http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14286
--- Comment #4 from Jörg Höhle hoehle@users.sourceforge.net 2009-03-09 03:22:08 --- I can now confirm this misbehaviour, as on a MS-w2k system no click within the .hlp files causes a change of window size or position.
However the following differences are noteworthy on ms-w2k: + SimCity 2000 (German) : remembers window position and size across invocations of winhlp32 while - Contraptions (German) - SimCity 2000 Urban Renewal Kit (German) : always restart with a fixed windows position and size (full screen and approx. half screen size respectively).
So it seems like indeed there exists a flag in the .hlp file to say either "open window with these dimensions" or "don't care", and the bug may be that in Wine this flag is not consulted once like in MS-Windows, but on every click.