weird ?clipping? errors

[James Hawkins]

> If the error disappears, then you're dealing with a bug in Wine's
> comctl32.dll.

I used native comctl32.dll and both of the errors disappeared, so I
will take your advice and search around in comctl32.


On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 12:40:58 +0900, Mike McCormack <mike at codeweavers.com> wrote:
> 
> James Hawkins wrote:
> 
> >    After my last patch that fixed a stack-trasher was committed, the
> > Kazaa Lite configuration wizard, KLConfigWizard.exe, can successfuly
> > run to completion, but the user better not press the 'Back' button
> > whilst running through the wizard, because he won't see anything anymore.  So
> 
> As you're dealing with a wizard/propsheet control, to check whether the
> problem is in the code for that control, or a problem with the painting
> code, try substituting comctl32.dll from a Windows 2000 machine, and see
> if the error goes away.  You should notice some differences between the
> way the native comctl32.dll and Wine's implementation draw things...
> 
> If they error stays, then you're dealing with a painting bug, which is
> probably hard to solve.
> 
> If the error disappears, then you're dealing with a bug in Wine's
> comctl32.dll. You can compare the +message traces with the native dll
> and the builtin one, and see if you can spot the difference.  I usually
> run the trace until I see the first instance of the error then press ^C,
> then repeat for the working case, then compare the two logs in two
> xterms the same size.
> 
> Mike
> 



-- 
James Hawkins