[ros-kernel] Hunting a task

[Waldo Alvarez Cañizares - another buried alive]

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Filip Navara wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I am relativly new to ReactOS, but this is what I see is waiting for some
> cool person like you:
> 
> - Improve WinPosSetWindowPos in win32k.sys to support relinking windows
> (moving them to background, foreground, ...)

I was tampering once with win32k.sys. But I think is a hard task and that 
a delay with me could delay ROS developement and I don't want that. As far 
as I know Ge was working on that.

> - Get ansi MessageBox working (user32.dll)

Seems easier. I think i can handle this, but i will only do it if nobody 
is working there.

> - BeginDeferWindowPos, DeferWindowPos, EndDeferWindowPos (in user32.dll,
> win32k.sys)

Still have to look at this functions. Again if nobody is messing with it 
--->

> - PrivateExtractIconW (in user32.dll)

Ditto.

> - A new DOS loader that will just load freeldr.sys and jump to it. I first
> thought I would do this myself, but I got stuck at the Ms-Dos syscalls. :(

So the point is to eliminate loadros and go directly to freeloader. I know 
DOS pretty well and I can handle assembler too. I will try this too. 
Specially because it is not too much important in ROS developement.

I want things that nobody is likely to do because I have sent a lot of 
work 
to the trash can already. (a fix in registry that is fixed now and a port 
of commctl32 i was doing). The list is bigger. I can't do CVS updates. 
Right now my 
only internet access is using an account in a Linux server (using an SSH 
terminal) and this server goes out using a proxy that connects to another 
proxy. I'm still trying to get puttyto  open a connection to connect a 
tunnel 
to it runnig a program in the server that dumps the raw HTTP to the 
terminal.

something like this so you can get the idea.

CVS Client --> Tunnel --> putty (SSH client)--> SSH server --> little 
program that dumps to
terminal running in the server --> proxy1 --> proxy2 --> host on the 
internet --> CVS server

quite long eh? that's why it will take me some time before I can do some 
small CVS update(small because CVS is problematic with unreliable 
connections and 
this stuff wont be too much reliable).

and that is why I want somethig that ppl is not working with. Because 
sendig a patch using the list is quite easy to mee and using one day when 
a new release goes out to download the whole thing at school.

Best Regards
Waldo

> 
> Filip
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Waldo Alvarez Cañizares - another buried alive"
> <wac at ghost.matcom.uh.cu>
> To: "ReactOS General List" <ros-kernel at reactos.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:29 PM
> Subject: [ros-kernel] Hunting a task
> 
> 
> > Hi guys:
> >
> > I want to help with ROS again. Unfortunatley I really don't know what is
> > doing other people. Seems that everyone does things at ramdom something
> > here something there. The thing is that I would like some task that will
> > not interfere with others and that is not critical to ROS (just in case I
> > can't continue for some time). I was thinking about improoving CMD as was
> > asking Hyperion(I was thinking to replace all the parsing with he
> > program used by all linux commands), maybe do some more tests for ROS
> > (yesterday I runned some examples from Petzold's Book and most of them
> made ROS crash,
> > specially drawing using multiple threads). Anything else? Comments?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Waldo
> >
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