Re: There May Be an End-run for Apple Around Windows After All

2006-04-21 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi Robert, I am an occasional reader of your column (truthfully, mostly when it comes up on slashdot). I usually find your comments insightful, or at least thought provocing. I'm afraid the column at the subject is a stark exception to this rule (http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060420.

Re: SOC project

2006-04-21 Thread Molle Bestefich
Willie Sippel wrote: > Still, a DIB engine would be great, it would fix quite visual glitches in > certain applications. I also tested a few applications recently (audio > apps, no games) that were unusable slow with X at almost 100% > CPU load on every interface redraw - I guess that's an issue th

PROT_EXEC mmap/mprotect, i386 PAE + NX broken, x86-64 2.6.17-rc2

2006-04-21 Thread Alistair John Strachan
Hi, Just a heads up that WINE seems to suffer from breakage if executed as a 32bit binary on an x86-64 kernel as of 2.6.17-rc, because (according to Andi Kleen) i386 NX is now enabled by default, and on x86-64 i386 behaves like a PAE enabled i386 kernel when performing IA32 emulation. I've att

Re: user: Fix and test behavior when selecting disabled menu items, and fix GetMenuItemRect()

2006-04-21 Thread James Hawkins
On 4/21/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > This patch 1) changes the behavior of selecting disabled menu items, 2) > recognizes VK_LMENU and VK_RMENU messages to the menu WndProc and 3) fixes > GetMenuItemRect(). > You should send one change/fix per patch. The best opti

Re: What version of freetype are we requiring these days

2006-04-21 Thread Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)
Bill Medland wrote: I have just noticed that configure is telling me "Warning: Freetype or Fontforge is missing" Why does it think that? (freetype-devel version 2.1.9 is installed) Is fontforge installed? You need both.

opengl demos start problem with wine current cvs

2006-04-21 Thread Kovács András
Hi, When i try to start some opengl demos from www.humus.ca (with wine latest cvs), I get error, that my card doesn't support some opengl extensions. The applications' wine output is: err:wgl:X11DRV_ChoosePixelFormat glXChooseFBConfig returns NULL (glError: 0) err:wgl:internal_glGetString GL_EXT

Re: SoC idea: improve dsound/winmm

2006-04-21 Thread Segin
James Hawkins wrote: On 4/21/06, Roderick Colenbrander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, One of the things users complain about is wine's sound quality. Problems which you experience range from crackling sound in media players to buffer underruns and high latencies in games. For a p

Re: SoC idea: finish wcmd

2006-04-21 Thread Segin
Brandon Turner wrote: Yes, Greatlord brought this to my attention today as well. I wasnt planning on moving ROS cmd into Wine really. I was more planning on moving Wcmd into ROS(Yes, I would have to talk with other ROS devs about this idea first I'm aware) and then filling in all the features

Re: SoC idea: improve dsound/winmm

2006-04-21 Thread James Hawkins
On 4/21/06, Roderick Colenbrander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > One of the things users complain about is wine's sound quality. Problems > which you experience range from crackling sound in media players to buffer > underruns and high latencies in games. > > For a part the problem is caused

Re: dosdevices

2006-04-21 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Robert Lunnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Assuming this works, you say that other places load files cia a dos drive > (and > I see a mkdir across this link too) is there a key place to put the resolving > code to catch these accesses too ? Do functions like mkdir really fail on these too? I

Re: compile error

2006-04-21 Thread Stefan Leichter
Am Freitag, 21. April 2006 22:22 schrieb Jacek Caban: > Stefan Leichter wrote: > > Hi, > > > > i am getting a compile error on current cvs. Does anyone else seeing this > > problem e.g. on git ? > > Does the attached patch help? > > Jacek Yes, it helps. Thank you Bye Stefan

Re: compile error

2006-04-21 Thread Jacek Caban
Stefan Leichter wrote: Hi, i am getting a compile error on current cvs. Does anyone else seeing this problem e.g. on git ? Does the attached patch help? Jacek diff --git a/tools/widl/parser.y b/tools/widl/parser.y index 9f288bf..4f3ed57 100644 --- a/tools/widl/parser.y +++ b/tools/widl/par

Re: dosdevices

2006-04-21 Thread Robert Lunnon
On Friday 21 April 2006 03:35, Alexandre Julliard wrote: > Robert Lunnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is the approach I took before but for some reason you didn't accept > > the patch in process.c related to starting unix lib type applications. > > The work-around was to change to the lib

compile error

2006-04-21 Thread Stefan Leichter
Hi, i am getting a compile error on current cvs. Does anyone else seeing this problem e.g. on git ? My system is SuSE Linux 9.0 Bye Stefan bison -d -t ../../../wine/tools/widl/parser.y -o parser.tab.c ../../../wine/tools/widl/parser.y:283.11: parse error, unexpected ":", expecting ";" or "|"

Re: SoC idea: improve dsound/winmm

2006-04-21 Thread Raphael
On Friday 21 April 2006 20:52, Roderick Colenbrander wrote: > Hi, > > One of the things users complain about is wine's sound quality. Problems > which you experience range from crackling sound in media players to buffer > underruns and high latencies in games. > > For a part the problem is caused b

SoC idea: improve dsound/winmm

2006-04-21 Thread Roderick Colenbrander
Hi, One of the things users complain about is wine's sound quality. Problems which you experience range from crackling sound in media players to buffer underruns and high latencies in games. For a part the problem is caused by crappy audio drivers and soundcards. None the less are there things in

Re: SoC idea: finish wcmd

2006-04-21 Thread Brandon Turner
Yes, Greatlord brought this to my attention today as well. I wasnt planning on moving ROS cmd into Wine really. I was more planning on moving Wcmd into ROS(Yes, I would have to talk with other ROS devs about this idea first I'm aware) and then filling in all the features that arent competele.

Re: What version of freetype are we requiring these days

2006-04-21 Thread Bill Medland
On April 21, 2006 10:46 am, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > Bill Medland wrote: > > I have just noticed that configure is telling me > > "Warning: Freetype or Fontforge is missing" > > > > Why does it think that? > > > > (freetype-devel version 2.1.9 is installed) > > What about fontforge? Is that installe

Re: SoC idea: finish wcmd

2006-04-21 Thread Steven Edwards
Hi Brandon, On 4/21/06, Brandon Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not to take anything away from someone that wants to do a SoC project. > But I'm a ROS dev and I know you guys arent taking patches from us right > now but that aside, one of my shorter term goals is to try and sync > wcmd(if it i

Re: What version of freetype are we requiring these days

2006-04-21 Thread Tomas Carnecky
Bill Medland wrote: > I have just noticed that configure is telling me > "Warning: Freetype or Fontforge is missing" > > Why does it think that? > > (freetype-devel version 2.1.9 is installed) > What about fontforge? Is that installed?

What version of freetype are we requiring these days

2006-04-21 Thread Bill Medland
I have just noticed that configure is telling me "Warning: Freetype or Fontforge is missing" Why does it think that? (freetype-devel version 2.1.9 is installed) -- Bill Medland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webhome.idirect.com/~kbmed

Re: SoC idea: finish wcmd

2006-04-21 Thread Robert Shearman
Brandon Turner wrote: Dan Kegel wrote: wcmd isn't thought of as sexy, but it's important; for instance, some installers use it under the hood. Things like if "%1" == "%2" and the /wait commandline flag are not yet implemented. It wouldn't be all that hard to get wcmd far enough along to make

Re: SoC idea: finish wcmd

2006-04-21 Thread Brandon Turner
Dan Kegel wrote: wcmd isn't thought of as sexy, but it's important; for instance, some installers use it under the hood. Things like if "%1" == "%2" and the /wait commandline flag are not yet implemented. It wouldn't be all that hard to get wcmd far enough along to make those installers happy;

Re: undefined reference to `GetCharABCWidthsI'

2006-04-21 Thread Jeff Latimer
Gerald Pfeifer wrote: After the following change to dlls/gdi/font.c revision 1.32 date: 2006-04-19 18:16:36 +; author: julliard; state: Exp; lines: +49 -0 Jeff Latimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gdi: Added implementation of GetCharABCWidthsI. I now get the following build error on FreeBSD

Re: Summer of Code Project: DirectPlay

2006-04-21 Thread Adam Luchjenbroers
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:46, Francois Gouget wrote: > It seems like this would prevent you from connecting to games hosted by > commercial companies (e.g. Microsoft) as these are unlikely to install > the Wine DirectPlay library. > > Or is DirectPlay never used in this way? Even so I think that when