wine users - Jul 2004 - Pegasus Mail hangs during minimizing/maximizing of window

Hello together!

After minimizing the Pegasus Mail (Version 4.21a) window, by clicking on the 
minimize button in the window border, and again maximizing the window by
clicking
at the task bar the application will freeze.
The window border appears again, but not the content of the window.
After this the application will hang, no reaction on mouse clicks and so on.
The only thing, that appears on the console is the following line:
err:dc:CreateDCW no driver found for L"WINEPS"

I use the managed window mode, but the error will also appear in the desktop
mode.
In the unmanaged window mode the whole application don't work. Used WINE 
Version is 20040615.

I thought a moment this is a problem in all emulated applications, but I tested 
minimizing and maximizing of windows in various other applications without
problems.

Any clues?

Bye,

Timo

On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 14:37:06 +0200, you wrote:
> Hello together!
> 
> After minimizing the Pegasus Mail (Version 4.21a) window, by clicking on
the
> minimize button in the window border, and again maximizing the window by
clicking
> at the task bar the application will freeze.
> The window border appears again, but not the content of the window.
> After this the application will hang, no reaction on mouse clicks and so
on.
> The only thing, that appears on the console is the following line:
> err:dc:CreateDCW no driver found for L"WINEPS"
> 
> I use the managed window mode, but the error will also appear in the
desktop mode.
> In the unmanaged window mode the whole application don't work. Used
WINE
> Version is 20040615.
> 
> I thought a moment this is a problem in all emulated applications, but I
tested
> minimizing and maximizing of windows in various other applications without
problems.
> 
> Any clues?
As a work around you can uncheck the "Place an icon on the windows
system tray" option (tools/options/user interface).

Rein. 
-- 
Rein Klazes
rklazes@xs4all.nl

Am 4 Jul 2004 um 19:19 hat Rein Klazes geschrieben:
> As a work around you can uncheck the "Place an icon on the windows
> system tray" option (tools/options/user interface).
> 
Thanks Rein!

This work around works perfectly for me.

Bye,

Timo

Note: I use Pegasus Mail under OS/2 and Windows, not WINE or Linux ...

BUT I've used it for many years. Pegasus is very sensitive to printer 
drivers - especially the 4.x series. It checks with the printer driver 
before rendering email. It sounds to me like it is having some problem 
with the printer driver you are using.

The way to test this under Windows is to set up a plain text (generic 
TTY) printer as the default Windows printer, and see if the problem goes 
away. If it does, the problem lies with the printer driver. If it 
doesn't, its a problem with Pegasus' screen rendering. I don't know 
about the screen rendering in the 4.x series, but v3.12c and earlier had 
their own quirks in that area because Pegasus uses a Borland Windows 
Custom Controls DLL, and a flakey RTF/HTML editing component called TER 
that I understand is in the process of being replaced.

Sorry, I can't be of much help. For my use of Win-apps under Linux, I 
find Win4Lin more effective.

-- 
David
gnome@hawaii.rr.com

Timo Steuerwald wrote:
> Hello together!
> 
> After minimizing the Pegasus Mail (Version 4.21a) window, by clicking on
the
> minimize button in the window border, and again maximizing the window by
clicking
> at the task bar the application will freeze.
> The window border appears again, but not the content of the window.
> After this the application will hang, no reaction on mouse clicks and so
on.
> The only thing, that appears on the console is the following line:
> err:dc:CreateDCW no driver found for L"WINEPS"
> 
> I use the managed window mode, but the error will also appear in the
desktop mode.
> In the unmanaged window mode the whole application don't work. Used
WINE
> Version is 20040615.
> 
> I thought a moment this is a problem in all emulated applications, but I
tested
> minimizing and maximizing of windows in various other applications without
problems.
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> Bye,
> 
> Timo

Am 5 Jul 2004 um 9:46 hat David Jones geschrieben:
> Note: I use Pegasus Mail under OS/2 and Windows, not WINE or Linux ...
> 
> BUT I've used it for many years. Pegasus is very sensitive to printer 
> drivers - especially the 4.x series. It checks with the printer driver 
> before rendering email. It sounds to me like it is having some problem 
> with the printer driver you are using.
> 
> The way to test this under Windows is to set up a plain text (generic 
> TTY) printer as the default Windows printer, and see if the problem goes 
> away. If it does, the problem lies with the printer driver. If it 
> doesn't, its a problem with Pegasus' screen rendering. I don't
know
> about the screen rendering in the 4.x series, but v3.12c and earlier had 
> their own quirks in that area because Pegasus uses a Borland Windows 
> Custom Controls DLL, and a flakey RTF/HTML editing component called TER 
> that I understand is in the process of being replaced.
> 
> Sorry, I can't be of much help. For my use of Win-apps under Linux, I 
> find Win4Lin more effective.
> 
No, you've wrong. For my problem the kind of "work around" that
Rein Klazes
has described is the right solution. The error appears by the use of the default
setting: If you minimize Pegasus Mail, then there will - per default setting - 
disappear the taskbar item. So, during a minimized Pegasus Mail there is only 
the small Pegasus Mail icon (left to the clock) visible. IMHO WINE thinks 
every WIN32 application must have it's own taskbar item over the whole 
lifetime of the process. After altering the settings, as Rein described it, 
everything work well.

Bye,

Timo

On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 19:19:11 +0200, Rein Klazes wrote:
> As a work around you can uncheck the "Place an icon on the windows
> system tray" option (tools/options/user interface).
If the app is deadlocking due to the system tray icon, applying my systray
patch may work as well.

thanks -mike