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Strengthen the build hack for non-DOS targets.
author David A. Holland
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1 Issues and problems specifically with using AG under Wine.
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4 (most serious)
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6 Something about the font handling, whether in AG or more likely in the
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7 IBM class library, does not get along with Wine. Consequently,
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8 everything appears only in some crappy default font and nothing you do
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9 with the Set Fonts dialog has any effect.
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11 This makes marked tokens indistiguishable from unmarked tokens, which
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12 means you can't tell where you are in the Grammar Trace and File Trace
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13 and thus makes those windows nearly impossible to use. This in turn
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14 makes AG almost useless in Wine.
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16 Possible workaround: could reenable the old code for putting marked
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17 tokens in <>. But this should be either user-switchable or based on
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18 having detected wine. Blah.
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20 Another possible workaround: change the text color for marked tokens.
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23 When you click on an open AG window name from the Windows menu of
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24 the AG control panel, the window does not come to the foreground. If
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25 completely hidden, it will remain so.
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28 Various weird things happen with control of the window focus,
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29 window icons, window titles, raising and lowering windows, and other
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30 things that interact with the window manager in X.
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33 In Wine it doesn't seem to notice when the syntax file has been
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34 changed underneath it. I'm reasonably sure that in Windows it does and
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35 that this feature wasn't limited to the DOS version. (I think it
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36 normally checks when it receives the window focus, which is
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37 problematic as per the previous issue.)
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40 The icon for the Analyze Grammar button often fails to display or
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41 refresh if covered and uncovered. (The other buttons are sometimes
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42 affected too, but mostly only the Analyze Grammar button gets messed
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43 up without provocation.) I'm sure this is a Wine issue, but it would
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44 be nice if it didn't break.
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47 AG does not work at all in Wine on NetBSD. Neither do various other
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48 things; the problems is/are in Wine, not AG. See
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49 http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=32800
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50 for some further information.
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