Ros-dev January 2017

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18 discussions

Office 2010 support
by Colin Finck 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

Hi all! During the monthly meeting yesterday, there was a high demand for full Office 2010 support under ReactOS. Let's call that Word, Excel and PowerPoint for now. If we get these applications to work, the potential customer may generously sponsor the ReactOS Project. While Hermès is already working on getting Word 2010 support as part of the ReactOS Community Edition, he has shown that this task easily splits into many subtasks, like full NTLM implementation, Printing, etc. If anybody volunteers to work on these, or otherwise contribute to get the full Office 2010 to work under ReactOS, we would be willing to support this with our foundation funds too! As a first step, let's make a list of related tasks and add them to https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-12279 Hermès can probably help here. If you have other ideas on how to help with Office 2010, don't hesitate to tell. This needs teamwork! Let's not miss this opportunity to make ReactOS usable for the mass! - Colin

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FOSDEM 2017 - It's happening!
by Colin Finck 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

Hi all! Hermès and me have just decided to go to FOSDEM this year. Which is a really good idea considering that we have a booth to staff there ;) Planning is currently happening at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ofYUc7j0XwDH9SmNlGzNZlO8jOGhoPUn7KTRcFm… Just request access if you're a ReactOS member and like to add or comment stuff there. Hermès will be preparing an ISO in the upcoming days. Please test current trunk to see if any last minute fixes need to go there. If you have ideas what cool apps we shall show at FOSDEM, please also share them here. We will go with burning and giving away CDs again (hopefully the last time before USBs do it). I hope that this definite plan will also motivate others to join us or visit our booth! :) Cheers, Colin

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Status Meeting (January 2017)
by Aleksey Bragin 23 Jan '17

23 Jan '17

Hello, Let me invite you to the monthly status meeting taking place today, 26th of January, 19:00 UTC. We skipped the last meeting because of holidays and unavailability of people. IRC service will only be started shortly before the meeting. Your participation passwords and server address will be emailed to you shortly before the meeting starts, and they are going to be different once again as they are not stored in any database. Hopefully it's not much of inconvenience. Alternatively we'll do it in #reactos-meeting on Freenode, depending on our admins mood. Please send agenda proposals to me before the meeting so we don't waste time trying to setup the agenda directly during the meeting. Regards, Aleksey Bragin

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MASM using longer opcode sequences than GAS
by Colin Finck 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

Hi all, In order to make our ISOs flashable to USB drives and bootable from them (cf. CORE-12648), I'm currently overhauling our ISO boot sector "isoboot.S". This adds a lot of code and while I stay in the 2K size limit when assembling it with GAS, I break it with MASM. Disassembling the assembled files shows the difference. A line like: mov word ptr ds:[GetlinsecPtr], ax is assembled by GAS to: A35B50 mov [0x505b],ax while MASM does this: 67A35B500000 mov [dword 0x505b],ax Is there any option to enforce the shorter opcode sequence for MASM too? The code uses a lot of similar MOVs and this seems to be the only reason why I break the 2K size limit with MASM. If there is no such option, what are the advantages of using MASM for our MSVC build anyway? Can't we just use GAS for both or decide on a common third-party assembler (NASM) for our assembly files? Cheers, Colin

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Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [jimtabor] 73532: [NtUser] - Fix menu surfing while using MS Office 2003. See CORE-12085 and CORE-12071.
by Thomas Faber 13 Jan '17

13 Jan '17

On 2017-01-13 05:06, jimtabor(a)svn.reactos.org wrote: > VOID FASTCALL > IntSendChildNCPaint(PWND pWnd) > { > + PWND Child; > + HWND *List, *phWnd; > + > + List = IntWinListChildren(UserGetDesktopWindow()); > + if ( List ) > + { > + for (phWnd = List; *phWnd; ++phWnd) > + { > + Child = ValidateHwndNoErr(*phWnd); > + if ( Child && Child->hrgnUpdate == NULL && Child->state & WNDS_SENDNCPAINT) > + { > + USER_REFERENCE_ENTRY Ref; > + UserRefObjectCo(Child, &Ref); > + IntSendNCPaint(Child, HRGN_WINDOW); > + UserDerefObjectCo(Child); > + } > + } > + } You leak List here, both in the normal case and in the exception-during-callout case.

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Was the idea to sertup USB-flash drive giveaway with ReactOS on FOSDEM buried?
by Alexander Rechitskiy 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

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Re: [ros-dev] USB from GSoC
by mvardan.dev 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

Hello Aleksey, About readiness to get merged I think decision should be done by Thomas or Amine. Related to collaboration with ROS, as I have informed on one of the monthly meetings, I have willing to contribute ReactOS. But for now I have probelm with time which is depend on many factors. We can schedule meeting in IRC or wherever you want, to discuss how I can help to our project. Thanks,Vardan. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. -------- Original message --------From: Aleksey Bragin <aleksey(a)reactos.org> Date: 12/20/16 03:00 (GMT+04:00) To: ReactOS Development List <ros-dev(a)reactos.org> Subject: [ros-dev] USB from GSoC Hello! What happened to the USB branch made by Vardan during GSoC 2016? Is it ready to be merged, or if not, what's holding it? Any input is appreciated, especially from Vardan himself. Regards, Aleksey Bragin _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev(a)reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

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CLT 2017. Who joins us?
by Daniel Reimer 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

Hello and happy new year, soon the deadline for CLT 2017 is here (07.01.) and that time I'd like to add the needed minimum of two ppl there BEFORE that. So... who will join me to https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de aka 11./12.03.2017 in Chemnitz? The sooner I know it the better it is for planning ^^ (Quite shocking that it's almost a year again since list years CLT...) I am open for anyone asking to take part, BUT I would prefer guys who already were there and know what they will have to expect regarding masses of ppl, strange guys going on your nerves on a 15 min basis and of couse the fun we will have, too. So pleaase answer ASAP. I will join IRC today, too. So if anyone has some nice recent pics of milestones running in ROS, GIMME plz ^^ Greetings Daniel

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