Ros-general October 2003

ros-general@reactos.org

16 participants
17 discussions

GUI consoles
by Ge van Geldorp 16 Nov '03

16 Nov '03

I've implemented GUI consoles in CSRSS, see attached screenshot. If you do nothing special, you're still launched into a text-mode console, the blue screen we all know and love. If you rename /ReactOS/system32/drivers/blue.sys to blue.sys.save you will be launched into a graphical console. There are still loads of problems. The biggest is that keyboard focus is not restored when a program exits. So, from the GUI console you can start e.g. winhello, but when you close winhello you won't be able to type anything else in the console window. Activating windows by clicking on them is also not implemented yet. You can't close a graphical console by clicking on the "X", it doesn't know how to terminate the processes running inside it yet. The console code is a bit of a mess and needs to be cleaned up, it's also one of the worst offenders with respect to indenting. Gé van Geldorp.

3 2

Changing the resolution of the VMware driver
by Ge van Geldorp 25 Oct '03

25 Oct '03

It's now possible to change the screen resolution of the VMware virtual display driver. You need to change some values in bootdata/hivesys.inf (go to the vmx_svga section, there are some instructions at the bottom of that section) and rebuild the system registry ("make registry" and then copy the system hive to /reactos/system32/config). Gé van Geldorp.

1 0

Small patch to more
by Timothy Schepens 24 Oct '03

24 Oct '03

This is a patch to let more use the window size instead of the buffer size. I'm planning to do some more work on the cmd utils, should I integrate some of them in cmd.exe (as in 4nt) or leave them as separate programs. Timothy Index: more.c =================================================================== RCS file: /CVS/ReactOS/rosapps/cmdutils/more.c,v retrieving revision 1.5 diff -u -p -r1.5 more.c --- more.c 24 Feb 2003 23:16:13 -0000 1.5 +++ more.c 20 Oct 2003 09:36:52 -0000 @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ * * 26 Sep 1999 - Paolo Pantaleo <paolopan(a)freemail.it> * started + * Oct 2003 - Timothy Schepens <tischepe at fastmail dot fm> + * use window size instead of buffer size. */ #include <windows.h> @@ -29,11 +31,9 @@ GetScreenSize (PSHORT maxx, PSHORT maxy) CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO csbi; GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo (hStdOut, &csbi); + *maxx = csbi.srWindow.Right; + *maxy = csbi.srWindow.Bottom; - if (maxx) - *maxx = csbi.dwSize.X; - if (maxy) - *maxy = csbi.dwSize.Y; } @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv) { ch_count=0; line_count++; - if (line_count == maxy-1) + if (line_count == maxy) { line_count = 0; WriteFile(hStdOut,&buff[last], i-last+1, &dwWritten, NULL);

3 2

Site issue
by Ciobanu Alexander 23 Oct '03

23 Oct '03

When i enter bugzilla, in upper menu first option proposed is "logout()" even if i'm not logged in, more, sometimes, if i press on it, login page is not displayed at all ... Alex

2 1

test! ignore
by jh 22 Oct '03

22 Oct '03

1 0

ReactOS GPL vs. proprietary drivers (affirmation)
by Jan Kratochvil 20 Oct '03

20 Oct '03

Hi, As GPLed Linux-NTFS still has no NTFS r/w capability I completed the project for reliable r/w access in Wine way by using MS-Windows ntfs.sys driver. Captive-NTFS http://www.jankratochvil.net/ My project is GPL-2.0 and it incorporates ReactOS kernel sources currently also carrying GPL-2.0 license. There are rumours GPL may be problem for linking with proprietary code (ntfs.sys&ntoskrnl.exe). I interpret it as GPL only affects _distribution_ of the program while no proprietary code is distributed with my package. Proprietary code is only run-time linked by the end-user. In a GPL-related discussion here two monts ago ReactOS developers were open for reusal of existing proprietary drivers for ReactOS as one of the significant feature of ReactOS. I would like an affirmation from the major ReactOS developers they are not going to try to sue me for releasing Captive NTFS. Thanks, Jan Kratochvil

2 1

Re: [ros-general] Web Ring and Links page
by Jason Filby 18 Oct '03

18 Oct '03

Steven ReactOS.com now has a Links section linking to all of the sites you listed. Regards Jason Steven Edwards wrote: >This is getting to be a pain. >We need to create a Links page for ReactOS developers. >We have a lot of pages dedicated to ReactOS development but no one >can find them because they are not linked on the main site. > >http://plasmic.com/~vizzini/rosnet.html >http://reactos.wox.org/ >http://www.volny.cz/xnavara/reactos/pnp.html >http://mok.lvcm.com/cgi-bin/reactos/roswiki >http://mail.gleneagle.net/sedwards __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com

2 1

Me & sound driver stuff
by Andrew "Silver Blade" Greenwood 15 Oct '03

15 Oct '03

I've been taking a break from working on sound support under ReactOS recently, for various reasons. Mainly, I'm waiting for Steven Edwards to port winmm.dll from WINE over. Once this is ported, I can implement a couple of stub drivers for audio and MIDI, and then flesh out my Sound Blaster drivers. I'm still unsure if I should incorporate both audio and MIDI handling into a single driver or not, since I read something about IRQs for Sound Blaster cards and it confused me (MIDI uses IRQ 2 while audio uses IRQ 5, usually, but the MS driver does some weird stuff with the interrupt handler...) Another reason is just because I've been having personal issues I've had to deal with recently, so I haven't been getting as much done as I normally would, and I've got other things I need to be doing. But eventually I hope to get sound working under ReactOS, even if it is just a command-line program to play WAV and MID files! -Andrew

2 1

Explorer Logo
by James Tabor 12 Oct '03

12 Oct '03

Hi, Can we use the ros-desktop.bmp (copy the Reactos splash) as the logo for the start menu side bar? It would look better than the ReactOS in baby blue. Thanks, James

3 3

A couple points and a question
by Richard Campbell 12 Oct '03

12 Oct '03

After tomorrow night I will no longer be recieving mail from the list. I am moving from Swartz Creek Michigan to Dana Point California. I will have internet access when i get there and will get back on the lists as soon as i can. Once i complete my move to california and get a job, i intend to resume coding on ReactOS. In particular i'd like to get winrar, winzip, and other utilities to work I would like to take some time and modify the apps in the ros-apps repository to use the latest stable build of mingw + the latest stable build of w32api instead of the reactos build system, is this okay or is there a reason that we are using the ReactOS build system? So i'll see everybody soon! Regards, Richard

5 4

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

Ros-general October 2003