Re: winhelp mapping

[Eric Pouech]

the "hack" in only valid in a Win31/Win9x atchitecture; it works well will win98 winhlp32, but will likely fail for any NT implementation

so, we cannot have at the same time:
1/ a unique message passing feature for all emulated windows version
2/ the ability to run all the native winhlp32 executables

it means that we should either:
1/ emulate in a different manner the message passing ability of a given version (win16, win9x use a 16 bit global handle ; it seems NT uses a shared page)
2/ implement our own winhlp32 executable (with the support of various help formats) in which case we could choose our unique message passing implementation

for seek of completness, I'd choose 1/
for seek of code clarity/maintainability, 2/

A+

> >>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.com> writes:
> 
>     Alexandre> Eric Pouech <eric.pouech at wanadoo.fr> writes:
>     >> Alexandre, will you accept a patch of this kind (it still can be
>     >> enhanced, like storing the message id) ?
> 
>     Alexandre> Only if there is evidence that Windows does it this way.
> 
> I tried to follow native NT user32.dll in the winhelp() call and I ended in
> that magic 0x7ffeXXXX page, which seems to be shared data.
> 
> Do we have any plans for that page? NT File "explorer.exe" also crashes
> accessing that page.
> 
> I plea for encluding some WinHelp Hack. Users expect Winhelp to work. Eric's
> hack doesn't change wine fundamentals, is only changes one case.
> 
> Bye
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