Re: *Much* better error msgs

2000-05-22 Thread James Sutherland
On Sun, 21 May 2000, Francois Gouget wrote: On Sun, 21 May 2000, James Sutherland wrote: [...] Perhaps we could take a leaf out of Acorn's book here: for I18N purposes, their RISC OS contained a module called MessageTrans, which looked up text tokens in a text file. You would call a

Re: *Much* better error msgs

2000-05-22 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
James Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think it's worth internationalizing the TRACE/WARN/ERR at this point. I think we should focus on making sure the user sees as little of them. But then, if someone really wants to take on this huge task... I'm going to need similar

FormatMessage/Message compiler (was: Re: *Much* better error msgs)

2000-05-22 Thread Bertho Stultiens
Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: I'm going to need similar functionality for another reason anyway, so I'm working on a library which does this. I would suggest to use FormatMessage() API instead of inventing new interface. You even could add new error codes if you wish to extend an existing

RE: winapi_check: separate regular messages from progress messages

2000-05-22 Thread Patrik Stridvall
As winapi_check progresses it emits progress messages. Unfortunately progress messages and regular messages are both sent to stderr so that a line like the following does not work: tools/winapi_check/winapi_check --headers 21 | tee headers.txt The problem is that the

Re: *Much* better error msgs

2000-05-22 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
James Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would suggest to use FormatMessage() API instead of inventing new interface. You even could add new error codes if you wish to extend an existing functionality. Which API is that? It looks like a Win32 one from here, which tends to suggest I can't

Re: vidc.drv

2000-05-22 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 04:07:35AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day! Anybody know offhand what is vidc.drv? err:driver:OpenDriverA Failed to open driver vidc. from section drivers32 A MSVIDEO decompressor driver. Found in msvidc.drv/msvidc32.dll Ciao, Marcus

Re: Why isn't crtdll being built as a .so? (fwd)

2000-05-22 Thread lawson_whitney
The dlls that aren't quite ready to leave the pouch and hop on their own are still in libwine.so. As of 2430, crtdll was one of these. On Sun, 21 May 2000, Craig Newell wrote: Hi There, Just a quick question on why a libcrtdll.so is not being built from dlls/crtdll? Is this on

Re: make depend fails in tools/wrc when building outside source tree

2000-05-22 Thread Matthew Clarke
lundi, le 22 mai, 2000, Bertho Stultiens nous a dit ceci: Matthew Clarke wrote: Current CVS. Building outside the source tree. Configure run is OK. [snip error] The makedep tool expects that all the files given on the command line are source files, and, if the '-Cxxx' flag was given,

Re: *Much* better error msgs

2000-05-22 Thread James Sutherland
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: James Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would suggest to use FormatMessage() API instead of inventing new interface. You even could add new error codes if you wish to extend an existing functionality. Which API is that? It looks like a

RE: *Much* better error msgs

2000-05-22 Thread Patrik Stridvall
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: James Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would suggest to use FormatMessage() API instead of inventing new interface. You even could add new error codes if you wish to extend an existing functionality. Which API is that? It

Re: make depend fails in tools/wrc when building outside source tree

2000-05-22 Thread Bertho Stultiens
Matthew Clarke wrote: [snip] EXTRA_SRCS = parser.y parser.l ppl.l ppy.y ppy.tab.c lex.ppl.c and does not set RC_SRCS at all. No, of course it does not set RC_SRCS because wrc is the resource compiler... So, the only files given to makedep on the command line are: dumpres.c,

Re: *Much* better error msgs

2000-05-22 Thread James Sutherland
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: James Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why try to make what must be a Unix function, invisible to the Win32 side, look like a Win32 call? It cannot use the same resources or code anyway - trying to make one look like the other will only

Re: Multimedia update

2000-05-22 Thread Nerijus
I know Bradley Baetz is working with it. As I understand we can now use Windows Media Player to play audio files, but not video. Does anyone know how this work is progressing?

Re: Documentation again...

2000-05-22 Thread John R. Sheets
Juergen Schmied wrote: I would convert the current documentation in html, sort the topics, write a first index and put a additional top ten of questions and answers from cemw and wine-devel into it if we could agree to do so. Any thoughts on converting the docs to DocBook

Re: Documentation again...

2000-05-22 Thread juergen . schmied
Any thoughts on converting the docs to DocBook (http://docbook.org) instead? DocBook is an SGML flavor geared specifically for writing technical docs. It's used widely in open sourced projects (e.g. KDE, GNOME, etc.), and is quickly becoming a de facto standard. Stylesheets exist to

Re: make depend fails in tools/wrc when building outside source tree

2000-05-22 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Bertho Stultiens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oh yeah, thats right. I forgot all about that. The problem with makedep is that is *assumes* that xyz.y translates into y.tab.c (and y.tab.h) and xyz.l into lex.yy.c. This is the real problem. I need to have the conversions of ppl.l and ppy.y

Re: bitmap color mismatch: CRASH !

2000-05-22 Thread Eric Pouech
Besides, this animation going on before the crash is looking stoned. (way too many wrong colors there IMHO) at least for that part, the animation comctl doesn't handle (yet) palette as it should (blame it on me) using native commctrl and comctl32 fixes that issue (until palettes are used in

Westfalen.de down and regapi

2000-05-22 Thread Jutta Wrage
Hi! The HOWTO isn't available due to a problem with oure leased line. Next issue: I deleted some old files from /usr/local/lib and reinstalled wine. - Thought I could get rid of these ugly crashes. Now regapi doesn't work any longer: regapi: error in loading shared libraries: libwinspool.so:

Re: *Much* better error msgs

2000-05-22 Thread Dimitrie O. Paun
On Sun, 21 May 2000, gerard patel wrote: At 02:53 PM 5/21/00 -0400, you wrote: What do you mean. Right now you get both the filename and line number. Isn't that enough? I was believing the subject was trace ? Here is what was in Andi's first post: FIXME( "FATAL: Need to