Running "United Devices Agent" (was: Re: Unhandled API Call to Kernel32 Question)
Roger wrote:
I am attempting to run a native windows VB6 app (United Devices) in wine, fake windows, but I continue to encounter an unimplemented/unhandled API call "CreateRemoteThread" ... Any advice where I go from here as I want to dump win, get more hd space but I need this app?
Unless you're willing to pay for its development, don't hold your breath; I have a feeling CreateRemoteThread might be a tricky one to implement. Can you give a URL to the application in question? Is it the one at http://www.grid.org/download/gold/download.htm ? I just tried installing that for fun. Here's what I learned: 1. It requires MSI. I was able to download and run InstMsiA.exe from microsoft.com no problem. 2. It refuses to install on "Windows 95", so I had to edit ~/.wine/config and set Version to winnt. (Couldn't figure out how to do it selectively, had to do it for all apps.) 3. When the installer finished, it put up the "UD Agent Registration" dialog. Clicking on "Login" failed, and Wine displayed the warning fixme:ole:VarOr unimplemented part, V_VT(left) == 0x1, V_VT(right) == 0xB I'm running wine-20040213, so perhaps this has since been fixed ... or maybe not. Andreas Mohr implemented part of VarOr about 16 months ago (http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-devel/2002/12/0625.html) and has been waiting for feedback ever since. Maybe you're already past that problem, I don't know. But it'd be nice if somebody updated VarOr to handle this case. That's probably easier than the CreateRemoteThread issue, btw. - Dan -- My technical stuff: http://kegel.com My politics: see http://www.misleader.org for examples of why I'm for regime change
Dan wrote:
Can you give a URL to the application in question? Is it the one at http://www.grid.org/download/gold/download.htm ? I just tried installing that for fun. Here's what I learned:
Yes, that's the correct URL, sorry, should have included.
1. It requires MSI. I was able to download and run InstMsiA.exe from
microsoft.com no problem.
2. It refuses to install on "Windows 95", so I had to edit ~/.wine/config and set Version to winnt. (Couldn't figure out how to do it selectively, had to do it for all apps.) 3. When the installer finished, it put up the "UD Agent Registration" dialog. Clicking on "Login" failed, and Wine displayed the warning fixme:ole:VarOr unimplemented part, V_VT(left) == 0x1, V_VT(right) == 0xB I'm running wine-20040213, so perhaps this has since been fixed ... or maybe not. Andreas Mohr implemented part of VarOr about 16 months ago (http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-devel/2002/12/0625.html) and has been waiting for feedback ever since.
Maybe you're already past that problem, I don't know. But it'd be nice if somebody updated VarOr to handle this case. That's probably easier than the CreateRemoteThread issue, btw.
After Msi is installed, I run the UD installation accepting the defaults which proceeds fine without major incident. I cancel the signup (I"m already a UD member) and copy all the files (except UD.exe) from a windows box crunching an inprogress work unit (temp stoping the agent prior to copy) over to the Linux 'United Devices' dir. Running wine ud.exe, the agent opens nicely putting a little pill icon in the tray and counts time (I have nice screen shots) per normal. Problem is, nothing is being processed. I have snips of ps -Afm and wine errors msgs I can attach which illustrate the PID/thread relationships and can diagram the PID equivalents under windows if desired. Thanks, Roger
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