Re: win32 issues

From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2003 - 18:15:40 EDT

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     --- Sinitsyn Valentine <Valentine.Sinitsyn@usu.ru>
    wrote: > Hi,
    >
    > it seems that most significant problems of building
    > AbiWord@MinGW
    > are now solved. At least I'm able to create a
    > working (but actually
    > not very stable) 'AbiWord.exe' and even
    > 'setup_abiword.exe' on my
    > Windows 98 & 2000 systems. :-)
    >
    > But I still have 3 little questions:
    >
    > 1. MinGW port produces two binaries: AbiWord.exe and
    > libAbiWord.dll.
    > It is different from MSVC port which produces
    > AbiWord.exe only. This
    > causes some difficulties, eg. we need have different
    > nsis scripts for
    > these port (or employ some other tricks). May be it
    > is better to link
    > AbiWord@MinGW statically?
    >
    > 2. ru-RU.hash from www.abisource.com doesn't work
    > properly with
    > compiled version of AbiWord. It correctly highlights
    > misspelled words,
    > but a list of suggestion which appears on right
    > mouse click is
    > unreadable. It's probably due to incorrect charset
    > conversion
    > ('ispell_dictionary_list.xml' has correct encoding
    > for ru-RU.hash,
    > I've checked this). I even dare to suppose (basing
    > on the look of the
    > mess I'm getting instead of suggestions) that
    > AbiWord fails to
    > convert koi8-r to unicode. But! If I choose
    > something from that list,
    > the word pasted into the editor would be correct and
    > quite readable.

    Hi Valentine.
    For this bug specifically could you please add a bug
    report to Bugzilla and attach both the .abw document
    and a screenshot with the "mess" suggestions.

    Thanks. Andrew Dunbar.

    > 3. By default, AbiWord starts in 'Normal window'. I
    > prefer to see
    > maximized window of the editor. Maybe it is worth to
    > be implemented as
    > default (as it was in AbiWord 1.0.4 for Windows)?
    >
    > I was in doubt whether I should post items 2,3 to
    > Bugzilla or here so
    > sorry if I've made a wrong decision.
    >
    > Regards,
    > Valentine
    >

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