[3/13] wineconsole and kernel32: set GetLargestConsoleWindowSize based on screen resolution

Hugh McMaster hugh.mcmaster at masterindexing.com
Tue Apr 9 02:20:40 CDT 2013


Eric Pouech wrote: 

>Le 08/04/2013 16:03, Nikolay Sivov a écrit :
>>If you need to access registry from kernel32 you'll need to use ntdll calls directly.
>>This functionality belongs to advapi32. Do you really need anything more than ntdll calls provide?

>and on top of that, using registry as a way to exchange information between wineconsole and kernel is not the right thing to do
>the correct way is to:
>- enhance the wine server protocol to grab max win size in kernel32 from wine server
>- enhance wineconsole to set the max wine size into wine server (and to recompute it when there's a screen resize event)

Now I'm starting to understand why very few people have attempted to fix this issue.

There was an attempt to make such a patch a long time ago.  I might have a look at that and see how it goes.



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