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

[Giannis Adamopoulos]

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 <ros-dev(a)reactos.org> 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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