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Console - First Pass
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Consoles are just xterms created with the -Sxxn switch.
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A pty is opened and the master goes to the xterm side
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and the slave is held by the wine side. The console
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itself it turned into a few HANDLE32s and is set
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to the STD_*_HANDLES.
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It is possible to use the WriteFile and ReadFile commands
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to write to a win32 console. To accomplish this, all K32OBJs
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that support I/O have a read and write function pointer.
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So, WriteFile calls K32OBJ_WriteFile which calls the K32OBJ's
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write function pointer, which then finally calls write.
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[this paragraph is now out of date]
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If the command line console is to be inheirited or
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a process inherits its parent's console (-- can that happen???),
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the console is created at process init time via PROCESS_InheritConsole.
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The 0, 1, and 2 file descriptors are duped to be the
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STD_*_HANDLES in this case. Also in this case a flag is set
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to indicate that the console comes from the parent process or
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command line.
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If a process doesn't have a console at all, its
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pdb->console is set to NULL. This helps indicate when
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it is possible to create a new console (via AllocConsole).
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When FreeConsole is called, all handles that the process has
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open to the console are closed. Like most k32objs, if the
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console's refcount reaches zero, its k32obj destroy function
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is called. The destroy kills the xterm if one was open.
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Also like most k32 objects, we assume that (K32OBJ) header is the
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first field so the casting (from K32OBJ *to CONSOLE *)
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works correctly.
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FreeConsole is called on process exit (in ExitProcess) if
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pdb->console is not NULL.
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BUGS
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Console processes do not inherit their parent's handles. I think
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there needs to be two cases, one where they have to inherit
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the stdin/stdout/stderr from unix, and one where they have to
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inherit from another windows app.
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SetConsoleMode -- UNIX only has ICANON and various ECHOs
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to play around with for processing input. Win32 has
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line-at-a-time processing, character processing, and
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echo. I'm putting together an intermediate driver
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that will handle this (and hopefully won't be any more
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buggy then the NT4 console implementation).
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experimentation with NT4 yields that:
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WriteFile
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o does not truncate file on 0 length write
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o 0 length write or error on write changes numcharswritten to 0
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o 0 length write returns TRUE
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o works with console handles
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_lwrite
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o does truncate/expand file at current position on 0 length write
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o returns 0 on a zero length write
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o works with console handles (typecasted)
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WriteConsole
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o expects only console handles
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SetFilePointer
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o returns -1 (err 6) when used with a console handle
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FreeConsole
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o even when all the handles to it are freed, the win32 console
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stays visible, the only way I could find to free it
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was via the FreeConsole
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Is it possible to interrupt win32's FileWrite? I'm not sure.
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It may not be possible to interrupt any system calls.
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DOS (Generic) Console Support
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I. Command Line Configuration
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DOS consoles must be configured either on the command line or in a dot
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resource file (.console). A typical configuration consists of a string
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of driver keywords separated by plus ('+') signs. To change the
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configuration on the command-line, use the -console switch.
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For example:
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wine -console ncurses+xterm <apllication>
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Possible drivers:
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tty - Generic text-only support. Supports redirection.
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ncurses - Full-screen graphical support with color.
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xterm - Load a new window to display the console in. Also
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supports resizing windows.
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II. Wine.conf Configuration
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In the wine.conf file, you can create a section called [console] that
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contains configuration options that are respected by the assorted
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console drivers.
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Current Options:
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XtermProg=<program>
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Use this program instead of xterm. This eliminates the need for a
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recompile. See the table below for a comparison of various
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terminals.
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InitialRows=<number>
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Attempt to start all drivers with this number of rows. This
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causes xterms to be resized, for instance.
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Note: This information is passed on the command-line with the
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-g switch.
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InitialColumns=<number>
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Attempt to start all drivers with this number of columns. This
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causes xterms to be resized, for instance.
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Note: This information is passed on the command-line with the
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-g switch.
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TerminalType=<name>
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Tell any driver that is interested (ncurses) which termcap
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and/or terminfo type to use. The default is xterm which is
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appropiate for most uses. "nxterm" may give you better support
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if you use that terminal. This can also be changed to
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"linux" (or "console" on older systems) if you manage to hack
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the ability to write to the console into this driver.
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III. Terminal Types
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There are a large number of potential terminals that can be used with
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Wine, depending on what you are trying to do. Unfortunately, I am still
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looking for the "best" driver combination.
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Note that 'slave' is required for use in Wine, currently.
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Program | Color? | Resizing? | Slave?
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xterm N Y Y
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nxterm Y N Y
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rxvt Y ? N
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(linux console) Y N ?
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As X terminals typically use a 24x80 screen resolution rather than the
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typical 25x80 one, it is necessary to resize the screen to allow a DOS
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program to work full-screen. There is a wine.conf option to work
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around this in some cases but run-time resizing will be disabled.
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