OOo2.0beta2 installer crashes wine-20050830 in MultiByteToWideChar in msi_process_pending_messages

[Dan Kegel]

Mike McCormack wrote:
>> Here's a log of wine-20050830 crashing while running the
>> setup.exe in the directory created by unpacking
>> http://openoffice.mirrors.pair.com/ftp/stable/2.0beta2/OOo_2.0beta2_Win32Intel_install.zip 
> 
> 
> The attached patch (hack) should fix the problem.
> We load a dll in a thread (in an MSI custom action), and that dll does a 
> SendMessageTimeout(HWND_BROADCAST, WM_WININICHANGE, .., &ptr, ...), then 
> exits, and our thread unloads the dll.
> 
> user32.SendMessageTimeoutA(0000ffff,0000001a,0000002a,62840730,00000002,00000000,00000000) 
> ret=6282b827
> 
> By the time our GUI receives the broadcast message, the pointer in the 
> message is invalid, and the message marshalling code accesses it and 
> crashes.
> 
> So we need to figure out whether we need to delay unloading of the dll 
> until we have a chance to process all the messages or whether the 
> message marshalling code needs to be fixed.

That let it complete the install!
Thanks, Mike!

Now the app comes up ok, but is unusable.
I'll post about that problem separately.

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