http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21497
Summary: ElsterFormular 11.1.1: program window disappears, app keeps running in the background Product: Wine Version: 1.1.37 Platform: x86 URL: https://www.elster.de/elfo_down1.php OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: andreas@braml.org
The latest release of ElsterFormular doesn't work on Wine anymore. It is the official app to submit tax statements to the german administration and can be downloaded here: https://www.elster.de/elfo_down1.php (topmost entry)
The behaviour is as follows:
The installer runs fine (it also installs Virtual C++ Redistributable 2008)
It doesn't install vcrun6, although it claims to need it (could be fixed with winetricks, but doesn't change anything about the bug here)
When I start the app with 'wine elfostarter.exe', the main window appears. When I select a new tax statement, it loads the forms, but when it is done and should show the input form, the window disappears. That is, the window where the form would usually be shown appears for a short time, with the form area empty, then it disappears. The app keeps running in the background, though.
So, when I subsequently run 'wineboot -e', a popup window from ElsterFormular appears, asking me to save the tax statement data. I can then save it.
When I try to open the saved statement instead of creating a new one, the behaviour is the same as with a new statement.
btw. ElsterFormular uses Qt4 for the GUI
How to debug this? Which logs would be helpful? There's no crash, so there's no backtrace :(