[Bug 47741] Lotus Approach: Initial "Welcome" dialog not shown on startup

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47741

Anastasius Focht  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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                URL|                            |https://archive.org/downloa
                   |                            |d/LotusSmartSuite99/Lotus%2
                   |                            |0SmartSuite%209.8%20-%20Int
                   |                            |%20English.exe
          Component|-unknown                    |-unknown
            Product|Wine-staging                |Wine
            Summary|Lotus Approach initial pop  |Lotus Approach: Initial
                   |up missing                  |"Welcome" dialog not shown
                   |                            |on startup
             Status|NEEDINFO                    |NEW
           Keywords|                            |download

--- Comment #6 from Anastasius Focht  ---
Hello Todd,

I'm moving this ticket from Wine-Staging to Wine product. Apparently the
"Welcome" dialog is not shown in vanilla Wine as well. It's shown after opening
and closing database files but it will not automatically appear on startup.

--- quote ---
Do you access to Wine Staging's archives or any of their former members?  Or is
Wine Staging dead now?
--- quote ---

No, the project is not dead. It's alive and kicking - with new maintainers
since considerable time:
https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2018-February/123080.html

Unless someone has a copy of the old Bugzilla database from
https://bugs.wine-staging.com it's hard to figure out what "Bug 343" was really
about. The search engines didn't index/capture the internal bug tracker
conversation.

Do you have by any chance the email conversation created by the tracker
preserved somewhere? Even a timeline would help, i.e. year/month. I've tested
with older Wine-Staging 4.0 - but even then the "Welcome" dialog is not shown
on startup. I'm curious, when did this ever work in Wine-Staging?

Adding stable link to Internet Archive for reproduce.

https://archive.org/details/LotusSmartSuite99

https://archive.org/download/LotusSmartSuite99/Lotus%20SmartSuite%209.8%20-%...

Example databases:

http://www.johnbrown.com.au/approach/examples.htm

https://web.archive.org/web/20200216111921/http://www.johnbrown.com.au/appro...

-> open 'dmosmpl2.apr'

NOTE: Suffers from bug 625 (symptom: error message boxes "Couldn't load the
<xxx> DynaLink.")

$ sha1sum Lotus\ SmartSuite\ 9.8\ -\ Int\ English.exe 
889d337d6a6f2a0c25978ce2168b86ea5e8a4069  Lotus SmartSuite 9.8 - Int
English.exe

$ du -sh Lotus\ SmartSuite\ 9.8\ -\ Int\ English.exe 
149M    Lotus SmartSuite 9.8 - Int English.exe

$ wine --version
wine-5.1-391-g7332de64a5

Regards