Would like to contribute to wine

Jesse Allen the3dfxdude at gmail.com
Mon Sep 10 11:06:59 CDT 2007


On 9/9/07, Marcel Partap <mpartap at gmx.net> wrote:
> >> On this year's Google SoC I found an interesting application called
> >> "Windows Printing subsystem bridge (i.e. use WIN32 drivers to print from
> >> wine)".
> >> It was accepted but I can't find any information about any progress.
> I am the guy responsible for not providing information about the progress - during SoC time I was most busy with actual
> coding and so did not even update my project blog.. sorry bout that :)
>
> > The final solution must work with CreateDC("winspool",....) and need
> > the complete DIB-Engine.
> Exactly, the gdi engines drawing engine functions (EngBitBlt, EngTextOut...) need support for raster operations, which
> should best be implemented in dib.c .. Right now the driver initialisation and
>
> > Marcel is still working to improve his code and will start sending patches.
> Yeees I aam.. ;)
> But I am visiting my family for a few days ... you can have a look though at the current code under
> http://synth-worldz.de/wine-ddi/ddi.c ... too many stubs and unimplemented functions though, even if a few drivers
> already start feeling comfortable with it.
>

What about the Drv* functions? If these get implemented, it would make
forwarding from the dib engine back to the graphics driver a whole lot
easier.

Also, I wonder how your Eng* functions would integrate with the dib
engine I'm writing. It should be done...

Jesse



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