which of these should I work on?

[Francois Gouget]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
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> 1.improve comdlg32.dll, implement stuff added in WINVER>=0x500 like
> PrintDlgEx and generally make comdlg32.dll behave more like the windows
> counterpart (implement a few other things as well, like some of the
> currently stubbed out items).

This can certainly be useful.


> 2.work on wine notepad. Wont do this until the changes refered to before
> are merged.

Notepad is sometimes invoked by installers to show readmes, release
notes, etc. So improving it can be useful. Adding Unicode support (or
does it already support it>) would certainly be useful.


> 3.write a clone of fontview.exe (windows font sample viewer). This is
> probobly not usefull for WINE but might be usefull for ReactOS, plus it
> would be a good excercise in windows GDI programming.

Can we find a free (as in beer)/open-source Windows application that
does that already? If the answer is yes (especially to the open-source
part), then there's no point to develop a new one. Maybe Freshmeat would
help here.


> 4.write clones of guidgen.exe and/or uuidgen.exe, 2 different windows SDK
> tools for generating GUIDs/UUIDs. (if we are providing an IDL compiler and
> other such OLE-esque things, having a GUID/UUID generator is probobly a
> good thing to have, mainly it is just a stub around a call to CoCreateGUID

Seems like it could be useful and easy. So it seems like a good starting
point.


> 5.write a clone of rebase.exe, a win32 PE image rebasing tool. Probobly not
> usefull to WINE but might be helpfull for ReactOS development, dont know.

Don't know.


> 6.writing a clone of the cards.dll used by the windows card games. Only
> problem here is that I would need to find a sutably licenced set of card
> images since I dont have the skills to draw them myself :)
> 7.writing a clone of the card games (solitare,freecell etc) included with
> windows to use said cards.dll (hey, we have WineMine...)

I'm pretty sure there are lots of free (beer) or open-source card games
out there. IMHO, even just the existence of tons of free beer card
games greatly diminish the need for reimplementing yet another one. But
then I'm not a card game fan.


> 8.writing a character map applet (basicly a clone of charmap.exe). Dont
> know if WINE needs this but ReactOS probobly does (how else are you going
> to insert all those fancy foreign language characters and dingbats? :)
> 9.writing a calculaor app (i.e. a calc.exe clone), again dont know if WINE
> needs one but ReactOS might...

Again, don't we already have free (beer)/open-source ones?


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