winebrowser: Add DDE support and use DDE by default forshell/open.

Misha Koshelev mk144210 at bcm.edu
Mon Jun 4 07:39:14 CDT 2007


On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 15:02 +0900, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> "Misha Koshelev" <mk144210 at bcm.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Btw the reason for the /dde parameter is simply so that if the user runs
> > winebrowser from the command line he/she does not have to wait for the 5
> > second timeout before they get a usage message.
> > 
> > On windows there is no such parameter passed to iexplore (although
> > -nohome is passed so it doesn't open a homepage) as iexplore will
> > actually open a window that will then sit and wait for the DDE server
> > request. Since winebrowser does no such thing, and will exit once it
> > starts the appropriate unix browser, we have to have a timeout, but if
> > we pass a special command line parameter we will know only to wait for a
> > dde request if it is passed, so a commandline user can see his usage
> > message right away.
> 
> If you need a special command line parameter it should be named differently
> then. The behaviour should conform to what Windows does in that case. Just
> think of it as the winebrowser has been executed under Windows with its
> default registry setup, but winebrowser being a replacement for iexplore.
> 

Thanks for the advice, submitted new patches. Btw, with the new patches
this seems to start now too and not crash:

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7953

Misha



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