> As for doing the 10k+ lines of coding myself, I have experience in
> (de)marshalling and network coding, spent many years doing it, it's more a
> matter of available time and learning the com wire protocols, neither of which
> are currently available to me. Here's to hoping someone is already working on
> it ;).
For local marshalling we could use our own protocol and even our own way of ipc if we don't try to mix processes with native and wine com-dll's. It com server is only interested in the result ;-). And isn't the com marshalling similar to the dce one?
For networking - the dcom protocoll is documented (IMHO).
juergen
After a long break, I'd like to figure out why quickbooks 5 can't print.
wineps works, ie I can print in notepad, but QB seems to implement its own
printing mechanism.
--debugmsg +psdrv,+print,+winspool
produces no output. Adding +font spits out a lot, but no errors that I
can see.
This all used to work until wineps was moved from graphics to a dll about
a year ago.
I can see from +dosfs that it's accessing some files (WPR.DAT/WPR.INI)
which contain information on printers. There is also a QBWPR.DLL file
that gets loaded.
Any hints on where to start would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Sean
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And the verdict is . . .
Everyone seems to feel that using FreeType 2.x directly from the Post-
Script driver is the right thing to do, so that's what I'll do.
This does mean that I'm going to have to learn autoconf, so expect some
stupid questions on that subject.
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I'm getting this error:
Could not stat /mnt/fd0 (No such file or directory), ignoring drive A:
err:win32:PE_FindExportedFunction function not found for forward
'ntdll._iswctype' used by 'msvcrt.dll'. If you are using builtin
'msvcrt.dll', try using the native one instead.
err:win32:fixup_imports No implementation for MSVCRT.dll.636(iswctype)
imported from C:\program files\notepad.exe, setting to 0xdeadbeef
~/program files$
when running notepad.exe using builtin msvcrt.dll. Any ideas on what might
be causing this?
Thanks,
Chris
Ian Pilcher <ian.pilcher(a)home.com> writes:
> With a separate program, FreeType is only required for people who want
> to print TrueType fonts. If I put FreeType calls directly into the
> driver, FreeType will be required to build/run Wine at all, even for
> users that derive no benefit from it.
You can have an autoconf check and #ifdef the code out if possible. We
will have to use FreeType at some point anyway, so we might as well
start now. Besides it seems it will be easier to use if everything is
built-in instead of having to run a separate tool.
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Ian Pilcher <ian.pilcher(a)home.com> writes:
> Absolutely nothing. I just don't think the immediate benefit of getting
> at TrueType encodings justifies creating the dependency at this time.
But doesn't your solution also require FreeType anyway? Linking it
into Wine or into a separate program is not really different for the
user, he still needs to install it.
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:03:48PM -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> >
> > But doesn't your solution also require FreeType anyway? Linking it
> > into Wine or into a separate program is not really different for the
> > user, he still needs to install it.
> >
>
> With a separate program, FreeType is only required for people who want
> to print TrueType fonts. If I put FreeType calls directly into the
> driver, FreeType will be required to build/run Wine at all, even for
> users that derive no benefit from it.
Umm, use autoconf checks and fall back methods, also for ft1 vs ft2 checks.
Ciao, Marcus
Can someone pin numbers on the following codes:
STATUS_FILE_IS_A_DIRECTORY
STATUS_INVALID_EXECUTABLE_IMAGE
At least I think that's what they're called (unfortunately, my book's at home
where I can't check it).
They're listed in my NT native API book (though that's no guarantee that they
exist), but not in the Wine header files, and I don't have a copy of the DDK
installed on top of MSDEV.
David
Hi,
Wine-20010418 seems to have a (serious) problem in the edit control.
The problem occurs when i press the backspace key, and there is text
after the cursor. (eg. when i am writing a reply to an email on my
web-based email).
Text following the cursor is not draw correctly... it appears that
there are many characters missing at the beginning of the line, but
the text is only drawn correctly. Perhaps one of the recent
optimizations of the edit control missed something??
i don't know if this is fixed in the latest CVS... but the problem
didn't exist in previous wine releases.
Mike
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In order to Unicode-enable the PostScript driver, it needs information
about about font encodings that isn't present in Adobe's AFM file
format (glyph names for character encodings greater than 256). For
Type 1 fonts with a standard encoding, the driver can use the encoding
in the Adobe Glyph List. (There's no other choice.)
TrueType font designers, however, seem to regard glyph naming as an
opportunity to express their creativity. Besides, the information is
present in the TrueType font files, so the driver might as well use it.
The driver could read this information directly from the font files, but
this would make Wine dependant on the FreeType libraries, and that
doesn't strike me as a wonderful idea. Instead, I have cobbled together
a small program which reads a TrueType font file and creates a "TrueType
Font Metrics" file, which is very similar to an AFM file. (This program
does use the FreeType library.)
Anyone have any objections to using this approach as a interim measure?
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