My Idea for GSOC

[Stefan Dösinger]

Hi Daniel,

Again, welcome to Wine :-)

Finding good d3d-related gsoc projects has become harder each year, as the 
code is quite mature and we're out of easy things to fix. A few things that 
come to my mind are:

*) Writing more tests. Especially ddraw.dll could use a lot more tests and 
fixes for the pre-DirectX7 interfaces that are part of this dll, but also the 
dx7 interfaces.

*) The d3dx9 dlls are mentioned in the gsoc wiki page. I don't know how many 
medium-size tests (read: not HLSL-compiler related) are still left.

*) Speaking of d3dx9: An implementation of the vsa.exe, psa.exe and fxc.exe 
command line tools offered by the DirectX SDK may be a nice thing. This 
doesn't really require detailed d3d or gl knowledge either.

*) Fixing a bug of your choice may be an option. The risk here is that you get 
stuck finding out what the problem is, or that you end up with a problem that 
is not 3d-related and/or hard to fix. (e.g. the steam overlay had nothing to 
do with d3d, it needed a new feature in gcc)

*) Further implement Direct3D9Ex. This mostly comes down to writing tests, but 
there may be infrastructure changes involved that require in-depth knowledge 
of the d3d code.

*) A very long shot: Improve ddraw overlay support, e.g. to get some video 
players running. This *will* require very good understanding of Wine's d3d 
code.

I haven't looked into the details, so the time needed to accomplish either 
goal may be way off.
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