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

[Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo]

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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