[ros-dev] Office (Excel, Word...) 2010 on ReactOS

James Tabor jimtabor.rosdev at gmail.com
Wed Feb 22 02:42:15 UTC 2017


Class rewrite is now done!  Giannis plugged in the remainder with
Versioning so it's done.

I noticed this on the mail list, having email problem.
James

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 8:22 PM, Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo <
elhoir at gmail.com> wrote:

> that´s amazing!
>
> congratulations! it´s wonderful to read such big news! :)
>
> ReactOS (and you, devs, of course) is going to conquer desktop world! :)
>
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 12:46 AM, Giannis Adamopoulos <
> giannis.adamopoulos at reactos.org> wrote:
>
>> Jim completed the class rewrite years ago (with a great success) and
>> afaik there is no other major rewrite/undertaking right now in win32k. Why
>> do I have a feeling you plan some major undertaking?
>>
>> ReactOS Development List <ros-dev at reactos.org> wrote on Wed, February
>> 22nd, 2017, 12:01 AM:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Before touching parts of win32ss (user32/gdi32/win32k) I would like to
>> know
>> > what the status of different components are:
>> >
>> > -          James, have you finished with your win32 class rewrite?
>> What’s
>> > the status of it? Is there a bug report concerning this rewrite?
>> >
>> > -          Does anybody else currently work on cursors / GDI bitmap
>> matters?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Best,
>> >
>> > Hermès
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > De : Ros-dev [mailto:ros-dev-bounces at reactos.org] De la part de victor
>> > martinez
>> > Envoyé : mardi 21 février 2017 23:35
>> > À : ReactOS Development List
>> > Objet : Re: [ros-dev] Office (Excel, Word...) 2010 on ReactOS
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Somehow it reminds me to the release/capture issues GIMP is showing
>> with the
>> > mouse:
>> >  <https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-11775>
>> > https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-11775
>> >
>> >   _____
>> >
>> > De: Ros-dev <ros-dev-bounces at reactos.org> en nombre de Giannis
>> Adamopoulos
>> > <giannis.adamopoulos at reactos.org>
>> > Enviado: martes, 21 de febrero de 2017 11:50:04
>> > Para: ReactOS Development List
>> > Asunto: Re: [ros-dev] Office (Excel, Word...) 2010 on ReactOS
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi! This is excellent news! It's good to know that Samuel started
>> working
>> > again on ntlm. I guess the most productive way to help him complete it
>> would
>> > be to write several tests for it (and also convert Samuel's test to
>> formal
>> > tests). Not only will it help Samuel but will help you understand ntlm
>> > yourself and then help Samuel. (It is not like I knew anything about
>> > activation contexts before. It was the tests I wrote that helped me
>> come up
>> > with clever way to let our comctl32 really do what both versions of
>> > comctl32).
>> >
>> > Keep up the good work!
>> >
>> > PS: regarding the capture problems I would suggest writing more tests!
>> > (Win32k is so hard to come right that you are searching in the dark
>> unless
>> > you test it thoroughly). My instinct says that this is the same bug
>> with the
>> > spider solitaire where the last card isn't released when you win a game.
>> > There is a bug report for that but I don't remember the number. I think
>> that
>> > if the mouse button is released we should also release capture (and this
>> > needs testing, perhaps even interactive testing).
>> >
>> > Giannis
>> >
>> > ReactOS Development List < <mailto:ros-dev at reactos.org>
>> ros-dev at reactos.org>
>> > wrote on Tue, February 21st, 2017, 2:59 AM:
>> > > Hello everyone,
>> > >
>> > > Today I was finally able to finish the installation of Office 2010 in
>> > > ReactOS, using as a temporary measure the Wine’s NTLM layer that calls
>> > into
>> > > the ntlm_auth utility of Samba. This was done while Samuel is
>> completing
>> > his
>> > > NTLM implementation.
>> > > As this wine layer is here running on ReactOS, few modifications were
>> > > needed, and I also needed to find a Windows build of Samba. I’ve found
>> > one,
>> > > by chance, at http://smithii.com/samba . Then, using ReactOS revision
>> > 73868
>> > > (or later), and using this version of Samba, the Office installation
>> > > finishes (reminder: the problem was due to the fact the installer
>> needed
>> > > NTLM to communicate with the “Office Software Platform Service”,
>> > > OSPPSVC.EXE). We are now able to use Excel, Word, … on ReactOS, as
>> shown
>> > in
>> > > this picture:
>> > > http://i.imgur.com/fLEwoVI.png
>> > >
>> > > There are now 2 main problems:
>> > > - NTLM should be correctly implemented;
>> > > - There are an awful lot of drawing problems with Office 2010
>> applications
>> > > (similar to those of Office 2007 apps): for example, dragging the
>> graph
>> > > downwards shows his frame going upwards; there are many black regions
>> that
>> > > show up, etc...: It seems we have problems in coordinate frames. And
>> other
>> > > problems too. Also, we have some mouse capture problems: if you try to
>> > > redimension the windows the normal way (bring mouse cursor on top of
>> the
>> > > border, left-click-maintained, move mouse, release left button), and
>> then
>> > > move the mouse inside the window, it continues to be redimensioned...
>> > > As a result, I took ~=15 minutes to make this simple trivial picture
>> > above,
>> > > almost all the time taken to fight against window dimensioning & the
>> > drawing
>> > > problems.
>> > >
>> > > But anyways, enjoy !
>> > >
>> > > This will be part of my next blog report.
>> > >
>> > > Cheers,
>> > > Hermès
>> > >
>> > >
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