Question about IPC between WINE and other processes

[Mike Hearn]

What you can do is rewrite only the parts that need rewriting and turn
them into shared libraries. Then you can use WineLib to combine the
Win32 code and the Linux code into one program.

On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 22:36, dd jj wrote:
> Hello Mike,
>  
> So as my understanding, even recompile the original windows codes
> using WINELIB will not work, am I correct? 
>  
> Since finding window info under cursor is only one of the
> functionality in this application,
> it will be a huge work to rewrite all the codes for X window. Is there
> any Avenue to port such a windows application to Linux? Using Visual
> Mainwin or Win/U is better choices?
> or any other comments on it?
>  
> Thanks a lot!
>  
> -Lechun
> 
> Mike Hearn <mike at theoretic.com> wrote:
>         Programs run under emulation are only aware of other Wine
>         programs. If
>         you want to write an app like that, you'd need to rewrite it
>         for Linux.
>         
>         BTW, you might want to talk to a guy named Bill Haneman (i
>         think that's
>         the spelling). He does Gnome accessibility, and i think they
>         have an app
>         that can read info about stuff under the mouse cursor.
>         
>         On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 20:41, dd jj wrote:
>         > Thank you for response. The following is my further
>         question:
>         > 
>         > Here is my case:
>         > 
>         > Now I am trying to run our own developed application under
>         wine, the
>         > original function of this app is working as a background
>         daemon
>         > without GUI who is trying to figure out some window
>         information under
>         > the current cursor, such as the window title, class name
>         using
>         > GetWindowTitle, GetClassName ... WIN32 API calls. 
>         > 
>         > When I run this under WINE, it can't "see" any other Local X
>         > application windows such as Xterm, Xclock... which don't run
>         under
>         > WINE.
>         > 
>         > 
>         > I am wondering whether I can recompile the codes to generate
>         a lcoal X
>         > application using winelib to solve this problem, or I must
>         write X11
>         > based codes?
>         > 
>         > Thanks a lot!
>         > 
>         > -Lechun
>         > 
>         > Mike Hearn wrote:
>         > > fixme:class:get_class_ptr reading from class of other
>         > process window
>         > > 0x2002a
>         > > err:win:WIN_FindWndPtr window 0x2003a belongs to other
>         > process
>         > 
>         > Well these two are known problems. I think it's something
>         > Alexandre will
>         > be working on at some point, inter-process window
>         > communication isn't
>         > really implemented well in Wine at present.
>         > 
>         > > Also I found other errors when I launch my window
>         appication
>         > under
>         > > wine:
>         > > 
>         > > err:module:import_dll No implementation for
>         > USER32.dll.GetTitleBarInfo
>         > > imported from C:\ping\exe\ping.exe, setting to 0xdeadbeef
>         > > err:module:import_dll No implementation for
>         > USER32.dll.GetMenuBarInfo
>         > > imported from C:\ping\exe\ping.exe, setting to 0xdeadbeef
>         > > 
>         > 
>         > Unless the program actually uses them, this isn't a problem.
>         > If it does,
>         > the app will crash, at which point we'd need to write those
>         > functions or
>         > stub them out.
>         > 
>         > thanks -mike
>         > 
>         > 
>         >
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