Re: Voting for bugs (Was: Re: [Bug 20969])

2010-11-04 Thread Tom Spear
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 2:38 AM, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: > Yaron Shahrabani wrote: > > > I think that voting for bugs is a great feature, otherwise there would > have > > been many annoying comments like: it happens to me too and what info you > can > > get out of it? > > Adding such a comment is

Voting for bugs (Was: Re: [Bug 20969])

2010-11-02 Thread Tom Spear
Can/should voting for bugs be disabled if it is 'useless and does nothing except adding noise'? Thanks Tom On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:01 PM, wrote: > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20969 > > --- Comment #19 from Dmitry Timoshkov 2010-11-02 > 12:01:23 CDT --- > (In reply to comment #18

Re: Linux kernel and game performance?

2010-10-29 Thread Tom Spear
For the first reference, I have a WoW install. I haven't seen fps below 60 except in areas of the game where there are a lot of other players, but that was under OpenGL back before the latest patch. I haven't tried since Blizzard has disabled all high end settings in OpenGL mode for both Windows an

Re: USB Device Support

2010-09-22 Thread Tom Spear
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:26 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 1:52 AM, Tom Spear wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Damjan Jovanovic > > wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Tom Spear > wrote: > >> > On

Re: USB Device Support

2010-09-21 Thread Tom Spear
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Tom Spear wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Damjan Jovanovic > > > wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Tom Spear > wrote: > >> &g

Re: USB Device Support

2010-09-21 Thread Tom Spear
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Tom Spear wrote: > > Attached is the lsusb -v output, trimmed to only include the pedometer's > > info. I have many USB devices, so I didn't want to leave you to sort > th

Re: USB Device Support

2010-09-21 Thread Tom Spear
hanks Tom On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > Please send the output of "lsusb -v" first so I can see if it's useful. > > Thank you for the offer > Damjan > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Tom Spear wrote: > > Now that I th

Re: USB Device Support

2010-09-21 Thread Tom Spear
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Tom Spear wrote: > I have a USB pedometer that uploads the data to the internet. I could get > another one and the driver software for you to play with. You have to be a > registered member for a monthly fee to get one otherwise, but my job > sponso

Re: USB Device Support

2010-09-21 Thread Tom Spear
I have a USB pedometer that uploads the data to the internet. I could get another one and the driver software for you to play with. You have to be a registered member for a monthly fee to get one otherwise, but my job sponsors anyone that wants to get/stay in shape that works for them, so getting a

Re: Keeping people from trying iTunes in Wine?

2010-09-09 Thread Tom Spear
Perhaps making a hash based on app name and version in the appdb, and then have wine reading the hash from the app to check against the appdb. If anyone uses Fedora, their ABRT tool generates hashes for different bugs and then searches their bugzilla before submitting the crash dump, to find if a

Opinions on priority for an enhancement that Dan suggested some time ago?

2010-09-03 Thread Tom Spear
Hi all, so it has been a long time since I have posted here. Much has changed; I now have 3 little ones. :-) Anyways, right to the point: I stumbled on an old bug of mine this evening while doing some long overdue mailbox maintenance. Bug 657: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657 Dan made a

Re: VST wrapper

2007-06-25 Thread Tom Spear
On 6/25/07, Nathaniel Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: By the way, please CC me with replies. I'm not set up to receive mail from the list. Might want to look into Codeweavers Crossover or Crossover Office. One of those handles IE plugins in linux firefox quite nicely. Should be a good startin

Re: msi: Fix use of uninitialized variable (Coverity) (Try 2)

2007-06-23 Thread Tom Spear
On 6/23/07, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/23/07, Andrew Talbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch should fix Coverity bug CID-562. > > -- Andy. > --- > Changelog: > msi: Fix use of uninitialized variable (Coverity). > > diff -urN a/dlls/msi/action.c b/dlls/msi/action.c > --

Re: Bugzilla mails and people replying to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-06-23 Thread Tom Spear
On 6/23/07, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Or how about adding some magic to the ML where any reply to wine-bugs gets added as a comment to the bug report? Web programming isn't my specialty, so I don't know if this if feasible or possible, but it seems like the best solution to the pr

Bugzilla mails and people replying to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-06-22 Thread Tom Spear
Just curious how trivial it would be to add a note to the bugzilla mail template saying to post replies to comments in the bug? Something like the following: A bug you are watching, Bug #(bug number), has a new comment. To reply to this comment, click (bug link). Then the rest of the email a

Re: RegOpenKeyExW() Question

2007-06-22 Thread Tom Spear
On 6/22/07, Andrew Talbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I want to patch msi:action.c:ITERATE_WriteEnvironmentString() so that it only calls RegCloseKey(env), in the cleanup, if "env" has been initialized (to fix Coverity report CID-562). I can bypass the call to RegCloseKey() for any early exit

Re: wine menus

2007-06-21 Thread Tom Spear
I actually did some testing behind .lnk functionality (unscientific testing, that is) with wine a few months ago. Xorg actually fully supports Windows' .lnk files with 2 minor annoyances.. The .lnk files could theoretically be used as the links in the menus if these 2 annoyances could be fixed (

Re: NULL ptr dereferences found with Calysto static checker

2007-06-21 Thread Tom Spear
On 6/21/07, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/21/07, Michael Stefaniuc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem with NULL pointer dereferences is that those may be valid. > > If a function crashes in Windows on a NULL pointer dereference Wine > > should/has do the same. > > Why?

Re: Uninstaller

2007-06-14 Thread Tom Spear
On 6/14/07, Misha Koshelev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually that brings up a good point, does anything ever get written to Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion in HKEY_CURRENT_USER in windows? I have no such key on my (rather plain) XP install, and from what I can tell wine MSI never wr

Uninstaller

2007-06-13 Thread Tom Spear
It's been a while since I brought anything up on this, so I figured I'd ask what was wrong with the last set of patches I sent.. The patches are at [1] and [2], the discussion generated by them are at [3], [4], [5], and [6]... Summary, I did everything I was told in private by a developer (who i

Re: How to determine if something is "debuggable" ... ?

2007-06-01 Thread Tom Spear
On 6/1/07, Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Another thing you can _try_, since it looks like it messing up in msvcrt or possibly even dbghelp, is to get msvcrt.dll and dbghelp.dll from a windows install, place them in your wine's c:\windows\system32 folder (usually ~/.wine/drive_c/windo

Re: [1/2] uninstaller: add ability to scan HKCU for uninstall entries (Try 2)

2007-06-01 Thread Tom Spear
On 6/1/07, Christoph Frick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: please excuse my bold mail on top of plain ignorance of the windows api - but i would consider finding a key in either the user or the global branch of the registry a task that many developers had to face (even in wine) and i bet there is an A

Re: [2/2] uninstaller: indentation cleanups (try 2)

2007-06-01 Thread Tom Spear
On 6/1/07, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/1/07, Tom Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is part 2 of try 2. Just cleans up the indentation of my changes > in the previous patch in this series. > I think you misunderstood what Dan meant about ind

Re: [1/2] uninstaller: add ability to scan HKCU for uninstall entries (Try 2)

2007-06-01 Thread Tom Spear
On 6/1/07, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/1/07, Tom Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is a 2nd attempt at the last one I sent. This time the root > field is initialized, and this part of the patch is written against > current git, not against changes to

Re: [1/2] uninstaller: add ability to scan HKCU for uninstall entries (Try 2)

2007-06-01 Thread Tom Spear
On 6/1/07, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/1/07, Tom Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is a 2nd attempt at the last one I sent. This time the root > field is initialized, and this part of the patch is written against > current git, not against changes to

Re: Bug triage, or spam?

2007-06-01 Thread Tom Spear
t in queries)? No, but that was my point. I search thru resolved bugs, to double check that users are satisfied with the result, and it does me no good to do that if I am searching thru bugs that are >6months old. If it is closed, a query for resolved bugs will not find those that are close

Re: Bug triage, or spam?

2007-05-31 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/31/07, Jesse Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bug triage is a good idea so that stuff like this gets cleaned up. I'm not sure what everyone wants though. I guess you can figure that out :P See, my opinion of what triage is isnt the same as everyone else's.. Either way, I'll just leave reso

Re: Bug triage, or spam?

2007-05-31 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/31/07, Jesse Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Remember that this is only my opinion. Other people handle things a little different. It is probably true that the two recent bugs you mentioned I would have closed, but it was only resolved. It's just how it was handled. If you want to close bug

Re: Bug triage, or spam?

2007-05-31 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/31/07, Jesse Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tom, This is how I finalize bugs: * When a bugs has decisively been fixed, by a merged patch, with test cases, or reported by user been fixed, then I close it. If it's decisively "not a wine bug" close invalid. * When a bug is rumored to be fix

Re: Bug triage, or spam?

2007-05-31 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/31/07, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Obviously someone that commits patches to the upstream bugzilla tree > agrees with me, because otherwise, there either wouldnt be a resolved > option, OR there would be a close option on the bugs that are in any > state of open, which is some

Re: Bug triage, or spam?

2007-05-31 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/31/07, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do read through all of your bug emails, which is exactly the problem, because I don't trust that you make the right decision on every bug, and in some cases I've had to go back and correct it. That is the issue. It has been a small number

Re: Whitespace changes in an indentation patch, is it acceptable?

2007-05-31 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/31/07, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now that you've fixed a couple bugs in your uninstall patch, I think you should post the very simplest form of it possible, without any other change mixed in. In this case, I think that means you should do the whitespace changes in a second patch.

Re: Bug triage, or spam?

2007-05-31 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/31/07, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marking bugs as closed has nothing to do with bug triage. Triaging bugs would be a really helpful thing, but mass-closing bugs does nothing but give subscribers a whole lot of emails to delete. We don't keep track of stats like other projects

Re: Bug triage, or spam?

2007-05-31 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/31/07, Ben Hodgetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can someone explain to me the point of closing bugs please? If it's resolved one way or another then surely that's enough? Just seems like a waste of effort to be honest. Well, I can tell you this about it, it's supposed to work like this: -

Whitespace changes in an indentation patch, is it acceptable?

2007-05-31 Thread Tom Spear
Hi all, just curious, in my work on uninstaller, I am writing my patches to where when indentation is changed, due to adding a for loop, it is done in a separate patch file. I was wondering if it is acceptable to make whitespace changes to other parts of the file in that same patch.. For example

Bug triage, or spam?

2007-05-31 Thread Tom Spear
Hi all, I just have a quick question.. I got a message from someone last night asking me to stop closing bugs because I'm spamming the list, however I also received a message from someone a couple of nights ago thanking me for doing bug triage.. Which is it, and if it is both, then what draws the

Re: Pretty Build System (Take 3)

2007-05-30 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/29/07, Robert Shearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Attached is a patch that reduces the verbosity of the build system by printing the build commands in one of two formats: COMMAND output_file or COMMAND input_file -> output_file I hope it meets Alexandre's requirements of not reducing p

Re: Pretty Build System (Take 3)

2007-05-29 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/29/07, Robert Shearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Attached is a patch that reduces the verbosity of the build system by printing the build commands in one of two formats: COMMAND output_file or COMMAND input_file -> output_file I hope it meets Alexandre's requirements of not reducing p

uninstaller: Shorten variable name length.. Whats wrong?

2007-05-29 Thread Tom Spear
Just curious to know if there was something wrong with this patch, or if maybe it wasnt committed due to being a cosmetic change? If it's the latter, I'll just resend the other 2 parts of the patch (2and 3 of 3) against the code the way it is instead of changing the lines.. On 5/

Re: GIT access fails

2007-05-24 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/24/07, Kirill K. Smirnov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Something strange happened to git - fetch fails if uses git:// protocol. In tcpdump I can see my machine and wine.codeweavers.com chating. Thus connection is OK. When I changed protocol to http:// in .git/remotes/origin, I man

Re: Bugzilla outcome?

2007-05-23 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/23/07, Jeremy Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 04:36 +0200, Jan Zerebecki wrote: > I'll ask what the progress is with our Bugzilla upgrade when > the one who offered this comes online again. While you are asking, make sure they are going to Bugzilla 3.0. Since that ju

Re: Bugzilla outcome?

2007-05-23 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/22/07, Jan Zerebecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'll ask what the progress is with our Bugzilla upgrade when the one who offered this comes online again. Thanks I would consider neither of hang, stuck, 100% cpu usage, freeze to be a crash. Out of curiosity, why not? I think that rega

Re: Bugzilla outcome?

2007-05-22 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/22/07, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't see how a 'crash' keyword will add any utility to bugzilla. Is someone planning on focusing solely on apps that crash, and if so, why? Well, when I look thru bugzilla, that is my main focus is find bugs with crashes, and try to debug

Re: Bugzilla outcome?

2007-05-22 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/22/07, Robert Shearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Searching for "Unhandled exception" is too hard? Not all bugs have a proper trace, not all crashes result in the unhandled exception message (100% cpu usage being one case), not all bugs say crash (some say hang, or stuck, 100% cpu usage, f

Re: Bugzilla outcome?

2007-05-22 Thread Tom Spear
I sent this to the wrong list before, sorry for that.. Just curious to see if anything was ever done with the offer to upgrade bugzilla? On a side note, it would be nice if there was a crash keyword to make finding crashes easier -- Thanks Tom

Re: msi ole automation: where to next?

2007-05-20 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/20/07, Misha Koshelev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everybody, Hope you are all having a nice Sunday. Since MSI OLE automation is a bit overwhelming, I have been using installers that have JScript/VBScript actions to guide me as to what specific functions/objects to implement next. I starte

Re: Direct X 10 game demo

2007-05-17 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/17/07, Michael Lothian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In my opinion games will check for DX version on Windows version. Eventually once enough people have vista they will release DX10 on XP. Probably about a month before the wine version is ready for XP. What do you guys think? Am I just being

Re: Direct X 10 game demo

2007-05-16 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/16/07, Stefan Dösinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Past that I don't see any > reason why they would code additional version checks after that. All > the games that I've seen don't do that. > > I don't see a reason why it needs* to check > the version of windows. Those are windows apps, k

Re: Direct X 10 game demo

2007-05-16 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/15/07, EA Durbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The lost planet demo utilizing Direct X 10 is out, for those of you interested in developing/testing Direct X 10. I'm curious. When we do start work on DX10, are we going to set it up so that it will only work if the user uses winver ~= vista or

Re: mentoring

2007-05-14 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/14/07, Stefan Dösinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Tom! I am afraid you have come accross an unmaintained part of wine. There is maybe nobody who can competently help you. Nobody minds helping you, but nobody can help you. What happens then is that you write a mail and get no answers. You

mentoring

2007-05-14 Thread Tom Spear
Hi all, just wanted to know if anyone would _mind_ helping me with my (small) todo list. I know I've been somewhat of an annoyance lately, and for that I sincerely apologize. I'd really like to get the wine uninstaller program up to speed with the patch I have been working on, but it is not goin

Re: Internet explorer not detected

2007-05-12 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/12/07, Stefan Dösinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > really "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Program Files\Internet Explorer", right? I > don't really feel sorry for apps that assume everything is running "Program Files" isn't hardcoded either, like on my German locale its "Programme". Which would be done a

Re: posting advertisements

2007-05-11 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/10/07, Stefan Dösinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's a gmail account. Does gmail automatically append advertisements? > > As far as I know, gmail does not. This mail will tell us... Like I said I thought I might have spyware, I have since managed to get internet access (as opposed to

Re: blizzard conference

2007-05-10 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/10/07, Scott Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone have statistics we can present about how many Wine users playing Blizzard games there are out there? The closest thing I've ever seen was a steam-based hardware survey Valve released a couple of years ago. Even then, there were te

Re: [PATCH] Uninstaller: Use a define'd length instead of a magic number

2007-05-10 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/10/07, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, you should make a new define. MAX_STRING_LEN is the maximum length for a string from the resource file, which is totally unrelated to the limit for the length of a subkey name. Should the new define be put in resource.h, main.c, or somew

Re: [PATCH] Uninstaller: Change hardcoded value for maximum subkey name length to a const.

2007-05-09 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/8/07, Dan Hipschman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not sure what version of C wine is strictly trying to conform to, but it's usually best to go with the lowest common denominator. This is not C89. The const keyword doesn't actually make the variable constant (I know it's not the greatest

Re: Drop-in replacement of windows dll's?

2007-05-08 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/8/07, Thorsten Kani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Tom Please read through wwn244 and 245. If i remenber correctly, at that time common controls from wine wont work out of the box. I had to apply reactos patches to them and had to binary patch sfc.dll on windows. Thanks for the info. I h

(no subject) (WAS: Re: Drop-in replacement of windows dll's?)

2007-05-08 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/8/07, Brian Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/8/07, Tom Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That would be the framework. I appreciate the response. Is this > something that either now or in the future will be officially > supported by wine, or even a true goal o

Re: Drop-in replacement of windows dll's?

2007-05-08 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/8/07, Steven Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/8/07, Tom Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just remembered reading somewhere (wiki, perhaps?) that the ultimate > goal of wine (aside from documenting the windows api, etc) was to > provide open-source drop-in rep

Re: blizzard conference

2007-05-08 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/8/07, Jesse Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/7/07, Kai Blin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 08 May 2007 05:34, Dan Kegel wrote: > > Hey, that's only an hour away, maybe I / Lei / Nigel can drop by. > > > > But what's the "itchy /etc/hosts bug"? Is that > > http://bugs.winehq.or

Drop-in replacement of windows dll's?

2007-05-08 Thread Tom Spear
I just remembered reading somewhere (wiki, perhaps?) that the ultimate goal of wine (aside from documenting the windows api, etc) was to provide open-source drop-in replacements for windows' core dll's. If that is the case, do we have a framework setup for building the wine dlls as windows .dll f

Re: blizzard conference

2007-05-07 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/7/07, Bryan Haskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oi, If only I could go =[ I would like to point out to any players who would go there "on the behald of the wine project" wink wink nudge nudge, that they generally give away some sick in game prizes! If you go and arent a player, you could eas

Re: "Installer already running"

2007-05-07 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/7/07, Pavel Troller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Tom, there is the installer file. With regards, Pavel Troller Hi Pavel, I looked into the file. It is a 7-zip compressed Nullsoft installer. What that means is that if you decide to file a bug on bugzilla (highly recommended), ma

Re: "Installer already running"

2007-05-07 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/7/07, Vitaliy Margolen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pavel Troller wrote: >>> it chokes on SECDRV.SYS). That is all you need to see to know this is SafeDisk. (for anybody who would like to try this too, the game itself has to be patched by nocd crack first, otherwise it chokes on SECDRV.S

Re: "Installer already running"

2007-05-07 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/7/07, Pavel Troller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Vitaliy, I'm very sorry for my total stupidity, ignorance and maybe even debility, but I can't find nothing common between Bug# 219 and my question. The PhysX installer doesn't check for any *ICE components present in the system, doesn'

Re: Linuxworld San Francisco?

2007-05-04 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/4/07, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was thinking of volunteering, too. On 5/4/07, Scott Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oooh, I'll do it! > > Now I just need to come up with a specific topic other than "Wine" > > Thanks, > Scott Ritchie > > On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 10:30 -0500, J

Re: USB device support in wine

2007-05-04 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/3/07, Jon Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have found some talk of implementing USB device support in wine in this list some time ago (2005), but as far as I know, nothing ever came of it. I would perhaps be interested in getting this going again, as I have an application (Serato S

Re: Unsecured API functions

2007-05-03 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/3/07, Kai Blin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 03 May 2007 23:16, Tom Spear wrote: Noone should use gets(). There are lots of better alternatives. For the other deprecated functions, there are ways to check that the input is valid before calling it, iirc. I agree that nobod

Re: Unsecured API functions

2007-05-03 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/3/07, Marcus Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: wine is not using gets() at all, insofar there is no risk from it. That much I knew, however we do use strcpy (especially in msi), and that is another one that has been deprecated ("banned").. See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb

Re: Unsecured API functions

2007-05-03 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/3/07, Robert Shearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tom Spear wrote: > I was writing up a Hello World with input program for a demonstration > for a non-developer coworker last week, and used the unsecured getch() > and got the standard warning about how it was unsecured and dan

Unsecured API functions

2007-05-03 Thread Tom Spear
I was writing up a Hello World with input program for a demonstration for a non-developer coworker last week, and used the unsecured getch() and got the standard warning about how it was unsecured and dangerous to use that. That prompted me to look up the basic secured functions on the MS website

Re: Any way to get the current code besides git?

2007-05-02 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/2/07, Tom Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/2/07, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Tom Spear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Haven't killed it yet and been waiting for 2 hours.. I'm on a T-3 > > afaik. La

Patch question

2007-05-02 Thread Tom Spear
Just curious if there was something wrong with the regedit patch I sent on Friday, or if maybe there is a particular reason that the /C was left out of the code in the first place, that I am missing, and would help me to understand. http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2007-April/038652.h

Re: Any way to get the current code besides git?

2007-05-02 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/2/07, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Tom Spear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Haven't killed it yet and been waiting for 2 hours.. I'm on a T-3 > afaik. Last line that prints before it just sits is: > > walk 4eea356e2d39f1a958af

Re: Any way to get the current code besides git?

2007-05-01 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/1/07, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Tom Spear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having an issue using git at work, where it will start downloading > the packs, and then just stalls out at the same pack every time.. > This has occurre

Any way to get the current code besides git?

2007-05-01 Thread Tom Spear
I'm having an issue using git at work, where it will start downloading the packs, and then just stalls out at the same pack every time.. This has occurred since I first started working here Maybe someone knows the problem, and a solution? If not, is there a way to get git to show file names inst

Re: http access ot GIT?

2007-05-01 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/1/07, Ben Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -- Original message -- From: "Tom Spear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 5/1/07, Ben Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Found myself behind an http-proxy and can't

Re: http access ot GIT?

2007-05-01 Thread Tom Spear
On 5/1/07, Ben Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Found myself behind an http-proxy and can't seem to find the magic to use the http proxy to update my git archive. Is there a way to use an http proxy (squid) with wine's git? What error are you getting? If no error, then if you to try to clon

Re: quicken 2007 ungodly slow

2007-04-29 Thread Tom Spear
On 4/29/07, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (vmlinuz won't do, nor do I know how to uncompress it.) It's a bzImage, unless ubuntu changed the default make rules. So, (just a guess), bunzip2 might do the trick. -- Thanks Tom Check out this new 3D Instant Messenger called IMVU. It's the

Re: wine killing X?

2007-04-27 Thread Tom Spear
On 4/27/07, Juan Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just upgraded to the latest wine version and tried wineprefixcreate (no .wine directory), and it kills X. Nvidia drivers 1.0.9755. Worked fine for me. But I'm not using nvidia drivers or an nvidia card. -- Thanks Tom Check out this new 3D I

Re: [programs/regedit] Fix command line processing for /? patch

2007-04-27 Thread Tom Spear
On 4/27/07, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 27.04.2007 21:58, Tom Spear wrote: > On 4/27/07, Tom Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 4/27/07, Tom Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On 4/27/07, Tom Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: [programs/regedit] Fix command line processing for /? patch

2007-04-27 Thread Tom Spear
On 4/27/07, Tom Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/27/07, Tom Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/27/07, Tom Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/27/07, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You don't want to do t

Re: [programs/regedit] Fix command line processing for /? patch

2007-04-27 Thread Tom Spear
On 4/27/07, Tom Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/27/07, Tom Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/27/07, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You don't want to do that, even if you print usage, an invalid switch > > needs to cause an e

Re: [programs/regedit] Fix command line processing for /? patch

2007-04-27 Thread Tom Spear
On 4/27/07, Tom Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/27/07, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You don't want to do that, even if you print usage, an invalid switch > needs to cause an error. So should we fprintf the usage statement and exit(1); or should

Re: [programs/regedit] Fix command line processing for /? patch

2007-04-27 Thread Tom Spear
On 4/27/07, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You don't want to do that, even if you print usage, an invalid switch needs to cause an error. So should we fprintf the usage statement and exit(1); or should we print both the usage, and the error for the invalid switch. Unfortunately I

Re: Trace fix

2007-04-26 Thread Tom Spear
On 4/26/07, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Tom Spear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, so then if I resend them now, will you take a look? I believe I > have fixed every problem with each one, as I havent gotten any more > comments about some

Re: msvcp60 and bug 7679

2007-04-26 Thread Tom Spear
On 4/26/07, Louis Lenders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I gave the application a try, and looks like there's a problem with builtin dbghelp.dll. When i use native dbghelp.dll , the login window comes up just fine, and i'm able to login as well, and get the client running. didn't test any further. B

Re: msvcp60 and bug 7679

2007-04-26 Thread Tom Spear
On 4/26/07, Eric Pouech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: use the pass command in winedbg instead of c (cont) (or rtfm) Haha, but I already tried that, which is why I said I'm hitting a wall.. I know pass is supposed to go around it, but when I do pass, it just prints the same thing it printed before.

Re: msvcp60 and bug 7679

2007-04-26 Thread Tom Spear
On 4/26/07, Tom Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7679 - IMVU 3D Avatar Chat client crashes Just curious, since we don't have a builtin msvcp60.dll and I seriously doubt that we will implement it any time soon (if ever), should we try to sup

msvcp60 and bug 7679

2007-04-26 Thread Tom Spear
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7679 - IMVU 3D Avatar Chat client crashes Just curious, since we don't have a builtin msvcp60.dll and I seriously doubt that we will implement it any time soon (if ever), should we try to support native, like we do with mfc, or would this bug be a wontfix?

Re: Trace fix

2007-04-26 Thread Tom Spear
On 4/26/07, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's particularly true for cosmetic patches like typo fixes; if I have to spend more than 10 seconds on such a patch, chances are it will end up in /dev/null. Ok, so then if I resend them now, will you take a look? I believe I have fi

Trace fix

2007-04-26 Thread Tom Spear
Just curious if Alexandre missed my patches for regedit and my trace fix for uninstaller, or if there is a backlog of commits to be done, or if he even plans to commit them, and if not, why.. http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2007-April/038566.html - Spelling fixes for regedit http://

{Resend} [programs/uninstaller (Try 6)] Scan HKCU

2007-04-26 Thread Tom Spear
Scan HKCU for uninstall entries. Separated out the trace fix, moved the HeapAlloc for entries outside the for loop, realigned the 2nd line of code for a trace. This patch obsoletes all previous ones. -- Thanks Tom Check out this new 3D Instant Messenger called IMVU. It's the best I have seen

Re: Uninstaller: 2 questions

2007-04-25 Thread Tom Spear
On 4/25/07, Robert Shearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What happens if you cancel the uninstall? Won't the uninstaller remove the entry with the program still installed? That is true too. I was originally thinking along the lines of checking the exit status of the uninstaller, but whether it is

Re: Uninstaller: 2 questions

2007-04-25 Thread Tom Spear
On 4/25/07, Frank Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So a user starts the uninstall app but doesn't see a dialog... and probably thinks it's a bug. On the other hand, just showing a dialog with an empty list makes it clear that there's nothing to uninstall and will probably not produce false bug

Re: Uninstaller: 2 questions

2007-04-25 Thread Tom Spear
On 4/25/07, Steven Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Tom, I've watched your discussions for a while and have been meaning to comment but have been super busy. The uninstaller was one of the first things I looked at when getting in to wine development and it confused me to no end due to a bug

Uninstaller: 2 questions

2007-04-25 Thread Tom Spear
Why do we show a dialog if there are no uninstall entries found in the registry? Windows does not do that, and I think we shouldn't either. However, on that same note, I think we should, since this uninstaller is not designed to mimic Windows' Add/Remove Programs, catch when a program's uninstal

[programs/uninstaller (Try 6)] Scan HKCU

2007-04-25 Thread Tom Spear
Scan HKCU for uninstall entries. Separated out the trace fix, moved the HeapAlloc for entries outside the for loop, realigned the 2nd line of code for a trace. This patch obsoletes all previous ones. -- Thanks Tom Check out this new 3D Instant Messenger called IMVU. It's the best I have seen

[Try 5] Check HKCU for uninstall entries

2007-04-25 Thread Tom Spear
Hopefully this will be the last try. Instead of just checking HKLM for uninstall entries, check HKCU as well. Converted all instances of entries[numentries-1].xxx to entry->xxx Fixed a bug with a trace. Ran the file thru kwrite to make SURE there are NO tabs! Double checked the diff to make sure

Re: [Try 3] [programs/uninstaller] Check HKCU for uninstall entries

2007-04-25 Thread Tom Spear
On 4/25/07, Peter Beutner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tom Spear schrieb: Imo it's more common to use all uppercase names only for macros. And i think it is mostly done that way in wine. In fact you have to look quite hard to find an all uppercase variable name ;) I agree, which is w

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