Medland, Bill wrote: >Can anyone help me with this? > >I am trying to track down a problem with our software, relating to Visual >Basic and its forms. > >We launch a container executable which then loads one of hundreds of OCXes >(compiled from Visual Basic). One of the things that then happens within >those OCXes is that they use the Visual Basic "load" instruction to load a >different form in a modal way. > >Under Windows the form (which is generally larger than the original OCX >form) comes up on the main display, with full usability (you can click on >windows etc). > >However under Wine it comes up within the client area of the original and >only responds to keyboard input. (Luckily Alt+C maps to the Close button so >we can close it). > >If I use Spy++ under Windows I can see that when the "popup" form is up then >its parent is 0 but its owner is the ThunderRT6UserControlDC under the ATL >window that is the container. > >Under Wine if I watch the CreateWindow calls I see that the ThunderRT6FormDC >parented by the ThunderRT6Main and the ThunderRT6UserControlDC parented by a >STATIC under the ThunderRT6Main. > >Unfortunately I know of no way to see what parent was originally specified >under windows. I presume that it is unlikely that the parentage was altered >after the windows were created. Does anyone know differently? > >Anyone now what might be going on? > >Bill > > > > No real help from me. However there is a bug report that seems to relate to this problem, and the reporter has a better grasp of the situation than me. Maybe you two can put your heads together.
http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961 Tony Lambregts
