[Bug 2467] starcraft doesn't display battle.net menus correctly

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2467





--- Comment #129 from Vincent Povirk <madewokherd at gmail.com>  2010-04-26 22:10:13 ---
Cut the chatter, please. It just makes it hard for anyone who wants to work on
this bug to sort out the useful information (Comment #111) from the rest
(everything else on this bug).

The reason this hasn't been fixed yet is that, while ddraw in exclusive mode on
Windows will happily draw directly to the screen, this has negative
consequences that we don't want in Wine. It won't work when a compositing
window manager is being used. Even without a compositing window manager, any UI
drawn by another program (such as the window you see when you press alt+tab)
will be drawn over by any fullscreen ddraw program. Alexandre has made the
decision that being a good X citizen, and thus avoiding this sort of problem,
is more important than being fully correct.

I think that if someone can find a way to allow ddraw to draw over any Wine
window, but not just any X window, (without hurting performance too much) then
we could avoid the problems with drawing to the screen, and that change would
have a chance of being accepted. I don't know how we could do that, though.

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