[Wine] Problem with strings in Delphi Program

[Yves Glodt]

Hello,

I tried to run a program written in Delphi in wine and it ran quite 
perfectly, but sadly there was one important detail that made using it 
impossible...

It seems that wine has a problem with the text inputs (edits). They are 
"string" datatypes (8 bit ansi string), and not null terminated.

The problem was showing itself e.g. at the login form of the program.
The password I typed had 4 characters, but wine added some characters to 
the end of the 4 chars, which seemed to come from other strings in the 
form. To be more wordy:

The form has 2 labels (user and pass) and 2 string fields:


User: _____
Pass: _____


We added a writeln that printed out the typed password on the 
commandline, and saw that my password (which was "test") was printed as
"testPass".

The characters added at the end of the string seemed to change randomly, 
but often came from other strings found in the program...

What could I do to resolve this problem?

Thanks and best regards,
Yves