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/AbiW…
>
> 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
> jeremyd(a)computer.org
>   
>  
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();
 }