1 week ago, i posted a msg (subject: 16bit app calls wineps.drv, but wine has wineps.dll) in the ml reporting a run-time error 482: Printer Error with a 16 bit app. Weel, that report is not rappresentative of the problem, it seems more complicated than i tought.
At MSDN, i found: Printer error (Error 482)
There is some problem that prevents printing. This error has the following causes and solutions:
* You don't have a printer installed from the Windows Control Panel.
Open the Control Panel, double-click the Printers icon, and choose Add Printer to install a printer. * Your printer isn't online.
Physically switch the printer online. * Your printer is jammed or out of paper.
Physically correct the problem. * You tried to print a form to a printer that can accept only text.
Switch to an installed printer that can print graphics.
In windows, all is OK with all type of printer.
After 2 weeks of attempts, i understood i'm unable to find the origin of the problem and a possible resolution. So, hoping you can help me, i did a snapshot of my wine configuration including the non-working app and the natives dll needed to run it (no problem of dependences: they should be ok). The snapshot is not very big (~7mb), and it's a simple copy of .wine dir with a testapp script (cd ..., WINEDLLOVERRIDES=... wine app.exe) to immediately run the fucking/non-working app. So, a backup of your .wine dir is needed. Weel, there's also the problem of trust: a new non-root user is OK =)
My interest in this stupid business app is only to convert my father to linux, but if you can help me, a donation to the wine project is CERTAIN!
Here the easy instruction:
NB: Use a new non-root user for trust, or at least # mv .wine winebak 1 - Download to your home http://digilander.libero.it/ceztko/testapp.tar.gz 3 - # tar xvzf testapp.tar.gz 4 - # ./testapp
The error message i get is this: run-time error '482': Printer Error ( http://digilander.libero.it/ceztko/snapshot-err.png )
Instead, it should be like this http://digilander.libero.it/ceztko/screenshot-ok.png .
I'm unable to understand if is a my mis-configuration or a bug in wine (and maybe this snapshot is not weel configured anyway). But, after 2 weeks of attempts without results, using different printer configurations FROM SCRATCH (cups, file, original windows printer driver, ..), i'm almost sure this is a bug, or a sort of...
Thanks for your help!