn't bad enough, we'd probably have to put a lot of work and > energy into making sure our IE stand-in was secure and didn't open up the > user's machine to anything that IE wouldn't. > > > Of course, MS don't seem to have gone so far as to give > > sample code or suggested code architecture for hosting an > > HTML-based application! > > I don't think it's that hard - everybody's doing it. The real challenge is > having it executing in a different process, but rendering in the taskbar. I > don't think you can do that. > > Oh well... I'll keep thinking about it, and see if I get any bright ideas. > > Cheers, > Kim > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop > FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! > Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idP47&alloc_id808&op=click > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe visit: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id†01 > ---------------------------------------------------- > This message has been processed by Firetrust Benign.