Better test for visible desktop, should be working on all platforms.

[peter at piments.com]

Simple qu, since I'm not that familiar with Wine yet.

How can I run a desktop under wine? Is it poss to have two or more apps  
running concurrently in the same wine session?

TIA.


On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 21:11:59 +0800, Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at baikal.ru>  
wrote:

> "Dmitry Timoshkov" <dmitry at baikal.ru> wrote:
>
>> > It's not pretty, but I don't have an NT4 to test with, so I didn't  
>> want
>> > to change
>> > anything. Later I can refactor it into exactly the failing part.
>>
>> Did you consider implementing the approach Robert Shearman has pointed  
>> out?
>
> Here is another way for testing for a visible desktop which just came
> to my mind (based on the EMF test failure analysis and the description
> from http://www.codeproject.com/gdi/cliprgnguide.asp):
>
> static int running_on_visible_desktop ()
> {
>     BOOL visible;
>     HWND desktop;
>     HDC hdc;
>     HRGN hrgn;
>     RECT rc;
>
>     desktop = GetDesktopWindow();
>     hdc = GetDC(desktop);
>     hrgn = CreateRectRgn(0, 0, 0, 0);
>     GetRandomRgn(hdc, hrgn, SYSRGN);
>
>     visible = GetRgnBox(hrgn, &rc) != NULLREGION;
>
>     DeleteObject(hrgn);
>     ReleaseDC(desktop, hdc);
>
>     return visible;
> }
>



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