http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34131
Bug #: 34131 Summary: Back and Forward button greyed out in an .exe file ... Product: Wine Version: 1.4.1 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: lawrencrj@GMail.com Classification: Unclassified
An e-book (*.exe) sent to me works fine in all respects in Wine 1.4.1 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS except that the back button and forwward button that are "live" when it is run in XP and in Windows 7 are "greyed out" on my Linux computer.
NOTE this e-book is created by a compiler on Windows and there has been no attempt to run that compiler under Wine on Ubuntu.
Our problem is with the exec file that it creates. When the HTML source files from which the e-book was compiled are copied to my Linux computer, both Chrome and Firefox run OK, and the back and forward buttons work -- but the e-book that is compiled from them will not work unless a "back" link is "hardwired" as part of each HTML to get back to the previous page to "mimic" the action that should be accomplished with the back button. The name of the program that runs in XP and Win 7 to create the problem exec file is "Active E Book compiler" (version 4.22) from "www.softpedia.com". http://www.softpedia.com/get/Others/E-Book/Active-E-Book-Compiler.shtml
This compiler only works if Internet Explorer is installed on the the Widnows computer that runs it.
A solution might be to take the source files and compile them with an e-book compiler that will run under Linux (or at least under WINE).
-Richard J. Lawrence