[Bug 48168] New: Report dialog does not appear in THERM

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48168

Bug ID: 48168
           Summary: Report dialog does not appear in THERM
           Product: Wine
           Version: 4.20
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

The program Therm generally runs fine under wine, with all the drawing and
calculation functions working as expected, but the vital 'report' dialog at the
end which displays the results does not appear when you select
'File'->'Report', and this error is printed on the console:

0009:err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {3b7c8860-d78f-101b-b9b5-04021c009402} not
registered
0009:err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {3b7c8860-d78f-101b-b9b5-04021c009402} not
registered
0009:err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object
{3b7c8860-d78f-101b-b9b5-04021c009402} could be created for context 0x3

I have tested this in wine-stable (3.0-1ubuntu1) and wine-development (3.6-1)
in Ubuntu 18.04, Debian Buster (4.0.2-1 ), and winehq-stable (4.0.2~bionic) and
winehq-devel (4.20~bionic). The behaviour is exactly the same in all those
versions.

To reproduce this. Download therm 7.7 from
http://gaia.lbl.gov/software/window/THERM7_7_07_SetupFull.exe and install it.

Run it with 
wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/LBNL/THERM7.7/THERM7.exe

Go to 'File'->'Open' which should open on the Samples directory. if not find it
and load and .THM file such as sample-head.THM which should display a cross
section of a window head. (The calculation state is loaded already done so
there is no need to redo them).

Go to 'File'->'Report', and observe that you do not get a dialog containing
results, you get nothing but the console error.

This is fundamental to the operation of this package - the whole point of the
program is what appears in that missing dialog, so this bug makes THERM useless
(under wine), and there is no linux equivalent so far as I know (THERM
simulates heat movement s for buildings).

I am very happy to do further debugging if I can. (I do have an old Windows VM
somewhere if that helps).

[Bug 48168] Report dialog does not appear in THERM

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48168

Wookey  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Wookey  ---
OK. After searching the app database I noticed some info suggesting that
installing richtx32.dll used to help, but didn't work any more on 7.3

I can report that installing this does indeed fix the problem.

Is there a way I could have discovered this was the relevant missing component
from that magic 'not registered' class number?

I'll update the app database with this info, and I guess this isn't a bug
(although hopefully people will now be able to find this info when they hit the
same issue)