On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 11:50:12AM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote:
>
> Running the system metrics sample in the Petzold in both Wine and
> Windows 98 showed a lot of differences. So I started hacking
> windows/sysmetrics.c and the result of this is the attached patch. With
> this patch all the differences listed below disapeared.
>
> But I have the feeling that system metrics is a delicate subject,
> especially because of the platform variations: win3.1, win9x, win nt,
> win2000. I hope to run compare the results with a Windows 95 machine
> tonight but I don't have access to the other platforms.
> So I would like your feed-back on the attached patch. Is there some
> parts that belong to a Win9x only section? Does anyone know if it breaks
> things for Windows 3.1?
YES, it *definitely* does !
(I checked it some time ago and even tried to fix it, but didn't)
Please only reimplement it by keeping the Win3.1 values !
(I'm not sure though how many values differ, but several do)
Andreas Mohr
