21 Feb
2017
21 Feb
'17
11:50 a.m.
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 <ros-dev(a)reactos.org> 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 Wines 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. Ive 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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