From: Kenneth J. Davis (jeremyd@computer.org)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2003 - 17:09:15 EDT
On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 22:52:25 +0600 Sinitsyn Valentine <Valentine.Sinitsyn@usu.ru> wrote:
SV> Hi,
SV>
SV> it seems that most significant problems of building AbiWord@MinGW
SV> are now solved. At least I'm able to create a working (but actually
SV> not very stable) 'AbiWord.exe' and even 'setup_abiword.exe' on my
SV> Windows 98 & 2000 systems. :-)
SV>
SV> But I still have 3 little questions:
SV>
SV> 1. MinGW port produces two binaries: AbiWord.exe and libAbiWord.dll.
SV> It is different from MSVC port which produces AbiWord.exe only. This
SV> causes some difficulties, eg. we need have different nsis scripts for
SV> these port (or employ some other tricks). May be it is better to link
SV> AbiWord@MinGW statically?
Statically would probably be nicer for simplicity, but not really
necessary. The nsis issue can be fixed by adding /nonfatal
e.g. File libAbiWord.dll /nonfatal, though this adds a warning for MSVC,
so a better fix, assuming the MingW defines something, may be
!ifdef SOMEMINGWDEFINE
File libAbiWord.dll
!endif
SV>
SV> 2. ru-RU.hash from www.abisource.com doesn't work properly with
...
SV>
SV> 3. By default, AbiWord starts in 'Normal window'. I prefer to see
SV> maximized window of the editor. Maybe it is worth to be implemented as
SV> default (as it was in AbiWord 1.0.4 for Windows)?
I think 1.0.2 was the last to do this (1.0.3 & 1.0.4 were random
placement and window state {normal/maximized}), but I've been meaning to
add back where it saves the Window state on exit and restores on startup.
The Windows code is trivial. All that needs is to add something, probably
to xp that extends the Geometry section of the profile, with an OS flags or
window state value. Its just not high on my priorities since Abi should
at least be properly saving/restoring the window size & position [still
need to look into the report of that not working for one person...].
SV>
SV> I was in doubt whether I should post items 2,3 to Bugzilla or here so
SV> sorry if I've made a wrong decision.
You should probably add 2 to bugzilla so its not overlooked, if its not
already there. 3 may be there, or was there, either way it will be fixed
[maximize/normal state saved/restored] when I get back to working on
AbiWord, or someone else adds the few lines it needs.
SV>
SV> Regards,
SV> Valentine
SV>
SV>
Jeremy
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