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

Wed Feb 22 13:35:29 UTC 2017

Hi !

Thanks for the notification James.

To answer Giannis’ question, I was asking the status because I did a ~= 2 hour long testing in “real-life” conditions of Word yesterday to see how many bugs (visual or not) were existing. I’ve mainly played with different tools in the ribbon bar, modified display of the document, inserted a screenshot taken with the word’s tool (which I was surprised to see that it did work great) etc etc… ,  and *many* spammy win32k fixme / err / etc… appeared, most of them that already appear with other software as well. I give here few examples:

-          (C:\Buildslave\Build_MSVC_x86\build\reactos\win32ss\user\ntuser\scrollbar.c:1216) err: FIXME: EnableScrollBar wSBflags 1 wArrows 0 Chg 0

This fixme spams a lot when word starts. I’ve checked the corresponding ntuser code, and the fixme seems to be there because the drawing code of the scrollbars (in user32/win32k) was not completely moved into win32k during the class rewrite. I’ve also noted code redundancies between the scroll.c file in user32 and the file of same name in ntuser. So this is one place where I can touch the code.

-          We also have many of these errors:

(C:\Buildslave\Build_MSVC_x86\build\reactos\win32ss\user\ntuser\message.c:1258) err: UserPostMessage: Invalid handle 0xBC65036C Msg 0x2a3!

(C:\Buildslave\Build_MSVC_x86\build\reactos\win32ss\user\ntuser\winpos.c:3309) err: NtUserSetWindowPos bad window handle!

(C:\Buildslave\Build_MSVC_x86\build\reactos\win32ss\user\ntuser\cursoricon.c:815) err: Trying to delete global cursor!

That may indicate someone (word, or us, within win32k calls) giving incorrect parameters to the functions (because e.g. some win32k object died in the meantime, or I don’t know). With Word, the appearance of these messages is accompanied by either slowdowns or the cursor that remain of the same shape when hovering on regions of word app window where it should change its shape, etc..

-          And other errors that we are used to see in our debug logs…

Plus there is the problem of mouse capture that appear when you try to resize word (or any other office app) window.

Therefore that’s why I was wondering in advance whether there were other people touching these similar win32k areas, before I’m potentially doing anything there.

Best,

Hermès

De : Ros-dev [mailto:ros-dev-bounces at reactos.org] De la part de James Tabor
Envoyé : mercredi 22 février 2017 03:42
À : ReactOS Development List
Objet : Re: [ros-dev] Office (Excel, Word...) 2010 on ReactOS

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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