i second the plea.<br>Autocad is one of those applications that many windows users NEED to have working to even consider a change to linux, even at the enterprise level many would switch for it.<br>the other day i had a friend in Naval Engineering ask me if it was possible to use Autocad in wine so he could use Linux, i had to sadly put his hopes down.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/28 Luke Benstead <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kazade@gmail.com">kazade@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br>
<br>
I've been watching the DIB engine work that has been going on in bug<br>
421. It looks like Max has made massive progress getting Autocad<br>
working by the sound of it, almost perfectly and also improvements in<br>
Starcraft have been reported. However, he accepts (and Alexandre has<br>
confirmed) that neither of the two approaches he has tried is the<br>
right one and he believes (as do others) that any correct approach<br>
requires massive changes to GDI32, which if I read it right, no one<br>
seems to know how to do incrementally.<br>
<br>
Autocad is one of those apps, like Photoshop, which people need to be<br>
able to use and won't switch away from Windows without it. In fact,<br>
Autocad more so than Photoshop because there is no (almost) feature<br>
equivalent alternative available (like the GIMP for Photoshop). So<br>
it's frustrating to know that someone has it working, but vanilla Wine<br>
isn't going to see it working in the near future.<br>
<br>
My question is this: does anyone know how to incrementally implement<br>
the necessary changes? Is it even possible? If it's not possible, is<br>
it work considering branching Wine to implement it correctly, for<br>
merging back into trunk at a later stage once it's been thoroughly<br>
tested? I'm wondering if Wine's development process just doesn't allow<br>
for a big change like this, and perhaps it's the development model<br>
that is the reason bug 421 is so long standing?<br>
<br>
Any thoughts, I just want to spur some discussion on this because it<br>
seems that everyone that attempts a DIB engine hits a wall :)<br>
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Luke.<br>
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