wine

[Eberhard Roloff]

> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:46:29 -0400
> From: John Dangler <jdangler at atlantic.net>
> Subject: wine
> To: Ubuntu User List <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Not totally an Ubuntu topic, but i'm a bit stumped as far as
> getting programs to work under wine.  The googling and reading
> up on winehq helped me get wine installed, and short list of
> packages listed that run out of the box is fine, but I'm
> having a real time of getting anything else to cooperate.
> 
> For example, I installed Punch! Pro Platinum to do some floor
> planning (qcad docs are too light, and no one seems to know
> how to get started with it).  Opening the program, I get a few
> OpenGL errors which don't seem to effect the running of the
> app much, but every cursor movement brings up a dialog telling
> me that the undo state can't be set, and that the hard drive
> is full.  Then, if I move the window the drawing is in, the
> entire layout will disappear, leaving the four outside
> dimensions on the screen and nothing else.  The only way to
> 'refresh' this is to kill the app and restart it.
> 
> Is there a way to debug these kinds of problems in wine?  Do I
> need to compile wine from source?

No, wine (Win application) debugging is described in the
documentation guides that you can download from wine hq 
> 
> Any input is appreciated.  I moved to Linux because I'm really
> comfortable in this environment, having had a long background
> in the Unix world, but I need these apps to work, and I'm a
> bit of a purist which keeps me from having to setup the
> desktop as a dual-boot.

Hi John,
This is a very good point of view!

Without ever hearing or reading of punch, imho your problem
sounds sort of complicated for wine, if you want punch to work
flawlessly, that is... 

Maybe you will have more success with
crossover office. 

However, if you still own a windows license,
imho the best way to use your application would be to use
vmware player or server (both are free as in beer) to start a
windows box with your app seamlessly and effortlessly from
within Linux.

regards
Eberhard