Re: [ros-general] Abiword status ?

[Filip Navara]

Kenneth J. Davis wrote:
> Then AbiWord never even started.  Do other NSIS v2 based
> installers work?  The AbiWord installer uses several NSIS
> plugins, such as to check internet connection, etc. and
> has been reported to fail on Windows 95 without IE.

Yes, other NSIS v2 based installers work and even the AbiWord one worked 
before. I'm not sure if it works now or not.
> If you want to test AbiWord, try running just the executable,
> http://abiword.pchasm.org/builds/nightly/win32/AbiWord.exe
> or for latest Stable build
> http://abiword.pchasm.org/builds/nightly/win32/ABI-2-0-0-STABLE/VC6SP5/AbiWo...
>
> If it makes it easier and you want the extra files (help, etc)
> I can probably add a zip install method for AbiWord.
>
> As for the timer issue, for testing purposes, a simple fix
> of ignoring the timer callback if abi's timer object is disabled
> may suffice for a more graceful failure.  I will see about
> adding a zip build of AbiWord with a timer workaround tommorrow
> to http://abiword.pchasm.org/builds/periodic/ if anyone with
> ROS installed wants to try it.

Attached is a patch for my modified AbiWord version that has this check 
and one more HACK on other place. With this patch I was able to load 
AbiWord on ReactOS...
> (I generally provide the Win32 builds of AbiWord)
>
> Jeremy Davis
> [e-mail]

Thanks much for interest and help.

- Filip

--- abi/src/af/ev/win/ev_Win32Toolbar.cpp	Fri Dec 12 14:19:27 2003
+++ abi/src/af/ev/win/ev_Win32Toolbar.cpp	Wed Feb 11 21:37:43 2004
@@ -280,10 +280,12 @@
    		
    		if(dis->itemState & ODS_COMBOBOXEDIT)
    		{
+#if 0
    			HFONT hUIFont = (HFONT) GetStockObject(DEFAULT_GUI_FONT);
    			hfontSave = (HFONT) SelectObject (dis->hDC, hUIFont);
    			ExtTextOut(dis->hDC, dis->rcItem.left, dis->rcItem.top, ETO_OPAQUE | ETO_CLIPPED, 0, sz, lstrlen(sz), 0);
    			SelectObject (dis->hDC, hfontSave);				
+#endif
    		}
    		else
    		{	
--- abi/src/af/util/win/ut_Win32Timer.cpp	Wed Apr 10 00:25:18 2002
+++ abi/src/af/util/win/ut_Win32Timer.cpp	Thu Feb 12 12:04:28 2004
@@ -61,6 +63,7 @@
    UT_Timer* pMyTimer = UT_Win32Timer::findWin32Timer(hwnd, idEvent);
    UT_ASSERT(pMyTimer);

+	if (pMyTimer)
    pMyTimer->fire();
 }