Re: The Component Categories Manager

2002-05-07 Thread Andriy Palamarchuk 

Hi John, welcome to the list.

--- John K. Hohm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I have been playing with getting a large application
 made with VB6 and using 
 many third-party ActiveX controls to work with Wine.
  I am currently having a 
 problem with the absence of COMCAT.DLL and The
 Component Categories Manager 
 which is ostensibly implemented in it.  In fact,
 Windows implements it in 
 OLE32.DLL; COMCAT.DLL has do-nothing stubs for the
 registration functions and 
 forwards DllGetClassObject to OLE32.DLL.
 
 The MSDN documentation for The Component Categories
 Manager seems very 
 straightforward; it documents ICatRegister and
 ICatInformation, which I 
 believe I could implement.  Since I've not
 contributed to Wine before, and 
 just recently joined the digested list, I want to
 check the following things:
 
 * Is anyone else working on this at the moment?

Nobody, as far as I know. I advise you to search
Bugzilla (http://bugs.winehq.com/) for the subj. If
nobody created an entry for this issue, please, create
a bug with detailed description what needs to be done.
Take ownership over the bug if you are starting to
work on it. In this way other developers will know
that you are working on the issue.

 * Is there a major technical reason this can't be
 done yet?
 
 * Is there some other reason for me not to work on
 this soon?

 * How should the source for this new functionality
 be organized?

There are no formalities - just start to edit the
sources and implement missed functionality. Do you
have any specific question? Read the documentation how
patches should be submitted.

 * Is there a standard (or exemplary) way to
 implement IEnum?  I'll be 
 needing IEnumCATID, IEnumCLSID, and
 IEnumCATEGORYINFO.

I have no idea and will let to answer experts if there
are any specifics, but did you search Wine sources for
implementation of other IEnums?

 * What should I do when I think I have working code?

In short - send the patches to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit www.winehq.com for
detailed information, this process is described there
very well.

Regards,
Andriy Palamarchuk

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Re: The Component Categories Manager

2002-05-07 Thread Michael Cardenas 

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 07:53:13AM -0700, Andriy Palamarchuk wrote:
 Hi John, welcome to the list.
 
...

 There are no formalities - just start to edit the
 sources and implement missed functionality. Do you
 have any specific question? Read the documentation how
 patches should be submitted.

Actually, look at DEVELOPERS-HINTS for naming conventions. 

...
  * What should I do when I think I have working code?
 
 In short - send the patches to
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit www.winehq.com for
 detailed information, this process is described there
 very well.
 

Just make sure you do a diff -u and look through the wine-patches list 
at other people's submissions to get an idea of a good format. Also,
expect people to read your code and give you constructive criticism. 

-- 
michael cardenas
lead windows compatibility engineer
lindows.com

Be the change you want to see in the world
-Mahatma Gandhi

The Component Categories Manager

2002-05-06 Thread John K. Hohm 

I have been playing with getting a large application made with VB6 and using 
many third-party ActiveX controls to work with Wine.  I am currently having a 
problem with the absence of COMCAT.DLL and The Component Categories Manager 
which is ostensibly implemented in it.  In fact, Windows implements it in 
OLE32.DLL; COMCAT.DLL has do-nothing stubs for the registration functions and 
forwards DllGetClassObject to OLE32.DLL.

The MSDN documentation for The Component Categories Manager seems very 
straightforward; it documents ICatRegister and ICatInformation, which I 
believe I could implement.  Since I've not contributed to Wine before, and 
just recently joined the digested list, I want to check the following things:

* Is anyone else working on this at the moment?

* Is there a major technical reason this can't be done yet?

* Is there some other reason for me not to work on this soon?

* How should the source for this new functionality be organized?

* Is there a standard (or exemplary) way to implement IEnum?  I'll be 
needing IEnumCATID, IEnumCLSID, and IEnumCATEGORYINFO.

* What should I do when I think I have working code?