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 <
[e-mail]> 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 [e-mail] 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 [e-mail] en nombre de Giannis
>
> Adamopoulos
> > [e-mail]
> > 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]
>
> [e-mail]>
> > 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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