Re: Java in wine?

2003-03-26 Thread David . Goodenough
There are always at least two threads, because of the garbage collection which runs on a separate thread. I do not think any if the JVMs run the gc synchnonously. David

Re: Java in wine?

2003-03-20 Thread David . Goodenough
Have you tried the IBM JRE? David Mike Hearn <[EMAIL

Re: Java in wine?

2003-03-20 Thread David . Goodenough
I tried this quite a while ago, and had all manner of problems with threading. Now lots of work has happened since then, and it is possible that it now works, but it does make extensive use of the threading APIs. Maybe getting the JVM to work would be a good test suite for those APIs (if we knew

Tried to install Red Alert - Yuri's Revenge

2003-02-09 Thread David . Goodenough
and it failed. The installer said that comctl32.dll was too old, did I want a new one, so I said no. They it said that DirectX was a level 0 (well actually a long list of 00.00s), and asked if I wanted to install what looked like version 4 (although the docs with the CD say that it will install 8

What does "Printer: Wine Poscript Driver, Error: 709" mean

2002-11-01 Thread David . Goodenough
I installed a program called Mind Manager, and tried to run it. It installed OK, but when I came to run it the initial dialog came up and it was totally unresponsive to either keyboard or mouse. So I looked around the system for any errors and found that the title of the window in the KDE window

Why would Installshield want WINSPOOL.DRV

2002-10-24 Thread David . Goodenough
I was asked by my son to install a couple of games for him on his Linux laptop. Wine is installed (at the current Debian unstable level) but when I try to run the installer, which says it is InstallShield, it gets to 99% and stops, and the console says that it can not load WINSPOOL.DRV. Firstly I

Re: Old unicode standard

2002-06-15 Thread David . Goodenough
Well volume 1 of the 1.0 version has an entire appendix, 11 pages in all. Volume 2 of 1.0 does not seem to have anything on directionality (as 1.0 names it). 2.0 has 10 pages at the end of chapter 3 on Bi-Directional behavior. Typing all this lot up could take a while, and our scanner is broken

Re: Old unicode standard

2002-06-14 Thread David . Goodenough
Shachar, I have the version 1.0 and 2.0 books, what exactly do you want to know? In wha?t form would you like the information David Shachar Shemesh

Re: Road to 0.9

2002-03-21 Thread David . Goodenough
I am not convinced this is exactly the problem. I also have the problem that I have moved over from a home compiled Wine install to a Debian build, so I would need to wait for it or something like it to appear in the regular build and then get into DEB format. David

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2002-02-27 Thread David . Goodenough
I have just tried to fire up MindManager under Wine. It installed cleanly (as far as I can tell) and successfully created an icon on my KDE desktop.. When I try to run it however, it first complains about a fixme in CreateAcceleratorTableA, which I think I understand, and then hits another fixme

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2002-02-27 Thread David . Goodenough

Re: How about sponsoring from IBM?

2002-01-11 Thread David . Goodenough
I would suggest that one of the things that would help would be for IBM development labs which are developing Windows code, such as the Lotus labs, to test their code under WINE as well as Windows, and if it does not work to report any problems they find with APIs to the WINE community, perhaps e

RE: Stanford Checker

2001-06-05 Thread David . Goodenough
Maybe we have to ask them to check our code, rather than the other way around? Patrik Stridvall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 05-06-2001 12:31:25 PM To: David Goodenough/DGA/GB cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Stanford Checker [Forgot to include list. Trying again.] > On t

Stanford Checker

2001-06-05 Thread David . Goodenough
On the kernel list and in Alan Cox's patches for the kernel there are a lot of references to some logic checking tools being generated by Stanford. I do not know if these are generally available but has anyone thought of running these against Wine?

Re: Aargh! Wine won't run anything

2001-05-08 Thread David . Goodenough
obviously being changed in this area. It would be nice to get rid of the underlying problem. I have not however seen the default handler problem. Regards David Ian Pilcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 08-05-2001 06:48:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: David Goodenough/DGA/GB) S

Re: wine server protocol error running Notes

2001-05-06 Thread David . Goodenough
child process from everything else going on could be hard work. All in all, Wine and Notes is looking VERY good. Regards David Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 05/03/2001 04:57:28 PM To: David Goodenough/DGA/GB cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: wine server protocol error

IBM Websphere Studio

2001-02-23 Thread David . Goodenough
Having got Java running properly under Wine 20010216, now I return to the application that caused me to start looking at Java, Websphere Studio. I managed to get it to install with a few non-fatal messages, and it starts. It is very slow, but my first interest is to get it to work. It uses ImmA

Notes and Java test on 20010216 drop

2001-02-22 Thread David . Goodenough
Well the situation with Notes has not changed much, except that I now get lots of err:psdrv:PSDRV_AFMGetCharMetrics: No whitespace found messages. I am unclear as to which files this is actually reading, but this is a new error and the metrics files have not changed. The Java problem I had with

Re: Notes and Java test on 20010112.

2001-02-02 Thread David . Goodenough
characters, let alone the characters. But this may still be due to the same underlying problem. Ulrich Weigand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 28-01-2001 11:43:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (gerard patel) cc: David Goodenough/DGA/GB, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Notes and Java test on 20

Re: Notes and Java test on 20010112.

2001-01-20 Thread David . Goodenough
What I get is the fixme. I presume this is because the Callout was not present, or did not create it. I do not understand the Callout mechanism, or where it is set up. Do you know? Ulrich Weigand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 20-01-2001 01:10:29 AM To: David Goodenough/DGA/GB cc:

Notes and Java test on 20010112.

2001-01-19 Thread David . Goodenough
I installed 20010112 and tried Lotus Notes with it. The actionbar icons are now correctly on the right. Recently (I forget quite when) a new error appeared. Early on it produces a RtlpWaitForCriticalSection wait timeout, but retries successfully (the machine is an AMD K5-II 500, with 200Mb of R

GetFastQueue16

2001-01-02 Thread David . Goodenough
As you may recall from some while ago I have been trying to persuade Windows Java runtimes to function. Previously there was a problem with font selection. I recently downloaded the 1222 drop, compiled it, and tried my little test case. This time it does not even get as far as displaying the wi

Fixex from IBM HPB

2000-10-30 Thread David . Goodenough
OK, lets start with a nice simple one. This is for objects/enhmetafile.c, and is a safety check to ensure that MapViewOfFile did not return NULL. I have no idea of the circumstances that can cause this condition, or how to reproduce it. (See attached file: enhmetafile.patch) enhmetafile.patch

IBM HPB patches

2000-10-27 Thread David . Goodenough
I have now divided up the fixes into the four classes, and discarded the ones that are of no relevance. This leaves about 30 patches, a few of which really should be grouped together. The fixes come into a number of broad headings:- 1) New function 2) Minor fixes, particularly they seem to have

Re: Wine packaging - part 2 - what RPM/DEBs do

2000-10-27 Thread David . Goodenough
recall someone suggested that that should 1.1. Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 26-10-2000 10:29:21 PM To: Jeremy White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Marcus Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bcc: David Goodenough/DGA/GB) Subject: Re: Wine packaging -

Re: Wine packaging - part 2 - what RPM/DEBs do

2000-10-26 Thread David . Goodenough
PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: David Goodenough/DGA/GB) Subject: Wine packaging - part 2 - what RPM/DEBs do Okay, part two is to discuss what an RPM or DEB installation process looks like to the end user. After some discussion, this is the end user experience we propose: 1. Installi

Re: What is this code supposed to do?

2000-09-19 Thread David . Goodenough
IL PROTECTED] (bcc: David Goodenough/DGA/GB) Subject: Re: What is this code supposed to do? Uwe Bonnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The return value is truncated by the movzwl %eax,%edi > instruction. The programm seems to work with win9x. > > What to do about that? Probab

IBM Home Page Builder patches

2000-09-13 Thread David . Goodenough
n progress directly. Regards David -- Forwarded by David Goodenough/DGA/GB on 13-09-2000 04:55 PM --- David Goodenough 01-09-2000 02:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: IBM Home Page Builder patches A while ago someone on this list noted th

Re: Peculiar Font behaviour in Wine

2000-09-11 Thread David . Goodenough
. Using java or jrew makes no difference to the test. I do not have a machine with a radically different set of libraries to hand I am afraid. (See attached file: test.class) Regards David gerard patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11-09-2000 08:24:15 PM To: David Goodenough/DGA/GB cc: [EMA

Peculiar Font behaviour in Wine

2000-09-11 Thread David . Goodenough
As you may have noticed I have been trying to get a Windows Java runtime to run under Wine. I am getting odd behaviour with both the IBM and Sun JREs, but the Sun one is the most odd. If I run a very simple test program which displays the word "text" in a window, it works. Then I make sure all

Re: Does anyone have a description for RtlpWaitForCriticalSection and ..UnWait...

2000-09-08 Thread David . Goodenough
functions either. Do you have them? Regards David "Dmitry Timoshkov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 08-09-2000 03:51:36 AM To: David Goodenough/DGA/GB cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Does anyone have a description for RtlpWaitForCriticalSection and ..UnWait...

Does anyone have a description for RtlpWaitForCriticalSection and ..UnWait...

2000-09-07 Thread David . Goodenough
I have an application which seems to want these two Rtlp functions from ntdll, but they are not defined in the Win32 SDK HLP file and are define as BUILTIN32_Unimplemented in ntdll.spec.. If someone has the interface definitions and possibly a description of what they do I would like to try to im

Oddity running Java under wine

2000-09-01 Thread David . Goodenough
Part of Websphere Studio is written in Java. It supplies its own run time (the IBM 117 for Windows). When it runs, it seems to have problems with the fonts. If I run the same application under the IBM Linux JRE (118 as it happens) it runs just fine, and it is obviously trying to use a Sans Seri

IBM Home Page Builder patches

2000-09-01 Thread David . Goodenough
A while ago someone on this list noted that IBM had released a Linux version of Home Page Builder which was really the Windows version with a patched version of Wine. This was built against Wine 2423. The patches seem to fall into four main categories:- 1) Bits from Wine 2526 which shou

TrueType fonts and GetFontData

2000-08-31 Thread David . Goodenough
I am trying to get IBM Websphere Studio working, and although I am making good progress I hit an odd problem with GetFontData, and I wondered why it is implemented as it is. The problem appears when I invoke one of Studio's wizards, and all the characters appear as solid black blocks. At the sam

Re: WOW_VDM

2000-08-31 Thread David . Goodenough
Well, I tried your suggestion, and found out that the DLL that was being registered was trapping, although the reason was not obvious from the trace. So I remembered that regapi also has a registerDLL function, and tried that. Lo and behold it complained of a missing DLL. So I went to the W98 s

WOW_VDM

2000-08-30 Thread David . Goodenough
I am currently trying to get IBM Websphere Studio to install using Wine. I am running the version from July. There are a few messages that come up at the begining, but nothing that I am not familiar with running other programs such as Notes. Then in the progress indicator it says that it is Reg

UK keyboard problems and some issues relating to Lotus Notes

2000-08-02 Thread David . Goodenough
I notice that the UK keyboard layout has some minor errors in it. The key to left of the 1 key is defined as having only the character, ` back-quote defined. However on all my keyboards shift this key is the ¬ key (a minux with a tail at the right) and alt-gr of that key is a solid vertical b