IPX support in Starcraft - Why can't I get it working?

[David Bronaugh]

On Mon, 03 Dec 2001 13:16:06 gerard patel wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 11:30:13 -0800, David Bronaugh
> <dbronaugh at linuxboxen.org> wrote:
> 
> >Thank you. Now, what registry entries would those be? Once I have 'em,
> >I'll be on the road here...
> 
> I don't know your app, but it's often possible to find which registry
> entries are needed by an application by running it with -debugmsg
> +relay, then searching in the trace file  for the
> 
> advapi32.RegCreateKey
> advapi32.RegOpenKey
> advapi32.RegQueryValue
> 
> and, having found one, look if the return value is 2
> (retval=00000002)
> that means that the entry is missing.
> 
> Then one thing helps, most programmers are giving names
> that have at least some sense, so the Regxxx Api call may
> have something like 'IPX' in the parameters.
> 
> OTOH it's difficult to imagine the correct *value* to set in the
> registry file, but that's when it's interesting to ask to someone
> having a Windows box to take a look at the registry to find what
> the values are supposed to be so that the app works.
> 
> It's complex, but when you have found the solution, you can
> go to the Wine application database and update it so that other
> people after you will not have the same problem (or maybe find
> that the answer was already here since years ;-))
> 
> Gerard

OK, I logged all the debug messages, and grepped for "advapi". Results of 
that are up at http://bronaugh.linuxboxen.org/morecrap.txt - I didn't find 
it very helpful. It seemed to look for some pretty strange keys, nothing 
to do with Netware or IPX (the two most likely candidates in my opinion).

David