Greg Turner wrote:
On Sunday 19 January 2003 08:02 pm, Dan Kegel wrote:
Data Access Objects installer. When you run it, you get to the first screen with a big blue background, but the foreground window never shows up. It's probably there, but invisible, or something. Alt-tab doesn't help, and the blue background is full-screen, so you can't
hehe, seen a few of those. Too bad wine emulates that business so nicely :)
No, the installer works fine on Windows. Wine isn't emulating very well here.
I don't have a fix for the fundamental problem, but I do know some workarounds: from a system-administration perspective, you can download one of the MDAC redistributables, and try to get it to install after you are done. This, I think, will put DAO into your filesystem & registry to some extent.
That'd help if I actually wanted to use DAO :-) Unfortunately, I'm simply focused on making the msvc4 installer work nicely under wine.
... "managed" mode might help with this problem as well.
Aha! .wine/config had managed=Y. Switching it to managed=N made the dialog box show up properly!
OK, this has to be a bug in wine, doesn't it? Got any tips on how to continue tracking this down? (I suppose I could try seeing if Wine has been able to do this in the past, and binary search cvs until I find out what broke it... hmm, didn't work back in 20020605. Not sure it's worth searching back further.)
My wife keeps rolling her eyes when I tell her I'm on a quest to get msvc4's installer working smoothly under wine, but it sounds like a reasonable quest to me :-) - Dan