Wanting to work on ddraw.

[Jérôme Gardou]

Hi everybody.

It's been a long time that I follow this project, even if I was pretty 
quiet, and I think it is now time to make my own contribution.
Some of you might remind some attempts to work on kernel32 winetests., 
and it turned out that I needed something more motivational. I found 
that reactX is an abandoned field, and so I think that it would be a 
real challenge to get things working. I have already some patches, which 
get the ddraw initialization a bit further that where it manages to go 
in trunk.

Regards
Jérôme (aka zefklop)

PS: I'd like to talk with you about that on IRC, but unfortunately I am 
behind  proxy which refuses it....

[Olaf Siejka]

As for the proxy, you could try using java based freenode web client:
http://java.freenode.net/

Using irc would give you a communication edge, quite important in early
stages of development.
As our previous ReactX developer, GreatLord - is away from the project
indefinitely, you might be forced to arrange things all by yourself. You
should speak with Fireball about your plans. Also, the people you might want
to stay in touch are: jimtabor, tkreuzer (win32 subsys) and Pigglesworth
(wined3d, opengl).

2009/9/26 Jérôme Gardou [e-mail]
> Hi everybody.
>
> It's been a long time that I follow this project, even if I was pretty
> quiet, and I think it is now time to make my own contribution.
> Some of you might remind some attempts to work on kernel32 winetests.,
> and it turned out that I needed something more motivational. I found
> that reactX is an abandoned field, and so I think that it would be a
> real challenge to get things working. I have already some patches, which
> get the ddraw initialization a bit further that where it manages to go
> in trunk.
>
> Regards
> Jérôme (aka zefklop)
>
> PS: I'd like to talk with you about that on IRC, but unfortunately I am
> behind  proxy which refuses it....
>
> Ros-dev mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

[Jérôme Gardou]

Olaf Siejka a écrit :
> As for the proxy, you could try using java based freenode web client: 
> http://java.freenode.net/
>
> Using irc would give you a communication edge, quite important in 
> early stages of development.

Thanks for the tip, but it doesn't work :-(
> As our previous ReactX developer, GreatLord - is away from the project 
> indefinitely, you might be forced to arrange things all by yourself. 
> You should speak with Fireball about your plans. Also, the people you 
> might want to stay in touch are: jimtabor, tkreuzer (win32 subsys) and 
> Pigglesworth (wined3d, opengl).

Unfortunately, I'll have to stay on the ML, and send patches to 
bugzilla. Here is a first one, I'm waiting for your comments :-)
http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4862

[James Tabor]

Hi!

2009/9/26 Jérôme Gardou [e-mail]:
> Unfortunately, I'll have to stay on the ML, and send patches to
> bugzilla. Here is a first one, I'm waiting for your comments :-)
> http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4862

The work is great! It reverts back to the state we had about two years
ago. We have moved from windows 2000 and updated our wiki to reflect
our research.

Please read through our wiki for updated information and research....
http://www.reactos.org/wiki/Techwiki/win32k/structures
http://www.reactos.org/wiki/Techwiki/win32k/PDEVOBJ

Thanks,
James

[Jérôme Gardou]

Hi everybody.

I just wanted to tell you that even if I was silent for quite some time 
now, I'm still working on this, even more now than RL has calmed down. I 
have begun working on the user side of ddraw. Currently, I implemented 
IDirectDraw:CreatePalette (needs testing!) and almost all 
ddraw->refcount winetests pass when using it on winXP.
Patch is on bugzilla : http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4909

Regards
Jérôme