Questions concering an application I maintain

Matt Finnicum mattfinn at gmail.com
Fri Jan 19 13:21:34 CST 2007


On 1/19/07, Jacob Alberty <jacob.alberty at vetmanage.com> wrote:
> I am a delphi developer (not limited to this language, I have done several
> projects in C, C#, as well as assembly but for the purposes of this email I
> am a delphi developer). I am experiencing some weirdness in regards to the
> richedit control in regards to database access (Specifically TDBRichEdit),
> Since I am a delphi developer using wine this means I have access to A) My
> programs source code, B) Delphis VCL source code (So i can view how delphi
> manages the richedit control which in this case is split up among 3 files)
> and C) The Wine source code. I have two questions 1) Since Delphi does not
> actually implement any of richedits features, merely wraps around them I
> should be in the clear to create a patch to wine to correct this
> functionality correct? and 2) What method is best to watch the api
> interaction going on in my application so I can see if wine is returning any
> weirdness that it shouldnt (do normal windows api spy programs work under
> wine?).

Jacob,
If you have any specific issues with wine's richedit control, you can
always file a bug on bugs.winehq.org (and be sure to mark it as in the
wine-richedit component). I haven't personally tried any api spy
programs, so I can't vouch for them - but I've usually had success
with just using the environmental variable WINEDEBUG
("WINEDEBUG=+richedit wine application.exe"). If you have any
questions about how the richedit component works, feel free to ask me
directly. When making changes, we encourage writing tests (see the
dlls/riched20/tetsts folder) to demonstrate that the new behavior is,
in fact, the correct behavior. Also, when you make a change make sure
to run the tests already there to make sure you haven't caused any
existing tests to fail.
Thanks,
--Matt



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