Markus Hitter wrote:
My pet app (Catia) works partially now.
That's great! I have a copy, too, but the only thing I did with it was file a bug about the installer...
The thing most missing is, it can't open a file. As soon as I attempt to do so, the app freezes for a minute, then a "Visual C++ Runtime Exception" is shown. [I tried using winedbg to track this down but it doesn't work.]
Most of us use log files rather than debuggers to track this kind of thing down. You might want to try WINEDEBUG=+seh,+relay wine catia.exe > log 2>&1 and then get the shortest possible session that reproduces the bug (ideally, noninteractive; does catia take a commandline parameter to open a file?)
The trick is to wade through the log file without despairing at how big it is. Tools like grep, head, tail, and in bad cases, perl or sed, are handy for this... - Dan