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

[Hermès BÉLUSCA-MAÏTO]

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