[Wine] Re: Found the patch that breaks my app. Now what?

[Uwe Bonnes]

roboknight <roboknight at gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, so I spent a lot of time locating the patch that prevents me from
> moving my application, GSAK, from 0.9.16 to the latest version of wine.
>  I spent a lot of time recompiling different bisected versions of wine
> in order to do just that.  I even submitted a bugzilla report.  As it
> turns out, it was the patch I suspected when I first started.  It seems
> that the dependency on the Mozilla Active X control was removed about
> 06/30/06 ... That's when my application wouldn't run with wine any
> longer.  It seems that patch causes some message to get passed to
> shdocvw which isn't handled.  Because it isn't handled, an exception
> occurs later that crashes the application.

> So the question is this:  I know what causes the problem.  I do not
> believe the solution is to "add the functionality back"... while I
> could do that, it must have been taken out for a reason.  So the
> question is this:  What now?  Does anyone have a workaround?  I could
> wait until wine gets enough new infrastructure that these messages are
> handled, but that seems a long way off as it has to do with the
> PropertyPage interface, which doesn't really appear to be there.  There
> is some work there regarding property pages, but not enough to allow my
> app to work.

> Is there a way to get the funcitonality that was removed by removing
> the dependency on the Mozilla Active X control without "un-patching"
> that from the latest version?

> Running: Fedora Core 5, GSAK 6.6.3 (a delphi 5 app),  breaking wine
> versions > 0.6.16, bugzilla 6151 for additional info (debug log and so
> forth).

Please enter a bug in the bug database. Otherwise your message may slip, as
many developpers are out to wine-conf this weekend. 

Bye
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