https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38271
Bug ID: 38271 Summary: The Docear4Word plugin for MS Word does not work at all Product: Wine Version: unspecified Hardware: x86 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: whynot@nurfuerspam.de Distribution: ---
Created attachment 51098 --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=51098 Debug output trying to install/launch docear4word with Word
Docear4Word is a FOSS plugin for MS Word, which allows creating citations and bibliography in MS Word based on a BibTeX database.
Information about this plugin can be found here: http://www.docear.org/software/add-ons/docear4word/overview/
This is the download link: http://docear.org/download/docear4word_setup.exe
The plugin's source code is also available: http://docear.org/download/docear4word_source.zip
I tried installing this in both Word 2007 and Word 2010. In both cases, the install of the plugin appears to finish without any errors (in the GUI).
In Word 2007, the progress is a little bit better, since the plugin at least shows up in the preferences (Word Options => Add-Ins => Inactive Application Add-ins lists "Docear4Word"). Obviously, since it is inactive, something went wrong. Also by following "Manage => Add-Ins => COM-Add-Ins" one gets to a modal pop-up window, which lists all COM Add-Ins. "Docear4Word" appears, but is unchecked. If one checks it and goes to the same window again (COM Add-Ins), it will say "Load Behavior: Not loaded. A runtime error occurred during the loading of the COM Add-in." If one turns wine debug output on, the are some specific errors in the command line (see attachment, 1st part), perhaps most importantly "fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no instance created for interface {b65ad801-abaf-11d0-bb8b-00a0c90f2744} of class {34f82078-360b-4682-8275-0d9b0b641cbd}, hres is 0x800704e5"
In Word 2010, the add-in does not even show up in Word whatsoever. Trying to manually launch the docear4word.exe installer from the Add-ins Window by using "Add", there is also some debug output in the console (see attachment, 2nd part).
The Add-in uses .NET, so an obvious question is how to handle the .NET. I tried various approaches using several .NET versions and service packs via winetricks, and I believe also mono. Nothing worked. I do not remember the outcome of every single variant, but could try specific suggestions.
This add-in is really important, since many in the science community are using Linux, but have to work with MS Word via wine for several reasons. Most in the science community use such plug-ins for reference management. Docear4Word is perhaps the most promising, powerful, and viable one, since the Docear4Word project strictly follows an FOSS approach. Getting this to work would thus be a huge progress.