Screen repainting doesn't work
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I'm not sure how to clearly describe what I'm seeing (running Windows 10 with BoxedWIne using Windows 98 and Wine 5.0). When I run a program that requires any kind of scrolling, like a drop-down menu, the screen doesn't repaint correctly, instead it over-writes what's there with new data, but not in the right location. I'm using BoxedWine binaries downloaded from boxedwine.org.
I tried various configurations -- different Windows versions, poll rates etc to no avail. I'm primarily using BoxedWIne to play Stars! where the behavior is obvious but it's not unique to Stars!
I've also noticed that strange scrolling behavior on other Win16 games, like Castle of the Winds. I never looked into it much because there were always more pressing issues, but just for fun I tried Stars and Castle of the Winds in my newest branch where I'm working on Vulkan and Wine 6/7. I saw that with the Wine 7 file system it seems to work fine now.
Here is an alpha version with Wine 7, it seems to work fine for Stars, but I'm pretty sure a lot of games that work on my previous release are currently broken in this alpha. Wine 6/7 has so many changes.
http://boxedwine.org/v/BoxedWineVulkanAlphaWin64.zip
Its good news that its fixed now, but it could be quite a while until I have an official release with Wine 6 or 7.
this seems to solve the problem I saw -- there's some new instability, maybe, but that's to be expected with an alpha. Thanks!