wine users - Apr 2009 - Re: How to discover within my application if executed in Wine?

Hi.
Sorry for my bad english..

I'm also a Delphi programmer having also some problems with my applications
in Linux.
One of the problems is that my program minimizes itself in tray when is
monitoring the Clipboard. But I don't see how to do that in Linux using wine
- prezent or future...
If someone knows how - please tell me so I can implement it.
And I can't use Lazarus...

My question is for austin987:

> Check for wine specific registry entries.
> Check environmental variables (I used this method for automated 
> testing with AutoHotKey, I doubt any windows machine has the
'SHELL'
> environmental variable, unless running under cygwin, which wouldn't 
> work anyway .)

Which one specifically...? Sorry if it's a stupid question but I am new
using wine...

I think you'd just implement it like you would in Windows? Wine has support
for adding icons to the system tray, and it has its own implementation for the
clipboard, after all.

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Cosmin3 <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> Hi.
> Sorry for my bad english..
>
> I'm also a Delphi programmer having also some problems with my
applications in Linux.
Ideally, you should file bugs and get them fixed. If Wine fixes the
bug in the future, your application may have unexpected behavior.
> One of the problems is that my program minimizes itself in tray when is
monitoring the Clipboard. But I don't see how to do that in Linux using wine
- prezent or future...
That should work.
> If someone knows how - please tell me so I can implement it.
Again, file bugs for things that don't work. Detecting Wine itself is
a bad idea. Instead, detect broken behavior. E.g., if a certain
function you need isn't present/doesn't work right, substitute another
code path. That also helps on broken Windows versions.
> And I can't use Lazarus...
>
> My question is for austin987:
>
>
>> Check for wine specific registry entries.
Wine has a ton of its own registry entries. Technically, someone on
Windows could make those as well.
>> Check environmental variables (I used this method for automated
>> testing with AutoHotKey, I doubt any windows machine has the
'SHELL'
>> environmental variable, unless running under cygwin, which wouldn't
>> work anyway .)
SHELL is usually defined to /bin/sh on Unix (/bin/bash on most
linuxes). On windows, it's likely NULL.
> Which one specifically...? Sorry if it's a stupid question but I am new
using wine...
Fix the bug itself :-).

-- 
-Austin