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

[Zachary Gorden]

Is Samuel actually still actively working on NTLM? I thought that branch of
his was pretty old. Might be something to consider a dev contract for.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 7:59 PM, Hermès BÉLUSCA-MAÏTO <hermes.belusca(a)sfr.fr
>   wrote: 
>   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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