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Blog: View Popups and Unreliable Operations

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View Popups and Unreliable Operations
Link: https://reactos.org/node/894
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Re: Blog: View Popups and Unreliable Operations

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"finally I worked around it by making a copy of the popup menu instead of using the one loaded from the resources directly. Fixing the actual bug would be nice."
User32/Win32k does this too. Is it a thread issue or process issue with some sort of share ownership? Is it just a windows thing?
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I've noticed in r64646 that clicking Help > "Is this copy of ReactOS legal?" opens an explorer window at the Desktop. (I'm not sure when it started, but it happens in 64646)

Also I've been making shell-experiments builds since last week, you can download them from http://www.mediafire.com/folder/fu9y0equ5nz39
I'll try to keep adding more as they're commited. Should I build older versions too?

Happy testing.
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I've noticed in r64646 that clicking Help > "Is this copy of ReactOS legal?" opens an explorer window at the Desktop. (I'm not sure when it started, but it happens in 64646)

Also I've been making shell-experiments builds since last week, you can download them from http://www.mediafire.com/folder/fu9y0equ5nz39
I'll try to keep adding more as they're commited. Should I build older versions too?

Happy testing.
I've noticed that too.
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Is it possible the Back and Forward arrow buttons could turn gray or something else instead of turning into a gray block such as the arrows turn gray?
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Pi_User5 wrote:Is it possible the Back and Forward arrow buttons could turn gray or something else instead of turning into a gray block such as the arrows turn gray?
If you were to run our explorer-new in windows, you'd see it works there. The problem is in our comctl32 (which comes straight from WINE), so I can't do much about it. If someone fixed comctl32 to support graying of 32bit bitmaps, then the toolbar would look as expected.
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gigaherz wrote:If someone fixed comctl32 to support graying of 32bit bitmaps, then the toolbar would look as expected.
Is there a JIRA report for this :?:
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"Is this copy of ReactOS legal?"
Oh, what? ReactOS does not have Windows Product Activation :)
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It's an important question. The answer is generally "yes", but people should be able to find it out.
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Frontier wrote:It's an important question. The answer is generally "yes", but people should be able to find it out.
Yeah we may want something open from there that tells the user about the GPL and its conditions.
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https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licens ... 0-faq.html will suit for this purpose. Again I had better named it "Copying and distribution howto" rather than "Is this copy of ReactOS legal?"(Windows-reminscent).
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Frontier wrote:It's an important question. The answer is generally "yes", but people should be able to find it out.
Generally?
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f you were to run our explorer-new in windows, you'd see it works there. The problem is in our comctl32 (which comes straight from WINE), so I can't do much about it. If someone fixed comctl32 to support graying of 32bit bitmaps, then the toolbar would look as expected.
I tried and I get this error:

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Any ideas?
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You can't run explorer-new directly in Windows Vista or newer, it has to be Windows 2003. The alternative is to remove some code, or run filebrowser.exe instead.
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You can't run explorer-new directly in Windows Vista or newer, it has to be Windows 2003. The alternative is to remove some code, or run filebrowser.exe instead.
I set compatibility mode to Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 in the compatibility options. It worked, the task bar appeared but I could not actually open the explorer window. I did the same thing to filebrowser.exe but when double clicking, noting appeared.
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