Re: [ros-dev] Office (Excel, Word...) 2010 on ReactOS

[James Tabor]

Class rewrite is now done!  Giannis plugged in the remainder with
Versioning so it's done.

I noticed this on the mail list, having email problem.
James

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 8:22 PM, Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo <
elhoir(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>   that´s amazing!
>
>  congratulations! it´s wonderful to read such big news! :)
>
>  ReactOS (and you, devs, of course) is going to conquer desktop world! :)
>
>  On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 12:46 AM, Giannis Adamopoulos <
>  giannis.adamopoulos(a)reactos.org&gt; wrote:
>
> >   Jim completed the class rewrite years ago (with a
> > great success) and
> >  afaik there is no other major rewrite/undertaking right now in win32k. Why
> >  do I have a feeling you plan some major undertaking?
> >
> >  ReactOS Development List &lt;ros-dev(a)reactos.org&gt; wrote on Wed, February
> >  22nd, 2017, 12:01 AM:
> > >   Hi all,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  Before touching parts of win32ss (user32/gdi32/win32k) I would like to 
> >  know
> > >   what the status of different components are:
> > >
> > >  -          James, have you finished with your win32 class rewrite? 
> >  What’s
> > >   the status of it? Is there a bug report
> > > concerning this rewrite?
> > >
> > >  -          Does anybody else currently work on cursors / GDI bitmap 
> >  matters?
> > >  
> > >
> > >
> > >  Best,
> > >
> > >  Hermès
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  De : Ros-dev [mailto:[e-mail]] De la part de victor
> > >  martinez
> > >  Envoyé : mardi 21 février 2017 23:35
> > >  À : ReactOS Development List
> > >  Objet : Re: [ros-dev] Office (Excel, Word...) 2010 on ReactOS
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  Somehow it reminds me to the release/capture issues GIMP is showing 
> >  with the
> > >   mouse:
> > >   <https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-11775>
> > >  https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-11775
> > >
> > >    _____
> > >
> > >  De: Ros-dev &lt;ros-dev-bounces(a)reactos.org&gt; en nombre de Giannis 
> >  Adamopoulos
> > >   &lt;giannis.adamopoulos(a)reactos.org&gt;
> > >  Enviado: martes, 21 de febrero de 2017 11:50:04
> > >  Para: ReactOS Development List
> > >  Asunto: Re: [ros-dev] Office (Excel, Word...) 2010 on ReactOS
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  Hi! This is excellent news! It's good to know that Samuel started 
> >  working
> > >   again on ntlm. I guess the most productive way to
> > > help him complete it 
> >  would
> > >   be to write several tests for it (and also
> > > convert Samuel's test to 
> >  formal
> > >   tests). Not only will it help Samuel but will
> > > help you understand ntlm
> > >  yourself and then help Samuel. (It is not like I knew anything about
> > >  activation contexts before. It was the tests I wrote that helped me 
> >  come up
> > >   with clever way to let our comctl32 really do
> > > what both versions of
> > >  comctl32).
> > >
> > >  Keep up the good work!
> > >
> > >  PS: regarding the capture problems I would suggest writing more tests!
> > >  (Win32k is so hard to come right that you are searching in the dark 
> >  unless
> > >   you test it thoroughly). My instinct says that
> > > this is the same bug 
> >  with the
> > >   spider solitaire where the last card isn't
> > > released when you win a game.
> > >  There is a bug report for that but I don't remember the number. I think 
> >  that
> > >   if the mouse button is released we should also
> > > release capture (and this
> > >  needs testing, perhaps even interactive testing).
> > >
> > >  Giannis
> > >
> > >  ReactOS Development List < <mailto:[e-mail]> 
> > ros-dev(a)reactos.org&gt;
> > >   wrote on Tue, February 21st, 2017, 2:59 AM:
> > > >   Hello everyone,
> > > >
> > > >  Today I was finally able to finish the installation of Office 2010 in
> > > >  ReactOS, using as a temporary measure the Wine’s NTLM layer that calls 
> > >  into
> > >  > the ntlm_auth utility of Samba. This was done while Samuel is 
> >  completing
> > >   his
> > > >   NTLM implementation.
> > > >  As this wine layer is here running on ReactOS, few modifications were
> > > >  needed, and I also needed to find a Windows build of Samba. I’ve found 
> > >  one,
> > > >   by chance, at http://smithii.com/samba . Then,
> > > > using ReactOS revision 
> > >  73868
> > >  > (or later), and using this version of Samba, the Office installation
> > >  > finishes (reminder: the problem was due to the fact the installer 
> >  needed
> > >   > NTLM to communicate with the “Office
> > > Software Platform Service”,
> > >  > OSPPSVC.EXE). We are now able to use Excel, Word, … on ReactOS, as 
> >  shown
> > >   in
> > >  > this picture:
> > >  > http://i.imgur.com/fLEwoVI.png
> > >  >
> > >  > There are now 2 main problems:
> > >  > - NTLM should be correctly implemented;
> > >  > - There are an awful lot of drawing problems with Office 2010 
> >  applications
> > >   > (similar to those of Office 2007 apps): for
> > > example, dragging the 
> >  graph
> > >   > downwards shows his frame going upwards;
> > > there are many black regions 
> >  that
> > >   > show up, etc...: It seems we have problems
> > > in coordinate frames. And 
> >  other
> > >   > problems too. Also, we have some mouse
> > > capture problems: if you try to
> > >  > redimension the windows the normal way (bring mouse cursor on top of 
> >  the
> > >   > border, left-click-maintained, move mouse,
> > > release left button), and 
> >  then
> > > >   move the
> > > > mouse inside the window, it continues to be redimensioned...
> > > >  As a result, I took ~=15 minutes to make this simple trivial picture 
> > >  above,
> > > >   almost all the time taken to fight against window
> > > > dimensioning & the 
> > >  drawing
> > > >   problems.
> > > >
> > > >  But anyways, enjoy !
> > > >
> > > >  This will be part of my next blog report.
> > > >
> > > >  Cheers,
> > > >  Hermès
> > > >
> > > >
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