[Bug 23462] New: Robots Creative Studio says you must install a printer to use it, then crashes

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23462

Summary: Robots Creative Studio says you must install a printer
                    to use it, then crashes
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.2-rc5
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Created an attachment (id=29280)
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Robots Creative Studio console output

Robots Creative Studio is bundled with several 20th Century Fox DVD film
titles.

After installing it and running Robots.exe, a dialog box says "You must install
a Windows printer to use the Robots Print Studio". (If it's relevant, I don't
have a physical printer connected to my PC.)

Clicking OK to dismiss the dialog box results in a Wine Program Error dialog
box. I have attached the console output.

Is there any way to have Wine present a dummy/fake printer for those Windows
applications that check for one?

[Bug 23462] Robots Creative Studio says you must install a printer to use it, then crashes

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23462

Louis Lenders  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Louis Lenders   2010-07-01 11:03:46 ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> Created an attachment (id=29280)

--> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=29280) [details]
> Robots Creative Studio console output
>
> Robots Creative Studio is bundled with several 20th Century Fox DVD film
> titles.
>
> After installing it and running Robots.exe, a dialog box says "You must install
> a Windows printer to use the Robots Print Studio". (If it's relevant, I don't
> have a physical printer connected to my PC.)
>
> Clicking OK to dismiss the dialog box results in a Wine Program Error dialog
> box. I have attached the console output.
>
> Is there any way to have Wine present a dummy/fake printer for those Windows
> applications that check for one?

What about cups-pdf? see for example
http://packages.ubuntu.com/nl/karmic/cups-pdf

[Bug 23462] Robots Creative Studio says you must install a printer to use it, then crashes

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23462

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--- Comment #2 from [e-mail]  2010-07-02 06:22:00 ---
After installing cups-pdf (I already had CUPS itself installed), starting
Robots.exe no longer shows the printer-related dialog box. It just crashes with
a Program Error dialog. The console output seems to be the same as previously.

[Bug 23462] Robots Creative Studio says you must install a printer to use it, then crashes

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23462

--- Comment #3 from [e-mail]  2010-07-02 06:37:38 ---
This is strange! I ran Robots.exe with WINEDEBUG=+relay,+seh,+tid. With that,
the program starts up fine! Without specifying WINEDEBUG (i.e., starting it
normally) it still crashes every time.

[Bug 23462] Robots Creative Studio crashes on start

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23462

Vitaliy Margolen  changed:

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            Summary|Robots Creative Studio says |Robots Creative Studio
                   |you must install a printer  |crashes on start
                   |to use it, then crashes     |

[Bug 23462] Robots Creative Studio crashes on start

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GyB  changed:

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--- Comment #4 from GyB  2012-02-12 11:24:18 CST ---
Is this still an issue with a recent Wine version (1.4rc3 or newer)?

[Bug 23462] Robots Creative Studio crashes on start

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23462

Austin English  changed:

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         Resolution|---                         |ABANDONED

--- Comment #5 from Austin English  ---
No reply in 2 years, marking abandoned.

If this is still an issue in current (1.7.16 or newer) wine and you can provide
the needed information, feel free to reopen.

[Bug 23462] Robots Creative Studio crashes on start

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23462

[e-mail] changed:

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--- Comment #6 from [e-mail] ---
Closing.