Comments on: Using GNU/Linux: Happy, Happy

By: Scott Carpenter

Scott Carpenter — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:06:07 +0000

Bug report:

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8756

By: Dan Kegel

Dan Kegel — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:49:53 +0000

Please do file a bug for that rich text control
problem, preferably with both source and binary
for a minimal test case. Yum!

winetools is an unsupported third party tool,
we don’t recommend it.

(winetricks, on the other hand, is a much
simpler third party tool by
yours truly; it’s a commandline-only tool to
keep the average joe from using it, but it’s
very handy for figuring out if native this or
native that will help a particular problem.)

By: Scott Carpenter

Scott Carpenter — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:40:42 +0000

Hi, Dan. I’ve had pretty good luck with the few VB6 programs I’ve tried so far. I’m really impressed with how well Wine works. It wasn’t difficult to get started using it.

(I did have trouble running winetools. I was going to take a stab at getting MS Money working also, and the directions I found said to use winetools to set up IE. I didn’t spend a lot of time on it.)

I had problems with one app that uses the rich text control: an “invalid property value” and an automation error. Worked around it by commenting out some “Sel” property settings. (.SelStart, .SelLength, .SelTabCount, .SelTabs, .SelLength)

Thanks a lot for commenting and for the advice. I’ll try to send some bug reports in, since you’re looking for them. :-)

By: Dan Kegel

Dan Kegel — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:09:11 +0000

So, using Wine for VB6 apps is a hit-or-miss
thing. For a grim look at the problems, see
http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=vb6
That said, please let me know if you have trouble,
maybe we can help. And well written bug reports are
always welcome.

One trick that often helps is loading native dcom98;
see http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7816
for an example.