--- David Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Well, IMHO, if you can program in DOS/Windows you
> aren't going to have any
> problems at all writing for UNIX.
:). Most days I miss programming for DOS. It was so
much more simple... All you had to do was know the
interrupt system and how to work with the screen and
you could build a 'fast' and relatively nice
application. Ohhh well... There's always something
BIGGER and 'better'. :)
> I would definitely suggest browsing the source tree
> for Wine. If you have
> any Windows functions which you are very familiar
> with, go ahead and check
> the Wine implementation and see if it works like you
> expect it.
Ok. That and I'm checking out LDP's Linux
Programmer's Guide to get some clues there.
> I can also suggest finding a "pet project" like
> correctly (re)implementing a
> DLL or a part of a DLL. For instance, I did some
Actually... I have a Windows Financial program (Not
Quicken and Not M$ Money) that was written in
Borland's OWL (I know that cause the EXE import
section has an OWL .DLL in it, that has some 'bottom'
tabs that don't display correctly (they are there,
they are just 'chopped of the screen', even with
--managed). I'd like to see that fixed.
Another question I have is if anyone has started to
implement msvcrtxx.dll or mfcxx.dll and if so what
kind of progress has been made on them? I don't know
too many Windows Apps that don't depend on one or the
other of them.
> One thing that is definitely needed now are people
> to fix all of the crap
> that broke because of address space separation. For
Hmm... Tempting...
> Finally, try to talk with people BEFORE you just go
> hacking away rewriting
> something. There have been some conflicts lately
> (nothing really
> major) with people doing double work. Of course, by
> all means feel free to
> hack away at the source code, just don't get carried
> away without letting
> people know that you are in the process of doing
> something important. Of
> course if you start smaller you will have less
> problems like that.
It ain't a team and it ain't efficient effort if their
ain't a bit of communication... :)
> Glad to see another developer for Wine!
Well... We'll hope that I can help and not hinder more
than I help. :)
Thanks for your response and ideas.
George
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