Patch for Mozart on "Windows Vista"

[Boriss Mejias]

Boriss Mejias wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang,
> 
> Thanks for the contribution. We don't have a Vista machine to test your 
> patch, but we will do what is possible for to make it publish in the 
> mozart website. It will be the task of Vista users to provide feedback.
> 
> If you feel like making a whole package for Vista distribution, it would 
> be really excellent... we currently use Inno Setup for the packaging, 
> but I don't know if this also work for Vista.

After discussing with Raph and Yves, they say that it would be good to 
apply this patch to the distribution of all platform, because it doesn't 
seem to modify the current behaviour... in that case, we can do a new 
package for all windows platform, without making a special case for Vista.

best,
Boriss

> 
> best,
> Boriss
> 
> Wolfgang Meyer wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I got a chance to play with Mozart on "Windows Vista" in the last days 
>> and could solve the problem with the GUI components 
>> (<http://lists.gforge.info.ucl.ac.be/pipermail/mozart-users/2007/008998.html>). 
>>
>>
>> The attached patch can be applied like this:
>>
>>  > cd mozart-1.3.2.20060615
>>  > patch -p1 <../emulator_2007_12_29.patch
>>
>> If you want to use Oz on Vista but don't want to compile the system 
>> yourself, you might download this version of "emulator.dll": 
>> <http://code.google.com/p/oz-code/downloads/list>
>>
>> The change is minimal: I removed two uses of the sprintf 
>> "%n"-specifier in the Emulator-Tcl-communication layer 
>> (/platform/emulator/tk.cc).
>> Microsoft decided to drop support for this specifier with Vista. As a 
>> result, the names of Tk widgets were mangled.
>>
>> Cheeers,
>> Wolfgang
>>
>>
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